[orev]

The show is loosely based on the movie, and there’s no reason to think that’s how it worked in the show. In the show, it’s pretty easy to conclude that a lot of that type of stuff was controlled by an AI advanced enough to “just know the difference” between the humans and the hosts.

But it was never explained, and that’s fine because leaving stuff like that as a mystery is a big part of storytelling. Or, they wanted to avoid having a bunch of scenes with characters spewing technological gobbledygook like Star Trek.

[mcbishop]

> an AI advanced enough to “just know the difference”

I think the issue would be guests accidentally shooting other guests.

[Valgrim]

At some point in the show William gets shot at, it hurts but it doesn't break the skin, so somehow the bullets have a variable speed controlled by computers.

There's also a short scene in the show where two humans are talking. One of them takes his knife out in an intimidating way and in a split second the closest host just takes the sharp part of the knife in his hand and put it in the table, so even melee weapons can't hurt real humans.

[Teever]

The scene with the knife didn't show that the hosts would try and save every human life in the park, just the life of the creator of the park.

[jncfhnb]

I think he meant ai in the gun. The original movie androids appeared to just have normal guns lol.

[ghaff]

Honestly, a lot of what goes on with shooting, fighting, etc. just takes a certain suspension of disbelief that no guest gets killed or seriously hurt.