#bernard lowe

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No world they create for us can compete with the real one. Westworld, 2x10 "The Passenger"

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Person of Interest (5x13) | created by Jonathan Nolan

Westworld (2x10) | created by Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy

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I can fit so much symbolism in this bad boy

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If I had a nickel for every time I fell in love with a black father figure mentoring his adult lesbian daughter, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened thrice.

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Best Character Named Bernard

Bernard (The Rescuers)

Bernardo Vasquez (West Side Story)

Bernardo (Zorro)

Bernard Lowe (Westworld)

Bernard (Megamind)

Bernie Lumen (Elemental)

Voting ended onOct 30, 2024

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What's so impressive about Season 1 of "Westworld" is how there are like... 83 different moving parts to this story, and all the pieces have to fit together by the end. And Dr. Ford is one of the trickiest pieces, because this is a dynamic character that the show really wants you to think is a static character.

Anthony Hopkins does such a good job projecting an air of malevolent sageliness, that if you're watching the series for the first time/not paying close enough attention, you would assume that he was the bad guy and this was his plan all along. But not only is Dr. Ford not the villain, in reality he's at least half as confused and scared as the rest of the Delos employees; it's just that this character is an enigmatic recluse and admitting that he doesn't have the situation under control would be bad for business, so he carries on letting people think he's the one who updated the Reveries.

But in hindsight, when you watch the season over again, you realize most of his advice and leading questions were actually more for his own benefit than anyone he was talking to: he's fishing for information and trying to cold-read people. And it's not clear what exactly his plan was at the beginning of the season, but the plan evolves massively over the course of the series: He might have been planning to exhume Escalante as early as episode 2, but initially I don't think Ford wanted to retire or set the hosts free. He probably just wanted to get to the bottom of the Reverie code so he could rip it out by its roots, and it doesn't seem like he changed his mind about that until episode 9 or 10.

Personally, I choose to believe the conversation Ford has with William in episode 5 was the major turning point. Ford and William's friendship is unorthodox, but they are friends. And when Theresa or Charlotte or even Bernard talk about the hosts behaving strangely, Ford has to be suspicious that this is all fabricated as part of a coup attempt. But William hates the Delos shareholders, and William's not an idiot (not about this, at least); he's Robert's biggest fan and has no incentive to lie to him, so if William thinks this resurgence of The Maze is Arnold's ghost haunting the park, Ford is inclined to believe him. I think it was shortly after this point in the timeline, that Ford interviewed Akecheta and decided to add "Escape" to Maeve's narrative, like we saw in Season 2.

It makes it all the funnier, because then you realize that Ford wasn't fully confident that Dolores was going to kill him that night. It was entirely possible he was going to get up there, give that big speech, and then just stand there awkwardly waiting for a few minutes before having to go back to his office and clear out his desk. And he was totally ok with that! He just wanted to embrace the joy of having no idea what was going to happen next. Robert's character arc happens largely offscreen, so if you blink you'll miss it. But his arc is really the arc of the entire season: an author who spent 35 years trying to force the story to go in the direction he wanted, until finally admitting he was wrong and abdicating control to let the artwork take on a life of its own.

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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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WESTWORLD | TOP 10 FAN FAVORITE CHARACTERS ✩ ↳ #3: BERNARD LOWE

The question is... what happens next? Life on Earth is a fire that consumes itself. It's too late now. We've burned ourselves to the ground. This world holds no more hope for us. But there's still hope for the next world.