Welcome to the end William.
Welcome to the end of the world everyone
it's Charlie. This is going to be my westworld season 3 episode 8 finale
video there were a bunch of easter eggs and we got a really big post-credits
scene to sort of tease what's going to be happening in season four so we'll
break it all down if you're new to the channel be sure to
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you haven't seen it yet we'll do top 10 and easter eggs as we go along
there's a lot of stuff to cover the episode was extra long but that's
because there was so much stuff to wrap up and so much stuff to tease for their
season 4 story so starting with number 10 the title of
the episode crisis theory obviously that's a reference to
the crisis that's breaking out all over the place the world is erupting into
chaos it's going to burn itself to the ground as they pretty much imply at
several points in the episode but they keep referring to the idea of the world
burning itself down just letting that happen
so that the new world can be born from the ashes so number nine the dolores
flashbacks the episodes start with the flashback scene of ford
questioning dolores taking a bigger role for herself in her own narrative whether
or not she'd be the hero that story the villain of that story
it's from the earlier seasons they sort of change it a little bit and give it
some new dialogue in the context of what's been happening
during season three they're just making you question whether or not dolores has
really been the villain this whole time or whether she's been the hero
really it's a more complicated answer because even though we find out what's
really going on with Serac and rehoboam later in the episode
both dolores and rehoboam have their own plans for saving the human race
i love the way that bernard sort of contextualizes that plan later in the
episode making you question whether or not rehoboam was ever really
necessary in the first place the world was always going to burn
itself down rehoboam and sorak were just postponing that
this needed to happen the world needed to eat itself alive
but then number eight welcome back lawrence so man in black wants to kill
stubs and bernard we pick up where they left off in last week's episode
he gets a real good shot into stubs and you do kind of wonder what's going on
with him now based on the way they end with bernard
in that final scene did he ever get out of that bathtub or is he still
chilling out drinking that cheap booze we don't really find out what lawrence
gives bernard to later in the episode but he tells bernard that he has the
most important role to play because he has the key to the data inside his head
in the ability to bring all those people back he tells bernard
here's something to help you on the journey that you're on something to help
complete your task he does the same thing for man in black during season one
although it's much more confrontational when man in black did it back during
season one the number seven welcome back to loris so we find out the caleb's
being led to this warehouse where dolores has stashed another copy of a
body but it's actually one of the original
bodies with the metal skeleton that's meant to be a callback to the
montage at the beginning of the episode where they sort of show you dolores
history as she slowly went through all those different roles at the park the
different narratives the other important reason why dolores
probably gave herself this older body is because as she says later when she's
fighting maeve i was built to last you're all copies of me
so she's using this body specifically because it's that much stronger she
could have stashed any body she wanted to in this warehouse
kayla gets pissed off because he feels like dolores knows everything that he's
going to do we don't find out exactly why that is till later
but dolores sort of fills him in well when you were in the military being
trained as a soldier they used a lot of delos built hosts to train them
and while that was happening delos was downloading all this information on them
the same way that it does with the host so remember the concept of the forge in
the human immortality project delos did the same thing with all these
military people so it seems like dolores read quote-unquote caleb's book inside
the forge so she knew all about him and knew that
he could be a good person like they say she chose him because of
his capacity to choose you've done some crappy stuff you've
done some good stuff but ultimately you are capable of making a choice
and that's a bit of a contrast to sorak in the episode who says he completely
gave up his ability to choose giving himself over to rehoboam
we'll talk about that in a second too there were a lot of you that had
theories about what was really going on with rehoboam and sorak
but then we go back to man in black number six he tries to get access to his
money we find out he's way richer now because of Serac's buyout of
delos but then he says he wants a list of all
the delos assets all over the world basically like delos
bat caves like we see in the post credit scene at the end of the episode he wants
to find out where they are and obviously that's going to tie into the season 4
storyline but up until the post-credits scene he says it's his mission to erase
the host from the face of the earth now obviously that plan goes really sideways
during the post-credits scene so we'll talk about that in a second too
what's really going to happen now with the man in black number five
dolores versus charlotte delores i think we actually found our real villain
during season four here like we've been having conversations about who the real
villain of season three is if there is a real villain
i think charlotte is going to wind up being the main antagonist for season four
just based on the way they leave things the reason why she's able to digitally
project herself to delores's mind so that only dolores can see her like caleb
doesn't see any of this stuff going on like who are you talking to he doesn't
see charlotte standing there that's because of the way dolores is
linked to all the different copies of herself she did that so that she can
enact her plan dolores kind of makes a joke about it
while it's all going down because caleb's like are these
rocks men that are coming for us and she's like nope it's some of my people
coming after us they have a big callback joke about the
ricoh app you remember in last week's episode
they revealed how rehoboam would manipulate the ricoh app to get people
to turn on each other and that's what happened between caleb and his friend
played by kid cudi he turned on him because he was offered
more money dolores does the exact same thing in order to get them out of this
spot but just as they do maeve rolls up in
full ninja gear so number four dolores versus maeve i
believe this is round three they have a couple really good fights during the
