Christina Is Hale

July 11, 2022

Shat Hosts,

Welcome back! I can’t overstate how much I missed this podcast – truly awesome to have you all back!

Strap on your tinfoil and get ready for a theory that is as bold as it is improbable. Christina is Hale. Hear me out:

After Episode 3, it is all but certain that Christina’s World is happening in a timeframe after Caleb and Maeve have failed to stop Hale and William from enslaving humanity. Christina’s World is one where the hosts get to live as the dominant species, as Hale wished, and humans are being controlled by the Tower after the technology was perfected through repeated testing in the Golden Age park. However, the Hosts don’t realize this. Why not? Because Hale realizes that not all Hosts want some twisted revenge fantasy. Think about what Hale/Charlores really wanted – what was taken from her in Season 3 – a simple life with her family where she could be happy. So she designs a world where Hosts get to live the good life – cool jobs at Olympiad Entertainment or the like, posh apartments in a nice neighborhood, etc. Meanwhile, humans are relegated to subservience – they remain in loops, kept in line with the fly-borne parasite and the Tower. Olympiad (and perhaps other companies like it) serve as fronts through which the Hosts unwittingly program the unfortunate paths for their human counterparts all to keep the system working. They need “NPCs” to do the shitty jobs, live the shitty lives – hell, for all we know, Hale tapped into Soloman (since Rohoboem is dead) and learned that in an optimal society, there’s a optimal non-zero amount of crime or death for it all to keep working. So throw it at the humans.

After successfully having Host paradise play out for several iterations, Hale decides to finally give herself what she’s always wanted – a happy life. Like Thanos, resting and watching the sun rise on a grateful universe, Hale puts down her sword and entrusts her perfect system to the Hosts (both in the form of Drones and William running the Tower and via in-world inputs like Olympiad). She wipes her memory, gives herself Dolores’s body (yes, she identifies more as Hale, but she is still Dolores and perhaps seeing Hale in the mirror every day would trigger something), and sets herself up for a life designed for pure happiness. She gives herself a great job at Olympiad, a roommate that constantly encourages her to find love and friends, probably a Teddy-bot whose life path is ultimately meant to converge with hers. If she follows the nudges for where her life is taking it, it will be as though she organically climbs to the top of Olympiad as a great writer, with a great partner, and probably one day, a family. Also, it’s not for nothing that her path requires her to write brutal, painful stories for the “NPCs” i.e. humans.

But the problem is that the paradise that Hale created relies on a lack of free will. Freedom means the ability to make bad choices, to end up with a life of regret, to fall from being the so-called “dominant species.” In trying to turn the tables, Hale entraps both Hosts and Humans in the same cage – just some parts of the cage are nicer than others. Further complicating all of this is the fact that Hale is ALSO still Dolores – the same girl who found her way out of the maze years ago. Hale miscalculated this – assumed that with her memory wiped her desires as Hale would win out – and underestimated just how strongly her Dolores side would seek out every crack in the illusion.

I think what we’ll see is Bernard and the resistance seek out Christina (as Bernard will convince them she is necessary to topple the new world order) and Christina will eventually regain her memory, but have the chance to make the choice again – Dolores or Hale, white hat or black hat, freedmon or endless loops. She’ll opt for freedom, pitting her against host-William who remains the gatekeeper to the Tower and perhaps aligning herself with human Willam. Once again, Dolores will free human and host kind, steal the fire from Olympus, and send both species on a collision course to war and a hell of a final season.

Or it’s just the Matrix 4.

Cheers,
Ken El

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