{"id":27154,"date":"2022-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/tv\/above-average-season\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T04:00:00","slug":"above-average-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/tv\/above-average-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Above Average Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_10064\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"mailto:hosts@shatpod.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10064\" class=\"wp-image-10064 size-full\" src=\"\/tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/Westworld-Theories.jpg\" alt=\"Westworld Telegraph\" width=\"180\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Have a Theory? <a href=\"mailto:hosts@shatpod.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Share It Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/div> Folks &#8211; first of all, a big thank you for all of your wonderful WW coverage this season &#8211; it has been a great journey! <\/p>\n<p>A few comments on this season:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; We got a scene with Rebus &#8211; love anything that Steven Ogg is in!! <\/p>\n<p>-The season finale certainly felt like it could be the series finale based on the last episode. A lot of fan favorite line call backs, an \u0093end\u0094 to a lot of characters and a very Lear-like end, in terms of the wheel coming full circle. Lets see??? <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; This season had a great underlying theme of nature over nurture. Billy Bot (William) is the most in your face example of this but all the hosts \u0093suffered\u0094 from a maslowian tendency to retain (and revert) to their basest desires and needs\u0085 just like us humans. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;  Another theme for this season was the fact that all sentient life forms (bio and non bio) will face a great filter. The concept of a great filter is a solution to the Fermi paradox ( a question posed by the legendary physicist Enrico Fermi that \u0093if the universe is in theoretical probability teeming with life, why can&#8217;t we see it\u0094). The great filter solution to the paradox says that all sentient life faces an existential crisis during its development that can result in its destruction &#8211; for example an inability to manage nuclear power, environmental mismanagement and in the case of the WW world, an inability to control AI. As such, few, if any, sentient life civilizations are able pass the great filter test. Again, this could be tied into our nature at the end of the day being more powerful than our nurture? <\/p>\n<p>Finally, felt like a rushed finale (could have done without all the Caleb and his daugher story line all season) but ready to move on to the House of the Dragon starting next week &#8211; hopefully plenty of juicy machiavellian politics, dragons roasting people and good old Targaryen incest! <\/p>\n<p>Take care and the best to you all!<\/p>\n<p>Tom from Chicago <p><strong>Subscribe Now<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Android:\u00a0<a title=\"Android\" href=\"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/tv\/westworld-android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/shatpod.com\/tv\/westworld-android<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Apple\/iTunes:\u00a0<\/em><a title=\"iTunes\" href=\"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/tv\/westworld-itunes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>https:\/\/shatpod.com\/tv\/westworld-itunes<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Help Support the Podcast<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Contact Us: <a href=\"\/contact\/\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/contact<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Commission Movie: <a href=\"\/support\/\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/support<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Support with Paypal: <a href=\"\/paypal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/paypal<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Support With Venmo: <a href=\"\/venmo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/venmo<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Shop Merchandise: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/shop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.shatpod.com\/shop<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Shop Amazon With Our Affiliate Link &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?tag=shatmovies-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?tag=shatmovies-20<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Theme Song &#8211;\u00a0<a title=\"The Ecstasy Of Gold\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/album\/hip-hop-feat.-western-fistful\/id383104544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The Ecstasy Of Gold&#8221; (Hip Hop Instrumental Version)<\/a> \u00a0by\u00a0<a title=\"Dj 2 Bad\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/artist\/dj-2-bad\/id380839995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dj 2 Bad<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Outro Music &#8211; By <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/simonsteric\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Simon Eric Haywood<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks &#8211; first of all, a big thank you for all of your wonderful WW coverage this season &#8211; it has been a great journey! A few comments on this season: &#8211; We got a scene with Rebus &#8211; love anything that Steven Ogg is in!! -The season finale certainly&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[6541,2483,6450,6540],"class_list":["post-27154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-westworld-telegraph","tag-imported-2","tag-telegraph-read","tag-westworld-season-4","tag-ww-s4e08"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.1 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Above Average Season<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/tv\/above-average-season\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Above Average Season\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Folks &#8211; first of all, a big thank you for all of your wonderful WW coverage this season &#8211; it has been a great journey! 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