Westworld Season 4 Episode 8 is arriving next week on HBO Max, and the new trailer poses
many questions for what happens next, following the collapse of the world set in line by host
man in black.
In this video, I'm going to be breaking down the trailer for Westworld Season 4 episode
8, alongside discussing my general predictions and theories for what we could see in the
upcoming episode.
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But without further a do, lets dive into my trailer breakdown and predictions for Westworld
Season 4 Episode 8.
So in the promo trailer for episode 8, we seem to be getting a lot of interesting things
set up, with host Man In Black potentially on his way to destroy the sublime, Halores
being ressurected and maybe changing in the process,
and Caleb, Frankie and Stubbs on the run from a violent Clementine.
The episode, which is directed by Richard J. Lewis, is titled 'Que Sera,
Sera', and this means that what will be, will be.
Director Richard J. lewis is resonsible for one of the best episodes of Westworld and
that was the one where Bernard was revealed to be a
host back in season 1 and kills Theresa under the command of Ford.
And with Jonathan Nolan also co-writing this episode, I'm expecting a big finish from this
season, one that will tie up all the questions we have and one that will
set up the final season with an intriguing landscape.
So let's get into everything we saw in this trailer surrounding the different characters
involved and try to work out what might be happening.
Starting with Hale, it appears we haven't seen the last of her, as the new promo trailer
gives us footage to suggest what she might be up to.
We see a drone host carrying her body from the water surrounding the tower, and if we
remember back to that original season 4 trailer, we're yet to see the footage of a drone host
retreiving an exoskeleton, that I think is being
used to revive hale.
Add to this that we're also yet to see the footage or Hale shooting someone at the hoover
dam location and it's pretty clear she's coming back for this final episode.
But the bigger question that lies in this revival is to do with, what she does next.
She's now seen her controlled world be set alight by the man in black and she's also
about to listen to that message that Bernard left at the tower
before he died in the previous episode.
One of the interesting shots in this promo is one that potentially shows Halores holding
the tablet that plays Bernard’s message and then also
later on, she's holding a currently unknown pearl.
The reason I think this is Hale, is not just because she comes back, but because she's
also wearing the same leather gloves that she wears
in multiple scenes we are yet to see of her.
Other people have said that this could be frankie, but because Hale is coming back,
and the gloves that she wears matches the ones from
this footage, I'd say it pretty much confirms it to be her.
And on the recording that Bernard leaves her, he says, "this isn't the world you
wanted, but it's the world you created".
We also heard another part of that message last week before he was killed by host Man
In Black, and he said "this time only for one more game, if
you choose to give her that choice, you can't miss, reach with your left hand".
Of course the title for this season is the choice, so what this could be alluding to
is Halores being convinced to change, and make a decision that
would give someone else the choice that Bernard is talking about.
Everyone is saying that they think that Hale is going to be the one person
that can save everything now, but again to me, it sounds like Bernard is trying to get
Hale to give someone else the choice that would save it all.
And that brings us back to that shot of the pearl that Hale seems to be holding
in the trailer footage, and is that what Bernard is speaking about.
I think it could be, and I think Halores is going to sacrifice herself by the
end of this episode, to buy the time that is needed for this pearl and whoever it is
to be brought back.
I think Bernard is going to convince Hale in this message that there's no saving
the world she's been in control of, now that Host Man In Black is on the final path to
destroy it, and I think the plan going forward is to give the world that chance of hope,
using the choice that is made by the host that Hale
brings back.
And I think this could be Dolores.
But then the question is, who is this version of Dolores.
Are we seeing one of the Dolores pearls that survived season 3, for instance the connels
pearl or the lawrence one.
Or is this to do with Christina and what we're essentially
seeing with her.
Something to keep in mind is that we haven’t seen that shot of Dolores or Christina walking
amongst all the dead bodies in her classic blue dress yet.
And that was leaked before the season aired, with her appearing to walk through the New
York city she's currently in.
