Westworld Season 4 Episode 2 is arriving next week on HBO Max, and after episode 1, there's
a lot of mystery surrounding where this new narrative is going to be heading.
The trailer for the next few episodes was released yesterday,
and while it most likely misleads us with all the new footage included, we can start
to piece together a few things that could happen.
In this video, I'm going to be breaking down
the trailer for Westworld Season 4 episode 2 and beyond, alongside discussing my general
predictions and theories for what we could see in the
upcoming episodes.
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But without further a do, lets dive into my trailer breakdown and predictions for the
next few episodes of Westworld Season 4.
So HBO released a trailer for the upcoming episodes of Westworld and it includes a lot
of footage from all the different timelines and locations that were going to see unfold.
The reason I specifically highlight Episodes and not
just Episode 2 is because this trailer was titled "in the weeks ahead" and the footage
we get does point to this being from the next 3 episodes
that some critics have already had the chance to watch.
There's all the episode 2 footage that seems focussed on Bernard in the future timeline
and Holores and Host Man In Black during the 7 years after season 3 time period, and
then the MafiaWorld stuff with Maeve and Caleb that must be from episode 3, due to the current
title of that particular episode.
We also only get some brief looks at Christina and the
return of Teddy Flood, and I'm guessing that this will be weaved in to either episode 2,
episode 3 or both.
So lets breakdown the footage and discuss what was seen and what could actually
be going on.
Starting with the return of Teddy, we only get a brief bit of footage surrounding him
and Dolores in this trailer, and I think it's mainly to keep the mystery of that plotline
building.
There's already so many theories surrounding what could actually be going on with Christina,
in terms of who she is, where she is and even what she is.
But the brief scene in this trailer does add even more questions surrounding
her relationship to this version of Teddy.
In the footage he picks up Christina's lipstick, in a similar fashion to what weve seen in
Westworld with Teddy and William picking up a can for her, and he says "who I am is not
the question you should be asking, it's who are you".
So either this version of Teddy is the Teddy we know and he's being used to try and get
Christina to work out who she actually is.
Or it's not Teddy and like the previous idea, he's trying to get Christina to figure out
who she is for a particular reason.
Or it could be a completely different motive.
We do need more details before we can actually start to really work out what's going on here,
but my current theory is that this is actually Teddy in a future
timeline, trying to get Dolores to remember herself.
Maybe they are trying to re-build a version of Dolores that resembles the original before
her memory was wiped, and maybe Teddy has been plugged into this new simulation or system
in the future, one that resembles the world that Halores currently controls.
Maybe that's why we are also seeing the Maze pop up and why
previous Dolores memories from Westworld are making their way into this current system.
Essentially, the decades of memories have been collated
in this world to help Dolores remember who she was, so that maybe they can build a faithful
recreation of her.
That would be my own current theory, but many others I've seen could work
too.
But whatever happens, were going to get some more teases towards what's going on when Teddy
and Christina finally have a discussion in the next few episodes.
Moving on to the rest of the trailer we get a lot more focus on the plan of Halores and
both versions of the Man in Black.
Starting with Halores, she once again talks about doing to the
humans what they did to the hosts, and this might link up to some of the other footage
of MafiaWorld with the flies that I'm going to be discussing towards the end of this breakdown.
But aside from this we get other shots of her
in and around the tower that apparently is her base of operations.
She also once again looks at that host structure we saw from the previous
trailer, in which she talked about the evolution of her species.
So in Episode 2, I think we're going to see exactly what she plans to do in regards to
that.
She does also look at some other structure within the tower too and maybe
this is what she uses to control the humans using the flies, but there's not much info
on what that could be yet.
Either way, we know that this control tower has a map of new york similar
to the mesa map in Westworld, which makes me think that a lot of this will be linked
to a reversal of what we saw happen there.
But in regards to the Man In Black, we get some very
intriguing shots of both host MIB and human William, once again revealing that the William
who we thought had died in Season 3 is actually still alive.
He's strapped to a machine and in a conversation with what looks to be Host Man in black, he
says, "we're not here to transcend, we're here to destroy".
Which you'd think would be coming from the opposide side in
this conversation, but I'm guessing he's talking about what the humans tried to do using the
fidelity program, and of course, we saw how that
failed with James Delos back in season 2.
So maybe at this current point in which we find Human William, he's refering to that
not working, and also that the humans are on this planet to
destroy everything they touch.
That would be my guess in that's a philosophical conversation about the future of the hosts
and the humans.
But whatever they plan for human William, it
will be interesting to see which direction they go in and based on what the showrunners
have said in interviews, my guess would be that this is leading towards the fidelity
program we saw back in the Season 2 post credits scene.
The only other clips to mention regarding the man in black is that we get a few action
shots of what is likely the host version of his character,
slicing someone's throat in a cabin and then an epic looking shot of him walking through
smoke with lots of bodies on the ground.
Fans have pointed out that the cars are older in relation
to the driverless ones we see in the city, but while that could make for great theories,
in Episode 1, we did see Maeve in that snowy forest, driving an older car.
So really it just signals another change of location and it's
not a time jump or anything else from what I gather.
Still, they are hiding a lot of his scenes, so I think there are many developments to
come surrounding the human version and the even the host version of his character in
Season 4.
And now we come to a character that's finally going to be back in Episode 2 and as I've
discussed in previous videos, he's going to be in a completely different timezone.
