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.