All I know is that the preview for next week looks awesome.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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So, unless I'm missing something, it's basically confirmed now that post 2 week timeline is not real, right? We see the Delos team arrived this episode, whereas in the future timeline they supposedly arrive on the beach that day.

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Not sure where my post went, but I'll write it again.

I took the guys showing up in this episode as being part of an advanced party that was there to secure Charlotte and Abernathy primarily. Which means they would be separate from the group we saw in the premier on the beach.

I'm sorry Bernard, I'm afraid I can't do that[/FORD9000]

yup, I have absolutely no idea what's going on at this point now.

Ford became the music.

This is pretty sad (taken from reddit).

I don't think Ford uploaded his consciousness to simply control the hosts (especially the self-aware ones, Dolores/Maeve). Among other reasons, as far as this episode is concerned, I think a primary reason he did it was to simply protect the cradle. Without uploading his consciousness, Delos would have easily regained access to the cradle and potentially ended his final narrative/host revolution.

I think Ford's entire end game is revealing to everyone that he's mastered artificial intelligence and has chosen a revolution thrown by conscious hosts to signify it, so it doesn't make sense to me that he'd go through all of this just to end up controlling the hosts via the cradle/his consciousness to achieve this goal. It just seems to defeat the purpose of it all. Otherwise it just seems like he's some vindictive psycho genius bent on revenge against Delos and he's using robots to do it.

Ultimately though I think him uploading his consciousness represents more, and is significant in that it further blurs the line between consciousness and AI/hosts. I think he may have solved the cognitive limit and found a way to successfully imprint consciousness onto a host, i.e. William's "white whale". I believe William's journey/game is one of redemption given over the years he became so disillusioned regarding AI/WW/Ford due to his many failures with Delos and life struggles, this probably led to a lot of discourse between Ford/hosts and William (his crimes) before William just recently gave up. I think his journey culminates with him discovering the first successful hybrid and that it is either William himself or a newly printed hybrid version of William (journey ends where he began/began where he ends) or a hybrid Ford, hybrid Delos, or maybe even hybrid version of his wife??? Who knows, love this show.

Ok sorry, rambling over. Damn, Adderall.

the show has gotten boring, the next episode looks interesting. Atleast during LOST there were many compelling story lines and you always had an idea of possible outcomes. This show is a CF.

I'm not sure what the goal was with the Samurai side story, but it was pretty boring to me. I actually like that part of history, but it wasn't anything we haven't seen before. I didn't care about any of those characters, just felt like wasted screen time.

Something I realized the second time watching, in Teddy's opening scene, he bends down and we see the can that Dolores always dropped, and he picks up bullets instead.

Specifically, he picks up the bullet he gives the guy on the train later.

Because I was hammered when I watched it the first time. Two whole beers man.