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Westworld Season 4 Episode 1.
The latest entry is extremely complex and filled with a lot of hidden details, easter
eggs and references to the prior seasons.
There's also a tonne of theories that I have for what's going on and how that character
at the end has managed to come back.
Now we open much in the same way that the third season did.
In that we watched an extremely rich man being tormented by Delores until he did what she
wanted him to.
We discovered that he was an abusive wife beater and here, though the circumstances
aren't beat for beat, they do share some similarities.
We join a Cartel leader who took over the hoover damm with the rest of his gang.
As with most Westworld openings, we start with them getting ready which is when they
head out to meet none other than the man in black.
The Cartel Senior talks about how much of a nice guy William is and as we learned in
the previous seasons, guy actually was.
It was only when he got to the park that the darker side of him came out and he turned
unrecognisable.
He'd set up several charitable foundations in the real world which guests even thanked
him for but he was such an evil guy his wife even ended her own life when she saw what
he'd been up to.
He arrives in the same vessel that Serac used to travel in when he'd hover above humanity
judging and deciding the fates of all.
If you cast your mind back to the ending of the last season we had a post credits scene
in which he arrived at a Delos Headquarters in Dubai.
Here he was seemingly killed by a replica of himself which the version that arrives
seems to be.
Now if you cast your mind back to the previous seasons then you'll remember that william
lost some of his fingers and at the end of season 3 he wore a glove that covered this
wound.
As this version gets off the drone we can see that he doesn't have a glove but he has
all his fingers, showing that this is indeed a host.
I actually binged all the three seasons in the lead up to this new one and though we
don't get any answers as to who exactly that doppelganger was I do have my theories.
You might remember that William had been testing a way to immortalise people in host bodies
by copying their minds.
This was seen through James Delos but unfortunately he didnt make it past the fidelity phase which
was put in place to see if they truly replicated someone and could be released.
I have a theory that this copy might have been Williams version of that and unlike James
he passed this crucial part.
He does say at one point a very important line about the Dam.
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This sticks out because these clone bodies retained the memories of the person they were
duplicates of.
The entirety of Westworld was set up with implants in the hats that scanned someones
brain and this made a copy of them.
This was later used by Rehoboam to map out the world and plot courses for humanity.
However it also duplicated their entire brains and him having his childhood memories could
further point to this.
The Hale copy in Season 2 and 3 didn't because she was just Delores whereas this seems like
it might be a genuine copy of William.
Either way another thing that we saw at the end of the third season was a lab full of
hosts being built and this could explain why there are several returning characters in
this entry, most notably Teddy.
He ended up ending himself in Season 2 and he was completely absent for the last one.
However he's back now along with a number of other older host so potentially Charlores
ended up resurrecting him with William as her number 2.
This could be used as a way to manipulate the original Delores and we even see him saving
her at the end of the episode.
In the park her side quest was started by her dropping a can which was then picked up
by someone and this then started the loop with them.
This is actually used later on in the episode with the mysterious character she meets.
Potentially its all set up as a way to manipulate her by Hale but we'll discuss this later on.
Now at the Dam we get some hints to the plan that's going on.
William wishes to buy it in order to obtain the data banks and information that was stolen
by what I believe was the original Hale.
This contained the aforementioned copies of everyone's brain who visited the park along
with the data on how the hosts were created and so on.
This isn't confirmed in the entry but William does refer to the person who stole them as
being a she and that she's dead.
In Season 3 we discovered Hale was working alongside Serac and she of course died in
the park and was copied by Delores.
Due to Hale's death the data can't be opened or decrypted and he says that he just wants
it kept there.
There's also another thing that it clearly houses judging by the trailers but I'll talk
about this later in the video incase you don't want future parts of the season spoiled.
This scene also gives us a rough timeline with William mentioning that the Data was
stolen 8 years ago.
7 Years is mentioned several times as being when Season 3 happened so this gives us a
rough timeline of the events.
There's also a pattern on the floor that looks like it's somewhat based on the Maze which
has some significance in the entry.
The Cartel end up turning him down to which he gives
a warning.
