Impulse season 1 episode 4 full episodes12/18/2022 Ain't none of them's gonna tell you nuttin’ about that.” She starts to ask what it is, but a man nearby interrupts: “That thing's part of their so-called religion. Maeve stoops to pick it up and discovers that it’s a miniature version of the technicians’ faces she keeps glimpsing in her mind. Later, a crowd of (giant air quotes) “savages” are being paraded through town as the townsfolk watch, and a child drops a doll. That image continues to haunt her - though in a nod to the fact that we’re never really sure how much time is passing in this show, when Maeve sketches the image in a cold sweat and moves to put it beneath her floorboards, she discovers that she’s already done this same thing a number of times before. In episode two, Maeve woke up in the “backstage” area to the sight of two technicians in suits with helmets looming over her. Maeve’s flashbacks are another major part of this episode, and it’s a pleasure to see Newton given more material to work with. Due to the glitches and the park’s need to collect the Hosts for repair, that happened recently, and both Dolores and Maeve ( Thandie Newton) are having flashbacks. That’s especially chilling when she tells him that sometimes she feels “like something’s calling me,” although we know, from outside this loop, that a great deal of the Hosts are routinely called back into Sweetwater to be slaughtered at the end of the loop. Never occurred to me that we were bringing them back for the slaughter.” My father would tell me that the steer would find its own way home. Sometimes we would lose one along the way, and I’d worry over it. Talking to William ( Jimmi Simpson), she says, “I used to believe there was a path for everyone” - we heard as much in the pilot - but “now I think I never asked where the path was takin’ me.”Īnd yet she’s getting an inkling of the answer to that question, which she couches in a metaphor: “We would bring the herd down off the mountain in the fall. Maybe Dolores’s movement is okay now? Maybe the plan is to deviate from the plan?ĭolores is certainly beginning to think so. Dolores ventures far off her loop in this episode, and that seems like a problem to the operators, but then again, “the boss is disrupting so many storylines with his new narrative, it’s hard to tell,” as one of them says. The dissonance is throwing off the park administrators, too. Is there a plan, or is the plan to ignore the plan? They have not yet been brought into harmony. So maybe the “dissonance theory” of the episode extends beyond beliefs and ideas and into the rules that govern the Westworld universe itself - rules we’ve barely had time to grasp before they start changing on us. “I adapted it from a scripted dialogue about love.” Leaving the “cognitions” off that title may be significant: Can the Hosts have opinions and beliefs, or are they stuck with their programming? In the episode’s first scene, after Dolores ( Evan Rachel Wood) delivers a short, moving monologue about the importance of the pain she believes she’s feeling after her parents’ death, Bernard ( Jeffrey Wright) says, “That’s very pretty, Dolores. And a lot happens in this episode.īut that swirling would also explain the title of episode four: “Dissonance Theory.” Presumably, it’s named for the cognitive dissonance theory, which posits that people tend to seek consistency and continuity among their beliefs and opinions - their cognitions - and that when a person discovers their own beliefs and opinions are in conflict, something will have to change. After all, there are a lot of ideas swirling around in the show right now, many of which don’t seem to cohere with one another. It could be that Westworld is more like a painting than a photograph, and the show is just applying strokes to the canvas right now we have to wait a while before we see what the picture is. The truth is, we have no idea what it’s about yet. I know that because I’ve fought the impulse myself. I know the impulse is to try to say what HBO’s Westworld is “about,” four episodes in.
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