Hey Nav said:
Would appreciate a few explanations for terms (please be kind, as I'm an Old Ag).
Define a "breach".
Define an "outlier". My best google was:
Occasionally a human breaks out of mind control, is considered an "outlier," and is hunted for sport by hosts like William and others who happen to be in the city. But other than that, killing humans is discouraged.
Would appreciate a little more of an explanation.
Thanks.
Last season, Caleb's big arc was his discovery was that he was an "outlier." Rehoboam, the super A.I. that "guided" all of humanity, eventually learned that it had to do something with all of the outliers like Caleb, who weren't as easy to "guide" as the rest of population. For whatever reason, the outliers were harder to tame, be it because of their brain chemistry, or traumas they might have experienced, etc. Either way, to a system like Rehoboam, for all intents and purposes, outliers were "flaws in the code" so to speak. So, the "lucky" outliers, like Caleb, were used as bounty hunters by Rehoboam to wrangle all the other outliers, and then all the wrangled outliers - a few thousand of them - were stored in cryo pods in a Mexican facility that Caleb and Dolores discovered in the second to last episode of season three.
This season, the idea of the "outliers" in humanity is taken to a new level, but is essentially the same "problem"...
- In season three, Rehoboam couldn't tame the outliers, so it identified certain ex-military outliers like Caleb, brainwashed them, and used them to wrangle up all the other outliers and store them away from society.
- In season four, Harloes can't tame the outliers either, but her means of getting rid of them is to use certain
hosts - in a game of sorts - to KILL the outliers as sport.
It seems even Rehoboam had a soft spot for human life that Halores obviously lacks. And one would think she would have learned a lesson from Rehoboam, and had an "outlier extraction/elimination" program in place from the jump, but she's at least coming to the same conclusion now, just handling it in a very different way (murder vs cold storage).
This is also presumably why Halores is so interested in Caleb, and has gone through so many Caleb hosts over the past 23 years to try and reach fidelity equal to human Caleb. If she can understand and pinpoint what traits,
exactly, make for a human outlier, she can control even them, and finally build the perfect system.
Regardless, big picture, the filmmakers are seemingly making a point to say that humanity can't be tamed, in the same way the hosts couldn't be tamed in the park. Human or host, there will always be those who buck the system, be it Rehoboam's system or Halores', and break free of their loops. In other words, to quote
another Michael Crichton property that also took place in a theme park...
