Oh wow, I just had a chance to watch this, so I have a bunch of questions/reactions, but for now they’re all jumbled.
@RG, I was having similar questions to yours, but will get back to this in a later post. But in the meantime, here’s some things I thought were really intriguing from a narrative standpoint (rather than a philosophical one, I have to think about those more):
Who is Arnold? Is he in fact the Man in Black (in that photo, which one is Arnold? The man on the right?)
Is Dr. Ford playing a double game? He disciplined one of the workers who was covering one of the hosts — what was the aim of that little demonstration? Who was its beneficiary? Is this really how he feels about hosts, or is this double-speak? What is his motive?
Were the masked berserkers at the end hosts or guests? They couldn’t be killed with bullets, but I suppose that it wouldn’t be crazy to make hosts immune to bullets if you put your mind to it. If they are actually guests, is this part of the new narrative? And if so, what is to prevent a guest form turning on another guest and potentially get away with murder?
The Stray self-destructed by way of giant boulder — was that a reaction to having the park’s staff attempt to take his head? In that sense, was that simply an act of suicide, or was he trying to destroy evidence? Was he told to do this by the voice?