Maeve attempts to explain the true nature of the park, and the real world that exists beyond it. Even her mysterious new ability echoes the "superpower" of the guests, who were impossible for the hosts to kill when the park was still playing by the Delos Corporation’s rules.Īnd as soon as Akane starts telling a very familiar story about going across the sea, where you can be whomever you want, Maeve realizes that she can offer her Shogun World counterpart one more great gift: freedom. For her, it’s a chance to help Akane-the parallel-universe version of herself-and succeed in rescuing Sakura where she failed in saving her own daughter. In a way, Maeve is getting a version of what Westworld promises all its guests: the ability to live out their greatest fantasies. She’s thinking, of course, about her own daughter. Now, Maeve and her companions have accidentally stumbled straight into their sister park just in time to run afoul of the glitchy shogun himself. Westworld originally teased the existence of Shogun World-a park based loosely on Japan’s Edo period, and "an experience expressly designed for the guests who find Westworld too tame"-in its Season One finale. It’s a lot to think about! But also: Who cares? Because the rest of this episode takes place in motherfucking Shogun World! And it’s also the kind of tactic Dolores herself would abhor if it were employed by a human-yet another sign that Dolores’ rebellion is turning her into the kind of monster she originally rose up to oppose. This is a tactic we’ve only seen employed by Bernard, but it’s easy to imagine a whole army of hosts manipulated this way, with their courage and capacity for violence cranked up to 11. In any other week, the climax of this week’s Dolores storyline-which sees her capture and reprogram Teddy to change him from an aw-shucks white-hat to a ruthless badass-would be the biggest event in the episode.
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