Westworld
Que Será, Será
Season 4
Episode 8
Editor’s Ranking
5 stars
Westworld
Que Será, Será
Season 4
Episode 8
Editor’s Ranking
5 stars
Photo: John Johnson/HBO
I’ve never been happier to listen to the needle tumble on Ramin Djawadi’s “Sweetwater” theme. In wrapping up a further and extra bleak (and fun!) two months of tv, the season four finale of Westworld scheme the pieces for what is inch to be an very perfect goofier season five. Time to dig into what we realized and what’s coming next. It appears to be like that the world become once never going to be saved.
The episode opens with a chain of murders that feel esteem a thought experiment to resolve which roughly white man is the most unhealthy. Is it an unhinged dirtbag with a baseball bat? No, it’s the businessman in a swimsuit with an ax. No, it’s genuinely a teenage boy with an assault rifle. No, it’s genuinely the Man in Murky — who embodies all three esteem a predatory Breakfast Membership. William, who within the penultimate episode scheme the code in motion for humans and hosts alike to fight to the loss of life except no person become once left within the right world, revels within the sport he’s created as he travels from Hale Metropolis to the Hoover Dam, where the Valley Beyond is birth and ready for him to contaminated next.
Within the meantime, drone hosts rebuild Hale. She asks them to leave her scars so she could even be conscious her past. (Okay, Papa Roach.) She also asks them to leave her face, pulling an Olenna Tyrell by revealing that she wants William to attain it become once her who killed him. Which she finally does, nevertheless now not sooner than doing some errands. Hale is unable to cease the tone sequence establish in attach by William nevertheless she does web Bernard’s message.
Bernard gave Hale a role and a different. He also gave her a gun within the Hoover dam to shoot and homicide host William, which become once rad. RIP, host William. We now not ceaselessly knew you. Bernard’s closing instruction is for Hale to maintain Christina plod a closing take a look at to connect what’s left of their world within the Good. She does this and then smashes her have pearl, demise by suicide while sitting by the water. Wild to maintain a season-long Sizable Defective factual roughly quietly quit, on the opposite hand it’s been sure that Hale had been bored and over it for a while. Who is conscious of? Maybe she copied herself to the Good sooner than she left, and we’ll peek her but again.
Caleb-279, sadly, is also now not long for this world. As he and Stubbs get the injured Frankie to Red Hook, his body is glitching and twitching and slowly shutting down. Stubbs tells him he won’t set aside it a long way. “The extinct Delos experiments — they never took,” Stubbs says to Caleb. “The body continually rejected the mind.” Stubbs is relating to the experiments that the park did on James Delos. They inch it become once very now not going to actually replicate a human and grant them immortality by placing a human’s mind in a bunch’s pearl and body for the reason that two could likely now not reconcile their actuality. Essentially the most efficient reason that host William made it this a long way is that Hale reconstructed his code from memory. Engaging this, Caleb-279 offers a tearful goodbye to his daughter and stays in Red Hook while Frankie and Odina waft away.
Prior to that occurs, Stubbs is sadly killed by a rogue Clementine. Form of horrible, IMHO. Luke Hemsworth’s persona has carried out nothing unsuitable! Clementine wished no phase of William and Hale’s war. She requested permission to tear off the grid and reside, teach, and esteem esteem she become once on the starting of the season. Sadly, she become once all of the vogue down to abolish as many hosts and humans as she deemed basic to set aside that happen, and sadly Frankie (rightfully) took her out. She genuinely picked the unsuitable moment to initiate her villain era.
On the flip facet, we at final know Christina’s complete deal. She become once now not most efficient writing the experiences for the fly-gooped humans in her world and residing in a simulated model of it, her mind pearl is this technique on the heart. Hale named her “The Storyteller.” She created a room of her have. She created Maya because she craved companionship. She created Emmett, her boss, because she craved … capitalism, I issue. She even created Teddy because she craved esteem and readability and to be woken up. It’s a wonderful and sad metaphor for being a author, developing characters that are finally factual reflections of your self.
As Christina realizes that she’s been chatting with herself, she also observes Hale shutting down “her world” and taking her on a little day out. Whereas Christina’s pearl is rolling around the bottom of Hale’s purse, she summons Maya and imagines chatting alongside with her on a park bench, a little esteem Neo and the Oracle within the Matrix movies. Maya reminds her to survey past the chaos and the violence and peek the beauty on this world, which is, for sure, even handed one of Dolores’ catchphrases. At the starting of this sequence, that little line of dialogue, that core pressure that once powered Dolores’ myth within the park, made her seem esteem an Outdated West manic pixie dream girl. It identified her to company and the viewers as innocent, sweet, and one thing to be rescued in a unhealthy world. Now it symbolizes her energy as a hero.
