One of our favorite "unscripted" home renovation programs over the years has been HGTV's Flip or Flop. Unlike most of the shows of this genre—especially Flipping Vegas—the hosts, Tarek and Christina El Moussa, seemed to have the least amount of on-screen drama of any of them. (What we've subsequently learned about their off-screen drama is another matter entirely however.) They always seemed to know what they were doing, didn't act too surprised when they encountered unexpected expenses during the renovations, and generally speaking, Christina's taste wasn't half bad (the same cannot be said of the hosts of HGTV's current offshoot program, Flip or Flop Las Vegas (Maybe it's just a Las Vegas thing?) but those ruminations are better left to a subsequent post.
Anyhow…
While this house on Cerecita Drive in Whittier, California itself is architecturally butt-ugly, I do like what Tarek and Christina did with it—and I especially like the colors, finishes, and the final staging. Of all the houses they've done, I think this is actually one of my all-time favorites. I could easily see us living there.
I like the turquoise, gray and white color scheme. The only thing I would've done differently is to continue to wrap it (and the horizontal siding and molding) around the garage as well so the garage didn't look like so much of an afterthought.
I've been waiting for this!
"Since when were you afraid of getting a little wet?"
Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops, as tight and as closed as the Hosts do, seldom questioning our choices; content, and waiting to be told what to do next." ~ Doctor Robert Ford, Westworld
In the case of Maeve, she has complete control of her "hard disk" and can see that there is "something there just out her reach", this showing that she can scan her disk and see the data, but she cannot read the data because she doesn't know what kind of data it is. This is also true with any computer. You can see that there is something there, but until you know the structure of it, it doesn't make sense because you need a cross reference to put it into context. I.e she knows that she was built for a specific purpose, but the reference to where that information has been stored is not available to her. Not that it doesn't exist, but she needs a cross reference to it.
For several weeks I've been entertaining the idea that not only was Bernard a host (confirmed in Episode 8), but so is Ford. This seemed to be revealed in a brief bit of dialog last night that I didn't catch until a second viewing. When Bernard confronted Ford in cold storage and demanded full access to all his memories, Bernard looked at Ford and said, "Arnold built us, didn't he? Which means maybe he had something different in mind for us. And maybe you killed him for it."
Who signed off on this?