So maybe Hale either brings Christina back as this new version of Dolores
and gives her the hope to fight host Man In Black and his ongoing path.
And maybe her costume choice in this leaked material is symbolic of
what she actually becomes, similar to what we saw with Man In Black in the last episode,
now donning the famous costume and full embodying that.
Not sure how this will all fit together, but I do think we're seeing the end of that
Christina narrative in episode 8, some reveals surrounding all of that and then what she
becomes.
Obviously when it comes to Christina, last week we learned that her control was being
overriden by the tones and once we got to that ending scene with Teddy, he told her
that she isn't real, but the world is.
In the trailer for this week's episode, we get a shot of her
stood at her bedroom window, one that results in her still questioning everything that's
happened, and then also a shot of her with Teddy in the
city, walking over many dead bodies.
So while they are hidding a lot of the events that take place with Christina in this Episode,
I think we're eventually going to lead to the reveal
about who she is and what she becomes following that.
Whatever does happen, I think Hale will ultimately do anything to keep William from destroying
the sublime.
And I think when she starts to realise that this world she tried
to create and control is burnt to the ground thanks to her own doing, it will result in
her actions to come.
And this is why I think Bernard is talking about Hale allowing Christina to be
that hope going forward.
A version of Dolores that is embracing the beauty in the world like the original did,
but one that has evolved into something new.
I think that's what that pearl is and if I had to make any guess on Christina's current
situation, it would be that she's either the sentient control of this world that
Hale has built or something else that we're yet to learn about.
The reveal that she is actually able to control things in the real world in Episode 7, really
did confuse me about where she really is, but I'm hoping for a satisfying
reveal on that next week.
But let me know what you think surrounding everything we've seen with Christina, because
I must admit, I am struggling to put together where she really
is and also how that relates to what we've seen with Teddy, who for the most part is
some sort of tour guide through this broken world.
We'll soon see, but again, I'm really intrested
to hear your thoughts on that.
Coming now to Host Man In Black, after his decision to make the world a survival of the
fittest type setting, he now wants it to include only the cockroaches like him that make
their own rules.
He got hosts and humans to start killing each other after sending out the powerful tones
from the tower, and now that this has been destroyed, he's on a mission to destroy
the last piece of the puzzle.
And based on trailer, I think we can gather that this is actually the sublime located
at the Hoover Dam, which he brought for Hale back in the opening
episode.
In this trailer we see footage of him making his way through the smoke and chaos that previously
erupted, he gets ambushed on his way to the hoover dam, but then eventually
makes it to that location.
So what are we going to see here once he arrives.
Well, I think we're going to see him arrive and attempt to destroy the sublime and all
the wealth of data it stores, and then I think revived Hale is going
to fight him at this location, after she embraces what Bernard tells her.
That footage we spoke about before shows her shooting at someone
near the door's opening, and it would make sense that her and the man in black come head
to head here for the future of hosts on earth.
It all started with Dolores and William, and seeing
the version of those characters fighting here, would be quite the interesting thing to see
unfold.
We've got a version of Dolores that has changed quite a lot in Hale, but she still has
all of those previous memories of the past.
So like spoken about before, she might go back down that original Dolores route of fighting
for the beauty of the world and giving Christina or
the new dolores all that hope going forward.
And Host Man In Black is embracing the villainy and survival of the fittest attitude that
his character has been aligned with.
He's not hopelessy playing a game that wasn't designed
for him, he's now trying to create his own game of the future.
So it's an interesting climate when it comes to both Host Man In Black and
Halores, and I think their fight at the dam will be an evolution of their stories since
that very first season.
And I think Hale is going to use the sublime when it comes to that pearl
she was holding in the trailer too.
Again, I think this is for a new version of Dolores, one that is printed and has the memories
that we are currently watching with Christina.
We'll have to see but that's where I currently stand
on that.
The only other characters to discuss from this new trailer are what we are going to
be getting from Caleb, Frankie and Stubbs.
