Westworld Season 4 Episode 7 is arriving next week on HBO Max, and the new trailer suggests
that we're going to see some of the main characters have a change of mind surrounding Hale's
push for transcendence.
In this video, I'm going to be breaking down the trailer for Westworld Season 4 episode
7, alongside discussing my general predictions and theories for what we
could see in the upcoming episode.
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But without further a do, lets dive into my trailer breakdown and predictions for
Westworld Season 4 Episode 7.
So in the promo trailer for episode 7, it looks like we're going to be getting quite
the action packed episode and a focus on pretty much all the characters we've followed this
season.
The episode, which is directed by Meera Menon, is titled 'Metanoia', and this refers to a
transformative change of heart or to change someones mind.
It's a greek word for atoning past sins, so I'd have to guess that whoever this
could primarily relate to, is likely to be on a redemption arc.
My money would be on the original Dolores and I'll come to the reasons why
later in this video, but I also think it could relate to all the other characters in different
ways too.
We've seen that happen throughout this season, where the titles of each episode
have had parralel reflections to the narrative threads we follow, so with everyone involved
in the events of Episode 7, I can see that also being the case here.
For example, we might see a parrarel relation to this idea of a
redemption arc when it comes to Maeve protecting Caleb's daughter.
Maeve couldn’t protect Caleb, but when he returns and re-connects with
Frankie as a host alongside Maeve, it could add more layers to this title and what it
means going forward.
And not to mention that Host Man In Black looks to be having a transformative
change of mind in this episode too.
So different narrative points seem to be relating to this title, and it's time to start breaking
down and theorising what we could see happen with
each of the main characters in this episode.
Starting with Halores, we get a big focus on her in the trailer for Episode 7, and it
primarily indicates that we're going to be getting a change in her process of control
come the events of this episode.
Specifically, that change in her process relates to pushing forward the transcendence program
that she's talked about in many episodes.
Last week, she was becoming frustrated, specifically with her outlier
problem, which resulted in Hosts killing themselves after coming in contact with a human outlier.
And at the end of that episode, Caleb revealed that they were doing this because they didn't
want to live in her controlled world and especially after killing a being that has free will.
Essentially Hale is trying to give hosts the opportunity to have free will, but in
the process those that she sends to eliminate outliers, are basically tasked with killing
a human that can't be controlled.
So it's creating a change of heart amongst the hosts that live
in the world that she's built.
And in the footage for episode 7 we get quite the forceful change in this structure, with
Halores saying "this may come as shock to some of you, but
in time, I think you'll understand.
This is the final day for our kind.
It's time for us to evolve into the species that we were meant to
become".
So that could mean that she's going to make a big push for hosts having transcendence
and it has to be something to do with the sublime.
We see Bernard in the sublime at the end of the trailer and when it comes to Hale,
I can see her trying to force transcendence forward, especially after the problems she's
been having in the last few episodes.
In the trailer she looks around at the tower device
that is used to communicate the sounds that the fly infected humans are controlled by,
and I think she may be using this to create a
distraction, giving her the time to force this transcendence forward.
And she may be using the sounds from the tower because the resistance are making their way
to her and fighting to save humanity from the grips of her control.
In the footage we see shots of the resistance fighting an army of
what is likely controlled humans in a section of the city, so that would be my guess on
what's happeneing here.
I think that they are trying to escort Bernard and Maeve to the Tower where
they can have a chance of fighting back, and Hale is essentially using her Tower control
to hold them back, while she begins to force through with that transcendence.
It reminds me a lot of the end of season 2, where Dolores, or Wyatt, was hell bent on
destroying the Sublime as she believed it was another one of
humanities prisons for the hosts.
She changed her mind and sent that location away for them to live in, but now we've got
Halores, who is essentially a mix of Wyatt and Hale, trying to
use it to transcend her kind.
She spoke before about abondoning the flesh and giving the hosts a new form in their transcendence,
and with the trailer for season 4 suggesting that the
final episode is going to be taking place at the hoover dam, with the sublime door open,
that's why I think this is what we're essentially seeing.
And with Bernard and Maeve eventually making it to that tower, we can predict that
the resistance will overcome this battle in the city and give everyone some form of hope.
As noted before, we do also get a glimpse of host
hybrid Caleb, and he appears to be at the same location as the resistance and his daughter,
so I expect we'll be seeing that re-connection too.
Something to keep in mind though is that Hale rebuild this version of him at the end
of the previous episode, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was some sort of trap to
hold back the resistance or capture them.
We'll have to see, but as the last episode made clear, this
fidelity version of Caleb would likely disobey Hale anyway and resist her control.
So it'll be interesting to see how he get's out of that
building and why he's down on the ground near the resistance.
Moving on, one of the arcs I'm the most interested about seeing from what we've seen in the promo
trailer for episode 7 and previous episodes leading up to now, is what will happen
surrounding Host and Human William.
We only get one brief moment with them in this trailer, but if we link it into what
we've seen of their conversation in previous promos, then it
might tell us what is happening with them.
We're yet to hear human william say his line from the trailer, which was "we're not here
to transcend, we're here to destroy".
So he's clearly going in the opposite direction to
Halores and Host William will likely follow that line of thought after his outlier incident
and change of heart back in episode 5.
So what could this mean for both Williams.
Well if we keep in mind that Hale was using the fidelity program on Caleb as means to
get an answer to why the hosts were killing themselves, then the
fidelity test we see on human william in the season 2 post credit scene could suggest what
his quote may lead to.
While Hale was just using fidelity to get answers maybe this
new alliance between Human and host William is the start of them becoming the new species
in the season or so to come.
Maybe we're seeing the setup for the main antagonist in season 5.
I think William is being set up as that and I think he's gonna use host william to bring
him back as a human host hybrid at the end of this season.
