Just a copule of weeks before the new season kicks off, HBO have released the full Westworld Season 4
trailer, and it makes things even more confusing following the intial teaser. I'm
going to be breaking down the footage, discussing theories, the new hidden details, the potential
plot and my general thoughts on all of the new footage. I will also leave a link in the
description to the Westworld Season 4 trailer if you haven't seen it already, so I would recommend
watching that first before following this breakdown. But before I get into it, if you
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lets dive into the new Westworld Season 4 trailer.
So according to this new Westworld trailer, it’s time for us to start questioning the
nature of our own reality, as Halores takes over New York and the lines between hosts and humans
become more intertwinned. In season 1, Westworld began as a multi-timeline series
showcasing the collapse of Delos, the park and the humans control,
in which was once a theme park where the rich would pay enormous amounts of money
to visit and show us who they really were. In the second season,
this evolved into another multiv-timeline run about what happened following
this collapse and where the hosts would eventually go. And then in the third season, the robots left
the theme park and entered the real world, finding out that our world was just as
painful for the humans as it was for them in Westworld. Now, based on the trailer for season 4,
this new string of episodes is picking up where they left off and we're going to be diving
into what comes of the new world controlled by hosts.
In the opening shots from the trailer, we're introduced to Evan Rachel Wood‘s new character
Christina, a woman who leads a quite normal life on the outside, until we likely find out that
there’s something dark on the inside. In a voiceover, she says, “this is the story about
a girl. Every single day she wakes up, the more she sees it, but nobody else can… that there’s
something wrong with the world and that it’s her fault.” If you remember, season 3 concluded with
the original Dolores having her memory wiped, and it seems like this Christina character
could be a new persona inhabiting the body of Dolores in some sort of world. There's reflections
to Dolores waking up in season 1 and all of this footage and her dialogue very much takes
us back to that original arc, of her waking up in world where things don't seem right.
But what is this world and are we going to see OG Delores eventually wake up with this Christina
figure. Well, in this futuristic city, we see Christina look out and see digitized versions
of her fellow people and buildings around her. It's very reminiscent of something you'd see in
The Matrix, and I wouldn't be surprised if this world is actually some sort of live action
simulation that she's in. Similar to say Maeve in season 3 with the Warworld simulation but
one that's able to be visited to by humans too. We did see visitors in the previous teaser walking
past Dolores in this world and speaking about how wild it is, so it's definitely
somewhere that humans can visit. And they make it clear here that it's the same world that Hale is
residing in. It's either that or a park in the real world rather than on the island
with the other parks weve previosuly seen. And I also don't think that this is OG Dolores,
with the showrunners previously making it clear that that character is in fact dead. We
shouldn't really trust what they say if history is anything but I do think they are speaking truth
when they say that this is a new character. However, what we could see happening here
is a kind of wake up process for this new version of her. Maybe she'll follow the motives of the
OG Dolores once she wakes up and eventually side with Maeve and Caleb rather then with
the plan of Halores. We do see he stood in Hale's control tower with the red map later on,
so it looks like she does develop beyond this world that she finds herself in at the start of
Season 4. There's still a lot of questions here and we'll have to see how this truly develops
over the course of the season, but I do hope that they don't just bring OG Dolores back and
that this is a new character who later assigns with the original's motives instead.
But while that's all we can currently work out surrounding this new version of Dolores,
we did also get a big chunk of footage centred on Charlotte Hale's Dolores and what she is really
planning, now that the world is unhinged following the collapse of Rehoboam in Season
3. And it seems she's determined to push for the dominance of hosts, saying to William in the
footage, “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. It’s time to evolve into the species that we were meant to
become.” What's interesting is that it seems like she’s sharing this information with the
William that we have known for all the seasons so far, instead of the host version that we were
introduced to in the post credit scene of Season 3. She speaks to him as he wears a black body
suit with white tubing suspended in a frame similar to the ones the hosts are printed on.
I am confused by this because it felt like in those closing moments of season 3 that William
was killed by his host doppelganger, and after losing all the blood that he potentially did,
I don't know how they would be able to keep him alive using this machine he appears to be
strapped to. Of course in season 1, we saw one of the host tools used to repair the gashed neck
of Sylvester, but William's injuries seemed much more fatal at the time. But I guess the bigger
question here is that if this is human William, why is Hale keeping him alive. Is it her
punishing him by showing what comes of his once controlled world, or does she need him for a
greater matter. Well I think it may have been hinted at in the following shots that proceed
this scene. Because after the trailer cuts to Halores looking out over the world she's
apparently in control of, we then come to either human William or Host Man In Black next to her,
being shown a frame that contains a host sphere and told it’s time to enter the next stage of
evolution. Implying some sort of human-host hybrid that the show has been hinting at since
season 2. Here we may finally be getting an answer to that season 2 post credits scene
surrounding a version of William that has been put into a host body. During this footage, William
argues that “Maybe it’s time you question the nature of your own reality." He says, "We’re not
here to transcend, we’re here to destroy.” Now I don't know how that falls into the
context of this Human-Host hybrid idea, but it's cool to get a tease of what's coming in
the next stage of the hosts evolution. We started with the original Dolores host frame, then we
progressed to a more fleshy human-like host which Dolores pointed out to Maeve in their
battle in the season 3 finale, and now in season 4 they seem to be evolving onwards.
