8 TV Scenes Everyone Always Gets Wrong

5. William's Fidelity Test - Westworld

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The thing about having a cast that's mostly made up of robots that are specifically designed to feel and act as human as possible - to the point where they start developing sentience - is that the writers can start to play around with who is and isn't a robot.

Now, if you'd seen the original 1973 movie or, if you're one of THOSE weirdos, read the original novel by Michael Crichton, then you probably already know the twist that William, The Man In Black, is one of the hosts and was unaware of it the whole time.

But the show, like your scribe, knows damn well 90% of you didn't even know there was a movie, let alone a book. So the scene in season 2 where William is subjected to the staff's famous fidelity test at the hands of his supposedly dead daughter Emily, came as a shock to everyone. Was he a machine the whole time? Then how did he even have a daughter, let alone manage to kill her?

Well, as it turns out, stated by Emily's actress Katja Herbers, this is the show messing with our perception of time again. The scene takes place an indeterminate amount of time in the future, where at some point, either one or both of them were replaced with hosts.

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John Tibbetts is a novelist in theory, a Whatculture contributor in practice, and a nerd all around who loves talking about movies, TV, anime, and video games more than he loves breathing. Which might be a problem in the long term, but eh, who can think that far ahead?