{"id":27161,"date":"2022-08-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/tv\/alternative-ending-for-caleb\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T04:00:00","slug":"alternative-ending-for-caleb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/tv\/alternative-ending-for-caleb\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Ending For Caleb"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Westworld<\/a>

Have a Theory? Share It Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/div> Hi shat crew, Dan here from London. Long term listener right from Westworld season 1 and I\u0092m also a weekly listener of shat the movies so thank you for all the hours of entertainment and work you put in. I\u0092m a self confessed obsessive over Westworld, I\u0092ve watched all previous seasons multiple times and will probably binge this season to see it as a whole. But like you and many others, I was disappointed overall because it felt rushed and seemed to pander to an audience that didn\u0092t want to think too hard. <\/p>\n

So\u0085 Call me Christine the Storyteller because I have an alternative ending for Caleb which I think addresses some of the flaws of this season. <\/p>\n

[Record new pitch]<\/p>\n

Moments after Frankie meets host Caleb we get an action packed shoot out against deadly duo Charlores & Clementine (Clem\u0092s just there for some extra screen time), and host Caleb gets a bullet right between the eyes. Overcome with conflicting emotions Frankie drags her host dad to safety and after a flash of intense grief remembers this is a host body – her dad\u0092s consciousness is in his pearl. A gut wrenching scene ensues as Frankie breaks open Caleb\u0092s head like a Kinder Surprise Egg (remember those American listeners?) Inside she finds the white plastic housing of the control unit shattered to pieces, the brain ball inside reduced to dust, or is it goo like Hector\u0092s? The rules on that one aren\u0092t clear. <\/p>\n

Anyway, We get another wave of grief from Frankie as she realises her father is dead, like DEAD dead. In this scene we\u0092ve achieved a more ceremonial death for a character (of which the show is severely lacking), and also learnt that certain bullets can shatter the control unit – doing away with the scene where Charlores spells that out to us. I swear that multiple times in this season a host could very nearly break the fourth wall, look straight down the camera lens and tell us what is happening. As an aside, Charlores literally does this in episode 6 – go back to the scene where she\u0092s talking to Clementine whilst looking out of the window, her gaze is actually reflected in the glass directly at us as she says \u0093These humans, their petty defiances, everything they do is so small it\u0092s exhausting.\u0094 I got the goosies. I needed more of that subtlety, those pay-close-attention-or-you-could-miss-something moments. Please please please show runners, if you get a chance at season 5 which I really hope you do, don\u0092t dumb it down – after all we are Westworld fans. <\/p>\n

Dan from London.<\/p>\n

P.s. has anybody mentioned that the outro music on a lot of your podcasts this season glitches out and sounds all chopped up? I\u0092m not sure if it\u0092s an issue with the file you pop onto the end and then don\u0092t actually have time to listen to through, but it\u0092s bugged me several times and nobody has seemed to notice haha!

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