Season Finale & Beyond

August 15, 2022

Greetings Shats & Shatees,

I’ve been an off & on follower of yours since y’all started, and It’s nice to be back. I’m glad Ashley stuck it out, as I recall fans being very unkind to her in very vocal & hurtful ways. I’ll admit, like all podcasts, and just other people in general, I don’t always agree with any one of you. I don’t think you expect your audience to either. Amongst its many functions, this community exists as a way for us to all bounce ideas off one another, and it isn’t always about being “right”, or “wrong”, when we can all help each other arrive at a probable answer. So for that, you should all give yourselves some credit, because community is what we (social primates) do best.

Now, to the show: I did honestly like this season, but Westworld is spinning its wheels on things that felt self-referential before, now feel redundant. Season 4 is essentially a reboot (pun intended) of Season 1, and now, all the hosts are being put through the maze AGAIN. Like, what? If I were in the Sublime, I’d be like, “Oh a maze you say; no thanks!” In re-listening to past podcast episodes I missed, you guys speculated & doubted that they would ever go back to Westworld, like a lot of us, but this honestly feels like fan service.

That all being said, I’m still 100% holding out for this all to be a simulation within a simulation & Ford is still in the mix somehow. Perhaps, with the use of another advanced AI system, in “the past” (within the show), is running a sim on what would happen if Arnold & Ford created the park. I was always getting a match of chess feeling since the beginning, between Arnold & Ford. Basically, it’s those “what if” episodes from Futurama. I’d hate it if it were true, but I don’t think we’re going to get a truly satisfying ending to this story.

If we even get it…

To wrap it up: in rewatching the show, the myth of the maze fortold of a “man” who crawled “his” way back from death countless times, to eventually build a home at the center of a maze. The maze is a measure of a person’s life. This seems super prophetic of what we’re seeing with Dolores, especially now that she’s been reborn back in her rancher’s daughter, natural splendor-lovin’ self. Seems like an augury fortold by an advanced predictive algorithm. Sketch either way.

Thanks y’all,

Todd B.

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