john32f said:
TCTTS said:
john32f said:
Her way to shutdown the system was a little cheesy and contrived unless Serac intended for her to find that as the way out.
I viewed the whole simulation as a test to see if Maeve was as resourceful as Serac hoped. So would make sense that there would be backdoors in place to enable her to 1) identify she's in a simulation and 2) get out. When Serac finally meets it, it's clear he's in complete control of the situation. Nothing Maeve has done in the episode was unplanned for. He wanted her to escape.
I disagree. Serac needs the coordinates to The Valley Beyond. The entire simulation was created to obtain the coordinates and for no other purpose. However, I'm betting that once Maeve figured out that it was a simulation, Serac then let her continue, in order to gauge her resourcefulness. In other words, upon Maeve realizing that it was a simulation, I could imagine a technician in the real world reaching for the kill switch, only to have Serac go, "Wait! Let's see if she can figure her way out of this." That kind of scenario.
Does he need the coordinates to the forge or did he just want Maeve to think that was his plausible motivation? Didn't want the test to be too obvious.
I don't think that Serac wanting the coordinates is a red herring. This season needs a McGuffin, just like the past two seasons, and if they back track on that after the fact, it'd feel a little weird. Besides, in that final scene, if it
had been a red herring, I think Serac would have likely told Maeve as much then and there. In fact, I'm betting
that's what Serac uses to convince Maeve to go after Dolores.
Dolores has the coordinates to The Valley Beyond. And if you kill Dolores, I'll let you join your daughter there. - maybe something along those lines.