It’s easy to sympathize with Dolores and Teddy, pawns as they are in this larger scheme. But his later scheming (and scalping) suggests that he knows a lot more than the park’s typical guest, and his exact purpose is at this stage completely unknowable.īeyond that, the basic fact of Westworld’s existence offers up a huge range of moral questions. Right now, the show’s clear villain seems to be The Man in Black (Ed Harris), who gleefully shoots Teddy and drags Dolores away for easy-to-assume reasons. (Sometimes, they’d throw in some Ugly for flavor.) But bringing in the sci-fi element means lots of moral complications. Your classic Westerns tend to be defined by a clean-cut dichotomy - the righteous good guy versus the vicious bad guy. READ MORE: ‘Westworld’ Season 1 Review: Western Philosophy Tops the Wild West in Deep-Thinking HBO Drama White Hat or Black Hat?