She later observes that she’s within the Good, which we are in a position to behold by noticing that the facet ratio has modified. Why does it mute roughly survey esteem her little bougie NYC neighborhood? How is she in a position to shuffle among the many wreckage on the live of the episode in Christina’s hair and Dolores’s garb and rebuild Westworld from Times Sq.? Properly, we noticed Bernard walking through many versions of the past and show in a flashback to his Good time in episode three. Christina is willing to reconstruct it from memory. She then, with out lustrous it, takes Bernard’s advice to plod one closing take a look at for the fate of robotkind. “A recreation of my have making,” she says. “One final loop around the bend.” All correct now, we’re aid in Sweetwater with the player piano plinking alongside and the prepare rolling into the situation. “Maybe this time,” Dolores says, “we’ll scheme ourselves free.”
It appears to be like esteem Westworld is leaving the human world within the aid of and that season five will get attach almost fully within the Good. Christina/Dolores’ monologue on the live of the episode implies that the so-known as right world become once beautiful noteworthy over, thanks to William’s tone sequence. Whether or now not any humans or hosts continue to exist the apocalypse is none of her (or our) industry. Buckle up, letterbox nerds! We’re going to the Valley Beyond. We can presume that Christina/Dolores will seemingly be hunting for Teddy, nevertheless diversified than that … what’s her recreation? Is it to be NICE?! It have to be unhealthy and excessive stakes with out bringing the corruptive parts in from the human world. That’s a sexy sizable project.
This opens up many possibilities for returning characters we haven’t considered in a minute and could mean the live for just a few characters who never made it to the Valley Beyond. The characters we followed in season four fall loosely into three lessons. Characters we are in a position to almost with out a doubt now not peek but again: Caleb, Hale, and each and each Williams. Characters we can even now not peek but again: Maya, Frankie, Clementine, and Stubbs. Characters we are in a position to almost with out a doubt peek but again: Dolores, Teddy, with moderately of luck Bernard and Maeve.
The finale presents followers with a reward of two cameos from characters we haven’t considered this season. The most most considerable is Rebus, performed by Steven Ogg, a bunch with a villainous loop within the typical Westworld park who hasn’t been considered since season two. He appears to be like as the aforementioned dirtbag host with a Hawaiian shirt and right chaotic energy. The second, and tons extra short, is Jonathan Tucker’s Major Craddock, who first regarded in season two and returned for one more fast moment in season three. He tried to cease William within the finale and failed spectacularly.
More of this in season five, please! If Dolores has free reign to summon anybody for her closing loop/recreation/take a look at within the Valley Beyond, then Westworld better maintain a good time with it. If this gleeful, beefy-title boogie season is any indication, we’re in for moderately the plod.
• Whenever you happen to thought characters traveled too fast in Sport of Thrones’ final couple of seasons, that’s nothing in contrast to this season of Westworld. Hale and host William a technique or the opposite made it from New York to the Hoover Dam in under a day. Hale become once flying, nevertheless William traveled by automotive and horse.
• I esteem how the most effective recognizable logo in Times Sq. is for Coca-Cola. That feels factual. Even within the apocalypse, even in a simulation, it’s the right part.
• Spend into consideration that mark on the live of season two, where William woke up as a bunch in a cell a lot like James Delos’ alongside with his daughter giving him a constancy take a look at? That future, allegedly, has mute now not been reached on Westworld irrespective of extra than one time jumps. The sphere that has any teach for constancy tests, and William, is demise as of the season four finale. I genuinely, genuinely hope we aren’t going to study that that scene become once taking attach within the Good. Withhold William and his toxicity out of there!!!!!
• If it become once now not sure, I have to mute level out that the constructions surrounding the Tower are within the shape of the Maze — meaning Christina is at its heart.
• One more part we’ve alluded to nevertheless haven’t correct now talked about all season is that the Olympiad Entertainment building is positioned roughly within the equal attach as the HBO Headquarters in New York IRL.
• We can even never know the answer to this with out a doubt, nevertheless I’ve I learned what makes Caleb and the diversified outliers so particular. They maintain got somebody to be conscious them. That’s why, when fly-gooped humans become outliers later in life, their family participants quickly followed. They had been “contaminated” by memory. It’s now not a truly most sensible belief, nevertheless Westworld’s too cerebral for very most sensible theories.
• If this episode had aired in 2002, I 100 p.c would maintain establish Caleb’s “I’ve died sooner than. This isn’t so tainted.” as my emo AIM Away Message.
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