LHIOB said:
Did they finally answer the question of the location of the park? They mentioned the "mainland" several times and the team that arrived to clean everything up did so by boat.
It was said that Ford was creating new teraforms amd more land. Sounds like he created everything in Westworld including the physical world.
In the opening scenes when they find Bernard on the shoreline, apparently some of the people are speaking Chinese. This could mean several things, including this all being on an island or islands in the south pacific somewhere, or maybe it is in California (LA skyline mentioned previously), but they are trying to hint that maybe China has taken the US. It seems like the creators are tying to do away with the notion that this may be occurring on another planet or moon somewhere.
Regarding the terraforming, is it possible that Ford created the big hole and new "sea" we saw the hosts in, and either programmed them all to drown by a certain date, giving William or the Man in Black enough time to play his game? Or instead, built it and coded Bernard to do the deed if things broke the right way? Could the bottom of the "sea" be the real location for the center of the maze, and those hosts that are truly conscious and of free mind won't go in, but those that are still tied down by their code will follow instructions?