Out of no where, the Westworld Season 4 trailer
has been released online, and it stimulates many theories surrounding what we could be
seeing in this new season.
I'm going to be breaking down the footage, the hidden details
and what the plot could be centred on alongside my general thoughts on the trailer.
I will leave a link in the description to the Westworld
Season 4 teaser trailer if you haven't seen it already, so I would recommend watching
it first before following this breakdown.
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But without further a do, lets dive into the Westworld Season 4 trailer.
So this past Tuesday, HBO released the first 2 minute teaser trailer for Westworld season
4, including no dialogue, but rather a sense of the atmosphere and visual moments that
are going to impact this new storyline.
While it doesn't give us definitive clues of the main story, it does give us the room
to suggest theories and the footage that was shown plays with
Lou Reed’s song 'Perfect Day' and includes a premiere date of June 26th this year.
So what shots do we get, what hidden details are there and what theories do I have about
the next season of Westworld.
Well, one of the opening shots in this trailer brings us back to Aaron Paul's Caleb, sitting
on top of a large skyscraper and then following shot's reveal other
known characters living in Westworld’s futurescape.
We don't quite know whether any of this footage takes place over different timelines, and
we know that Westworld loves to mess with us in that way, so Season 4 could be set amongst
two timelines, one right after the events of Season 3 and another decades later during
the collapse of Human Civilization.
This comes to mind because the trailer does hint at a far future, rather than the show’s
real world that we saw in Season 3.
The reason I say this is because the collapse of society at the end of Season 3
seemed like it was about to quickly develop and now in the trailer to Season 4, weve got
returning characters seemingly going about their day
as if the end of Season 3 is taking longer then expected.
Could just be me jumping the gun but that's something from the tone of this trailer that
I took away.
But moving on, in the footage, we return to Jeffrey Wright Bernard,
who of course appears to be visiting the Sublime and it appears there's none of saved hosts
from Season 2 currently around.
What we do see though is a white horse next to what looks
to be the same tree that Dolores spent a lot of her season 1 loop memories around and the
one that she spoke with Maeve at before she died in
Season 3.
It's also quite reflective of the running wolf from the opening seasons too.
And if you remember Season 2, you'll know that Akecheta sees the deathbringer and a
white horse, showing that this might in fact be her tree.
The tree burns up and if I had to guess this might be the moment where dolores dies in
season 3 and Bernard is just seeing it inside of the Sublime.
But whatever it does turn out to be, what we do know is that some characters will be
returning from the sublime, because later in the trailer we do see that
Bernard has returned to the real world.
Looking at these images and seeing how destroyed the Mesa rooms are, I would predict that this
could be somewhere deeper in the far future.
It reminds me of william's fidelity test in the
season 2 post credits because of the sand covering the floors, so maybe the theory of
there being two time lines like the first season, could
be what they're going for.
We'll have to see, but what this could tell us, is that Westworld might once again be
playing with the perception of reality and time.
Coming more to the what and where of the questions posed, the footage also indicates that we
could be seeing a new park in Westworld Season 4.
We already knew that the Delos parks included Westworld, Shogunworld, Warworld,
Military-training-world, the Raj and Medievalworld.
And because the show's website previously claimed there were 6 parks, it initially seemed
there wouldn't be any more other then probabaly introducing Medievalworld footage to us this
season.
But now in this trailer, it appears that we have a new world based on 1920's New
York, and one that actually takes place in the physical world and not in a simulation.
That's what it seems anyway and if this does turn out to be a physical place, one that
has a visitor in the trailer saying, "this place
is f'ing wild", then it's interesting to consider that people are still visiting parks after
all the chaos with Rehaboam in Season 3.
And it's weird that Caleb and Maeve are both visiting this park and Halores seems to be
funding it.
And not to mention that we get a quick cut of what looks to be Hector's raid of
the mariposa in this New York park.
We obviously had this scene play out in both Westworld and Shogunworld, so seeing it again
in 1920s New York will be great.
