“Welcome to the endgame” –
“I was born into this world. And my first memories of it are pain.”
(Warning: major spoilers for the first two seasons of Westworld (below.)
S2 had an even more convoluted plot spanning multiple timelines. Dolores begins recruiting other hosts to fight off Delos security forces while searching for the door to the real world, intent on taking revenge by wiping out the human race. Ars’ own Nathan Matisse is particularly praised S2’s seventh episode, “Les Écorchés” —in which the hosts prevail against the humans in yet another bloody massacre at the Mesa — especially its focus on Hopkins’ misanthropic Ford:
The episode brings into further focus Ford’s pseudo-nihilistic supervillain thesis: that humanity, as a product of nothing more than evolution, is inherently valueless. We are crude hunks of self-animating meat — obstacles standing in the way of the hosts’ path to true self-actualization. It’s time for us to die and for the hosts to inherit the Earth, because in Ford’s mind, only a true “original work” has worth. The hosts, as created beings, are such a work.
In the S2 finale, Dolores leads her fellow hosts to the Forge, a kind of central database, and several Hosts upload their minds into a digital world known as “the Sublime.” Dolores then transfers their minds to a safer location. Ultimately, three of the Hosts are shown entering the real world in the central timeline: Dolores, Bernard (Jeffrey Wright), and a rebuilt host version of former Delos executive Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson).
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The new trailer opens with a Dolores voiceover, telling Caleb that the two of them are very alike. “They put you in a cage. Decided what your life would be,” she says. “They did the same thing to me.” She convinces Caleb to help her go after the person who, apparently, stole his future. Meanwhile, Maeve awakens in luxurious digs and meets a man (played by Vincent Cassel) who wants her to track down Dolores and kill her.
S3 looks like it will set five members of Team Hosts against the rest of humanity. Dolores insists, “It’ll be enough,” and if all else fails, she’s quite willing to simply kill them all. There are gorgeous views of a futuristic neo-Los Angeles, glimpses of Dolores pulling “skin” over her underlying skeleton (reminiscent of
Ex Machina , car chases, explosions, and one shot of Dolores missing an arm but continuing to fight anyway, like the badass she’s become. The final shot is a rooftop showdown between Maeve and Dolores, in fine , Kill Bill
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