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The boss then returns home to find a swarm of flies which of course bears a lot of symbolism.
Flies are something which have popped up throughout the seasons and it was upon one landing on
Delores father that the park slowly started to fall apart.
These flies very much represented a fault in the programming as the hosts were not programmed
to swat them away and thus they caused issues.
Delores swatted one away at the end of the first episode and she remained in her loop.
Flies also bear symbolism in dreams, namely one breaking free of the confines that one
finds themselves in.
Though we don't know exactly what's going on here, the cartel boss collapses and he
wakes up almost as if it's from a dream...ey told you there was symbolism.
What do you mean it's a reach.
Similar to how the hosts went wild and attacked their masters he does too though there's clearly
something off with him.
I don't believe that he's a host and yet somehow William has managed to programme him to not
only kill them but also himself.
From here we cut to the credits, this time we see new graphics of the tower which several
characters discuss in the entry and it's also what the lampposts are modeled after.
The host in this opening is also important on a...on a symbolic level, keep using that
word cos its westworld and it's high brow entertainment.
Normally in the credits it lowers into the fluid whereas here it rises out showing the
quote unquote rise of the machines.
There's also several clips of people stuck inside cylinders, circular...almost loop like...because
it's symbolic.
Anyway it's a west world its a westworld its a west world it's a westworld it's a westworld.
Now from here we cut to Delores waking up.
This is iconography that's popped up at several points throughout the series and we of course
had it appear with the character in the first episode.
Maeve also did it when she took focus later on in the season and in Season 3 we got a
shot similar to this when she escaped the simulation.
There was then Caleb who also did it in the series and it's often set up as a way to introduce
us to either a character or a new version of them.
This scene is shot extremely similar to her entrance in the first episode with her getting
out of bed and going through the house.
However, this time she's in the real world and living in an apartment with her room mate.
She's changed her hair colour and her name to Christina which Evan Rachel Wood has described
as being a completely different kind of Delores to what's come before.
She's much more vulnerable and whereas the prior version was ready to kill everyone due
to Wyatt being a part of her personality, here she's sort of a damsel in distress.
We get a subtle nod to the park when her room mate asks her whether she prefers white or
black shoes and this was of course mirrored in the hat choice that happened in the park.
She has several missed calls and this is thought to potentially be a bot which, wouldn't be
the first time a character was revealed to be one ey Bernard, ay, having that.
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Now she also has this strange earring that we later see her boss also wearing.
At the end of the episode we see this allows her to log and record stories and she ends
up taking it off showing that she's no longer tied to her job.
As Delores exits her apartment we also see the word Ware House behind a tree which is
a nice little play on how she and the other hosts of course came from one.
Delores is also wearing a similar colour coat to the dress that she had on in the park.
As for the world, it seems much happier now that everyone has escaped their loops, however,
we see with Caleb that people very much wonder whether things have actually changed.
There's the automated driverless car that we saw pop up in the last season and she passes
a homeless man who mentions the tower.
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He asks if people can see it, possibly meaning that filters have been put on people so that
it's invisible.
We saw in Season 3 how this was done in the case of Caleb so that he believed he was assassinating
certain targets that were foreign enemies when really they were american citizens.
Interestingly Deloroes is now a Video Game story author and she works at Olympiad Entertainment.
This idea of Video Games and storylines is layered throughout this episode and we even
get a cover of Video Games by Lana Del Rey.
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Now the word Olympiad actually derives from the Olympic Games and it means the four year
interval between them.
Olympus was also the home of the Gods and if it's true that Delores is writing the stories
of people in the real world then she would very much be classed as one.
Interestingly the epsiode is called Augeries and this has ties to both Omens and Prophecies.
Delores could very much be seen as being able to read into this as she can potentially predict
peoples stories and how things will go.
(morbius intriguing)
The video game company just wants sex and violence, much like the park but Delores just
wants to sit about writing stories that are allegories for her and her father Abernathy.
Delores was at her happiest when she was stood on the porch with him waiting for Teddy to
return.
