Presuming said incident took place after the park’s initial founding, and presuming that Westworld isn’t secretly operating at this exact moment in time, we’re looking at the year 2047, at the earliest. One of the most tantalizing/frustrating elements of “Westworld” is just how few answers it provides, especially when it comes to the question of when, exactly, this takes place.īernard makes reference to the last “critical failure” (we can only picture the violent carnage that ensued in the original 1973 film, when the robots went rogue) taking place over 30 years in the past. But the technicians behind the scenes are intriguing in their own right what we’ll be waiting to see, in the weeks ahead, is how deep their personal moralities may lie, especially when confronted by the ethical questions that come with creating something indistinguishable from humans? In the Year… Wait, What Year Is It? It’s easy to sympathize with Dolores and Teddy, pawns as they are in this larger scheme. But his later scheming (and scalping) suggests that he knows a lot more than the park’s typical guest, and his exact purpose is at this stage completely unknowable.īeyond that, the basic fact of Westworld’s existence offers up a huge range of moral questions.

Right now, the show’s clear villain seems to be The Man in Black (Ed Harris), who gleefully shoots Teddy and drags Dolores away for easy-to-assume reasons.

(Sometimes, they’d throw in some Ugly for flavor.) But bringing in the sci-fi element means lots of moral complications. Your classic Westerns tend to be defined by a clean-cut dichotomy - the righteous good guy versus the vicious bad guy.

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