So what do I think it is?
Well If I had to guess, I would say that maybe Halores is building a twisted version of Westworld
in the real world itself.
I come to this theory because the New York map that we see in
control tower at the end of the trailer is very reminiscent of the Mesa hub in Season
1 and Season 2.
And with reflections being a big theme in Season 3 alongside all the hints of the
real world becoming more like Westworld, what's to say that this new version of New York alongside
it's 1920's park, operates just like the original Westworld.
Hale wants to destroy it all and hates that she was given the more
human qualities that original Dolores eventually embraced, so what's to say that she hasn't
now constructed the real world, functioning like
Westworld and controlling Humanity.
It would make for a great twist on the intial idea of Westworld and considering that humanity
was about to collapse and Outliers were fleeing the
system, this is way for the new host army under Halores to essentially keep them at
bay and rule them as a new species.
But of course, there's then Caleb and Maeve's side of the
conversation and I think this season we may see them building an army of their own.
We don't get much of them but what we do get symbolises that a passing of time has definitelly
happened.
Alongside there being no form of extreme chaos that we expected after season 3,
Caleb now has new hairstyle, a more grown out beard and also a new ring that he didn't
have previously.
Of course in season 3, rehaboam had pretty much destroyed his opportunities
in life because it was keeping him and other potential outliers at bay and he had no real
relationships in that current time.
Maybe, now that Rehaboam has been destroyed, Caleb has
a wife and more relationships.
But he'll soon be sucked back into the chaos of it all, as we see him and Maeve entering
what looks to be the 1920's New York Park, greeted by the other
clementine from earlier seasons, playing a new version of Angela and also, other moments
of Caleb being chased by a drone host and shouting with either extreme pain or anger.
So a lot is going to be going down between them when
it comes to beating Halores and we even get a greater sense of the confusion, with what
looks to be Maeve's daughter, opening her host face
and out comes loads and loads of flies.
Not to forget that there's a quick shot of what could be a host with a flie crawling
on their eye, similar to how they used it as a metaphor for
Dolores waking up in the very first episode.
This is where I now come to William, who after the end of Season 2 and the post credits of
season 3, is definitely someone a lot of us are wondering about.
Well in the trailer, william appears to now have a new hand and we ask
whether the human version of the character is truly dead.
I mean the fidelity test of him in the season 2 post credits is quickly becoming the
reality and it won't be long before we reach up with that and see exactly what happened.
Especially considering that Bernard seems to be walking around the hub in a simialr
timeframe based on the look of the facility and all
the sand on the floor.
He came back from the sublime in the season 3 post credits and there was sand everywhere,
so again it brings me back two the multiple timelines that season 4 will
potentially introduce.
And I love this because if we get two timelines, one after season 3 and then more into the
future, that would reflect what we saw in season 1 with a 30 year gap,
but this time in the real world.
But yeah Willian has a fixed hand and I wouldn't be surprised if we got two versions of him,
one being the host version that Hale built at the end of
season 3, focusing on the more relentless side of his character in the park, and then
maybe the fidelity tested version later on, that basicly
involves the human memories and mind of William printed into a host body.
We do see his Westworld version shooting Lawrence in the park and that could reflect another
fidelity test with memories that whoever is building him is using.
I think it's Maeve and Caleb in their fight back against Halores and it would essentially
be the James Delos test gone right instead of being faulty like with his character in
Season 2's Riddle Of The Spinx.
Again, it's all just questions, but with there likely being multiple timelines, that would
be my early theories towards it.
And coming to Charlotte Hale, as I touched on before, she seems to be operating the new
world with her tower and mesa-like map, getting random people or host to dance as a
demonstration.
It would be a great reverse to Westworld if they are in fact humans, because we literally
saw Delos employees freezing moments in time, investigating what went wrong with
certain hosts and dong dancing tests in the earlier seasons.
After season 3, we know that shes trying to get host production back in action, so it
could be hosts or humans.