But moving on, the rest of this trailer focusses on some of the other characters who seem to have
more important roles this season too. We have more shots of Maeve who now sides with a
terrified Caleb, seemingly entering new situations with a certain level of caution. They appear to be
on the search for something and I'm guessing it's to do with the hosts in the forge
which Bernard re-entered during the closing moments of Season 3. His timeline will
probabaly be set years in the future because as if remember, Bernard woke up in a dust covered room
after exiting the valley beyond. The only character Bernard is with in this timeline
that is recognisable is Stubbs, and everyone else seems to be new. So I do think this is deep in
the future. If that's the case, it seems that like Season 1, we'll have two timelines set
decades apart being told simultaneously. The current one set in the war between Halores and
her army against Maeve and Caleb's push back, and then the timeline with Bernard in and out
of sublime years in the future. That's my guess, but what we do get from Caleb and Maeve seems
mysterious other than them entering a new park. We see them entering a 1920s-themed world,
apparently called MafiaWorld, with the duo on the hunt for something. Other than that, there
are shots of Caleb fighting the creepy drone hosts from Season 2, him being surrounded
by what could be humans instead of hosts frozen around him and flies crawling all over him as he
screams in agony. We know Caleb is supposed to be the future of the human species and their leader,
so this season he'll have to make important decisions surrounding what that will look
like. But other than that, this plotline remains a mystery. All we know is that Caleb and Maeve
are going to try to stop Halores and we even get shots of Maeve and Hale squaring off in
the control tower, with the future of their species dependent on what happens next.
I guess we can only wait to see what that means for both the hosts and the humans.
And after Bernard is asked if he thinks he can “save them”, with that meaning either the
humans or the hosts, it's key we talk about the montage of other shots and characters that appear
to be waring in the climax of Season 4. We see shots of a returning clementine and other
key characters like Halores back in the park, battling over its future. There's shooting,
explosions, and action taking place very close to the sublime's door, that was also seen earlier on
in this trailer, with the man in black on horseback looking on. He can actually see the
door and that may mean that this is actually the host man in black that sides with Halores,
because only hosts can actually see it. But to summarise, I'm guessing that this all takes
place in or around the finale of Season 4, with the all the main characters appearing to be
diverting here. Is it the same one from season 2 that gains entry to the sublime or is it a
different one. Well, while I can't quite answer that question definitively, my guess would be
that this is the same door to the valley beyond from season 2, just in a different
location. Dolores said that she sent the door to an unknown location in Season 2, and this new
hover dam location may very well be that place. So what we could be looking at is the war
for the future of the hosts. Maybe Hale is fighting to get the hosts from the valley beyond
and bring them back as part of her army and maybe Maeve, Caleb and the rest of them are
fighting to ensure them the freedom that they should have. I think there's something more to it,
and they are hiding a lot in this footage, but what we know is that the sublime is going
to play a big role come the end of this season. I personally can see the hosts coming back into
this new world that Hale currently controls, but whether that's under her or with freedom
thanks to Maeve and Caleb side, is still a mystery. We'll have to see, but I'm also
intrigued to see how Bernard's future timeline fits into this, with what looks to be him and
new characters on a mission to help the others in the far future. Of course, we'll also see Stubbs,
Clementine, and then we'll also get the return of James Marsden's Teddy, so there
could be plenty of more characters left to come back too. Set pictures of Teddy in Christina's
world have been seen online, so there's no current clue on how he'll come back and if he's
like Christina as a new character. But we'll soon find out and this trailer
did a great job of getting us thinking about all the directions they can go in,
while at the same time, giving us no definitive answers of
what's truly going down. It seems the great mystery of Westworld has finally returned.
But that was my video breaking down the Westworld Season 4 official trailer. I thought this was a
great full length look at what we are likely going to be in store for with season 4 on
June 26th. I think that like previous seasons, they always know how to deliver a good trailer
to get us talking even if the recent series haven't been as strong in quality. But I have
hope that Season 4 can really deliver and bring us back to the level of writing and television
that this show started with. I loved season 1 and most of season 2, but like I said in
previous videos I was quite dissapointed with the writing in season 3. So hopefully this is
a chance for them to re-establish the great quality of this show and really push the
narrative in an interesting direction. Like I said, we seem to be getting an almost reverse
of season 1, and that does bring potential in terms of where this story was always leading. It
was always moving towards the hosts becoming the dominant species and what they would then do
with that control, and I think we are going to find out that answer this season. We'll have
to see what happens, but knowing the showrunners, I wouldn't be surprised if they took another route
that we don't expect. But are you looking forward to the new season of Westworld 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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