This season of Westworld was all about world building and setting mysteries without ever addresssing them. They were relying on the season finale to pull all the separate plot threads together and tell a cohesive story with it.
And they pulled it off! It was an excellent finale! They revealed a massive twist, completely changed the status quo (if there ever was one), set up a fascinating third season, and left us with questions and mysteries worth chewing over.
Some people have complained about this season but I truly think the finale brought it all home and retroactively improved many of the previous episodes. This will definitely be a fun season to rewatch!
That said Jeffrey Wright deserves so much more credit than he gets. He’s had roles in some major movies and shows and he just doesn’t get enough respect as an actor. He pulled this episode off with aplomb and made Bernard one of my favorites, if not my favorite, character in the show. (And then the fandom still barely talks about him, sigh)
Amazing episode, great season, and I can’t wait for the third season, whenever it comes out!
Honestly I sort of think Robert Ford is just as big a sociopath as William is if not more so.
He’s profited off these robots for 30+ years, he’s allowed them to be tortured in all sorts of ways, even after the death of his business partner. He’s allowed his business partner’s favorite robot to be raped for 30 years. He sat back and didn’t care until it came time for the board and moneymen to start the process of booting him out and taking his work.
That’s when he sets the same robot loose on everyone. On an expansive multi-park island where even children stay at. The robots that aren’t ‘awakened’ are etiher pulled into this or broken to the point where they’re living out thier loops and can’t protect themselves while surrounded by the dead.
Hell, look at the mind games he’s playing on Bernarnold. He forced him to murder a woman he loved and he’s constantly afraid he’s going to kill Elsie. He even took control of him so he’d murder that room full of people.
So WHY are people “YAS QUEEN”ing over him telling Maeve that she was his favorite? It’s manipulations and mindgames. He does it to the people around him, he does it to the hosts, he did it to his business partner’s doppleganger but somehow the fandom just takes his word for it that he wants to wake the hosts up and Maeve is his favorite.
Bitch, he could’ve done that any time in the 30 years he was running things. Now it’s just fucking petty and the hosts he’s letting ‘free’ are in an even worse position than they were beforehand.
william and dolores: kill hosts and humans indiscriminately and say so loudly without giving a fuck. want hosts to wake up but want things their way. are resentful and violent about westworld and struggle about whether to stay or leave
them: ford made them this way
bernard and maeve: help hosts and humans alike. let them choose. just want to get the fuck out of westworld to survive
them: maybe? they’re? the? real? villains?
There are people who read Bernard as a villain????
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