And then we don't even know what that printing machine
is that we saw in the trailer, because it seems like that could be another version of
William, so for all we know, Hale is printing multiple
versions of the hosts in her army.
It's crazy stuff and we can't really put an accurate prediction on it as of yet, but when
the season airs, we'll soon know what her game really is.
And finally, we come to Dolores, who again arisses many questions over what version of
her we are actually seeing.
And this version of her is a new identity that right now is still a
huge mystery.
Because the original version died in season 3, my guess would be thatsomeone has essentially
recreated Dolores, but she's obviously not the version we knew.
In time, she may regather some of those memories and
be similar but as the showrunners have themselves confirmed, the original we knew is now gone.
The question is, who has recreated Dolores.
Is it Maeve or Halores and why is she in the New York park, as given away by the visitors
who walk past her and say that the park is wild.
I would guess that she was put in this park just like all the other hosts usually are
and that maybe Maeve and Caleb go there to try recover a version of the original using
her host body in that park.
Yes it most likely won't be the original but if they can salvage a highly
valauble version that is reminded of the original then we may get some sort of return of her
character by the end of the season.
And again, it could also reflect the waking up process
that the original Dolores went through in season 1.
Still, whatever happens with her character, it's going to be interesting and I do want
to briefly come back to the white horse symbolism
that Bernard saw in the sublime.
There's a shot of her after she gets out of a white futuristic vehicle and it definitely
ties to the white horse imagery we saw in Westworld and the
sublime.
Add on that they literally repeat a version of her dropping an object and someone picking
it up and it reflects the cycle of events in
season 1.
My theory would be that this is actually Teddy picking this object up as we did see him in
set photos, and it's just like when he picked up the can of beans in Westworld.
Maybe it's suggesting that her process of becoming
more like the original could come through that of Teddy.
It would be genius if they used one of her cornerstone relationships to essentially
bring a version of Dolores back into the frame.
Again not the original, but maybe one who's like her.
I think we could see this and with fans wanting more of Teddy after not be present
in season 3, that would be my theory on how he'd potentially be used.
After all, Bernard will have access to the Sublime and what's to say he or someone else
gets the hosts we knew back into the real world.
It would make this new world feel more like the identity of the Westworld we knew in Season
1 and 2 and it's the logical next step considering that Halores is
building an army of her own.
Maybe we'll see two armies of similar characters on opposing aside, spelling out the metaphor
of hosts fighting the darker versions of themselves.
We'll have to see, but what we do know is that Halores
is controlling this new world from a Mesa like tower, and the game of Season 4 is potentially
going to be reflective of the game in season 1
but completely reversed.
But that was my video breaking down the Westworld Season 4 trailer.
I thought this first footage was pretty decent in setting the tone and atmosphere for this
upcoming season, just reminding us that Westworld is still around
and aiming to re-capture the magic that made it great.
Having rewatched them countless times, I personanly love season 1 and 2 of the show,
but was quite dissapointed with Season 3.
I had no problem with it leaving the park, because it's supposed to be a science fiction
show with a Western coat of paint.
But Season 3 felt very jumpled in it's writing at times
and I found that the identity of it was struggling to seep through while carrying a very muddled
tone.
There were 2 great episodes that I loved in Episode 1 and episode 4, but the
rest of season 3 had moments that I just didn't love as much as previous ones.
Hopefully, Westworld Season 4 will be able to get fans more
invested in where this show is going and re-establish the identity that I and others liked about
the first two seasons.
The trailer suggests that this new world is going to be one that
could very quickly become reflective of the Westworld we saw in Season 1 and that is quite
the journey that I think will be great to see unfold onscreen.
We'll have to see what happens and maybe even some of these theories will
turn out to be true, but knowing showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, they probably
have something else planned that we don't expect.
And hopefully that something makes sense within
the overarcing narrative that they are trying to tell.
But are you looking forward to the new season and what are your theories surrounding
what will happen?
Let me know down below in the comment section, and look out for all my videos on every episode
when the season releases later this June.
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