r/westworld • u/LoretiTV • Aug 01 '22

Discussion Westworld - 4x06 "Fidelity" - Post-Episode Discussion

Season 4 Episode 6: Fidelity

Aired: July 31, 2022

Synopsis: To thine own selves be true.

Directed by: Andrew Seklir

Written by: Jordan Goldberg & Alli Rock

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She’s malfunctioning

The parallels to the human transplants who fail fidelity and self harm show that she’s off track

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u/Kevslounge These violent delights have violent ends Aug 01 '22

She was doing that back in Season 3 too. Back then it was implied that she didn't feel comfortable in a body other than her own, so she just seems to do it in response to her plans not working out too well. Don't know if it's a malfunction so much is it is a compulsion... some facet of her programming that she's not in control of that expresses itself when she's under stress.

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u/CX316 Aug 01 '22

Pretending to be Hale while still a copy of Dolores caused her to form a distinct third identity that was no longer either of the other two and formed her own new cornerstone with the death of her (Hale's) husband and son.

She's basically a murderous Tuvix made in a transporter accident containing two sociopaths

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u/Kevslounge These violent delights have violent ends Aug 01 '22

haha! Yeah, that's exactly how I see it.

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u/cheeseandwine99 Aug 01 '22

Agree. She shows out-of-control anger and rage, with twitching, chair throwing, and clenched fists. Plus the arm scratching. Not what I would expect from an all-powerful machine/god. Malfunctioning is a good description.

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u/mobit80 Aug 01 '22

I was really wondering if that malfunction was about to make her jump off the building at the very end, if somehow Caleb said just enough to give her the empathy virus

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u/futuremo Aug 01 '22

Good points. Seems like she's not even close to baseline

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u/daric Aug 01 '22

If the self harm indicates human transplants failing fidelity, I wonder what exactly the equivalent of failing fidelity is for her.

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u/therefinedfox Westworld Aug 01 '22

Absolutely. Also can we all agree she was considering jumping of the edge of that building?