(Warning: Spoilers for Season 2 premiere)
If Thandie Newton and Evan Rachel Wood’s “Westworld” characters have been fully awakened to the realities of their robot existence, James Marsden’s Teddy is like that moment right after you first open your eyes, when you’re still groggy and confused and aren’t entirely sure where you are. And Marsden plays the role admirably, spending much of the season premiere looking as resolute and bewildered as a “Westworld” fan scouring the trailer for clues. Here are seven photos of James Marsden trying to figure out what’s going on.
From the very beginning, Dolores rides into Season 2 like a badass, shooting down guests from the back of her horse, with the sunset on her face and the wind blowing through her inexplicably clean hair. Poor Teddy can barely keep up.
It’s unclear how much Teddy actually understands, as far as the robot revolution goes, but he’s apparently willing to follow Dolores’ lead on things like murder, torture and delivering monologues.
“Robots? If you say so.”
This is the face you make when you ask your girlfriend to stop murdering people, and she just delivers another monologue about identity and free will. You don’t really understand what she’s talking about (and you already stopped listening), but you know enough to know that she’s definitely not going to stop murdering people, and you just have to be cool with that.
“But why can’t we just buy a house, settle down and, you know, not murder people?”
Teddy, like Jon Snow, knows nothing and needs to have this fact explained to him repeatedly.
This reveal at the end of the premiere is a surprise, for sure, but once you sit with it for a while — was anyone really expecting this guy to survive?
