![]() There, Satan is less a grand tempter of all of Earth and more an interlocutor trying to trip God up in a variety of puzzles. "The Adversary" put me in mind of this question because that’s the name given to the devil in some translations of the biblical book of Job. Two sides of the same coin Makes sense that Ford’s best friend would be himself. Here’s what "The Adversary," episode six, has me thinking: Maybe it’s both? Maybe Ford is both God and Satan, both good and evil. But like the Snake, he seems at times to really want to push them from their state of naive, trusting innocence toward something bolder and bigger, to something like self-awareness. Like God, Ford created the Hosts, and he seems to have a desire to be worshipped by them, even if he might not say so in those terms. ![]() You can make a great argument for either. And think of the biblical Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as the code locked up inside of those possible Adams and possible Eves, forever twisting toward sentience.ĭo you think, in that scenario, that Ford is God or the Snake? ![]() ![]() Think of the Hosts contained within it as hundreds upon hundreds of possible Adams and possible Eves. Think of Westworld as the Garden of Eden. ![]()
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