We’re forced to assume that Westworld was running regularly while Ford was putting on his show for the Board of Directors. At the end of the season, everyone (except Lee) is locked inside Ford’s new game, the control room is locked down and presumably unable to prevent things from happening, so, who is going to be left on the human side when season two begins? If just one human, especially a Board member, makes it out of Westworld, we’d imagine some external authority would be motivated to destroy the park and all the Hosts, which is why all transportation in and out of the park was shut down. But Charlotte is still there, and unless she’s hiding some previously unrevealed combat reflexes, she’s going to be in a lot of trouble. Who will survive? We’re going to put the safe money on William, because this entire new storyline is what he’s wanted the whole time. It’s very likely many of them won’t make it out, since the robots are going to have guns, superhuman reflexes, and the element of surprise.
If we understood correctly, the entire Delos Corporation Board of Directors was in Westworld watching Ford’s speech when the massacre began. In any event, is Logan still a factor in the present day who could come back to haunt and/or help William now that he’s trapped in the park with killer robots? The dialogue seems to imply that William wrested control of Delos away from Logan somehow, but how? Perhaps William revealed just what Logan gets up to while he’s in Westworld, or maybe he just plays the corporate game really well. So, did William leave him in the park? It seems like he still would have eventually escaped, because Guests are tracked in the park and someone would have helped him eventually.
The last we saw of William’s prospective brother-in-law, he was tied up, naked, being forced to ride a horse off into the sunset on the fringes of Westworld.
What makes them any different from Maeve, who has been programmed to feel a connection to her daughter? So, was Maeve supposed to leave on the train, or was she supposed to make the decision to stay and find her child, even though she knows it isn’t really hers, and just another Host? Did she actually break her programming, or not? The better question is, does the answer really matter? Human parents make similar choices about children every day, with the answer determined by a combination of genetics and personal experiences. In the finale, it’s revealed that everything Maeve has done up to this point, even though it seemed like she was “breaking her programming”, actually was according to Ford’s plan. The writers were very clever to make sure we never found out what Maeve was actually programmed to do when she got to the train, because it perfectly fits into the show’s theme, where we’re asked what determines whether or not something is alive. As a result, she also unlocked her “Wyatt” personality, which is why she now really, really wants to murder people.ġ0. The child’s toy she uncovered was the final piece of the puzzle, but it was the suffering along the way that allowed her to regain her memories. And like any good story, it was about the journey, not the destination. In the present day, Ford re-installed Arnold’s “Reverie” programming into the hosts, and The Maze was a storyline created specifically for Dolores to help her attain consciousness and lead the other Hosts against the Guests. He succeeded, but then was forced to have Dolores kill all the original Hosts, including herself, in order to try and prevent the park from opening and exposing them to great harm. The Maze, originally, was a theory about the mind that Arnold tried to program into the first Hosts, in order to make them more human. The reason that William kept getting told that “The Maze isn’t for you” is because it quite literally wouldn’t mean anything to the already-human Guests. Okay, this is probably obvious to a lot of people, but it was vague enough that we’ll try and explain it for those who didn’t understand. But that just gives us more time to debate, right? So, here’s some questions to ponder while we impatiently wait for the next season of a show that we consider to be truly excellent.
The bad news is, that second season isn’t going to be around until 2018, so these questions are going to stay unanswered for a long time. The good news is, the show is the most-watched first season in the history of HBO, and so we’ll definitely be getting a second season (and almost certainly more) to answer these new questions. The first season finale of Westworld definitely answered a whole bunch of questions, even as it created a whole bunch more in the process.