Westworld Season 4 Episode 3 is arriving next week on HBO Max, and while there's still a lot
of mystery surrounding this season's narrative, the new trailer for Episode 3 gives us
new footage to discuss. In this video, I'm going to be breaking down the trailer for Westworld
Season 4 episode 3, alongside discussing my general predictions and theories for
what we could see in the upcoming episode. The trailer will be linked in the description
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lets dive into my trailer breakdown and predictions for Westworld Season 4 Episode 3.
So the trailer for Westworld Season 4 Episode 3, entitled Annees Folles, is slightly different
from the trailer we got last week. That one was for the weeks to come, meaning that it
included footage from the first 4 episodes only seen by critics so far. The new trailer
for episode 3 only has less footage from this upcoming episode. But based on what we've seen in
the longer trailer and what we've seen in the season so far, we can start to put together what
we could be seeing in the upcoming instalment. The title of episode 3, Annees Folles,
very much reflects what we're going to be seeing, relating to the decade of the 1920s.
It was used to describe the rich social, artistic, and cultural collaborations of that period,
commonly referred to as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age in the US. In the Episode 2 behind
the scenes video, Jonathan Nolan desribed the new MafiaWorld or Golden Age park that
was introduced as a place for almost celebrating to death, so I think were going to see that
literally come true in whatever Halores and Host Man In Black are up to with this new park.
So Let's first get into what we could be seeing with Maeve and Caleb in this new location.
So in the footage of MafiaWorld
in the episode 3 trailer, Maeve and Caleb seem to enter that park's version of the Mariposa
and while Maeve is stood at the bar in what is another case
of role reversals, she states that they've made a few changes, but that the story is still the same.
Of course the other footage that plays over this is Caleb picking up a can,
similar to how William and Teddy both picked up one in Westworld Season 1. So I'm guessing that
their entry to this new park is one that's going to highlight the repeated narrative
from Westworld that once again is sucking in the powerful elite. But with this idea of role
reversals from the previous episode, I think we can expect a new twist on this very familiar
world. If you remember in last week's trailer the footage of Caleb and Maeve in the labs
included a shot of what looks to be those containers with black liquid and photographs of
people on the outside of them in the background. Maeve said over that footage that Halores is
going to do to the humans what they did to the hosts, and based on the last episode that
essentially means control. Now in the trailer for episode 3 we see Drone Hosts opening the
lids of one of those containers. And Caleb asks Maeve whether the "black goo looks familiar".
So when it comes to this idea of controlling the humans, and this park being a sort of role
reversal in that sense, it's to do with whatever this black liquid is. I'm guessing that
this works in tandem with the flys that Halores has been using and they somehow put nanobots into
the humans she wants to control. But how this black liquid is going to be used is
still a mystery. What we know is that this new park has potentially been built on the Navada
land that Host William brought back in Episode 1, and it's going to be used to attract the
wealthy and powerful humans, so that Halores can begin a transtion of control. We'll have
to see how it plays out but I do like that the new park of Season 4 has actually got a more
important reason behind it's introduction unlike say in season 3 where we just saw the
WarWorld simulation used for Maeve to break out. MafiaWorld has a crucial purpose for the next
stage of Hale's plan, meaning that are episode here will hopefully be a meaningful one.
The only other footage regarding Caleb and Maeve in the Episode 3 promo is of them in the park
facilities as alarms go off and we quickly cut to host Man in Black in full costume
arriving at the same sort of location. We know that in the weeks ahead trailer he was walking
through a destroyed town, and while I don't think that this is MafiaWorld because of the
cars featured in the scene, it would suggest that this may come in Episode 4 with host Man
In Black still in costume. Whatever that scene does turn out to be, we know that he's going
to be making an appearance this episode in MafiaWorld and whether that's to go after
Caleb and Maeve is still up for debate. Whateveer happens it seems like we'll be finding out a
lot details, especially since we know that Caleb will also be coming face to face with
Halores thanks to last weeks preview. So expect Maeve, Caleb, Host Man in Black and Halores to
all be present in MafiaWorld over the next episode or two.