I think there will be another time jump between now and those events and I wouldn't
be surprised if the post credit scene for this season is a continuation of the season
2 post credit scene where we find out an answer that may
be this or something else.
Really, the show started with OG Dolores and the Man In Black.
And having it all come full circle with Christina potentially becoming alligned with OG Dolores
and human William being tested for fidelity and becoming a human host hybrid, would maybe
lead to that kind of setup.
That's just my out there theory and with this season being focussed
on fidelity and what comes next in a path of transcendence, I think that would make
for an interesting twist to what Hale is trying to do when it comes to her form of transcendence.
Of course, we still need to find out exactly
why host man in black is at the sublime in the season 4 trailer, but my guess would be
that based on human william's dialogue about them being
here to destroy, that it would be him trying to stop both sides in the pursuit of the sublime
and the war for transcendence.
So essentially, I'm predicting that this episode will lead
into the finale, where we will see three sides battling for the sublime in different ways.
One being Halores who's trying to force forward transcendence using the sublime.
The others being the resistance, Bernard and Maeve who
are trying to stop her and give free will to everyone.
And then with Host Man In Black, I predict we will see him try to destroy the sublime
and then we'll get the setup of the human host hybrid structure that him and human william
are pushing for.
Essentially a combined species that wants to put an end to both humans and
hosts individually.
And that would fit in line with what human William has gone through in the prior seasons.
He left humanity's side and became addicted to Westworld and the maze, and
then in season 3 he wanted to save the effing world and stop the hosts.
And host william seems to be going against Hale's form of transcendence for their kind.
So I think that they don't want to side with either the hosts or the
humans, and instead destroy them both, leaving host hybrids as a new dominant species.
We'll have to see and I'll probabaly be completely wrong
on that, but I do think that they are setting up William as one of, if not the main antagonist
of next season.
Coming now to Christina, as I suggested before, I think we're going to be seeing the redemption
arc of OG Dolores put in place.
There's a lot of leaked material from before the season
started that makes me think this might happen, and in this episode, I'm predicting that we'll
see that Christina starting to break free from the simulation.
Now while it hasn't been confirmed, in episode 6, Bernard made a big
hint towards the idea that Christina may be in a simulation, when he tells Frankie that
they used one for the hosts in Westworld and that
Hale has applied the same thought process to her new controlled world.
So it made a lot of us think that this is likely the case with Christina and everything
we've seen with her.
And in the promo trailer for Episode 7, we get
shots that suggest an escape for her and what she might become.
We see her in the city amonst all the fighting I talked about before but we
also get a really interesting shot of her submerged in water, and this might be the
moment she wakes up and is put in a new body.
Maybe it's Bernard and Maeve who save her when they go
to the tower, fight Hale and bring her back into this new world.
Now OG Dolores did sacrifice herself in Season 3, but I would presume that when Christina
is set free that her motives would eventually allign with the original
dolores.
And the leaked footage of her in the Dolores suit walking over dead bodies, similar to
the Wyatt memories in season 1, makes me think that she will shown this and it will lead
to her being fully against Hale.
So essentially the beauty of dolores with christina fighting against the wyatt side
of dolores who is mostly in Hale.
Teddy is of course going to show her more in this episode about the world not being
real and we see shots of them together in a new times square, so I suspect that he will
be giving her the final push when it comes to
escaping this world.
There's still questions over how Teddy himself has managed to be in this construct too and
I have no idea towards how they are going to answer that, but I am keeping
to my prediction that Christina will break out of this control come the end of this episode.
It will be interesting to see whether this is
all taking place now or whether it's actually in the future like fans have theorised, but
with Christina being present in the battle, I would presume that it's taking place now.
Either way, I guess we will soon find out the answers towards whether this is indeed
a simulation and when it is actually taking place.
And the final character to discuss that we see in the promo trailer, is Bernard, who
appears to be in many different locations with the events we see.
We see him in the Tower, likely face to face with Hale and then also at the
very end of the trailer, he appears to be back in the Sublime, and that is confirmed
by the black borders at the top and bottom of the screen
and also his haircut and clothing, matching what we saw back in episode 3.
At the end of the episode 7 trailer, he says, "I've seen a path, maybe that's enough to
give us hope".
My guess would be that he's given the time to
delay this forcing of transcendence that Hale is using the sublime for, and that it will
eventually lead to the battle at the hover dam, that
we guess will be taking place in the finale.
We still have to reach that teaser trailer footage of Bernard bleeding out and maybe
he makes a sacrifice in this episode or the next one
that will give the humans and hosts that hope for freedom.
Unsure of how he will do that but like I said, I think he's going to be delaying Hale's plans
and maybe he'll even sacrifice himself in the process.
He did say earlier on in the season that he dies in every version of the events he foresaw
so it's going to come at some point in the next two episodes.
Whether that's fatal or not is up for question, but
I think we will get some sort of sacrifice from him.
But they were my thoughts and predictions for Westworld Season 4 Episode 7.
Overall, I think this episode is going to be a big one when it comes to the direction
this show is going to take in it's final few seasons.
I think we're going to get the clear divergence between the different characters in what they
want for the world, whether that be Hale's big push for her
transcendence project, Dolores potentially breaking free from the simulation and fighting
for the beauty that OG Dolores chose to fight for and the huge change we get with both Williams.
This sort of prediction would fit in line with not just the title for this episode but
the title for Season 4 as a whole, which was revealed to be called 'The Choice'.
I have no idea what this could mean for the finale of
Season 4 but I really do like the unpredictability of it all and thinking about what we could
see unfold down the line.
But to those who saw the trailer, what are your predictions and
theories for Episode 7 and are you enjoying everything we've seen in season 4 so far?
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