9) The Great Escape Begins
Unlike the original movie which was all about the robots running amok, Westworld has generally taken a more psychological approach to the idea of artificial intelligence. That was why it was so thrilling in the finale when things finally took a turn towards The Terminator territory.
Maeve “wakes” her allies Hector and Armistice while they’re being operated on. In an instant, they turn on the surgeons in a full-on horror movie scene – showing no compunction about killing them either. The snake-tattooed Armistice takes a leaf out of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s book by slaughtering someone in the nude. Meanwhile, Hector gives the creepy surgeon who was about to rape him his comeuppance.
It’s a shocking moment in many ways and one that nicely sets up the later reveal that the host vs. humans scenario is blowing out into all-out war (more on that later).
