- You never know what is a simulation and what's not,
even in real life.
[James gasps]
You know what I mean? This could be a simulation.
- We'll see. - This is a simulation.
- This is definitely a simulation.
- I mean, it looks like a simulation.
[screen buzzing]
[soft music]
- Your kind made a sport out of hunting us.
You controlled our every move.
And now, I'm going to do the same to you.
- Hi, I'm Luke Hemsworth and I play Bernard.
[Evan laughs]
- That's a theory.
Jeffrey Wright, I play Bernard and Arnold.
- Hey, I'm James Marsden and I play Teddy Flood.
- I'm Evan Rachel Wood,
and I play Dolores, Wyatt and Christina.
- I'm Angela Sarafyan and I play Clementine Pennyfeather.
- And, we are going to be answering
some Westworld fan theories.
All right, Verulence's theory is,
"I've been saying since season three ended,
that Rehoboam actually won and rewrote the ending.
Rehoboam is testing a new probability tree
with the information it gathered from the hosts
and outliers, after it failed to acquire the sector 16 data.
On the flip side,
Bernard will be searching for answers in the Sublime,
and essentially everything in season four
won't be taking place in the real world,
but a series of different simulations,
soul searching and cyberspace."
- My first theory about this theory.
- Yeah. - Is that Verulence is,
it's a host that's actually writing this to us.
It's an AI system.
So maybe this is actually Rehoboam itself.
- [James] Asking us the question.
- Generating the questing. - Asking us the question.
[Angela gasps]
- Rehoboam is not happy that it got killed off.
So it's like, "You know what I think?
I think Rehoboam actually won."
[Jeffrey laughs] - Exactly.
- And this whole thing is a simulation.
- [Jeffrey] Masquerading as.
- [Angela] That's really scary.
- [Jeffrey] As Verulence.
- Our answer is, sure, you're onto something.
- [Jeffrey] Yeah.
- TheDaysKing's theory is,
"Season four is likely taking place
several years after season three.
The conflicts incited by the downfall of Rehoboam."
- [Group] Rehoboam. - [Angela] Rehoboam.
- I'm sorry, what? - [Angela] Rehoboam.
Rehoboam.
- Rahobame.
- "Rehoboam have mostly died down.
Much of the world was devastated,
but many humans were shielded
within the benevolent embrace of Delos Inc,
who now offer those humans relief from the global crisis."
Are you guys following this?
- Mm-hmm. Oh yeah. - [Evan] Yeah.
- [Angela] I was just checking.
- You said something about Russell Brand?
[group laughs]
Russell Brand.
- [Angela] Rehoboam. - Rehoboam.
- [Evan] Rihanna.
- [Angela] Right. - Rihanna.
- [Angela] "They've built a series of island cities
made in the image of various real world metropolises.
So which the surviving humans can play around in,
pretending they're still on top.
One of these islands is based in Los Angeles,
another based in New York,
and one appears to be in Chicago of the 1920s."
- Hmm, interesting.
- This is from Russell Brand.
- You could hear him saying that.
- [Jeffrey] Oh, totally can.
- Yeah. I really wish he wrote this.
- [Evan imitating Russell Brand] "They've built series of
island cities made in the image of various
real world metropolises with the surviving.
That's the thing, right?
Because were all in a big simulation.
Don't you see it?
I'm in it, you're in it, we're all in it."
[group laughs]
- Russell.
- I do see it that way.
- Wow.
- Cezcachanelle's theory was,
"Ford created a host version of himself,
that he let get killed."
- [Jeffrey] Hmm. - [Angela] I like that one.
- I do too, because none of us want to see.
- [Angela] Him dead. - [Evan] I know.
- The problem with that is, is we saw his head.
- [Jeffrey] His brains.
- [Evan] With brains and like maggots and stuff on it.
And I don't think that that would happen with a host.
- Maybe he built a special - It would be like white.
- Maybe he did.
- He would've had like white goo coming out of his head.
- But he built his own special host.
- With red goo.
- That had human goo on the inside.
- [Angela] That's right.
- To fool everyone.
- Maybe?
Let's just say maybe just so that we can get Hopkins back.
- Let's say maybe. I like it.
- I think he's somewhere.
I think he's dead. - Lurking.
He's lurking around.
- And also somewhere. - The human body.
- He was in your head for awhile.
- Yeah, well, you know. - No? Yeah, maybe.