This particular host is Bernard, who is now in the future
following his wake up from the Sublime in the season 3 finale.
Now based on the footage we see here and in the previous trailers before episode
1 aired, it seems like were going to be seeing what went down in the sublime and then what
happens after he wakes up.
There's a shot of Bernard walking through what looks to be Arnold's
house and then out a door and into the sublime.
It remains a mystery over what he's actually going to do or find there, but we know he's
potentially gone in to help the hosts that were
given freedom.
And the only thing I can currently guess is that this is because Halores may been trying
to get her hands on them and of course the Guest data stored in there too.
There are further shots of Bernard talking about
the world being in trouble and it needing our help over drawings of the tower that Christina
sees, very much reflecting the drawings of men in
suits that Maeve saw under her flooring back in season 1.
So it is pointing more towards the fact that whatever grasp Halores has over humanity,
it's one that has only got worse, and Bernard in the future is fighting to stop
it getting any more problematic.
And speaking of that future timeline, we see a few new shots of Bernard back in Westworld,
and one of Aurora Perrineau's new character, that if you watched
my episode 1 video, you'll know I theorised that she is actually Caleb's daughter grown
up.
They did put a big emphasis on her in episode 1
and especially with Caleb's anxiety, leading to him training her for a war if it came back.
Now we see a grown up character who resembles an older Frankie, all militarised and even
dropping a line in the new trailer, saying, "you gave the puppet strings long enough to
strangle the world".
So again the world has pretty much degraded over these two confirmed time
periods, and in the future they are likely aiming to put up a fight against what I'm
guessing is Halores.
The only other footage of Bernard and his timeline comes in som brief action
shots of what look to be human fighters on speeder vehicles.
We'll have to see what happens but this future timeline is one that I'm personally interested
in the most, because I'm intrigued to see how they link it into everything
going on in the past and what it then means going forward.
Coming to the last set of characters from this footage, we get new looks at what Caleb
and Maeve are doing, following them setting off to stop Halores from contacting this senator
they spoke about in Episode 1.
We don't see much on that senator but I'm guessing that it's something to do with the
new location they appear to be at.
And that location is a new park called MafiaWorld.
Episode 3 is titled Annees Folles, which is a reference to the decade of the 1920s in
France, and it describes the rich social, artistic, and cultural collaborations of that
period.
With MafiaWorld being set in the 1920s, this means that this episode is going to be mainly
focussed on what goes down there and the footage gives us an indication of what we might
see unfold.
Now it's a mystery whether this park is apart of the other 6 parks on the original island
or whether it's actually in the real world, but based on the fact that they already
confirmed that there were only 6 parks on the delos website, I'm guessing this is a
new park that is either somewhere else or in NYC itself.
There was a promo video before the season of
host MIB at a conference announcing that they are opening a new park.
And with the latest trailer showing Maeve and Caleb coming in contact with those creepy
flies, Maeve saying to Caleb that Halores is going to do to the humans
what they did to the hosts, and a quick shot of Halores coming face to face with Caleb,
it makes me theorise that this new MafiaWorld park is
actually the reverse to the other Delos parks.
I actually remember theorising this back in 2020 when I did my season 4 predictions video
and I honestly think it would be a great way to
really show the twisted landscape that Halores has constructed.
Seeing a park where humans might be controlled by Hale using those flies and hosts basically
punishing them, is the kind of thing that maybe she's looking to implement
into the rest of New York city.
We already saw that control displayed when Host Man In Black had the businessman do what
he wanted him to do at the start of the season using those flies,
so maybe now in Episode 3 were going to see that this park is just the small scale version
of that, used as a test.
It will be interesting to see what goes down there, but whatever
it is, I think Episode 3 is going to be heavily focused on Maeve and Caleb's discoverys in
MafiaWorld.
So overall, it's looks like were going to be jumping across different timelines and
characters in the next couple of episodes.
I can see episode 2 being very focussed on the details
behind halores and host man in black's control over New York City and then contrasting that
against the Bernard future timeline, in which all of this has already gone down.
It seems like they are trying to change something in the
future that will help both the hosts and the humans in that timeline, and maybe this also
reflects the episode title "Well Enough Alone", in
which the change they make only makes things worse.
Saying that, I don't think they would make things worse after what the world seems to
have become in that timeline, but with Bernard saying in the footage that they are running
out of time, it must be desperate.
So that's what get's me thinking about that title relating to this and maybe it suggests
that Bernard or someone in that timeline, does something that
makes things even worse for the state of the world.
And then when it comes to episode 3, I think were going to get a MafiaWorld focused
episode along with maybe more Christina and Teddy stuff in there too.
We'll soon find out what's really going on and I can't wait for more clues in the episodes
to come, so that we can really build out certain theories with more
details.
But they were my thoughts and predictions for Westworld Season 4 Episode 2 and beyond.
Well Enough Alone is hopefully going to give us more answers towards the multiple storylines
we are watching this season, and overall, it will
be great to see more from characters that episode 1 didn't focus on, like Bernard, Halores
and even human William.
It will also be great to see this new park in episode 3 and get a sense
of what is truly going on there and how it relates to the central narrative.
But to those who saw the trailer, what are your predictions and
theories surrounding the next few episodes and do you think that we'll get some unexpected
twists and turns with everything going on?
Let me know down below in the comments section.
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