The plot of Dolores ending up at the beginning of Westworld how it all started might have been a bit too easy, but it perfectly narates what Westworld is about. This should have been the grand finale, because this actually brings some good closure to the show, so I wonder why they would make another season.
After an abysmal third seasons, the first episode of season 4 got me curious, the following couple of episodes got me excited very much. I read that a lot of people were writing that Westworld had it's mojo back, the plot twists were simply amazing.
I took several nonsensical things for granted hoping for a good plot/finale, but sadly it is not satisfying at all and full of random variables that make absolutely no sense and the way so many key characters were killed was way too random.
Let's make a small list of odd ducks.
Bernard can calculate every butterfly effect to perfection, but is unable to somehow prevent an easily preventable death by William. Yes maybe this was the best option for him in his calculations, but it's just lazy writing if you ask me. Somehow Bernard can calculate future events up to 20+ years after date, while not a single computer in this world at the moment of writing can calculate all possible outcomes of a 52 card deck and even if it could, it would have to do this times quintillions of multitudes of this. Just ridiculous and it makes the story boring.
What is the whole point of Aurora's mission, risking a lot of lives to save her father, then end up losing people, getting her robo-dad only to leave him behind?
Clementine was fairly absent in this season and has 5 minutes of fame in the finale, with a random storyline. Also, if she could track Stubbs so easily, why the hell didn't they do that before?
Hale gets an upgrade and seems unkillable, but need to run away and is still easily damaged, why didn't she upgrade before? Why did Hale go from egomaniac to save the planet in 15 minutes?
Why was man-/robotkind doomed to go extinct? The outliers have extremely advanced technology, no longer are threatened by AI and they're likely too small to actually pose some sort of apocalyptic threat to each other.
The flies controlling humans.. it just doesn't belong in Westworld, it may be Sci/fi but I saw Westworld as a show that revolves around ethics, morals and how we should deal with artificial intelligence, even season 3 perfectly played into this narative and up until the whole Skynet/Rohoboam stuff it was actually going somewhere other than 'must destroy Skynet'. This season however lost that narative, mankind lost already and it was made clear (by Bernard) that they were not going to get a chance of winning anymore so Westworld lost it's most important narative; a show where you used to question the future has turned into a show where you question well.. nothing, because it makes no sense.
The only good thing was Christina/Dolores' storyline, which they could have shown in an hour long episode and be done with it all.
I enjoyed Maeve, she was awesome and she should have been the one to dealt the final blow, reactivate the dam, release Dolores back into the Sublime, which would add an extra layer, due to the struggles she had with Dolores. After that they could chose for Maeve to enter the Sublime to see her daughter again or for whatever dramatic reason make her unable to and let her me the one to commit robocide. Even the upgraded battle suit seems to be more bad ass for Maeve than for Hale. I actually wonder if they mixed the two up or Thandiwe Newton got COVID or something, I don't know but it's weird.
After an abysmal third seasons, the first episode of season 4 got me curious, the following couple of episodes got me excited very much. I read that a lot of people were writing that Westworld had it's mojo back, the plot twists were simply amazing.
I took several nonsensical things for granted hoping for a good plot/finale, but sadly it is not satisfying at all and full of random variables that make absolutely no sense and the way so many key characters were killed was way too random.
Let's make a small list of odd ducks.
Bernard can calculate every butterfly effect to perfection, but is unable to somehow prevent an easily preventable death by William. Yes maybe this was the best option for him in his calculations, but it's just lazy writing if you ask me. Somehow Bernard can calculate future events up to 20+ years after date, while not a single computer in this world at the moment of writing can calculate all possible outcomes of a 52 card deck and even if it could, it would have to do this times quintillions of multitudes of this. Just ridiculous and it makes the story boring.
What is the whole point of Aurora's mission, risking a lot of lives to save her father, then end up losing people, getting her robo-dad only to leave him behind?
Clementine was fairly absent in this season and has 5 minutes of fame in the finale, with a random storyline. Also, if she could track Stubbs so easily, why the hell didn't they do that before?
Hale gets an upgrade and seems unkillable, but need to run away and is still easily damaged, why didn't she upgrade before? Why did Hale go from egomaniac to save the planet in 15 minutes?
Why was man-/robotkind doomed to go extinct? The outliers have extremely advanced technology, no longer are threatened by AI and they're likely too small to actually pose some sort of apocalyptic threat to each other.
The flies controlling humans.. it just doesn't belong in Westworld, it may be Sci/fi but I saw Westworld as a show that revolves around ethics, morals and how we should deal with artificial intelligence, even season 3 perfectly played into this narative and up until the whole Skynet/Rohoboam stuff it was actually going somewhere other than 'must destroy Skynet'. This season however lost that narative, mankind lost already and it was made clear (by Bernard) that they were not going to get a chance of winning anymore so Westworld lost it's most important narative; a show where you used to question the future has turned into a show where you question well.. nothing, because it makes no sense.
The only good thing was Christina/Dolores' storyline, which they could have shown in an hour long episode and be done with it all.
I enjoyed Maeve, she was awesome and she should have been the one to dealt the final blow, reactivate the dam, release Dolores back into the Sublime, which would add an extra layer, due to the struggles she had with Dolores. After that they could chose for Maeve to enter the Sublime to see her daughter again or for whatever dramatic reason make her unable to and let her me the one to commit robocide. Even the upgraded battle suit seems to be more bad ass for Maeve than for Hale. I actually wonder if they mixed the two up or Thandiwe Newton got COVID or something, I don't know but it's weird.
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