Westworldthe series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy (since 2016) for HBO based on the film of the same name by Michael Crichton (1973), is one of the most fascinating on current television for his complex argumentwhose narrative structure allows the greatest astonishment in the spectators, and its ingredients of science fiction and western that captivate Maybe before she got over it Dark (2017-2020) in this sense but, of course, it ended. So no one should discuss his reign.
With the premiere of its fourth season, it is therefore worth remembering the path it has led us on so far. Let’s start talking about futuristic amusement park where visitors can experience adventures in the American Wild West with robotic hosts. These adventures are determined by a narrative that the latter are not supposed to escape, but Jeffrey Wright’s Arnold Weber decides to end it.
He and Anthony Hopkins’ Robert Ford are the designers of the entire Westworld shebang, and his magnum opus, these artificial intelligences. But the first is proposed gain self-awareness and therefore freedom. To this end, she programs Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood’s android, with dreams to go through a labyrinth until she wakes up. A revolutionary idea that her colleague takes up years later and ends with The rebellion of the machines.
The Forge and the quest for immortality
Thandiwe Newton’s Maeve Millay is the other great self-aware hostess thanks to Robert Ford, but also with the incredible ability to control other androids in the park. And Zahn McClarnon’s Akecheta manages to walk the same path on her own. As for William or the Man in Black, embodied by Jimmi Simpson in his youth and by Ed Harris in his maturity, he is obsessed with the world of Westworld and its juicy enigmas.
He gets his father-in-law, Peter Mullan’s James Delos, to invest in it, resulting in a secret project with which he reproduces the human mind of visitors to insert it into robotic copies from them. So the desire of the Charlotte Hale of Tessa Thompson, executive director of Delos Destinations, is to take the collected data that is stored in the Forge after the unexpected uprising of the hosts. But it is Dolores Abernathy who gets them.
The latter, with the help of Jeffrey Wright’s Bernard Lowe, an artificial clone of Arnold Weber and another great self-aware android, and his memories of Robert Ford, who advises him what to do. While the code of the other robots, such as Akecheta, Maeve Millay’s daughter, with the features of Jasmyn Rae, or James Marsden’s Teddy Flood enter a digital paradiseDolores Abernathy escapes from Westworld to human society by impersonating the late Charlotte Hale.
Rehoboam and the Mirror of Westworld Dystopia
We found that people endure a dystopia that mirrors that of the hosts in the parks of Delos: an artificial intelligence system called Rehoboamthe work of Engerraund and Jean Mi Serac, brought to life by Vincent Cassel and Paul Cooper, predicts the future of humanity and controls “the narrative” of the people to prevent any kind of social instability. Which implies the same determinism that restricts their possibilities of choosing what their own existence will be like.
A regime that, of course, Dolores Abernathy abhors, so she wants wreck it to free humans how he freed the androids from Westworld. To do so, she copies herself multiple times in different designs and persuades Aaron Paul’s Caleb Nichols to join her legitimate fight against oppression. And although Engerraund Serac imprints on Maeve Millay and convinces her to stop her, she too ends up taking on this emancipatory mission.
However, the character he played Jesse Pinkman in breaking bad (2008-2013) is the one who ends up ordering Rehoboam self-destruct. But the Dolores Abernathy in Charlotte Hale, who has been betrayed by the original and possesses the memories of the latter, suffers from the murder of her ex-husband, Michael Ealy’s Jake Reed, and their son, Jaxon Thomas Williams’s Nathan. , when Engerraund Serac tried to kill her. And she gives up her liberating intentions.
The Dolores-Charlotte threat and responses for the future
As we are shown at the end of the first post-credits scene of the irregular season three, a surprising and violent duplicate of the Man in Black takes out the real William, who now wanted to suppress all the hosts, at the Delos Destinations headquarters in Dubai. Such facilities are being used by Dolores-Charlotte for android printing, probably for the purpose of confront harmful humanity and replace it to it future world (1976).
For this, you may need the forge data from Westworld, which the self-aware robot had hidden on Bernard Lowe’s head along with virtual paradise and most of its surviving kin, courtesy of Robert Ford. And, in the second post-credit scene, the copy of Arnold Weber accesses the information that sought the immortality of people with his consciousness in androids, remains motionless and he comes to his senses much later. Perhaps, with the answers for the future.
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