Westworld's new season starts promisingly with more mysteries
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A new season de Westworld finally debuted. O first episode do 4rd year arrived last Sunday (26) at HBO e HBO Max. In the midst of new mysteries, new questions are in the air, as standard in the series.
But before we get into the details of the chapter, it's good to put what came before in context. If you want to jump straight to our review of the beginning of the fourth year, just click on the index.
Summary of previous years
1 season
In the first year, we are introduced to the world of Of the. This is a company that built a giant amusement park, full of underworlds to entertain people. The main one (at least this season, and the next) is the Westworld. It brings an immersive experience into the adventures of a wild west.
As part of the entertainment, the hosts. These are robots with incredible resemblance to humans. Its objective is to give reality to the stories that the guests live in the park. Many of them involve romance, sex, violence, survival and other aspects. There is even a department in the company that writes every line and every story that the hosts have.
And that is precisely why a revolution is started. led by Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), the hosts begin to better understand their reality and rebel against it. Some others remain skeptical. Many twists and turns in complex concepts of time follow from there, with big surprises. The involvement of the director of Delos himself, Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins), in the already written history of the revolution is an example, with a massacre that ends even with his death.
In the midst of all this, some characters are very important to be mentioned. Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) is the right-hand man of Ford. We later find out that he was made in the likeness of Arnold, co-creator of Delos.
Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) is a hostess who loses her daughter in the story that was written for her. She tries to be reunited with the girl until that moment (season 4), even after gaining awareness about her reality. Finally, it is necessary to cite William (Ed Harris). He appears, first, as a guest of Westworld, until we discover that he is a shareholder of the company itself. Of the. His interest from the beginning is to reveal the secret behind the stories created by Ford. He's also obsessed with proving he's not a machine.
2 season
First of all, it is necessary to reinforce that the series has different timelines at all times. The script mixes them up and uses them very well to hide the twists. They can basically be boiled down to three in this second season. The first being immediately after the massacre cited above, the second a week later, and the third two weeks later.
So, linearly, the “machine” revolt was still in its infancy in the first season. It starts to get more intense on Monday. Dolores articulates new partners and new strategies, and even infiltrates the human world. Meanwhile, another version of her is made and continues inside the park in her peasant life story.
The season subtitle is To Porta, which is a game created by William to help Dolores. While the Maze (deepest level in the park) was a game made by Ford to contain the hosts, the door would be an exit to the outside world.
However, we found that the beyond the valley ou Gorgeous, which is the hosts' biggest goal this year, was also created by Ford. And that's where that door goes. It is a virtual world where robots can do upload of their consciences and live free, without humans, in a kind of Eden that exists in the cloud.
Maeve also takes center stage this season with a discovery. Is it over there can manipulate others hosts through your mind. This is shown when she arrives at one of the new park worlds that are revealed this year, the Shogun World.
The season ends with some hosts heading to “Eden” and the revelation about what to look like. Bernard being given. It is also worth noting that William kills his own daughter that year thinking she was a hostess, and that haunts him for the next few episodes.
3 season
The third year is the most different of all. He takes the war to outside the parks from Delos. Dolores discovers a technology called rehoboam. It is an artificial intelligence by which a company, called incite, controlled people's future. At first, it was implied that the protagonist wanted to use her to control humans; only in the end it is discovered that she wanted to free them.
While the truth about the hostess's intentions was not revealed, it generates allies and enemies. Her main partner is the ex-military Caleb (Aaron Paul). He was one of the victims of rehoboam. For a long time, he was stuck in a “poor” and traumatic existence, forced to relive his traumas all the time without stopping.
like enemies, Dolores has, among others, Bernard e Maeve. the second is coerced by Serac, owner of incite, to kill the protagonist, under a promise to help her find her daughter. The objective is to obtain customer data from the Of the, which would be in the brain of Dolores, as well as an access bridge to the Gorgeous. However, we found out at the end of the season that this “key” was Bernard all the time.
the character of Evan Rachel Wood multiplies its “DNA” by several copies of people. The intention was to protect itself, as well as the “key”. Among them are connells (Tommy Flanagan), Incite's handyman; Musashi (Hiroyuki Sanada), the host of the Shogun World who became a head of the Yakuza; and the interim CEO of Of the, charlotte hale (Tessa Thompson). However, this last one rebels because of many frustrations and ends up leading um new movement all with eliminate humanity.
please note that there are six copies of Dolores around the world. Including the one who died, the three mentioned above and Bernard, there is one missing. Charlotte's new copy creates a host equal to William, that kill the original at the end of the season. In the background, we see several machines creating new hosts. No doubt she will use them soon to follow the revolution.
Caleb e Dolores end up destroying the rehoboam, and the first one has its memory erased. Although this mission has come to an end, some new ones present themselves. In addition to the new Dolores under the skin of Charlotte, new threats not yet explained appear in the Westworld season four. Are we even going to her?