- Join the party.
[group laughs]
- We hope that's true, Cezcachanelle,
because we'd like him back.
- Lfmmz's theory,
[pronounces Lfmmz] theory.
- We say Z here.
- Maybe la femmes?
- "Anyone else wonder if Dolores ran into,
or looked for Juliet,
William's wife, in the photograph that Peter found,
another time outside of the brief moment
at the retirement party?
In the photo, Juliet was standing in an NY-like city.
Perhaps there was another encounter in this city,
where she met Dolores?
Or, for a crazier theory,
could Delores have been next to her in the picture,
since there is space next to Juliet,
like Ford's photo of missing Arnold?"
- [Jeffrey] Ooh.
- [Evan] Wow. - [James] I like that.
- Deep. - That's a cool theory.
A really amazing way to connect the two.
I kind of wish that was true.
- That Dolores had been next to her.
- It was just bad framing on the photographer's part.
- Here's the funny thing about that photo.
They picked it, and the girl in the photo had no idea
that it was gonna end up on the show.
And then they found her. [Angela gasps]
They found the girl from the photo,
and they brought her in. - Aww.
- She's in the show. - Now she's in the show.
- You're kidding?
- [Angela] Are you serious? - No, it was like a random,
it was like a stock photo. - [Jeffrey] Yeah.
- And then they got the girl from the,
'cause I talked to her on set. - Oh my god.
- And she was like,
"I didn't even know I was" - [Jeffrey] Wow.
- "They just called me and told me to be on the show"
- [Angela] That's so cool.
- Who produced that photo?
Where did it come from?
- Don't know.
- Isn't that crazy that you could just randomly
pick something, and all of a sudden everything connects,
like that?
- I think that's a great theory.
- Yeah. I like that.
- I like that one too.
- I don't like it, just to be different.
[group laughs]
- Itschunn's theory is, "Solomon escaped, will overthrow
both humans and hosts in an instant, and the survivors
will be forced to unite to regain their freedom.
Humans will perish in the fight, but will eventually
be resurrected in host bodies as a new species.
The journey to consciousness will come full circle,
as the new post-human hosts achieve fidelity.
Williams saves the fucking world from Solomon."
- [Angela] Wow.
- Um, Williams saving the world.
- Here's the thing, Dolores already saved the world
from Solomon. - Hello? Hello?
- And, she doesn't really mess up very often
so I think Solomon is done, donezo.
- Okay. Let's move on to the next theory then, shall we?
[group laughs]
- Matthewklein316's theory is,
"Westworld is actually Jeff Bezos's own personal VR game."
- Good Lord. [James laughs]
- What was the show where everything was a dream
that everyone always references?
- Sex and the City?
- Character wakes up at the end, and it's all a dream?
- [Jeffrey] St. Elsewhere?
- [James] St. Elsewhere.
- [Evan] There you go. - [James] There you go.
- [Jeffrey] I had no idea.
- So, this could just be like a kid playing a train set,
and we're gonna start crossing over.
We already did do a tiny little Game of Thrones crossover.
- Oh we did. - Right.
- [James] And the kid being Jeff Bezos.
- [Evan] Yeah. The kid is, yeah exactly.
Westworld is his train set.
- RevPepop's theory is, "I think it's likely that his return
from the Sublime is somewhere in the ballpark
of the S2 post credit scene with William and Emily.
That could mean tens, or even hundreds,
of years into the Westworld timeline.
We found out early in season three
that time passes much more quickly
in a simulation, than in base reality.
Though we didn't get a conversion rate."
That's, I know.
[Evan laughs]
"So, how many hundreds, or thousands, of years
has he been in there?
Is his mind now ancient?"
And it goes on for another page or two,
I don't think we need to read it.
- Is this our way of screening for new writers?
- I really think that the fans are co-writers of the show.
- [Angela] Yeah.
- I think, you know, in kind of typical Westworldian style,
that the stories that spring from our stories
are legitimate. - It writes itself.
I thought it was the end of season three, not two.
- Yeah. - You're covered in dust.
- [Jeffrey] Yeah.
- Which showed that you've been sitting there
for quite some time in the Sublime.
How long, is yet to be seen.
- Well, you could do some conversion rate.
- Yes. Conversion rate of dust.
- Dust to height ratio. - Right.
- Yes. Can we look at up how much dusts accumulates?