episode but it's the finale so you kind of expect things to be taken to the
extreme she taunts dolores with teddy what are
you going to turn this guy into your next teddy
the thing is bernard actually is probably speaking to teddy by the end of
the episode because he uploads himself into that place
the way they contextualize caleb's role in all this is that dolores has been
setting him up or at least advertising him as the leader of the
revolution against in sight so if we're talking about terminator
metaphors here think about the terminator franchise you have this
post-apocalyptic environment heading into season four
the machines being led by charlotte and then the people being led by john connor
caleb they really do kind of seem like they're
going full terminator into season four one of the cool reveals during their
first fight though in this episode is when she says to maeve you're all
copies of me all the other hosts the way she explains it is that after the
original revolt when she went full wyatt on arnold ford
and delos started revising all the newer copies of the hosts
based on dolores and dolores really is the original host but then just as she
defeats maven combat she's actually hacked by the charlotte
version of dolores who says that she's using delors's own systems that she set
up against her the number three big twist bernard goes
to meet arnold's former wife who's played by gina taurus wearing old person
makeup if you remember gina taurus was actually
featured as bernard's wife during season one
before we knew that he was a host it was sort of a fake broadcast that they did
where they were talking about their grief over their son and they had
separated in that version of events it was implied
that they've been divorced for a while which i think is true to life i think at
some point arnold did get separated from his family like he says i think i came
here to reconcile and make amends for what i did
the way i left things with my family and even though he's not really arnold
he has a lot of arnold's memories so he believes that charlie really was his son
and he lost him so all that pain and grief is real for him
she helps him work through that and that sort of gives him the idea that he has
at the end of the episode to upload his consciousness into that special place
where all the hosts are being stored to get an idea for what's supposed to
happen next after the end of the world as he says it
the number two caleb destroys rehoboam with dolores help so even though it
seemed like the plan did not go according to dolores plan she secretly
sort of engineered things so that it would go down this way
it does make you wonder what was on that thumb drive if anything was on it
the way that maeve explains it at the end of the episode is that solomon's
final plan was actually inside dolores in when she was uploaded
into the rehoboam system that's how they were able to lock out
sorak and give sole access to caleb's soul control who was then able
to get rehoboam to delete itself the speech that dolores goes out on talking
to maeve is meant to be a mirror for the speech she had at the beginning of the
episode i choose to see the beauty it's the same speech that she had in
previous seasons so a lot of these dolores scenes and the flashbacks are
all meant to call back to her flashbacks in earlier seasons
while this is all going down though one of the bigger reveals is that sorak has
actually been a finger puppet of rehoboam this whole time there were a
lot of you that had theories about whether or not sorak was actually a real
person or if he was just a projection of rehoboam
the way they explained it during the episode is that he was a real person but
he was just allowing rehoboam to tell him what to do
so he would just literally wait for rehoboam to tell him
what to say at every turn just waiting for commands say this next
then say this next then this so the fact that sorak gave up
his ability to choose or his right to choose is meant to be a contrast to what
dolores said earlier the reason why you were chosen caleb is because of your
ability to choose so the whole idea in shutting down
rehoboam is that caleb's saying i'm giving the human race
the ability to choose their own future but the way that bernard talks about it
is that the human race was always going to burn itself to the ground eventually
and they needed to let it happen in order for something better to be born
from the ashes the way they talk about bringing back
all those people from the forge all the hosts that uploaded themselves at the
end of season two the place where bernard goes in the post-credits scene
also kind of implies that they might be able to bring dolores or a version of
dolores back at some point then as they walk outside and start
watching buildings blowing up around them in los angeles they start playing
pink floyd's brain damage and maeve tells caleb the same speech
that she used to tell new guests at the saloon in westworld this is the new
world and in this world you can be anyone you want so obviously they're
going to explore that quote-unquote new world which sounds very post-apocalyptic
during season four number one is obviously the many
different post-credits scenes so there's a lot of stuff that happens after the
credits man in black arrives at the delos base
in dubai wearing all black again he's gone full man in black
we find charlotte in the basement printing all these copies of host so
think of her as the skynet in this situation printing
all these brand new terminators then she reveals that she's copied man
in black and turned him into a host who then proceeds to seemingly kill him even
though he slits his throat we don't actually see him die
so it is possible for the real william to come back during season four we don't
really know what happens to him it just implied that he died
welcome to the end william and if you've seen the future world movie which was a
sequel to the westworld movie that was actually a bit of a plot during
that with him replacing real people with hoes then the very final scene is
bernard coming back to his body from that
digital forge space where all the copies were stored they were trying to find
during the season but because he's covered in all that
dust it's implied that a lot of time has gone
by maybe even years it's kind of hard to tell how much time exactly
we'll have to wonder what happened to stubs if he's still chilling out in that
tub or if he eventually climbed out of his own accord
but they have renewed the show for season four because of the virus delays
i'm assuming they're not going to start filming that till either
the end of this year or early next year at some point so we're probably not
going to see westworld season 4 until 2022
everyone let me know in the comments what was your favorite part of the
episode or if you spotted any really big easter eggs that i didn't mention during
the video there's a ton of stuff happening
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