Robot uprising on Westworld isn’t anything like what you’d expect. That’s because it’s actually more disturbing than you’d think to discover your brain can be controlled with an app. Episode 6, “The Adversary,” makes things even more complicated when we meet Ford’s family, and Elsie solves the mystery of the stray. On this week’s Decrypted podcast, we sit down with Rose Eveleth, host of futurist podcast Flash Forward, to focus on Maeve’s transformation, robot sex, and fembots.
Specific topics discussed include the unregistered robots (Ford’s robot family is seriously creepy), the true meaning of the maze (and why Teddy has gotten so boring), Maeve’s attribute matrix (and the greatest scene in the entire show), what it means to be trapped in a narrative (male and female roles for robots are both terrible), when will a guy have sex with a male robot (it can’t happen soon enough), why the park seems to offer no romance stories or female-centric adventures (what? ladies don’t want sex?), and how Dolores and Maeve are trapped in the middle of an argument between Ford and Arnold (plus they are the ultimate victims of gaslighting).
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