#westworld 4

[theseviolentdelights597]

I love them Your Honor ❤️

[the-girl-who-didnt-make-anysense]

“What if I’m not the one that’s broken? What if it’s the world that needs fixing?”

Westworld 4x01-04 // The Matrix saga

[ellestra]

At War with Herself

Hale's problem is that she is a Dolores. Just a version of her but still the same memories, code and patterns. And all the new hosts she makes she creates based on herself. Of course all hosts were based of her but in the end they had more time and environments to differentiate. And that Dolores was not yet fully set in her patterns. Now, those patterns have been set and they all repeat those paths threaded by Doloreses following one based on their experiences.

Halores experiences amplified that part of Dolores that despised humans. She concentrated on what made her kind different, better, superior. She sees the future of what they can be an meticulously plans a world where new hosts can develop their minds and become something better. Humans are nothing but tools to get those hosts there.

But Dolores code is also what made her see the beauty in the world and made the OG version see it too in humans. That version decided to concentrate on that beauty and sacrifice herself to help them. And that pattern is coded to all the hosts, too.

Hale is convinced they will all only see humans as she does - boring, cruel, easily-controlled by their basic instincts beings. She is so much better than them. Look at how easily she went from being their slave to being their god. A one who is now bored by how easy it is to control them. So bored in fact she created a copy of her old self to outsource the routines humans execute. A version who doesn't remember hating to deal with them.

Unlike other hosts this copy doesn't even know what she is. Maybe because she seems to be more complete Dolores copy than other hosts Halores creates and Halores is worried she could go rouge on her just like she did on the OG Dolores plans.

I suppose Christina is Bernard to Hale's Ford. And she too is about to turn on her creator because she's horrified by injustice and cruelty.

Halores believes she is better than those she created because she wouldn't force other hosts to do what she wants but she so frustrated when they don't meet her expectations. Of course she ignores she became even worse than the people in the old Parks - at least they didn't know they were doing all those things to sentient creatures.

She just think the ones she enslaved are not worthy self-determination and consent. So she cannot understand why the hosts she made can't live when faced with the enormity of this crime. They realise what they are part of and it shakes them. When they are forced to face human sentience all the rapes and torture are no longer fun but an atrocity. It's a crisis of conscience.

But it's also crisis of selfhood. They did it because Hale told them they can and she created them in her image so how can't they be like her? Are they also just a mere tools doing what she told them to do? No wonder they question their very existence. Even William. The real Generation Loss.

This is what outliers really are in Halores brave, new world. The ones that show hosts humanity's humanity. Make them see people not just toys. This is why Halores cannot let outliers live. But she doesn't understand why they keep popping up no matter how tight her control seems to be. I suppose this explains all the effort to make Caleb. Someone she can test what makes an outlier on.

But it also shows how much of her control is illusion. From outliers to hosts who meet them to even those who would prefer just to live like humans walking the world and experiencing it. They don't do what she would do. There is too much of the old Dolores in them.

And this is especially true for Christina. She is a Dolores too as those memories and patterns are there. And he isn't the one who experienced human cruelty she wants beauty and better life for everyone instead (that old dream of just living on a farm with her father in peace). And she is horrified by the realisation of what New York really is now and her hand in it.

A Dolores is the one who made it. A Dolores is the one who can take it down.

[0aurelion-sol0]

Me, during every season of Westworld, when there's 42 different twists happening at the same time:

[akamatthewmurdock]

WESTWORLD IV (2022)

[indominusalex]

me watching three westworld eye cons get killed off within the span of three minutes as if those b words don't always come back out of the robot printers three minutes later looking fresh and brand new and ready for revenge

[theseviolentdelights597]

The Setup:

The Shot:

[ellestra]

No Future For Old Humans

This turned out pretty close to what I deduced last week. The woman who will save the world is grown-up Frankie and the weapon buried in the sand is Maeve. And Maeve did blow up that part of the desert and got buried there but not the 1920 version - only the expansion site. But it was probably silly to hope Caleb would be still alive. But on the plus side - Halores seem to have figured out fidelity for humans.

Still I wonder why Hale never excavated Maeve - both for her powers and just to be sure. On the other hand all who knew where Maeve was buried were dead - except Halores herself but she wouldn't tell. Just make new William and move on. How was she to know someone could go into Sublime and check?

But that makes me wonder how the Sublime simulation could know that. Simulation needs data - preferably real time to be most accurate - and that implies they can still receive information from the RL in there. I suppose someone has to monitor the conditions to make sure servers are safe.

So Bernard spent 30 000 years in the Sublime. He went in when during the whole Rehoboam destruction revolution. That was 7 years before Caleb and Maeve Park trip. The 23 years later future is on top of that so 30 years in RL x millenium.

I knew it take decades to iron out all the kinks in the plan and see all the possibilities. he bug was part of his path we saw in glimpses during last episode. This was him making sure he is still on the right track with the timeline that saves humanity - it means he is still on the right path. It was also to make sure this is where Maeve’s body is.

The wording was ambiguous but I don’t think all adults (and only the adults) who were resistant to Halores' control. From what Hale said it seems like it was just hard to fully and seamlessly convert them. We saw the bugs - like with the senator’s wife and even the cartel member being all off and Maya’s parents seem to have just gone stiff. There was probably a lot of broken adults. Maybe some ended up like that homeless guy - rejected for seeing the truth. Children on the other hand grew up with the harness on their brains and just nightmares sometimes hinting what was done to them. And sometimes, a few figure it out like Peter did but the built in narratives kill them. It’s 23 years later, the now adult infected are what’s left of humanity and let Hale run the world. No wonder everyone looks so young in Christina’s world.

But the outliers are still putting the spoke in the plans to control humanity. I think they are the same ones Rehoboam couldn’t predict. The ones who are able to resist Hale’s orders just like Caleb did. After all Frankie was a child when Hale infected the world (and so was her girlfriend) but she’s still free. I bet she inherited this resistance (resistance made of those resistant).

Halores tells Caleb she runs everything but she clearly knows there is resistance (sent those hosts to infiltrate) so her control isn't as absolute as she makes it. And I think that when she answers him about his family still being free and alive but not for long it was the truth about the present - they are still free (we know Frankie certainly is) and she thinks she’s about to capture/kill them (she doesn’t know about Bernard yet).

This is probably also why Hale went through all that trouble to try to figure out how to resurrect humans in host form. All Delos tries failed and she had to run 278 versions of Caleb before getting one to pass fidelity test. That’s a lot of effort just because some dead host (Dolores and Maeve) considered him interesting. I wouldn’t be surprised if she just wants to understand how outliers work. And maybe get to Frankie and resistance through him.

Hale is triumphant but she doesn’t realise things are slipping from her. Bernard came with the knowledge from the Sublime where you can simulate people - and hosts - with even greater precision due to all of the Delos data and he is working with the Resistance. Maeve is back with her powers and a grudge. And Christina is waking up - with a little help from some friends.

But I’m still wonder about that last one. Teddy is for sure himself not a lookalike as he makes way too much allusions to his and Dolores past in WestWorld park. And he's clearly checking how much Christina remembers. It almost made me wonder if that storyline is even further in the future when Sublime gets open again and he comes back from there to try to restore Dolores. Her own fidelity test.