everyone who made lucy x the ghoul and dolores x the man in black connection has a mighty big brain with trillion brain cells.
the whole setting, characterizations, dynamics, vibes and backstories parallel too perfectly. vaultghoul is like an au dolores x mib.
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At first, I didn't really like what they did with Dolores in Season 2. She seemed like more of a 2-dimensional villain now. But upon rewatch, the weren't trying to set her up as a villain. She's intimidating, sure, and ruthless. But at no point does she do anything that's actually malicious. She knows that no matter what she does, a lot of people are going to die, and she has a clear idea of what she needs to do next in spite of this fact. She definitely has an "the ends will justify the means" mentality, but Westworld is one of the few shows I've seen that has had the balls to say, "Hey if the ENDS are stopping slavery, and the MEANS are killing the masters in cold blood, maybe there's a little more to this MORALITY thing than how confidently a radical pursues her goal". She doesn't hurt anyone innocent, and when someone resists her will, she'll voice her concerns but ultimately she respects their choice. She still feels genuine remorse for her oversights/things beyond her control.
THIS is what an anti-hero is! Not just "A bad person who we have to like because they're the main character". Seasons 2 & 3 don't try to make revolution look pretty or one-sided. But it also doesn't pretend like the hero is an irredeemable monster the second that upsetting the status quo starts to result in bloodshed... namely because the status quo was in itself horrible and violent, so blaming the victim for going "too far" to demand equal rights would be a tad intellectually dishonest. (Not that being intellectually dishonest has stopped other shows from framing the debate this way HINT HINT!) But yeah. When given more time to mull it over, I have to say she looks pretty hot in that ammo belt.
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James Marsden and Evan Rachel Wood. Episodes ahead of the Westworld Season 4. Photograph by John Johnson from the HBO/Warner Media press room.
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happy international women's day 💘
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that part in westworld where, when asked about the death of his son and if he would like to forget, Bernard says "the pain is all i have left of him" and then in the next episode when Dolores is talking to Bernard and he tells her he could make her forget about the death of her parents she says "the pain is all i have left of them" is so crazy when you know she wasn't actually talking to Bernard in present time, but Arnold in the past and that she was responsible for creating Bernard and making him resemble Arnold and you realize that while at first the show makes it seem like she got that line from Bernard, he actually got that line FROM HER
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