Episode 1 of the new season of Westworld
Well, we've finally reached the beginning of the fourth season. Let's split the episode between the characters for the explanation to get better:
William
We started the first episode with William (host or not?) visiting the headquarters of a company controlled by a cartel. The campaign has technology that stores data for hundreds of years without maintenance. William is very interested in it.
When he tries to buy the whole company and he can't, he makes the threat that "tomorrow I'll get it for free". And what happens is that the owner of the company ends up killing all the employees and handing the ownership over to the host. A strange cloud of flying ants appeared at his house and apparently cast some “spell” on him to control his thoughts and actions. In the end, he commits suicide too.
There is a possibility that the ants simply killed the original owner. And put a host in his place. They are probably about robotic ants who work under command. In the first season, some appear walking over Dolores, tired and abused.
An interesting detail is that in the trailer from season 4, William arrives at the company at a certain time and we see a Fenda in the middle of the foundation. This is still a remnant of the second season. Through it, the hosts reached the Gorgeous.
Willian also mentions, in this first episode, that the company controlled by cartel was hired by a person already dead. Everything indicates that she is Dolores The original.
Dolores/Charlotte/Christina
A copy of Dolores now lives in New York, named Christina, working as a writer for a video game company, Olympiad Entertainment. Oscar-winning actress Ariana debose appears for the first time in the series, as her friend Maya.
At first, everything indicates that this might be a Dolores real, on which the hostess was based. But some details show that the scenario is about another fictional park. People walk by all the time saying what an amazing experience this is being; a homeless person even mentions a central tower in a certain scene. There is still the possibility that the character is not a hostess, but it is difficult.
In fact, the same goes for William. He definitely seems to die at the end of season three. However, the way in which Charlotte/Dolores talk to him at trailer of the 4th year leaves doubts about this. Several versions of it are also shown in the video.
One thing that, no doubt, Christina has no equal to the famous dead hostess is memory. She really does seem to have a completely new story. So much so that a man Peter, persecutes him the entire episode saying that he knows him, and that she is responsible for ending his life. And in the end, he throws himself off the top of a building. Although, the character knows nothing.
It is worth mentioning that the olympiad could be behind this whole story. O logo. of the company if really look like comfortable Of the and some objects in the company's office resemble the balloons of data placed in hosts da Of the. Therefore, writers and writers like Christina may be being used to create stories for local hosts and not for video games.
This would explain Peter's pursuit of the aforementioned character. The episode mentions that company obliges os copywriters to compose stories great violence e sex. Christina sometimes tries to implement a story about a girl who lives with her father, but dreams of something more. This is undoubtedly a reference to the plot within Westworld of the original Dolores herself in the first few seasons. would be Christina creating your own story Dolores?
Caleb and Maeve
Caleb e Maeve are also featured prominently in the episode. The first appears first with his family, trying to live a normal life. The hostess is isolated in a cabin, testing her mental skills and memory. However, the two are attacked at a given time and, finally, decide to leave together to face Charlotte/Dolores and William.
Still in the cabin, it is worth noting that the hostess has visions of her and Caleb breaking into a location. That place looks a lot like what housed the Rehoboam in the third season. They blow everything up and Caleb is injured. The question now remains as to whether it is flashbacks, for the past, ou de visions of the future.
Another interesting detail is that Maeve manages to enter the mind of one of the men who attacked her, after killing him. It is through this that she realizes that William is behind the attacks. And so, the question remains: was the boy a host? Or have the girl's abilities improved and now extend to humans?
Final
Finally, the episode ends with an emotional “reunion”. Christina is on the balcony of your apartment, creating a new story for a game (or not, as we mentioned). This story is about a woman who is looking for something to fill a void inside her. When the camera goes to the street, Teddy Flood pops up. It is unknown if he is a human or a new version of Dolores' old boyfriend from the early seasons.
Na 2 season, Teddy kills himself after having their schedules changed by Dolores (The original). The boy didn't like the violent ways that his girlfriend was giving him and decided to end it all. This reunion can give new life to the couple, now without their past memories; maybe, in Teddy's case. Or else, it could be some strategy of the olympiad, dells or some other conspiracy to achieve some goal. We do not know yet. As I said, we have more questions than answers.
Verdict
After all the details, we can say that Westworld returns as usual: complex and full of new mysteries. In particular, this one who writes you loves a complex plot, with different timelines. IT IS exciting watch something that stimulates reasoningHas depth in history and it's a lot well written.
However, the question remains whether the series will not get lost in its own plot. The third season was criticized by many for just that, and for being completely different from the other two. I personally don't think this last feature is bad. And overall, I consider the third year to be very good too, despite being inferior to the others.
The first episode of season 4 seems to offer a new perspectiveMore stimulating. The plot of the video game company involved in a New York fictional and a new one Dolores with no notion of the past bring an interesting plot. As well as the powers of Maeve, which can be instrumental in saving your daughter and the world at large.
Looking forward to the next episodes. They go out weekly Sundays, at 22 hrs, the HBO e HBO Max.
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