Now we see Caleb helping injured Frankie after she was shot
at the end of the last episode and we know that Stubbs was also with them.
And if we put together the footage of them with the other footage we get of Clementine,
who is picking up a knife, it links in to what we've seen in main
season 4 trailer and the in the weeks ahead promo before.
In those trailers she's actually fighting Caleb and we see that Stubbs is also
present at this location too.
So with Caleb and Frankie possibly running away and looking back, my guess would be that
Clementine tries to kill Frankie as originally planned by Hale,
Caleb fights her to stop that from happening, and Stubbs eventually saves them to give them
the time to get away.
I think this is right towards the start of the episode, and
more importantly, before Halores makes a change after listening to Bernard's message.
But what are Caleb and Frankie really going to be
achieving in this episode.
Are Caleb and Frankie going to escape, make it to the hoover dam and be apart of those
climatic events or are they going to do something else.
My best guess would be that they'd maybe try to retrieve
Maeve's body from near the Tower and we'd eventually see a reunion between Caleb and
Maeve before the end of this episode.
I think they are powerless to make it to the hoover dam in
time, but going forward into season 5, they'd be a huge part of the fight to save the world,
being some of the few that remain.
Maybe we even see Clementine catch up to them and reunite with
Maeve, if they bring her back, and just like with Hale recieving that message from Bernard,
she also might have a change of heart going forward.
Again, it's another thing I'm unsure about due to a limited amount of footage we've currently
got, but with them all being present in this episode, they'd surely have an
important part to play.
So that brings me to my final predictions for this finale.
As a whole, I think we're going to see Hale find that message that Bernard left her once
she's revived, and I think she's going to realise that her world has completely collapsed.
It's her own doing and I think it's going to lead to her following Bernard's instructions
in which she'll take one of those remaining Dolores pearls from season 3, and then she'll
go to the dam with the aim at giving a version of Dolores a bit of hope going forward.
I think Hale knows she won't survive this battle
and in turn, becomes the key to helping those who remain.
I think the Dolores pearl she takes is going to be cleverly linked into what we've seen
with Christina this season, and that's why she still has those memories.
And she'll eventually be brought back as a new upgraded version of Dolores that we saw
in the leaked footage from earlier in the year.
I think Halores will fight Host Man In Black at the hoover dam,
whose gone there to destoy it, and she will ultimately die in making this move of hope.
I predict we'll see all the Caleb, frankie, Stubbs,
Clementine and Maeve stuff in between this and once the final moves are made, I think
they will be another part of that hope left on earth to try and save it going forward.
So essentially that would set up a final season of Host Man
In Black and the cockroaches of hosts and humans that remain, going against a new version
of Dolores, Maeve, Clementine, Caleb and Frankie, in
deciding the fate of this world.
It would give us a clear perspective of the endgame and also conclude all the complicated
threads of this season.
And yes, I'm keeping my prediction that we might see a continuation of that season
2 post credit scene with William's fidelity test after all of this goes down.
Currently, I have no idea on who could be behind that, but maybe
it's some sort of response to what happens this season.
Could it be Maeve and the others in their attempts to stop Host Man In Black going forward
or could it be someone else.
Unsure, but I would keep in mind that Caleb's latest fidelity
test might have been a successful one, so maybe with that knowledge they replicate it
on William some time in the future.
We'll have to see, but let me know what you think that credit
scene from season 2 is eventually going to be about.
But they were my thoughts and predictions for Westworld Season 4 Episode 8.
Overall, I think finale is going to a big episode to end this great season, and with
their potenitally being one more left, they have to really get us
excited about how this story might all come to an end.
I think the end of this season will set up the dangerous yet also hopeful landscape with
the characters that are left.
But to those who saw the trailer, what are your predictions and theories for Episode
8 and have you enjoyed everything we've seen in season 4 so far?
Let me know down below in the comments section.
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