Will catch up tonight when I get home.
I'm trying to get my head around something: Dolores freaks out in the barn when Trevor is attempting to rape her, but she seemingly remembers the MiB coming at her instead, prompting her to shoot Trevor. It's depicted that her remembering a previous loop with the MiB mentally scarred her, which results in her breaking her programming (the woodcutter was the only one in his group authorized to use the axe; when Dolores is attempting to shoot the pistol with Teddy, she can't, likely because of her programming and authorization).
She then runs away from the farm and stumbles across William and Logan.
So how can her remembering the MiB lead to her fighting her programming, killing a host, and then running into William?
To make this even more confusing, she remembers being shot in the gut, preempts the confrontation and runs away.
So there's atleast 3 timelines, or loops, depicted here. What's confusing, is IF MiB is William, then why would Dolores remember the MiB during events that lead to her meeting William? The answer is obviously that her entire narrative is incredibly muddled, with the timelines being blurred from scene to scene, but it doesn't feel very neat.
The normal loop must be;
Dolores with Teddy = She is fine.
Dolores without Teddy = She is taken to the barn.
So the MiB taking her to the barn is a weird echo on what her normal "bad ending" loop must be. Her confrontation with a player hungry for the meta experience probably helped set her on this path.
In a later loop, without Teddy, she's attacked again, only this time fights back. This echoes the last time, if the theory is right, she fought back, 30 years ago when she broke her programming before, and ended up meeting William.
I have no doubt, that if it's a split timeline or not, that Arnold is responsible for both instances. In the modern timeline, I hark back to my previous idea that's Ford is conspiring to help fulfill Arnold'a vision after growing resentful of Delos.
