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People aren't understanding the MIB...


So...I've seen a lot of debate about MIB on here, and I don't know if I'm just crazy but it seems like a lot of people are misinterpreting his motives.

I don't believe he ever really went bad. I think that he felt like HE was in a loop in his own life and didn't know who he was. He was in a maze himself when he went to WW for the first time and it wasn't until he found Dolores that he finally reached the center of himself. He found purpose and meaning and and affirmation of his character. Falling in love with someone means having someone really understand you and be able to show you a true reflection of yourself. When he realized that she didn't recognize him or remember their adventure, it discredited him in what was his most pure moment to date. He had no witness, no one to validate his journey. He didn't want a programmed machine to spit out the right answers and blow smoke up his @$$.

The place they made him feel more alive and real than ever all of a sudden had a phoniness and he was on a mission to prove that this world is real. He wanted the hosts to fight back. It was no fun being the winner every time. I believe he somehow instinctively knew that in order for him to find his answers he was going to have to do some real damage. Really push his limits. If the hosts never become conscious then it doesn't matter.........but if they do.........and he can somehow make them alive.....then it's worth it. He saw it happen with Maeve and her daughter. We also saw in the scene with Dolores in the first episode he says "I want you to fight back."

At the end he gets shot and sees the hosts about to take over and he smiles so big. He was not trying to oppress them....he was trying to piss them off and hurt them enough that they come online in their own heads. He somehow through Maeve and her daughter realized that's what needed to happen.

I do not see him as villainous at all....but almost like The Dark Knight. He was what West World needed him to be....the guy that pushed all the boundaries and did the unpopular things that are misunderstood. He'd rather be the perceived villain but achieve his goal which was free will for the hosts, and validation for his sense of self in the park.

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MIB comes back every year for 30 years doing the same thing expecting a different result every time he is there.
That is the definition of insanity. The guy is nuts.

If he really wanted the danger of a life and death game, He should just wear his cowboy suit and walk down the streets of Detroit at midnight. How long before he is in some shoot out with real thugs and real bullets?
And it would not cost him $25.000 a day.

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It paid off. He found out what the maze was.

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vilain? do you feel like a vilain when you smash your toaster???

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