Westworldco-creator Lisa Joy unpacks the true architects of season fours reality.
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Spoilers follow for the fourth season ofWestworld, includingseason finaleQue Sera, Sera, which aired August 14.
Theres a part of Lisa Joy that wishesWestworldwere animated.
Im starting to question the nature of my reality myself.
History leaves its scars on us, but theres something always immediately recognizable about New York.
You see the city starting to evolve, adjusting to the environment and the pandemic.
And so I wanted to give birth to Christina in a city that felt timely and central.
And being a writer.
Its purely autobiographical now.
I think her subconscious yearned for company.
I do think we have different voices within our heads.
Season one was all about,Whose voice is that?
Oh, its my inner voice.
One of the things Im tackling is how the inner voice can sometimes be more like a chorus.
Theres almost a community in your head thats striving for dominance.
Its weird, because you dont want to call it death with an AI, right?
Something about that seems very unenlightened to me.
Shes seen her story through.
She got a chance to rule the way she wanted.
Youre really thinking about things in a self-centric way.
Thats totally normal, but it does change over time.
Or for me, at least.
It was a lovely moment with Tessa.
Was there a character death that was particularly hard to write or film?
Stubbs hit me hard.Im so glad Stubbs hit you hard because we underplayed it, in a way.
The word fungible is loaded now.
For me, the experience of watching something versus living something is entirely different.
Its not the person you knew, necessarily.
Its a rebooted version of them.
Its like taking an arrow going forward and putting a pinpoint there and then doubling the line.
Its not the same body.
So whats really interesting is the idea of infinity that plays to an audience.
For me, datas fungible.
The original sin is still embedded within it.
She was reluctantly brought back, but I think she had it pretty good in that cabin.
In season four, we saw many different worlds the characters built.
Dolores built one for the Christina version of herself.
Williams vision for the world is basicallyFortnite.
And we see Hales.
All the characters are trying to figure out how to survive and how to create a good society.
Even the Man in Black isnt going out like, Im trying to do evil, right?
He is trying to destroy the world because hes gotten very disillusioned with humans and their creations.
Hes ready for the next thing.
And whos to say that if panda bears inherited earth, they wouldnt do a better job?
Maybe they wouldnt be building rockets, but theyd be cuddly and hanging out with each other.
I like humans a lot, but I like a good sloth.
We sketched out so many versions of ways to change ones physical trappings, and that was what won.
It was kind of the extension of thedrone hosts, just a little more elegant and minimalist.
A lot of us would want to fly.
Some of us would want gills.
There are many different ways the human architecture could be improved.
SinceWestworldpremiered in 2016, theres been an explosion in stories about branching realities on massive scales.
Millions of people are going to seeDr.
Strange, orInto the Spider-Verse, orEverything Everywhere All at Once.
What weve done has been done before.
Have you watchedThe Rehearsal?No, should I?
It approachesthis questionfrom a very different direction.
It would make a great double feature.That sounds incredible.
The other day, someone was like, We hear you struggled for seven years with the script.
You said you have a five-season plan.
