Oh definitely . But the problem wasn ' t necessarily that it was only tested in production it wasn ' t . It was just that the very specific failure condition didn ' t occur during testing . Proper code review would definitely have prevented it , though . <| sep |> So essentially , almost any scene involving hosts with cuts could have occurred in a different sequence than what the viewer experiences . MiB and Teddy could have shot all those Union soldiers at 15 different points of time over the course of years . William and Dolores jumping onto the train could have occurred months after the Conferado shootout in a completely different part of Westworld . On top of that , any character in the show could be a robot misleading us with a bullshit programmed backstory . I suppose it ' s intentional to disorient the viewer but the storytelling rules in this universe are much too loose for my tastes . I ' ve just kind of thrown up my hands and let it play out .