Changes: Maeve Millay

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“	Maeve gets off the train, at the end of "The Bicameral Mind" at which point, we shift to handheld camera, which we’d held back on throughout the entire season until one moment with her, and one moment with Dolores, when Teddy comes to rescue her.	”
–Jonathan Nolan, on Maeve's final step to consciousness^[1]

Maeve Millay is a main character and a host in Westworld who is a brothel madam in the local Mariposa Saloon. She is one of the first Hosts who appears to question her reality, after a series of flashback events - and an apparently chance encounter with Dolores Abernathy in the street, outside the Mariposa Saloon.

Personality

Maeve is charming, perceptive, and manipulative. She runs the brothel in the Mariposa Saloon and is designed to be able to understand the needs of her guests.

After her Season One encounter with Dolores she started to develop self-awareness and discovered that her skill in manipulating humans extended to the staff of Westworld.

As she becomes more self-aware she develops a ruthless streak, controlling the technicians Sylvester and Felix to get what she wants.

Unknown to Maeve, she is following a narrative written for her by Ford. She acts as a catalyst, triggering changes that spread throughout the park.

Plot

Relationships

Clementine Pennyfeather

Maeve is shown to have a very motherly bond with Clementine, often scolding her for not treating herself better. Even still, Maeve is quick to send Clementine off to do her dirty work for her. After the original Clementine is replaced, Maeve is overcome with grief and attacks the replacement.

Dolores Abernathy

Maeve and Dolores, both being local to Sweetwater, are familiar with each other. The two begin to question the nature of reality around the same time: Dolores's delivery of the phrase "These violent delights have violent ends" is what puts Maeve on her own journey of self-discovery. Despite this and the fact that they were the first two hosts to become completely self-aware, their brief encounter in Reunion is strikingly hostile: Dolores is consumed by a need for vengeance against the humans for all they have done, while Maeve has no interest in violence and is simply following her own path. She rejects Dolores's choice to establish herself as a leader of a free movement, which clearly angers Dolores. The two are able to part without any violence ensuing, but their ideological differences on what to do with their freedom are quite clear.

Gallery

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MAEVES NOTE — the note that shows where he daughter is

Appearances

Season One
- "The Original"
- "Chestnut"
- "The Stray"
- "Dissonance Theory"
- "Contrapasso"
- "The Adversary"
- "Trompe L'Oeil"
- "Trace Decay"
- "The Well-Tempered Clavier"
- "The Bicameral Mind"

Season Two
- "Journey Into Night"
- "Reunion"
- "Virtù e Fortuna"
- "Akane No Mai"
- "Phase Space"
- "Les Ecorches"
- "Kiksuya"
- "Vanishing Point"
- "The Passenger"

Notes

In the episode "The Bicameral Mind", the moment where Maeve gets off the train marks a "new phase", not just for Maeve (she now has free will), but for the other hosts as well. The showrunners wanted to highlight this moment visually, so they changed the method of filming the tracking shot when Maeve exited the train. Up to this point, tracking shots had always been filmed using Steadicam or dolly mounted cameras, but when Maeve leaves the train, "for the first time in the series, we're seeing handheld photography."^[2]

Trivia

Maeve's Host ID is AC5000487105^[3]
Maeve is the name of a legendary Irish warrior queen who had many lovers and husbands. It literally means "she who intoxicates" and is related to the word "mead", i.e. ale. It may also be related to the name of the fairy queen Mab, pronounced "m /ă/ v" (with the short /ă/ sound, unlike Maeve which is pronounced with the long /ā/ sound), from Celtic folklore.
Queen Mab is mentioned in Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet. In Shakespeare's play, Queen Mab is the fairy (an immortal and magical creature) who is responsible for bringing dreams to sleeping people. This Queen Mab is a malevolent hag who punishes unchaste ladies by blistering their lips and making knots in their hair that cause horrid oozing sores. She is tiny and no larger than the image engraved on a stone in a ring.

