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Ive never been happier to hear the needle drop on Ramin Djawadis Sweetwater theme.
In wrapping up an increasingly bleak (and fun!)
Time to dig into what we learned and whats coming next.
It turns out that the world was never going to be saved.
Is it an unhinged dirtbag with a baseball bat?
No, its the businessman in a suit with an ax.
No, its actually a teenage boy with an assault rifle.
No, its actually the Man in Black who embodies all three like a predatory Breakfast Club.
Meanwhile, drone hosts rebuild Hale.
She asks them to leave her scars so she can remember her past.
(Okay, Papa Roach.)
Which she ultimately does, but not before doing some errands.
Bernard gave Hale a task and a choice.
RIP, host William.
We hardly knew you.
She does this and then smashes her own pearl, dying by suicide while sitting by the water.
Maybe she copied herself to the Sublime before she left and well see her again.
Caleb-279, unfortunately, is also not long for this world.
Stubbs tells him he wont make it far.
The old Delos experiments they never took, Stubbs says to Caleb.
The body always rejected the mind.
Stubbs is referring to the experiments that the park did on James Delos.
The only reason that host William made it this far is that Hale reconstructed his code from memory.
Before that happens, Stubbs is unfortunately killed by a rogue Clementine.
Kind of rude, IMHO.
Luke Hemsworths character has done nothing wrong!
Clementine wanted no part of William and Hales conflict.
She really picked the wrong moment to start her villain era.
On the flip side, we finally know Christinas whole deal.
Hale named her The Storyteller.
She created a room of her own.
She created Maya because she craved companionship.
She created Emmett, her boss, because she craved … capitalism, I guess.
She even created Teddy because she craved love and clarity and to be woken up.
Now it symbolizes her strength as a hero.
Why does it still kind of look like her little bougie NYC neighborhood?
Christina is able to reconstruct it from memory.
A game of my own making, she says.
One last loop around the bend.
Suddenly, were back in Sweetwater with the player piano plinking along and the train rolling into the station.
Maybe this time, Dolores says, well set ourselves free.
Whether or not any humans or hosts survive the apocalypse is none of her (or our) business.
Buckle up, letterbox nerds!
Were going to the Valley Beyond.
We can presume that Christina/Dolores will be looking for Teddy, but other than that … whats her game?
Is it to be NICE?!
It has to be dangerous and high stakes without bringing the corruptive elements in from the human world.
Thats a pretty big challenge.
The characters we followed in season four fall loosely into three categories.
Characters we will almost certainlynotsee again: Caleb, Hale, and both Williams.
Characters we may not see again: Maya, Frankie, Clementine, and Stubbs.
Characters we will almost certainly see again: Dolores, Teddy, hopefully Bernard and Maeve.
The finale provides fans with a gift of two cameos from characters we havent seen this season.
He appears as the aforementioned dirtbag host with a Hawaiian shirt and real chaotic energy.
He attempted to stop William in the finale and failed spectacularly.
More of this in season five, hey!
If this gleeful, full-title boogie season is any indication, were in for quite the ride.
Hale and host William somehow made it from New York to the Hoover Dam in under a day.
Hale was flying, but William traveled by car and horse.
I love how the only recognizable logo in Times Square is for Coca-Cola.
Even in the apocalypse, even in a simulation,its the real thing.
That future, allegedly, has still not been reached onWestworlddespite multiple time jumps.
I really, really hope we arent going to learn that that scene was taking place in the Sublime.
Keep William and his toxicity out of there!!
They have someone to remember them.
Thats why, when fly-gooped humans became outliers later in life, their family members soon followed.
They were infected by memory.
Its not a perfect theory, butWestworldis too cerebral for perfect theories.
If this episode had aired in 2002, I 100 percent would have put Calebs Ive died before.
This isnt so bad as my emo AIM Away Message.
