I am at the final mission (won’t spoil anything) and a key character says ‘violent delights.. and violent ends’. I MELTED!!! The game is full of references to iconic scifi/cyberpunk franchises like Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runner etc, tjere was a character early on surnamed Abernathy.. but I wasn’t expecting this!

Hadn't been cancelled, \W/ESTWORLD Season 5 would be premiering around this season.

Season I: 'THE MAZE' premiered on HBO October 2, 2016.

Season II: 'THE DOOR' on April 22, 2018

Season III: 'THE NEW WORLD' on March 15, 2020

Season IV: 'THE CHOICE' on June 26, 2022

Season V: 'THE LAST LOOP'❔ Summer 2024 💔

What I don't really understand is Dolores' plan with Bernard at the end of Season 3. I understand that Lawrence gave Bernard the device to enter the Sublime, and this was part of Dolores' plan, as Musashi mentioned when he said, "her plans are well underway," after sending one of his men to deliver the device to Clementine.

But is that the whole plan? Did Dolores intend for Bernard to save everyone if things went south after she crashed Rehoboam? Is that why she brought his pearl from Westworld?

Or is there a deeper strategic plan that Dolores has for Bernard? After all, she couldn't have known that one of her copies would deviate from her path and potentially destroy the world, could she?

solomon/rehoboam = bernard/ford

jean mi/serac = arnold/ford

caleb/francis = dolores/teddy

caleb (programmed, not living their true life, but a scripted life)

cryogenic sleep in the real world = cold storage in westworld

humans are just like hosts, living their programmed life

What other parallels did you notice?

…and I loved it! I wonder if Hollywood will do a remake since that is the only thing they are capable of nowadays

I'm a real person with real curiosity

I really enjoyed the first season.

Ok we learn that bernard is a host in this episode, however can someone explain why did ford show the house to bernard in the previous episode like he was a human?

It took me a minute to figure out why it sounded similar, mind you it only lasts a few seconds but still it was enough to make me think.

I believe Tessa Thompson’s portrayal of Charlotte was the best acting she’s done and the best she’s ever looked!

With super fast development of AI in many aspects of life such as: chatgpt, entertainment AI, erotic AI etc. iti s logical to think that we are more and mroe moving into the driection of Westworld but on a global level.

Do you think it is positive or negative in the long run? Will we learn more about the world or it will "swallow" us?

Just watched episode 7 of season 1 and am wondering how Bernard could even be in such a position to begin with. Don't they do employee screenings? I doubt they'd hire someone Ford shows up with out of the blue, especially considering the lack of trust. From all context gathered it doesn't sound like he's been working there since before the merger. I thought maybe Bernard was a real person hired, then killed and replaced by Ford but nothing seems to really support that idea so is this a case of writer's oversight or is there an explanation for this?

From what I understand, Dolores didn't leave Teddy for another love interest in season one. From the moment someone else takes the can from her, she takes on another narrative and doesn't remember Teddy, who is removed from her story. That's why there was another bounty hunter in her narrative.

I've been searching for a while. Looked on Amazon, Best buy, target, Walmart etc... finding the US version seems to be a no go. Anyone know where that might be available or should I just get each individual season?

this is fully just a rant that I wanted to put in the reddit ether but like...why the fuck are the humans in the show so terrible? like i know thats the point, i'm not faulting the creators, the show is literally an example of the worst of the worst of human consciousness, and the consequences of that so I totally get it. But like im rewatching season 2 now and theres this point where lee is first being confronted by Maeve and you'd think on his part or others, there'd be more of an initial existential/moral shock of like "oh my god, what have we done, we're so sorry!" or like...before even if the people in the park didn't think the hosts were self-aware...they still knew that they experienced actual pain, like they had central nervous system equivalents..thats still horrible...and like even on this reddit people I see are still debating like were they conscious? etc like hello, are you watching the same show as me? the center of the maze isn't even really about sentience or basic self-awareness, they were at a certain point all always that...its a metaphor for the journey of inner growth/individuation and the capacity to break free of our loops/patterns and actually develop free will as sentient beings...sorry im just ranting. i don't think all humans are this way, this is just tv but like damn...I tend to lean toward the aspect of Dolores that is like "I see the beauty in this world" but also in S2 and right now I am so team angry host lol

Ok, I’m done!

Disclaimer: I haven't seen season 4 yet. I stopped after season 3 some years ago and now I'm choosing to rewatch the show.
These are all personal reflections on how I perceive my waning interest in the show.
So in my opinion the lack of Ford after season 3 I feel is what leads to the story of Westworld feeling more and more disconnected from the earlier seasons. It made me realize how much I relied on Ford to assure me this was all leading somewhere. That his plan doesn't just stop within the boundaries of the park. Now it just feels like a spinoff and the plot points are leaning more and more on the familiar Ocean 11-type narratives and I just don't feel nearly as invested. It's like when MIB described what drew him to the park, all the chaos in the park led somewhere. In the real world, it's just chaos, nothing else.
My pace slowed drastically from a few episodes a day to struggling to finish an episode in 2 days.
Are there any other thoughts as to why it felt worse so quickly?

What's the name of the recurring theme that plays whenever Dr. Ford is on screen and philosophizing? Two examples I can thing of are when he's talking to the host in S1E5 about his childhood dog, and the other is when Theresa dies. There's a similar tune in the soundtrack called "do they dream" but it's not exactly the same. Could use some help pinning it down. Thanks folks!

How is it that Charlotte's and William's hosts didn't fell apart? You know how that project fell thru because the human mind didn't fully work and ended up shutting down, so why those did work?