It’s a place where everything that happens is designed to be meaningless, where you don’t have to care.
Far more than adventure, it offers the questionable balm of moral indifference. That’s always been the promise of Westworld: actions without consequences. The good doctor replies with a quote from Frankenstein about the insignificance of one life in the grander scheme of things it’s a weird reference to make, since Frankenstein is a story about an inventor who creates a humanoid monster only to have it turn against him and destroy all he holds dear, but I guess if you’re going to own yourself, you might as well do it through fine literature.įord tasks Bernard with covering up the murder, promising that in return he’ll remove all memories of Bernard’s relationship with Theresa and his part in her death, so that he can wake up as fresh and untroubled as Dolores once did on her pillow every morning. Ford and Bernard debriefing after the murder of Theresa, as the shattered, furious host demands to know why his creator made him do this.