Moving on to the other narrative of Episode 3 and it's time that we finally check in with Bernard,
who seems to be on a journey within the Sublime and then out into the future. Now
based on all the footage we've seen so far, we've got a good idea over what timeline
Bernard is going to be featured in. He's potentially going to be waking up way in the
future once all of the currents events in the Halores tower timeline develops and reaches
breaking point. We know this because of he wakes up in the diner with sand covering him and the
room, signalling that many years have passed. And now in the trailer for episode 3,
it looks like him and Stubbs are on the search for someone important in this timeline. But before I
get to that it's key to discuss the time leading up to his wake up, because the new footage clearly
indicated that he's going to be spending a part of this next episode back in the
sublime. Other than walking out of what looks to be Arnold's house and into the grassy hills
of the sublime, we see that this footage has the black screen borders that the sublime
footage from season 2 also had. Once again, there's that shot of the burning tree,
and while were not sure about what this could currently mean,
I think that based on us not seeing any of the hosts in the sublime footage so far,
then I would guess that something has gone wrong or happened here that Bernard is going to find
out. It's most likely to do with whatever Halores has done in the current timeline
surrounding the data from the sublime. There is also another shot of Bernard holding the maze toy
so we'll have to see how that plays into what he's doing there too.
That's all we got surrounding the sublime footage, but what did we get of the future timeline.
Well, after Bernard wakes he appears to be fighting two men outside the diner, and the
voiceover from him explains the desperation of this timeline. He says,"we have a small chance
of making it". He's most likely talking about their chance following whatever happens to
the world due to the present timeline with halores.
And the chance he point point out is likely to do with whatever he finds in the sublime.
We then cut to Bernard and Stubbs in the parking lot of the diner, showing that Stubbs
is still around after being injured in the bathtub at the back end of Season 3, meaning
we'll probabaly get an explanation towards where he's been and what happened during all those years
of Bernard being there. But the last piece of footage suggests that they will be meeting a
new character and going away from this diner very soon. Stubbs asks Bernard,
"so loitering in the parking lot of some shitty diner is the key to saving the world now".
This is followed by a vehicle approaching their location and Bernard replies, "No, she is".
And enter the new character played by Aurora Perrineau.
Now we've theorised that this is actually Caleb's daughter and while I still think
it is her, based on the way they introduced her in Episode 1 and the grown up version of
her character looks quite similar, I guess we still don't know too much towards why Bernard
thinks she is the key to saving the world. Is it to do with Caleb and what is her role in this
future? My guess would be that she is now the leader of the humans and hosts that are maybe
fighting back against Halores and her army in the future. I think Halores will succeed
in her plan this season but that it will also result in a future war rather than a state of
control that she currently is enforcing now. I think if we take season 1 as an example,
it began with control and ended with Ford's speech about a time for violence. So it would fit
with the mirrored narrative to season 1 that we're seeing unfold in Season 4. Jonathan
Nolan and Lisa Joy have discussed this mirrored approach in the behind the scenes videos for
Season 4, so I think that based on the design and elements that we're seeing of these two timelines,
it could be a real-world reflection of that. A future where the remaining hosts and
humans fight for survival against Halores and her reign. I could be completely wrong but based
on the desert environments and apocalyptic feel of Bernard's future timeline, I would
guess that the present events aren't going to end in great way.
We'll have to see, but I'm really intrigued to see where they take this future timeline
and what the role of this new character could be going forward.
But they were my thoughts and predictions for Westworld Season 4 Episode 3. Annees Folles
looks like an episode that's going to give us a better idea of the timelines involved, so
things will soon become a lot clearer. We'll have to wait for more of the Christina narrative,
which looks to be continuin in episode 4, with her character missing from next week's
preview. But from what reviewers have said towards the first 4 episodes of this season,
it seems like there's still going to be a lot of mystery surrounding her as we reach the back
part of the season. We'll have to see, but regardless,
it looks like we're going to be getting some interesting reveals in the next episode.
But to those who saw the trailer, what are
your predictions and theories for Episode 3? Let me know down below in the comments section.
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