Westworld Season 4 Episode 5 is arriving next week on HBO Max, and the new trailer suggests
that we're going to be getting some reveals and details surrounding how Hale's world operates,
especially after that big reveal we got last week.
In this video, I'm going to be breaking down the trailer for Westworld Season 4 episode
5, 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 5.
So in the promo trailer for episode 5, it seems like were going to following a handful
of characters that have come together in this new world, that Halores in firmly in control
of.
We get footage of Halores and Host Man in Black,
Stubbs and members of The Cause and a glimpse at Christina, which all takes place in New
York's futurescape.
The episode, which is directed by Craig William Macneill, is titled 'Zhuangzi',
and this refers to a Taoist Chinese book.
Now there's a lot of messages that can be found in this book, but a user on Reddit has
already highlighted some of the ones that could be relatable to what we might see unfold.
Neoplasminminer2O7O was the name of the redditer and the text he included stated, "Once, Zhuang
Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering about, happy with
himself and doing as he pleased.
He didn't know that he was Zhuang Zhou.
Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuang
Zhou.
But he didn't know if he was Zhuang Zhou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly
dreaming that he was Zhuang Zhou."
The main themes of Zhuangzi are of a spontaneity in
action and of freedom from the human world and its conventions.
So what could this title be referring to.
Well it could instantly be compared to the character arcs of Christina and even
Caleb, but with Caleb not in the trailer for this episode, and Episode 6 being titled Fidelity,
I would guess that he won't be present in until then.
And Christina herself only appears in one shot from the latest trailer.
So who and what could this title be reffering to.
Well, I think the trailer and previous interviews for this season could reveal who that is.
Starting with the footage from the trailer, it looks like we're going to learn a lot about
Hale's new world in this latest episode.
In the trailer itself, we get footage of Halores on
the streets of New York demonstrating her control over the fly infected humans who appear
to be dancing.
We also look to be getting our first look inside The Tower with a Drone Host
removing a pearl and a shot of that red map control room with Halores and Host William
standing before it.
But over this footage is host man in black saying something that reflects that
Zhuangzi description I spoke about before.
He says "there's a beauty to this world, an order, a grand design, we made sure of that,
it was a dream for so long, and we finally made it
real, the world is ours, not a better world, a perfect one".
So you may be asking, who is Host william talking to and what could this be reflecting.
Well, the trailer shows us a brief snippet of footage with host william confronting
human william at that cryogenic chamber we saw a few episodes ago.
I think he's speaking to him and telling him about what the world
has become since Hale took over.
I think we're going to see more on how it all operates, and also maybe a suggestion
of what this all leads to.
Yes we know that Hale has made the real world into her own twisted version of Westworld,
mostly under her control, but what's to come of this.
Are we going to see the hosts that we know brought back, just like we see in the
trailer from the shot of what appears to be host man in black looking at the sublime door.
And why has she brought back Caleb as a host using the fidelity testing.
It's all very interesting, because we still don't fully
know where this is all leading to, even after getting that reveal last week towards what
has happened to the real world.
So I think in this episode we're going to intitally see what
she has done when it comes to the fly-infected humans and in turn, the problems that arise
surrounding those who can't be controlled.
And what do I think about Host Man In Black and his narration relating to the title of
this episode.
Well based on what Ed Harris said the other week about his character, he suggested
that Host Man In Black would be changing as the season progressed.
The quote from Zhuangzi that reads "but he didn't know if he was Zhuang Zhou who had
dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming that he was Zhuang Zhou",
is intriguing.
I think we're about to see Host william really question who he is and why he's been following
Hale.
Similar to what we saw with Halores in Season 3, where she became
more emotionally connected with Hale's real family, and then changed once they died.
Maybe in this episode, during the scene with Host Man In
Black and Human William, we start to see Host William coming to terms with what she's removed
from him.
What we've seen so far is a host who reflects the man in black in the park, who
went on to have psychological problems, rather than the William that was lost in the park.
Essentially, the worst aspects of him.
Maybe in the trailer when human William says, "We're
not here to transcend, we're here to destroy", is him talking about both of their kinds in
response to Host William discussing the transcendance of hosts and humans in season 4.
Maybe this is what starts to turn Host William and
put him on a path of rejecting the world that Halores is in control of.
And that would again reflect what Ed Harris was hinting at in that
interview.
I could be wrong but I do think that we might start to see the turn of Host William in the
next few episodes.
But I think there's more to this, as some of the hints
surrounding the importance of outliers, may be a big talking point in the next few episodes.
That outlier theory involves everything going on with Stubbs and The Cause, who arrive in
New York.
In the previous episode Daniel Wu's Jay said to Caleb's grown up daughter Frankie
that they need to extract another outlier before she's hunted down.
We see Stubbs and the team in the city being confronted by what looks to be fly infected
humans, so there's going to be some tense moments for them when they arrive.
But in one of the later shots we do see Host Man In Black holding a woman at gun point.
I think this could be the outlier they talked about before and I'm guessing that most of
the cause are made up of outliers like this.
People with mental illness or problems that cannot be controlled by the fly infection
project that we've learnt about over the last few episodes.
We know that in season 3, Rehoboam could not control Serac's brother, who had schizophrenia,
so Rehoboam and Serac put him and other outliers in cryo.
Same with the real William who we know is an outlier this season.
And in the last episode we found out that Halores could not control human-Caleb because
he disobeyed the fly control when ordered to shoot Maeve.
We've known since season 3 that Caleb is an outlier with PTSD.
And we can even go further with this.
The homeless man we've seen in Christina's world hears the tower because
he's likely an outlier with some kind of mental illness.
And then the man who commited suicide in episode 1 was labelled as "certifiable" by
Maya, meaning that he likely had a mental illness too.
And when Christina went to the hospital and saw drawings of the tower, this was again
presumably by someone with mental problems.
That hospital had been shut down when Christina visited, so maybe Halores had made efforts
to shut this place down.
Now of course we've still got a lot of mysteries surrounding
Christina's world, so we're going to have to wait to get more knowledge of when that
is indeed happening and if it's taking place at the same time that we had that Caleb reveal
last week or later on.
But if this outlier theory does turn out to be the case, then it's not just the older
people that Hale struggles to control.
Outliers don't live according to their code and they are harder to predict and candidates
with some form of mental illness seem to be the problem for Hale.
And the person that Stubbs and The Cause are after may link to this
idea.
There is the questions of why they would travel to the heart of Hale's control in the city
just to rescue one outlier, but they clearly are important if they are making the
journey.
We'll have to see, but I think in this next episode we're going to see a contrast of themes
between mental illness and control in Hale's new world.
But they were my thoughts and predictions for Westworld Season 4 Episode 5.
Overall, I think this episode is going to focus on a few things.
I think it will show us the control and problems that Halores has with her new world,
specifically showing that she can control most of humanity but that the outliers are
a big problem.
I think Host Man in Black, being a host version of an outlier himself, will track
down this outlier that Stubbs and The Cause are after, and he will realise that he's basically
one himself that is being controlled into executing these individuals who can't be controlled.
So I think that will lead him straight to human william in the cryo chamber and I think
we'll start to see a path of change with his character.
I'll probabaly be completely wrong with these theories but based on the footage that's really
what came to my mind about what we might see and the extent of Hale's control
against the outliers.
But to those who saw the trailer, what are your predictions and theories for Episode
5 and are you enjoying everything we've seen in season 4 so far?
Let me know down below in the comments section.
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