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Best Westworld Park?

A: Original Cowboy Flavor. The setting of Season 1, including towns like Sweetwater, Pariah, Los Mudas, and Escalante, along with important laboratories like the CR4DL and the Forge. Roughly based on the North American West, 1864.

B: Shogun World: A plot cul de sac that Maeve and friends get stuck in during Season 2. Based on Japan's Edo period. (1603-1868).

C: The Raj. It's definitely trying to say something about colonialism, even moreso than the other parks. Whether it's succeeding is another issue. Based off an Indian safari experience between 1865 and 1986.

D: War World. A Simulation created by Serac for Maeve in Season 3. Based on Italy in WWII. Where she and Lee finally have their two minutes of romance.

E: The "Real" World. A Cyberpunk metropolis on both sides of the Pacific, in the not-too-distant future of 2050.

F: Fantasy World: Based on the European Medieval period, this park has been cut for costs after Dolores's revolution. The dragon has been auctioned off, piece by piece.

G: Temperance. A new park opened by William in Season 4, based on the Prohibition Era, and the works of Ernest Hemmingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

H: Greco-Roman World: A fan theory based on the existence of such a park in the original 1973 film. Considering the hosts are lager than life figures with cities of their own now, it would be interesting is all I'm saying.

You can only pick one...

A: Original Cowboy

B: Shogun World

C: The Raj

D: War World

E: The "Real" World

F: Fantasy World

G: Temperance

H: Greco-Roman

Voting ended onDec 18, 2023

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Westworld : how does a host become sentient ?

Finding the center of the maze was Dolores’ purpose in season 1. We saw that it was a difficult task and it took her decades to finally become a sentient being, even if she already felt “real feelings” before. We know that sentient hosts :

-can choose the lines of their code they want to use, allowing them to switch of personalities (ex : Dolores/Wyat).

-so they can’t be reprogrammed, or you have to erase their memories, the base of their sentience (so it’s like killing them) and write a new character in replacement of the erased data, but if this new host becomes sentient too, they have access to the memories of the precedent sentient host (ex : Dolores/Christina)

-can use all of the skills of their host bodies, while non-sentient host are limited by their code and can be killed in the same way that any human, except if they’re not programmed like this (the hosts coded by Charlores don’t have the same limits than the hosts of Westworld) (ex : Dolores in seasons 2 and 3, Charlores in seasons 3 and 4, host! William in season 4)

So, in the show, we actually have only five hosts who reached the center of their maze and became sentient creatures : Dolores and Maeve in season 1, Teddy and Bernard in season 2, and host! William in season 4. No host became sentient in season 3 because this season was more centered on the humans than on the hosts (well, we could say that Caleb found the center of his maze, but it’s not exactly the same thing). But how do this five hosts reach consciousness ? What is their common point ?

Contradiction. Sentience was born from contradiction in their code.

First, Dolores : she became sentient because of her two personnalities, Wyatt and the daughter of the shepperd, which are completely opposite, and at the moment she realized that it was her voice she was hearing, and so that the choice of the personnality she wants to use, she wants to be, was hers. Dolores already found the center of the maze whith Arnold, but it wasn’t enough : at this time, she was only coded to be the daughter of the shepperd, only reaching the center of the maze didn’t allow her to be something else. She needed Wyatt and doing her journey again to finally become a sentient being.

Secondly, Maeve : she became sentient at the exact moment she left Ford’s story for her and chose to stay in Westworld in order to find her daughter. Why did this choice make her sentient ? Because it entered in contradiction with all her character and her code : she was supposed to be selfish, to be independant, to be someone who wants to be alone. We see that because she gave up on Hector some moments before. But it was the opposite of her last personnality, the personnality of a mother who loves her daughter and would do everything for her. These two personnalities collided and Maeve made a choice. A choice based on her last life. Maeve’s sentience was an accident : he revealed it in season 2, he didn’t plan that Maeve wouldn’t follow the story he wrote for her, he didn’t think that giving her access to memories of her precedent life would giving her the possibility to choose the feelings she had in this precedent life above the feelings she had now, but once again, it’s the contradiction between two opposite personnalities coded for Maeve which allowed her to become sentient.

Thirdly, Teddy : it’s easy, it’s the contradiction between what Teddy was and what Dolores made of him. Teddy finally chose to be who he was, but because even who he was would follow Dolores in hell, he prefered kill himself.

Fourth, Bernard : now it’s interesting, because, at the opposite of the precedent cases, Bernard doesn’t have two opposed personnalities in his code. He has been made in order to behave like Arnold Weber. But there’s a little difference which made him become sentient : Dolores changed him so he could have more chances to survive. And that’s what happened : at the end of season 2, Bernard betrayed humanity and brought back Dolores in order to give a chance to him and his kind to survive, even if it could bring destruction to humanity. That’s not something that Arnold would do, he prefered killing himself and all the hosts, he didn’t think even a second to give them a chance to fight. Because of this little difference, Bernard lived a contradiction between who he’s supposed to be true (Arnold) and what he’s supposed to do (survive), and it’s at this moment that he became sentient, with an illusion of Ford in order to make this transtion easier for him.

Fifth, host!William : that’s actually the same thing than Bernard. Host!William is programmed to be William and to serve Charlores, and like Clementine said, at the moment Charlores created a host! William, she shouldn’t have expected that he would stay true to her, because no version of William could really be a servant.

So I think it’s how the hosts can become sentient : contradiction. Contradiction which forces them to make a choice, a choice about what they want to be between at least two options. And that’s why so many hosts didn’t become sentient in the show even if they were free for a long time (ex : Clementine) : because without this contradiction which allows them to make a choice, in the end they’re still defined by their code.

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James Marsden attends the launch of the new Aston Martin DB12 at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France on May 24, 2023. Grooming Dave Stanwell. Stylist Ilaria Urbinati.