E1 Host Narrative Questions

UPDATED - Finished E1 and something occurred to me, probably because I did watch all of them already but didn't pick up on it.

Since there are 500 million storylines here I'll do them in separate entries...first and most important, will be Dolores' resets. I could be completely wrong on it but this is my impression and I honestly feel like this is behind the reason for all these resets in E1, because this is where they were giving us the clues to sentience itself, which I now fully believe was the entire point for episode 1. If this is common knowledge already, wonderful, consider me caught up ;p If not, I'm tossing this one on the table:

So, all of E1 is present day. D wakes up, goes downstairs, talks to Pete, leaves, encounters Teddy, solo time, return to farm, encounter milk jug dudes, Teddy kills them, MIB appears, kills Teddy, drags D to barn.

On into it, Pete finds the aged photo (again, present day), questions it, whispers to Dolores *** She heads into town to get the doctor.

Meanwhile Sizemore pushes up the Hector shootout narrative which traps Dolores and ultimately Teddy's killed in this arc. Elsie takes D offline and they bring her in. Stubbs tells the tech "bring her back online" - same thing as Voice from the beginning. Stubbs asks D if she knows where she is. She says she's in a dream. She's terrified. Stubbs then tells her there's nothing to be afraid of, so long as she answers all his questions correctly. <-- clue He asks her if she ever questioned the nature of her reality. She says no, never. Straight up. Stubbs asks her if her father showed her a picture. This time, however, she does not give him a straight up answer. Instead, she rationalizes her father's response saying he was scared, he wasn't thinking clearly. He asked if she found it odd. She then says no, it didn't look like anything to her.

Then Stubbs asks her what her father whispered to her. She answered, "These violent delights have violent ends" Stubbs asks her if she ever lied to him. She answers no. Never. Then he asks if she would ever hurt a living thing. She says no.

Then they wipe and reset her.

Back on the homestead, Maeve's bartender is now her father, she seems to be unaware of it. This time, however, she swats the fly.

What jumped out at me this time is that present day Dolores straight up lied. She side stepped answering directly, and she lied to Stubbs.

When he asked what her father told her, she said the above about violent delights...BUT she left out the rest of it - the same phrase that makes Aeden glitch out, which was, "Arnold will come for you."

These glitches of Aeden's are the same as Pete's glitches but Dolores doesn't tell Stubbs everything her father told her. That was deliberately omitted.

That made me strongly suspect she's able to maintain those memories and somehow knew to not reveal anything about Arnold at all.

Stubbs explained she was the oldest host in the park and each time she's rebuild to be like brand new...but she retained that awareness of Arnold and knew not to tell Stubbs - who isn't the Voice from scene 1.

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