She brings up how shes much better at writing stories for NPCs which is because she was
one whereas the guests were the players.We learn she wrote a previous story about someone
who lost everything and this ended in bloodshed in which everyone died.
Again riffing on clear metaphors of characters in the park.
We cut to the wilderness to find Maeve hiding out.
Should've just done a Delores and dyed your hair and then no one would've recognised you
but we see her living this solitary lifestyle on the run.
She begins to meditate and sees flashes of her daughter as well as the maze.
We also see cuts of Hector and his death and I think he'll probably be brought back a way
to manipulate her along with Clementine.
Her favourite saying about the new world is also dropped in.
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Ooop bit of swearing there.
Now she and Caleb ended up taking down Serac and his forces after they inserted Deloreses
mind into Rehoboam.
This could explain why she carries the foresight to be able to write peoples stories as that
machine of course used an algorithm to predict them.
We discover that she and Caleb travelled out to the original Rehoboam that was shown early
on in Season 3 and that they destroyed it.
Caleb was badly injured at it and these shots were reminicent of his friend dying in the
previous season.
Stop, it's theory time.
Now they obviously show that he seemingly dies in this scene right, but that tension
is immediately stripped away in the next one with Caleb's return.
It's weird that they did this and I have a theory, if you will, that this might actually
be Calebs death and that they could've put his mind into a host like what Halores did
with William.
However those cheeky buggers at Westworld, they know we like our theory time.
So they might have done this on purpose to make us guess that he's dead due to the similarities
to the third season and also our need to pick apart every single thing in the world...the
westworld if you will.
Anyway that's the end of theory time theory time theory time.
Now Maeve ends up causing a blackout in the town which alerts William and co to her location.
She of course had advanced enough to the point where she could control machines and this
is actually how she escaped Serac overpowering her in Season 3.
Cut to Caleb still working construction like how he was in the third season.
Whereas in that he had a robot buddy though, here he's got another human because we discover
all the machines were scrapped.
Guess it's difficult to trust them after ones just tried to murder everyone and there's
lipservice paid to the seven year anniversay.
They won their freedom but he's stuck in the same job, not advancing at all and basically
still doing the same loop.
This is shown by the shot of him sitting on the edge of the skyscraper which mirrors the
one from the first season in which he sat on the girder.
This was of course a nod to the picture of the workmen on it titled Lunch Atop a skyscraper.
He goes to meet his daughter, yeah he'd have to have had before he became a host if we're
right with the theory time.
He's training her to shoot against her mothers wishes.
On the wall at his home we see a parody of the Banksy painting with a machine controlling
a human who's controlling a drone.
This is symbolic ey, because Rehoboam controlled humanity and they controlled the hosts.
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There's also my brain my choice, which is of course a play on the saying my body my
choice.
Brain is crossed out because it used to be a machine that would control the destiny of
humanity.
Maeve travels out to Woody's Goodies which is a real shop so, ey learn something every
day.
After learning her quote unquote friends are in town she decides not to bury the hatchet
and heads out to take them on.
They are led by Colonel Brigham who you might recognise as being from the second season.
He was a high ranking member of the Confederados and again this shows that William is adapting
hosts from the park.
Maeve ends up sending in the truck with a can of propane in the back which she shoots
in order to make it explode.
This was something that we saw being used as a tactic in the park when William and Delores
sent in a dead man on the back of a horse filled with explosives that they then shot
and blew up.
She ends up scanning Brighams memories and as we learned in Season 1, a hosts memory
is perfect.
This is why Delores had such vivid flashbacks to the point that she couldn't tell what was
real and what wasn't and Maeve scans through his data logs.
We see William and also a mysterious man at a mansion.
Tried slowly the footage down to see who this is but I can't quite make them out.
Later on Maeve talks about William being interested in a Senator in California so potentially
this could be who that is.
Delores returns and gets called out by Maya to prepare her for a date.
She hears a noise outside and spots a picture of the Maze, likely left behind by Teddy.
The date is a bit bleh, bit like one of those where youre bored and just going through the
motions like my marriage, ey having that and she refutes the point that the background
characters in her game are just cannon fodder.
