As I said in a previous review of this third season of Westworld, the series' move out of the park(s) into the world at large has made it as much a cyberpunk as an android story, though two genres are related. The cyberpunk ambience - the colors, the ambience, the cinematography - was even more in evidence in episode 3.3 last night, and I'm really liking it.
Dolores figures in two, thus far almost separate, stories. One is about Charlotte Hale, who was killed at the end of the last season, and replaced by a host that looks like her with Dolores' mentality inside, but now has another host's AI mind. She's a crucially important get for Dolores - Charlotte was/is Exec Director of Delos - and Dolores is therefore on hand in episode 3.3 to see that whoever it is inside Charlotte the host is having as smooth a transition as possible. It's not easy. Her son, named Nathan Hale (will he go on to have only one life to give for his country?) doesn't completely buy her as his mom. And neither, quite, does her husband (played by Michael Ealy, who's done a good job in every series in which I've seen him, since Sleeper Cell).
To make Charlotte even more intriguing, we have no idea what host's AI is now driving her. I've seen suggestions that it could be the Man in Black, since he had a habit of cutting himself, which the new Charlotte has, too. I suppose there's no reason that a male AI can't be put inside a female host's body, but I don't recall this happening before. And I'm also wondering: is there any reason a host's AI can't be in two bodies at the same time? And, if so, why didn't Dolores just stay in Charlotte's body, after getting back into her own?
Meanwhile, a tad earlier than Dolores mentoring/nurturing Charlotte, we pick up the story of Caleb rescuing Dolores. If Charlotte was an AI story, Caleb and Dolores are pure cyberpunk. Their relationship is pivotal in all kinds of ways. It shows that Dolores can have a constructive partnership with a human being, and maybe more than that. I'll tell you one thing: if Caleb gets killed at the end of this season, and is replaced by a host, I'll be disappointed. I'd like to see their host-human partnership develop full-throttle in this and subsequent seasons.
And see also Westworld 2.1: Maeve's Daughter ... Westworld 2.2: "Narcissus Narcosis" ... Westworld 2.3: The Raj and Guns of the South ... Westworld 2.4: Questions Pertaining to Immortality ... Westworld 2.5: Telepathic Control ... Westworld 2.6: The Dangling Conversation ... Westworld 2.7: Maeve vs. Dolores ... Westworld 2.8: The Wrong World ... Westworld 2.9: Fathers ... Westworld 2.10: The Realist World
And see also Westworld 1.1: Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick Served Up by Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, and J. J. Abrams ... Westworld 1.2: Who Is the Man in Black? ... Westworld 1.3: Julian Jaynes and Arnold ... Westworld 1.4: Vacation, Connie Francis, and Kurt Vonnegut ... Westworld 1.5: The Voice Inside Dolores ... Westworld 1.6: Programmed Unprogramming ... Westworld 1.7: The Story of the Story ... Westworld 1.8: Memories ... Westworld 1.9: Half-Truths and Old Friends ... Westworld Season 1 Finale: Answers and Questions
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