Westworld Season 2: Dolores is not who we thought she was
By Renay
Westworld Season 2: Dolores is not who we thought she was. Well, maybe. How’ some of us missed the breadcrumbs and clues the writers left.
If you haven’t seen episode one of the new season, be aware Westworld Season 2 SPOILERS start here!
While watching episode one, what first struck me about Dolores wasn’t her personality change. It was the change in her tone. Her mannerisms and movements. The way she walked. The way she talked. These mannerisms and expressions reminded me an awful lot of the very British, Dr. Ford.
Specifically, when Dolores says: “I’m of several minds about it.” The phrase ‘About it‘ is spoken in a certain way. It runs together. Plus, Dolores says this part of the sentence with a bit of the aforementioned accent. She never spoke like this before. Not even in when she accessed her previous versions/programming.
After saying this, she switches to her customary soft toned, kindhearted manner. She says the rancher’s daughter looks to see the beauty in the guests. The possibilities. She immediately changes her face and tone back to say: “But Wyatt, sees the ugliness and disarray.” And goes on to say “She knows, these violent delights have violent ends.”
At the end of season 1 it’s revealed that Dolores is Wyatt. Allow me to elaborate a bit in case you, like me, didn’t quite get this the first time around. Arnold merged Dolores’s programming with a non-yet-built character called Wyatt. This way he could stop Ford from opening the park. Arnold felt creating a killing spree via Dolores/Wyatt would surely prevent it. “The stakes must be real, irreversible. They can bring all of them back except for me.” But it didn’t.
Though the word ‘guest’ is hardly applicable at this point in the scene, Dolores psychoanalyzes these guests the way we’ve seen Ford do. Ford had a definitive opinion on what he felt people wanted from the Westworld experience. Arnold didn’t want the park to open. But the aforementioned makes me doubt a few things. Is Arnold really the one who merged her programming or was it Ford? Did Ford then reprogram Dolores after Arnold did?
However, having Wyatt slowly unfold in Dolores makes me think back on her saying: “I imagined a story where I didn’t have to be the damsel”. Wyatt is anything but a damsel in distress. Was it Wyatt who hid the gun in the haystack for her? How does Teddy figure into the history of Dolores as Wyatt? Hopefully, we’ll see a further explanation of how and why Teddy’s still involved with Dolores considering she’s Wyatt.
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So many jaw-dropping events occur within the first 30 minutes of the show. I highly recommend you read the next article (link below) to see why this Westworld season 2, episode 1 is exactly what fans where hoping for. Shock, awe, shooting people while on horseback, having last seasons’ questions answered, and as my buddy Logan once said, ‘guns and tits and all that mindless shit’ we usually enjoy.
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