And the episode, written by creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, makes no qualms in the parallel, as Arnold also taught Dolores to admire one of the Michelangelo frescos on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel-he shows her God reaching out to Adam, sparking him with genuine life. Atop of framework of exquisite little metallic pieces, Ms Wood’s head sits and converses with her god, much like a scene from Paradise Lost. The Bicameral Mind even opens with a beautifully chilling scene of the first time that Dolores comes online. In the park’s earliest days, which are represented in past episodes by all the scenes of Arnold talking with Dolores, Arnold used his first creation as the instrument to replace his dead son, as well as potentially all of humanity. At least that is how Arnold interpreted the maze in one of three timelines we’ve been following in the show’s first season: events from 34 years ago when Arnold was alive more events from 30 years ago when William and Logan came to the park and events happening now in the present. They may not be humans, but as Dolores demonstrated by solving his “maze,” she can find a degree of self-consciousness within. And when that happens, they will replace humanity.Īrnold realised that the park was, indeed, inhumane and that to continuously erase their memories and their true personalities was a living hell for these genuinely living beings. However, whatever the ominous board imagines the applications of these androids to be, the truth is that the show is likely to go largely in a different direction altogether based on what Ford thinks their true applications are: these “hosts” are sentient, or will be soon enough.
Also, given how we’ve seen Dr Ford smile only one shade less malevolently than Hannibal Lecter in certain scenes while recalling their disagreements-not to mention ordering the death of Theresa Culling-it was easy to continue believing this.
Until tonight, I had long assumed that Robert Ford killed Arnold, because his partner/frenemy believed the robots were truly sentient, and that the park was an evil enslavement for them. Late in The Bicameral Mind, Robert Ford notes that Oppenheimer said, “Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.” He is not so modestly referring to himself, but he is also talking directly about Arnold. But how exactly does that story go? Well…
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