Welcome to West World the officially unofficial podcast for West World on HBO. I'm Jim. I'm Aron.

And today we're talking about season 3 episode 3 titled The Absents of Field.

Didn't have time to do any research on this because this is an instant take but

absent field is apparently a part of a poem by Mark Strand. Oh shit I recognize the name

Strand. I think there's gonna be some kind of astrophysical principle.

No, no, it's pretty simple.

A absence of a gravitational field.

Keeping things whole, it's the title of that poem.

I will get more to that, I'm sure.

I'm sure it has like a broad meeting about this episode but

we'll talk about that on Tuesday. A. Ron first impressions to this episode what do you think?

In absence of fear we shall plow not. I thought okay I thought this episode is just a

mystery wrapped inside a riddle tucked inside an enigma and intentionally there's a couple things where I'm like oh geez what is I kept

I'm thinking what is going to be the mystery coming out this episode like what's in Hale's

message for Nathan who the hell is Nathan, we found all the answers to that.

It neatly put Dolores and Caleb together. There's some cool little world building details.

But yeah, it's there's, I was trying to just really rack my brain about who the hell

could be in Charlotte, or, yeah, Charlotte Hale. Who is Pilots in Charlotte Hale? Because I was running through all the kind of possibilities.

I know you had some possibilities.

Maybe we can talk about that later.

I'm curious, the only, in fact, the things I know I just didn't like about this episode

were the things at West World, I think,

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