References

↑ http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/maeve-westworld-decision.html
↑ http://uk.ign.com/articles/2016/12/05/westworld-creators-on-the-season-finale-reveals-fords-plan-and-what-to-expect-in-season-2
↑ Close-up of Bernard's tablet in The Well-Tempered Clavier

[1] ttp://www.vulture.com/2016/12/maeve-westworld-decision.html

[2] ttp://uk.ign.com/articles/2016/12/05/westworld-creators-on-the-season-finale-reveals-fords-plan-and-what-to-expect-in-season-2

[3] Close-up of Bernard's tablet in The Well-Tempered Clavier

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+|Maeve gets off the train, at the end of "[[The Bicameral Mind]]" at which point, we shift to handheld camera, which we’d held back on throughout the entire season until one moment with her, and one moment with Dolores, when Teddy comes to rescue her.
-|Maeve Millay is beautiful and razor-sharp. She has a knack for reading people and a strong will to survive. Millay has a seen-it-all-before worldview that is about to be truly challenged.
+|Jonathan Nolan, on Maeve's final step to consciousness<ref>http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/maeve-westworld-decision.html</ref>
-|Official Description
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-'''Maeve Millay''' is a [[Host]] in [[Westworld (Location)|Westworld]] who is a brothel madam in the local [[Mariposa Saloon]]. She is one of the first Hosts who begins to question her reality, after a series of flashback events.
+'''Maeve Millay''' is a main character and a [[host]] in [[Westworld (Location)|Westworld]] who is a brothel madam in the local [[Mariposa Saloon]]. She is one of the first Hosts who appears to question her reality, after a series of flashback events - and an apparently chance encounter with [[Dolores Abernathy]] in the street, outside the [[Mariposa Saloon]].
+==Personality==
-==[[Season One|Season 1]]==
+Maeve is charming, perceptive, and manipulative. She runs the brothel in the [[Mariposa Saloon]] and is designed to be able to understand the needs of her guests.
-===[[The Original]]===
-Maeve watches as [[Teddy Flood]] declines the advances of [[Clementine Pennyfeather]]. Maeve is listening and says that he has to pay in one way or another, whatever he does. He's not listening however. Through the window he sees [[Dolores Abernathy]] coming out of a store and he leaves the bar without speaking again to the women, before running across the street to her. The questions and answers continue in voice-over: "Do you ever feel inconsistencies in your world? Or repetitions?"
-"All lives have routine, mine's no different." she says. Later, Maeve is in the saloon when [[Hector Escaton]] and his gang come to rob the safe.<ref>[[The Original]]</ref>
+After her [[Season One]] encounter with [[Dolores]] she started to develop self-awareness and discovered that her skill in manipulating humans extended to the staff of Westworld.
-===[[Chestnut]]===
-Another day, Maeve is giving her standard introduction speech, about the little voice, to a newly arrived guest. While she speaks we see her remember being attacked by a native American with an axe. She's dressed in farmers' clothing and has a small girl, her daughter, with her. The new guest sees she's distressed and gets up, excusing himself. Maeve doesn't seem to notice him leave.
-[[File:Maeve_and_child.jpg|thumb|Maeve flashes back to a memory of protecting her daughter.]]
-We see Maeve in [[Analysis Mode]] undergoing a review, she's sitting on a stool while a man talks. He asks her "what did it say?" she answers that "This is the new world etc." The man examines her and can't see the problem, can't see why her success rate has dropped. They decide to double her "aggression" in a last attempt to get her numbers back up.
+As she becomes more self-aware she develops a ruthless streak, controlling the technicians Sylvester and Felix to get what she wants.