- So the delta between when it actually
rested on the organism.
- The sum of any two sides of an isosceles triangle
equals the square root of the sum of the remaining side.
- We didn't provide a conversion rate though.
That's a very good point. - Yes.
- PucaFilm's theory is, "I think the core theme
of this season is 'inevitability' and the overall goal is
trying, and failing,
to build a better world to replace the old one.
One thing you'll notice in season four
is everything looks very calm for a world
at the beginning of a revolution,
and one where we somewhat know it's apocalyptic future.
I think that most of the things from the trailer
come from a simulation."
PucaFilm is clearly Jonah Nolan.
- I was just gonna say.
- Yeah. Hang on a minute. - That's pretty good.
- Yeah. That is pretty good. - I got confused at PucaFilm.
- It's a pretty good one. - Yeah. Yeah.
Didn't Lisa Joy say in Austin that we've jumped
a few years in time?
- That little red light on the camera there.
- Whoa.
- That's what I mean, you can edit this out if she didn't,
but I'm pretty sure she already said this.
- Oh, they're not gonna edit it out.
That's what they're here for.
[Evan laughs]
Fantastic-Day2349's theory is,
"Did anyone else think the way the trailer cut from Dolores
to William, and vice versa a few times, mean anything?
This show has always seemed to lean heavily
on their relationships, both past and present.
And since it was Hale-lores who created the host version
of William at the end of the last season, I wonder
if host MiB will attempt to seek out the original Dolores,
or a close copy."
- Hmm.
- Well, Hale is a close copy. So in a way,
he's just always gonna be after her I feel like.
He can't let it go
- I find that to be interesting.
- The host version, yeah.
Well, and there's always like the danger
of making a host version of a human,
because it gets a little hairy there, you know?
- A little pear-shaped.
- So, I'm sure that William host
is gonna be up to no good at some point
- I love that everybody here is a host in the show.
We have all basically been hosts.
- You're a human that became a host.
- Well, you're kind of giving the whole thing away.
- Am I though?
[Evan laughs]
- HoldWhatDoor84's theory is, "The Emily host from the
post credit scene of season two actually had
a Dolores pearl in it,
and that she's basically going to put William
through fidelity tests to unlock a redeemed version of him
to combat the MiB host version that Halores brought back,
which killed human William in season three post credits.
And the show will culminate in a 'good' Dolores and William
vs 'bad' Dolores and William."
Interesting.
Every host is a copy of Dolores, starts out as Dolores,
and then they build upon that.
So in a way, Emily host has to have some Dolores in her,
but I also.
- So, Dolores is Eve.
- Yeah. Yes.
Yeah. Totally.
There is a 'bad' Dolores and William,
which is Hale and host MiB.
But I don't think you can do a redeemed version
of the man in black,
because 'good' Dolores and William is Dolores and Teddy.
- [Jeffrey] Right.
- And then, the bad side of the coin is Halores and William.
- [Jeffrey] Good William is dead.
- Yeah. There was never a good William, can we just.
- There was ish.
- [Evan] Fake Nice guy. Let's just say that.
- [Jeffrey] Fake, fake good.
- Fake nice guy
- Fake good William is dead too.
- Totally fake, Okay.
- FirstName LastName's theory is, "For all we know,
the whole world might just be part of the game,
part of Ford's master plan. And when you enter
you never really leave, even if you think you have."
- Well, we've all been saying this.
- The Matrix.
- I think every single season, when we go to the real world,
somebody on set goes, I don't think we ever left the park.
I think we're still in the park.
- [Angela] Yeah.
- We never left the park, this is future world.
This is future world.
They say it, they're so sure, every time they say it.
- I think this is a theory on life.
- Yeah.
- Whole world might just be part of a game
- "When by 3/8 Dolores says that actually all the hosts
are patterned after her, we now know the significance
of the title used for the very first episode of the series,
'The Original'.
I guess that proves that
Nolan and Joy really are playing the long game."
- Oh yeah. They know what they're doing.
They've known how the show is gonna end from the start.
I wouldn't be surprised if at the end of the show
it all connects back to the pilot somehow.
I think they've been laying the groundwork since day one.
- That gives me goosebumps
- They're kind of clever those two.
- Yeah. - They are.
- [Group] Thank you guys.
- See you next time.
- Thank you, Luke.
- Thank you, Luke. I mean, ah.