Because it’s pointless to speculate when the show didn’t provide you elements to speculate about. We don’t even know if the Board’s interest is defined or will simply becomes an element to develop in following seasons. Of course it can be everything, they might want the AI to make super-soldiers as in thousands of other sci-fi stories, they might want them to use them in different roles, for immortality and so on. Or there might be more mythical explanations.
This plot is not discussed because it never became a theme of the show. Same as wondering whether or not in this fictional world they have flying cars. Up to this point the board is there only to provide Ford with an antagonist playing on a similar level. You know it’s a struggle for control, the motivation itself is not playing any role right now. Just another McGuffin.
And of course, the whole premise of the show is very brittle. If AI was developed like that you can be sure that playing an attraction in a park would be the most idiotic use.
Ford’s narrative is based on re-enacting what happened in the past, so it’s directly about Arnold. Ford knows the MiB is going there, specifically for this narrative and the “maze”.
But because we don’t know what happened in the past, we cannot deduce the current plan. Both go hand in hand.
Dolores. Ford knows Dolores is off her loop. Dolores will be used as a trigger of this narrative, but it seems also obvious that the narrative will have a profound effect on the rest of the park. So the narrative will include everyone else.
What’s dubious is whether the “robot revolution” is something Ford is deliberately moving to, or if it’s Arnold’s agenda working against Ford. This remains ambiguous simply because the show won’t give you enough element to guess it.
It’s not a retrospective because Ford wants it to end differently. So it uses the old set-up for something entirely new. That justifies what Ford says.
Huh? Freeing hosts means giving them control, not make them suffer. The show has been really dumb about it, suggesting otherwise. But the idea true consciousness only exists when you are in pain must be the most idiotic ever.
Imagine keeping someone chained in your basement, so you go: “Now I want to set you free. So I’ll have to make you feel true pain.” That’s even more down the gutter of entitlement.
Slavery is based on racism, on the concept you are better and entitled to have the power, and the slaves you keep are lesser beings who deserve the situation they are in. The idea, in both the show and in us watching the show, that the hosts aren’t fully conscious is just a manifestation of the same racism.
As I said before the hosts are merely kept as slaves. The idea they lack consciousness is just the confirmation bias to say that it’s okay if they stay slaves forever, since they aren’t deserving freedom.
Because it’s based on what happened in the flashback, obviously. We simply don’t know why.
She’s another McGuffin so that the show has more “tension”. Usual TV writers decided Ford had to have some kind of antagonist. She’s poorly written as lots of other sidetracks in the show meant only for artificial tension.
That’s the missing chain of effect. Dolores is awakened by her father, then Maeve is awakened by Dolores. The chain begins with that photo, but you probably see just a consequence, the photo isn’t the trigger. And we probably didn’t see the trigger at all (and maybe just latent code, though it’s too stupid).
Imho the show either explains very little and so annoys everyone by leaving implausible non sequitur everywhere with the bland promise of answering them in some remote future, or it will explain most of it in a very clumsy way. I think it’s less probable this is ending well than LOST finale.