-We see Maeve being decommissioned, [[Elsie Hughes|Elsie]] is examining her, she doesn't approve of the extra aggression "those morons" have added. She saves Maeve's current config and makes some small, precisely targeted, adjustments. Her assistant asks if they dream,. Elsie says they don't, but that they do have the concept of dreams as a safety precaution. She notes that Maeve has some physical discomfort and schedules a full physical examination at her next rotation. Elsie passes her as fit and puts her back to work. We see Maeve flirting, very successfully, with a guest. Elsie's adjustments have worked and she's back on form.
+Unknown to Maeve, she is following a narrative written for her by Ford. She acts as a catalyst, triggering changes that spread throughout the park.
-Teddy and Maeve talk, about their various sins, they seem friendly.
+== Plot ==
-Soon a guest shoots Teddy, repeatedly. Maeve shows mild disapproval but remembers a previous violent episode. In a dream she remembers being happy with her daughter on the farm, but it becomes confused with her being attacked. She runs for her daughter and locks the door of the farmhouse, getting the shotgun.
+<tabview>
+Maeve Millay/Season 1|Season 1
+Maeve Millay/Season 2|Season 2
+</tabview>
+==Relationships==
-The door opens on the [[Man in Black]], she tries to shoot him but with no effect. Maeve counts backwards to wake herself.
+===[[Clementine Pennyfeather]]===
-[[File:Maeve2_ep2.jpg|thumb|Maeve awakes on the operation table, disoriented and scared.]]
+Maeve is shown to have a very motherly bond with Clementine, often scolding her for not treating herself better. Even still, Maeve is quick to send Clementine off to do her dirty work for her. After the original Clementine is replaced, Maeve is overcome with grief and attacks the replacement.
-She wakes on the examination table during her physical; and two technicians are cleaning up an MRSA infection in her abdomen. She opens her eyes and looks around her - scared. They see her moving and are taken off guard. They try to control her with no luck, blaming each other. She threatens them with a scalpel, telling them to keep their hands off her. She escapes from the room and runs, holding her abdomen together.
+===[[Dolores Abernathy]]===
+Maeve and Dolores, both being local to Sweetwater, are familiar with each other. The two begin to question the nature of reality around the same time: Dolores's delivery of the phrase "These violent delights have violent ends" is what puts Maeve on her own journey of self-discovery. Despite this and the fact that they were the first two hosts to become completely self-aware, their brief encounter in [[Reunion]] is strikingly hostile: Dolores is consumed by a need for vengeance against the humans for all they have done, while Maeve has no interest in violence and is simply following her own path. She rejects Dolores's choice to establish herself as a leader of a free movement, which clearly angers Dolores. The two are able to part without any violence ensuing, but their ideological differences on what to do with their freedom are quite clear.
+== Gallery ==
-She finds herself in an area where damaged hosts are repaired, she sees Teddy with the gunshot wounds. While she's watching, the two technicians retrieve her. They hide the fact that she awoke and behaved strangely.<ref>[[Chestnut]]</ref>
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-===[[The Stray]]===
-Teddy and a guest head to the Mariposa after a successful bounty hunt. Upon seeing Teddy, Maeve flashes to her memory of him deceased in the Livestock Management facility. She's steadily growing more and more curious about the happenings of her world and reality.<ref>[[The Stray]]</ref>
+== Appearances ==
-===[[Dissonance Theory]]===
+* [[Season One]]
-At the saloon, a troubled Maeve speaks to Clementine. During their conversation, Maeve suddenly remembers Clementine as having been shot in the head, followed by the appearance of a Westworld employee wearing a protective suit. She then remembers being shot herself in the stomach.
+** "[[The Original]]"
-[[File:Angela_Sarafyan_as_Clementine,_Thandie_Newton_as_Maeve_...jpg|thumb|Maeve begins to question everything and has more flashbacks.]]
+** "[[Chestnut]]"
