Before “is this a simulation or the real world” threatens to eclipse “is this person a human or a host” as the season’s prevailing mystery, any potential ambiguity is clarified by a small but crucial device: the simulation is presented in a different aspect ratio, making it instantly obvious which is which, and presumably neutralizing theories about whether other locations and plotlines are real or simulated as well. Even Hector has been shuttled into the programming in order to play on Maeve’s well-documented affection for the guy, and as she starts to clue in to the fact that things aren’t right, she once again refuses to be duped into being a pawn. It’s an elaborate simulation - one manufactured to deceive Maeve into leading its creators to the Forge. It soon transpires that War World is not simply another Delos theme park in which robots think they’re human. A remote rural village under Nazi occupation, War World is a corollary park to Westworld and Shogun World, replete with its own iteration of Hector Escaton. The episode begins in War World, where we glimpsed Maeve in last week’s post-credits scene.
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