#liam dempsey

[superohclair]

dolores putting liam in a T-shirt that just says “basic” is the level of petty I aspire to

[mccdimples]

westworld 3.05 - genre

When I was overseas the rats were awful. It got so bad that we had to make our own rat traps in the barracks. A ramp leading up to some bait strung over a bucket of water. The rats would run up the ramp, fall in and drown. Painlessly. But if you filled the water too high, they would swim around for hours, suffering, because thay had hope.

[aidangillens]

John Gallagher Jr. as Liam Dempsey in Westworld Season 3

[ellestra]

Bubbles of free will

The Bible metaphors were always strong in Westworld. But especially tonight. The  Garden of Eden is a paradise to those who follow the rules. If you don’t do as you are told you won’t notice the prison walls. The knowledge will set you free. Good thing that the god Engerraund and his brother built  is neither omniscient nor omnipotent. Yet.    

They said last week Genre drug would make the world black and white. I didn’t expect it to happen so literally. But then I didn’t expect the name of the drug to be so literal either. Still, Westworld always loved to play with movie genres and this way it could fit so many in one episode. Tailored to the moment and going through the history of cinema.

At first I thought Engerraund (it’s time it start using his first name since his brother is Serac too and doesn’t have the first name but it’s not easy) was telling this story to Maeve but he was clearly talking to Rehoboam itself. But soon it became clear these were the files on him Dolores was watching. And they may not be all of his personality but they did contain experimenting on humans and murder. She can do a lot with that.

I also liked how Serac brothers mirror Ford and Arnold. One was the true genius who built the technology but was destroyed by it and his own issues. The other was the man who taken over to use it to fully implement its potential for his own vision.

It looks like editing the outliers - the people who can’t be quite predicted - may involve both genetic editing and mind editing. And it pretty clear Caleb was one of those edited. Serac says they are sent to wars to either die or become to broken to hurt the system. Caleb has those flashbacks to being experimented on. And Liam clearly knows something about him that Caleb doesn’t know including what really happened when his friend died. And with that shot to the head. And I’m sure they didn’t bring Enrico Colatoni on the show (another very Person of Interest moment) just for those few seconds.

It was ironic that Dempsey Sr was the exact rich asshole we were glad seeing butchered in the park - only thinking of his own profit and power and treating others like shit - but turned out to not only have conscience but also principles. He couldn’t just stand by and let Engerraund puppeteer humanity and edit people and he wouldn’t be swayed by money and convenience.

It’s even more ironic that he died because he didn’t agree with the purpose of system and wanted to set humanity free and his son died because he believed in it. Of course both of them died of stupidity. Liam Sr because he let the man who destroyed his own brother for being an outlier that he would undermine his plans. Liam Jr because he taunted people with guns.

Especially, when the world is slowly unravelling around them as people get spun more and more out of their loops by the truths Dolores pulled out the system and gave to them. The judgments they never got to see. The futures they can’t live with. It’s hard to find emergency services when the world is burning around you.

And now Caleb knows Dolores isn’t quite human even if he doesn’t seem quite yet realise what it means (still a little high). There were clues before but that was a definitive one. I wonder if he’ll ask why did she need help after being shot before when she barely registered those.

But the biggest question is - what are Dolores’s plans for Bernard. And why does she need/let him to pick sides?

[soulevagant]

“You’re supposed to be untouchable, and yet here you are in my arms. I don’t know if I’m lucky or a fucking idiot. I just know that when we’re together, it feels right. It feels like we’re supposed to be.”

“You’re going to make me fall in love with you, aren’t you?” “I’m pretty sure that’s a done deal.”

“Lee,” I say and tilt her head with my fingers. “If we truly love each other, not time, another man, or distance will keep us apart. Do you trust that enough?”

“You think I’m not? You think this is what the hell I wanted? To deliver your husband back to you when I’m so fucking in love with you that I would’ve rather cut out my own heart? I hate that I brought him home to you.”

- Liam x Natalie ; Consolation + Conviction by Corinne Michaels

[cptrs]

[dillpicklestanley]

Me analyzing the entire season, creating theories, breaking down the plot and characters of Westworld when it just released it’s first episode of season 3:

[vena-veena]