-In her bedroom, Maeve sketches the suit on a piece of paper and attempts to hide it under a floorboard. Opening the floorboard, she is shocked to discover many more of her sketches already there.
+** "[[The Stray]]"
-[[File:Hector_and_maeve_dissonance_theory.jpg|thumb|Maeve finds the bullet in her stomach.]]
+** "[[Dissonance Theory]]"
-Later, a group of Native American hosts pass through and a young girl drops a wooden figurine, which appears to be modeled after the protective suit worn by the Westworld employees. She picks it up and asks the girl where it was from, but is told by a bystander host that it is part of their unintelligible religion.
+** "[[Contrapasso]]"
+** "[[The Adversary]]"
+** "[[Trompe L'Oeil]]"
+** "[[Trace Decay]]"
+** "[[The Well-Tempered Clavier]]"
+** "[[The Bicameral Mind]]"
+*[[Season Two]]
-Back at the saloon, Maeve recognizes one of Hector's men. Clementine asks her if Hector is the one that lives with the Native American "savages", to which Maeve replies in the affirmative.
+**"[[Journey Into Night (episode)|Journey Into Night]]"
+**"[[Reunion]]"
+**"[[Virtù e Fortuna]]"
+**"[[Akane No Mai]]"
+**"[[Phase Space]]"
+**"[[Les Ecorches]]"
+**"[[Kiksuya]]"
+**"[[Vanishing Point]]"
+**"[[The Passenger]]"
+== Notes ==
-As he rides into town with [[Armistice]], Hector's saloon heist-loop begins once again, this time accompanied by some guests. Once Hector is in the saloon, Maeve puts a gun to his head and demands that they talk alone. Upstairs, Maeve shows him the wooden figurine, offering to give him the combination to the safe in return for answers.
+* In the episode "[[The Bicameral Mind]]", the moment where Maeve gets off the train marks a "new phase", not just for Maeve (she now has free will), but for the other hosts as well. The showrunners wanted to highlight this moment visually, so they changed the method of filming the tracking shot when Maeve exited the train. Up to this point, tracking shots had always been filmed using Steadicam or dolly mounted cameras, but when Maeve leaves the train, "for the first time in the series, we're seeing handheld photography."<ref>http://uk.ign.com/articles/2016/12/05/westworld-creators-on-the-season-finale-reveals-fords-plan-and-what-to-expect-in-season-2</ref>
-[[File:Hector_maeve_kiss.jpg|thumb|Hector and Maeve kiss as bullets fire through the bedroom door.]]
-As guests are revealed to be coming to the park in 20 minutes, the Westworld employees decides to jam Hector's groups' weapons to end the heist early. Hector tells Maeve that the figure is a "shade" that the Native Americans make figurines of. They believe them to be from hell, sent to oversee our world. Maeve tells Hector that she thought she was crazy, yet she knows she got shot in the stomach and that she saw the protective suit standing over her, even though it later seemed like it never happened due to no resulting wound. Maeve uses a blade to cut into her own stomach, then makes Hector dig out the bullet shrapnel inside, convincing Maeve that she is not crazy at all. Maeve begins to kiss Hector passionately as bullets fire through the door.<ref>[[Dissonance Theory]]</ref>
+== Trivia ==
+* Maeve's Host ID is AC5000487105<ref>Close-up of Bernard's tablet in The Well-Tempered Clavier</ref>
+* Maeve is the name of a legendary Irish warrior queen who had many lovers and husbands. It literally means "she who intoxicates" and is related to the word "mead", i.e. ale. It may also be related to the name of the fairy queen Mab, pronounced "m /ă/ v" (with the short /ă/ sound, unlike Maeve which is pronounced with the long /ā/ sound), from Celtic folklore.
+* Queen Mab is mentioned in Shakespeare's play, ''Romeo and Juliet''. In Shakespeare's play, Queen Mab is the fairy (an immortal and magical creature) who is responsible for bringing dreams to sleeping people. This Queen Mab is a malevolent hag who punishes unchaste ladies by blistering their lips and making knots in their hair that cause horrid oozing sores. She is tiny and no larger than the image engraved on a stone in a ring.
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