"The Adversary" keeps things interesting, but is a step down from previous episodes, and has a couple of lame moments close to the end that are more proper of your run-of-the-mill horror movie.
First, the story-line. We don't get much new in this episode. The Man In Black and Teddy continue their trip; Maeve, whose last words in the previous episode seemed to hint that she knew Felix, gets a trip of the facilities (and then gets an upgrade); and Ford and Bernard have a talk with some first-generation hosts. Oh, and Elsie behaves like a two-year-old shouting 'Who's there? Who's there?' while in an abandoned theater where a person has been doing shady coding and sending shady messages to the 'hosts'. But, hey, if you hear a sound, it's probably just a friend that has come to say hello, not the person that has been using the satellite. Well, we knew it was going to happen from the moment she decides to go there alone (of course, she tells us, and Bernard, so we know it's coming).
This stupid plot development apart, the episode lacks in plot development, offering very little. We get to meet some more of the 'real' people, with also a not very interesting story-line that includes Lee and Theresa; and we see how Maeve seems to be 'gaining' some 'intelligence' (it helps her two handlers don't seem to be very smart). We discover that their logs, etc. have been overridden (hmm, how come they didn't have an inkling about that with all the problems they have been having?), and there continues the quest to know more about Arnold.
It is not that it's not interesting. It is that there has been a lack of a sense of urgency (and knowledge of their own park) in the people that work at Westworld, that doesn't go very well with all the problems they have been having.
First, the story-line. We don't get much new in this episode. The Man In Black and Teddy continue their trip; Maeve, whose last words in the previous episode seemed to hint that she knew Felix, gets a trip of the facilities (and then gets an upgrade); and Ford and Bernard have a talk with some first-generation hosts. Oh, and Elsie behaves like a two-year-old shouting 'Who's there? Who's there?' while in an abandoned theater where a person has been doing shady coding and sending shady messages to the 'hosts'. But, hey, if you hear a sound, it's probably just a friend that has come to say hello, not the person that has been using the satellite. Well, we knew it was going to happen from the moment she decides to go there alone (of course, she tells us, and Bernard, so we know it's coming).
This stupid plot development apart, the episode lacks in plot development, offering very little. We get to meet some more of the 'real' people, with also a not very interesting story-line that includes Lee and Theresa; and we see how Maeve seems to be 'gaining' some 'intelligence' (it helps her two handlers don't seem to be very smart). We discover that their logs, etc. have been overridden (hmm, how come they didn't have an inkling about that with all the problems they have been having?), and there continues the quest to know more about Arnold.
It is not that it's not interesting. It is that there has been a lack of a sense of urgency (and knowledge of their own park) in the people that work at Westworld, that doesn't go very well with all the problems they have been having.