So, then, is Medieval World actually Westeros? No. The costumes, for one, are very different. But it’s pretty fun to imagine Cersei as a deadly Host waking up to the nature of her existence.
Rick and Morty: The saga of Maeve in escalating levels of a simulation may seem familiar to fans of Rick and Morty who remember the Season 1 episode “M. Night Shaym-Aliens!” In that episode, a complicated, multi-layered simulation is broken down when our heroes ask its occupants to perform too many complicated functions. Maybe Maeve loves Rick and Morty, too.
Engerraud Serac: At last we have our Big Bad of the season: Engerraud Serac (Vincent Cassell). Serac, as we’ve already learned, was a co-creator of Incite and is currently the only person with access to the Rehoboam system through which he can predict, plot, and control everything happening in the world. Everything, that is, except Dolores.
Serac’s headquarters seem to be in some French-speaking country not just because Cassell himself is French, but also because we hear French spoken on the alert that goes off when Maeve tries to break out. This sequence was actually filmed in Spain at Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill’s personal office which was created out of an old cement factory.
Serac’s mission is pretty clear. He wants to stop Dolores and he hopes Maeve will help him do so. That’s not unreasonable given Dolores’s bad opinion of big powerful tech tycoons like Serac. She’d obviously kill him the first chance she got. But Liam implied last week that Serac killed his father, the co-founder of Incite. So who, exactly, should we be rooting for here? The murderous robot or the murderous human?
Maybe this character’s unusual name could serve has a hint. Engerraud comes from the German root “Engel” which comes from the Anglo root “Angel” which, despite its religious associations, means “messenger” first and foremost. (The German name Engelbrecht/Engelbert, therefore, means “bright messenger.”) So “Engerraud” is a messenger of some kind, but what do we make of “Serac”? Well that means the same thing in English as it does in French. It’s a pinnacle in a glacier which you can either see as an impediment to progress or as a sharp icy thing ready to stab. I wouldn’t want to encounter either if I were Dolores.