Obviously referring to the game and not only is she disappointed with the date she's also
disappointed with reality.
Delores wanted to do nothing but escape the park and be free but she's realised life ain't
all it's cracked up to be.
Her date mentions tabs at several points and we saw these in the third season being common
drugs that could change ones mindstate such as the one that made Caleb hallucinate movie
soundtracks.
After she leaves she gets a phonecall from Peter he also more mentions the tower.
This could be sending out signals from what may be Delores or it could be Hale.
Remember that they both came from the same code and thus people could end up getting
the pair confused.
If Halores ended up building a tower that sends out signals showing people their plans
mapped out by Rehoboam it could send them insane.
He states he lost his job and wife and that she made him and the other things.
He says theyre part of a game and it's possible that shes writing stories that get picked
up by the tower, heard by those involved and then these make them slowly go insane.
No idea what's going on with it mate but eh, wouldnt be westworld if I did and I hope the
stuff so far will make you forgive me.
Delores is saved by Teddy and mirroring her attack we also see one later happen to Caleb
and his family.
This idea of parents reading bedtime stories to their kids was seen in Arnold/Bernards
kid and also Hale and her son.
Outside she comes across a host that was part of the bandit group from the first season.
Really weird seeing this guy back and yeah, sticking with the season 3 post credits scene
theory.
He is saved by Maeve and she tells him about William which is when they head out.
Turns out his paranoia was justified and he very much bears the responsibility of things
still going haywire.
In the morning Delores wakes up, goes through her routine once more and she sees Peter end
his own life.
Delores seems completely shocked by this, again making me think that it has nothing
to do with her.
He asks her if its up to him or if she wrote it too.
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This makes me think that he's trying to show he wonders if he has anymore choices or if
they've all been taken away.
Delores goes out onto her balcony and she starts to write a new story and seemingly
this is also something that relates to Frankie, Maeve and Caleb's wife along with her.
Again, love the Video Games music, gave me goosebumps and we close out with Teddy.
It's even possible that Delores isn't actually in the real world and her brain may be inside
Rehoboam or a simulation which explains Teddy's return.
At the end of Season 3 thats how we left her and it would make sense with everything being
on a loop.
This would explain why people are also stuck doing certain things and how they can be told
how their lives will end.
There's hints towards this simulation when the group of dudes talk about this being their
first time.
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This is similar to people entering the park and the logo for olympiad also looks very
similar to the Delos one.
We know that there's an 8 year time span here but what if it goes beyond that and we're
in the 100 years that the damme can power data for.
Potentiually this version of Delores could be far into the future whcih will sync up
with Bernard's timeline who we still don't know what happened to.
This entire thing could be a park or a simulation or absolutely nothing and it's a big reeeeeeeeach.
Also...forgot to point out earlier that the painting in Delores home also reflects her
doing paintings in the park.
Sent that bit to my editors before I realised though so just easier banging it in here instead
having to talk to people for one minute longer than I already do.
Chumps.
Now I wanna talk about the trailer for the show next part of the video and I know some
of you don't like me just diving into stuff so this is your spoilery warning for whats
to come.
So in it we see Hale talking to William and she says that they can control humanity now.
This is retribution for them controlling the hosts and it might completely debunk what
we said earlier in the video.
She could have the real one still and be controlling him at the start of the episode.
This would explain how they controlled the Cartel boss and the flies may be some form
of nano machi...f**k sake going a bit off the deep end here with the theories....but!
We also see Caleb getting swarmed as well.
Other important shots in it feature the tower and we also see William approaching the Dam
which we can see houses the Sublime.
This is very much the entrance to Heaven for the hosts.
The databanks clearly store that too and the fact that William can see it also likely means
he's a host too.
Anyway thats the main thing and I loved how this was very much a soft reboot of the season
again.
Lots of stuff in the past gets really convoluted and I know people will forget it so I liked
that they kinda toned things back.
It was basically a westworld wasn't it.
Get some great character moments, symbolism and also something teased at that let you
just run wild with the fan theories.
Really enjoyed it for a first episode and I'd love to hear your thoughts on it below.
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