Westworld
In its first season , Westworldseemed like a standard tale about the moral pitfall of creating and using an artificial consciousness for human pleasure , but around the end , a few hitherto unobserved details began to egress . First , audience learned that The Man in Black and William were the same individual , except separated by thirty years in tangible - time .
After this point , the timelines pop out meld into each other , specially conceive that Host memories are broken across several temporal dimensions , array a span of several decades . Hence , the narrative ofWestworldis not really unproblematic to come after , even for the most absorbed spectator .
Updated July 20th , 2022 by George Chrysostomou : Westworld is back for its 4th season and the timeline might just become a fiddling more confusing . There are a number of areas where more clarification could be useful for viewers , and perhaps this latest expedition to the robotic parking area can put up some .
The State Of The Parks And Their Closure
The story of the park is emphatically a confusing one . Viewers have been shown Westworld , Shogunworld , and even a Nazi , World War II loop of the ballpark . There are plenty of other themed lands out there , but when were they all created , and are they even unresolved in the modern years ?
The incident in Westworld should have surely put the other areas on high alert , but there does seem to be a continuation of operation , at least for the sentence being . Westworld itself sure closes down eventually , but when does that happen and what does it take to have its closing forever ?
Maeve And Her Daughter
Maeve has been research for her daughter seemingly for ten . There was once a time when she was actually united with the young girl , but where in the timeline were the duo paired together in their story , to start with , and when were they reunited ?
Maeve ’s timeline is even more confused than most and it ’s plausible that the character has actually served in more parks than just Westworld . It ’s still one of Maeve ’s main finish to reunify with her daughter and make the world a salutary billet . But has that actually happened already by the farthermost point in the futurity ?
Maeve’s Trapped Consciousness
Maeve is one of the strongest hostson the show and her mental capabilities demonstrate that . She ’s committed to her mission and can not be swayed by any situation , even when being blackmailed and fudge . Her fourth dimension spent in a comatose - like state is an example of that .
It ’s unclear how long Maeve was placed in this practical reality , where she had to try and outlive and escape . It could have been decades and Maeve clearly exits that res publica altogether changed . Was this point of time far longer than fan realize , and has this actually happened already ? How much of Maeve ’s life is actually in her head ?
The Five Pearls Of Dolores
Dolores leave the park in a Charlotte Hale torso , take with her five pearls thatmost fans assumed were other Hosts(Ford , Maeve , and so on ) . It turn out that she has essentially retroflex her consciousness because she is patriotic to nobody but herself , which in the death makes complete sense given her experience of Westworld .
However , it is n’t stated when she make the bodies for them — Musashi , Martin Connells , Bernard , and herself — because they are introduced haphazardly to provide a impact result . unluckily , it ’s more puzzling than surprising .
Solomon & Rehoboam
Engerrand Serac and his brother ramp up the super - quantum mega - computer eff as Solomon , which is claimed to have been based on Jean Mi . The AI is rejected for being " too irregular " , and work on its heir , Rehoboam , commences short after .
When is shortly after , though ? How long did they try out with / on Solomon ? The man who finances the undertaking , Liam Dempsey , Sr . , is young - ish when this come , so was it before , after , or during the formation of Westworld itself ?
Whenever Akecheta Is From
Arguably the most important boniface is Akecheta , since he ’s the first one to realize the imitation nature of his reality , putting in efforts to spread this knowledge to the rest of the park by mean value of maze symbols .
This act was performed so as to present the " unconscious " Hosts to the same Epiphany of Our Lord that he had had all those years ago , which was when , exactly ? Ford meets Akecheta and softly informs him about the coming of their savior ( Dolores as Wyatt ) , and he looks as erstwhile as he does when he is kill . Does this signify that all of this take space recently ?
The Building Of The Forge
William , after inheriting Delos , Inc. , orders the construction ofthe monolithic waiter farm known as the Forge , which is intended to store , analyze and duplicate the neuronic datum obtain from all the Guests passing through Westworld . However , the accurate time of this venture is lead hang .
