Westworld - 1x09 "The Well-Tempered Clavier" - Post-Episode Discussion

[u/NicholasCajun]

Season 1 Episode 9: The Well-Tempered Clavier

Aired: November 27th, 2016

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Synopsis: Dolores and Bernard reconnect with their pasts; Maeve makes a bold proposition to Hector; Teddy finds enlightenment, at a price.

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Directed by: Michelle MacLaren

Written by: Dan Dietz & Katherine Lingenfelter

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[u/YourCurvyGirlfriend]

Ford: I'm sorry to bother you. But there's no one else left who was there. No one who understands, as we understand.

Dolores: Are we very old friends?

Ford: No, I wouldn't say friends, Dolores. I wouldn't say that at all.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm gonna hate myself for watching Westworld then have to wait until 2018 for the next season.

[u/YourCurvyGirlfriend]

Bernard using Arnold's voice to try to get Ford to come back gave me insane chills

[u/shadowbrookash]

That was one humdinger of a story, partner.

[u/MyMostGuardedSecret]

Episode 9 always delivers

[u/[deleted]]

I think we can all relate to Hectors reaction to the empty safe.

[u/Badass_Bunny]

This whole episode you knew Ford was in control, the way he doesn't much as flinch when Clementine has the pistol and his curious look on the face as he kept revealing stuff to Bernard was fucking extraordinary. Like god damn you Anthony Hopkins you are a brilliant actor!

[u/PhilosoR4PT0R]

Glad to see OG Clem still has her uses

teamoriginalclementine

[u/ArchaeoRunner]

I think my new greatest fear is waking up in a dank basement with Anthony Hopkins monologuing at me.

Holy hell, he just eviscerates everybody around him.

[u/pylon567]

"You're a lie Charlie!"

Well Bernard is certainly going to win the "Father of the Year" award for that one.

[u/YourCurvyGirlfriend]

Ford keeps talking about his new narrative he's working on, and after seeing Maeve control Bernard in a way that absolutely shouldn't be possible, i'm pretty sure all the things she's doing are it

Which means the hosts STILL don't have fucking free will and he's making them think they do

[u/awesome_tim]

Those timeframe shifts with Dolores coinciding with Bernard's discovery were brilliant.

[u/Whatnow81]

So they just confirmed pretty much every theory in this episode so everything else can go to hell in the last episode right?

[u/NickKevs]

Congrats to Logan becoming the hand of the King

[u/Mooninites_Unite]

Dolores is a host: confirmed.

[u/K0RnD4Wg]

"My god."

-Bernard Lowe (and r/westworld)

[u/SedwardTrisherhands]

Can someone make a side by side of William yelling "don't hurt her" and Liam McPoyle yelling "you'll call her". seems necessary.

[u/trickypat]

Am I smart enough for this show?! No, no I am not. 😐

[u/ncw14]

That shout that William made seemed to come straight out of the mouth of Liam McPoyle.

[u/PorcelainPoppy]

The new narrative is what we have been watching unfold; the hosts attaining sentience, including Maeve's. Ford is switching genres to sci-fi.

[u/OLKv3]

This episode made Logan feel so sympathetic, god damn every theory was confirmed

[u/[deleted]]

I love how Bernard saw photo in earlier episodes with Ford and his father, but he wasn't 'coded' to see himself.

[u/ME24601]

On tonight's episode of Westworld: Fucking. Confirmed.

[u/bart_r]

Ford knew Arnold well enough that he could sculpt an accurate penis and butt on Bernard

[u/HatesSquatsLovesOats]

This may get lost, but something really struck me from this episode:

During the scene with Teddy remembering how he shot up that town, he says "it was like the devil was controlling me."

Sounds a lot like how Maeve can control people. Could the "incident" they mention 30 years ago be another host gaining the ability to control other hosts? Could it be that whoever Wyatt is (I don't think it's the guy the memory shows) was able to control Teddy the same way Maeve can control hosts?