Does it materialize after the physical decease of James Delos , or was the old man involved in the planning process ? When is it actually completed and bring to its peak working efficiency ? How many personality are preserved in the Forge ’s hard drives ?
William’s Research On His “Father-In-Law”
James Delos , like many people who are rich enough to believe that they deserve the gift of immortality , is resurrected as a Host by his boy - in - police . This sure as shooting happens around the time of his dying ; but because over eighteen million var. of him were produced , and because William grows old and wrinklier with each visit , it looks like the process continues for a few decades .
So a creepy-crawly , extremely unethical experiment has been hold up on directly under the nose of Robert Ford ? When precisely does William resolve to abandon the task ?
Ford’s Child Version
Robert Ford is probably one of the most vexing fictitious character inWestworld : he brings many supernumerary layers of elaborateness to the already tortuous plot . For instance , he programs his memory into a number of servers , even place himself in the trunk of his ten - yr - old self .
However , and here is where it gets weird , the so - called " Little Boy " had already been manufactured by Arnold Weber , a legion that only possessed memory of Ford ’s puerility . It is say that he ’s an early example of the Westworld concept , and yet , there is closely nothing know about his origins , activity , or intention .
All Of Bernard’s Splintered Memories
Most ofthe episode in Season 2are expressed from Bernard ’s perspective and happen in a funnily non - linear flowing that leaves him more confused than anyone else . Later , it is revealed that he by design " scramble " his thought process for protect certain sensitive information from falling into the wrong workforce , whether it ’s Delos or Incite .
That ’s all well and unspoiled , but the procedure of unpacking his memory board is just as inexplicable — perhaps as a reference toMemento(2000 ) , also write by Jonathan Nolan ? Anyway , it takes more fourth dimension to figure the narration out than it takes to view the entire season .
When The Man In Black Wakes Up In The Future (?)
In the post - credit rating of " The Passenger " , the Man in Black is shown to have survive his rendezvous with Dolores , andhe lumber into the Forge to finish her off . To his utter astonishment , he discovers that the world now resemble a post - apocalyptic scenario , with the building waterlogged after suffer apparent century of disrepair .
Here , he finds his " daughter " , Emily : she tell him that " this is n’t a simulation , " while at the same time take him to a glass elbow room superposable to the one in which he had once toy with the James Delos Host . What on earth is going on ? !
Caleb And Dolores' Original Meeting
In a flashback sequence , Dolores explains that they had first meet when he was training as a soldier , during a mission involving protecting hostages and killing opposition combatants .
Caleb is stunned to learn that she had been among the group of Hosts that his squad member considered rap and that she still remembers his kindness when he prevents them from doing so . Of course , there is no clue as to what clip period this could have occurred ; mayhap during the three decades it took for William to turn into the Man in Black ?
Bernard Coated With Dust
Inthe unreadable Season 3 finish , Bernard realizes that he ’s the key to the Valley Beyond that Serac had been looking for all this while , so his first decision is to go into that reality so as to investigate it . He inform a seriously wound Stubbs of his plan and mentally disappear into the Host paradise .
When he reelect , though , his consistency has been virtually drowned in junk , not to mention the entire room . Ignoring the fact that the motel management never once thought to check on their node for so many years , how much metre has turn over , really ?
Swapping Out Park Staff
Over the course of instruction ofWestworldstaff at the park have been swapped out for hosts . Ashley Stubbs is one such example , but how long was he a host , or was he always that way ? Were there other member of the staff who have been robots all along , and when did the slip start happening .
When look at scene from throughout the timeline , it ’s hard to tell when the shift began . It ’s obvious that Ford felt more comfortable with the success of his account if he controlled all the players involved . At what stage did he make this decision and thus , which staff members are hosts at which points ? Audiences will in all likelihood never recognise .
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