Westworld just finished HBO her the doomsday season, if there will be a fifth installment where, in the absence of confirmation, all loose ends can be closed. Under normal circumstances, there is no doubt that we will do this. But Given the instability in Warner’s headIt wouldn’t be surprising if the company that owns HBO was one of the pieces to be sacrificed in the cost-cutting plan the platform went into. Self-produced series that disappeared from the catalog, adding the latest break between HBO and Westworld’s split JJ Abrams, are unexpected cancellations. Items opened a future full of uncertainties.
HBO has canceled the series that Abrams predicted for the platform for now (demimonde) because they had a budget to go. over 200 million dollarseven higher than the prequel Game of Thrones (Dragon’s House) It will be published this Monday. Paradoxically, when Westworld’s first season premiered in 2016, many referred to it as the series. successor to Game of Thrones. Years later he favored the epic created by HBO. George R.R. Martin Keep living with new spin-offs and titles set in this universe. There is no backup.
Therefore, it is possible that we have left behind the fifth and final season of Westworld. Fortunately, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy In his absence, we’ve managed to cover a good portion of the series’ plots in this fourth installment. senior executives give them the green light to put the icing on the cake that they’ve been cooking for these six years. And it would be a shame if they didn’t let them because it is without a doubt one of the most solid series about robots and artificial intelligence television has today.
The series began as a remake of the movie. metal spirits shot by the novelist Michael Crichton In the 70’s but it went much further. kind of movie Jura ParkInstead of dinosaurs rioting at tourists at an amusement park, we had robots. Created by Nolan and Joy for HBO, the series tackled other fetish topics: robotics and artificial intelligence, and those they’ve already covered in Person of Interest. In Westworld, the spectacular action sequences alternated with other, more clever moments. It’s becoming more and more obvious to me that I need to watch the show again to refresh some concepts and characters. And I’m convinced it should earn every view. The series has become something closer to Black Mirror than dinosaurs. Spielberg. Needless to say, there are plenty of spoilers about the evolution of the plot over the course of four seasons as of now.
From the first episodes, we saw that tourists enjoy making all kinds of dirty tricks on robots. The park was a place where they could unleash their wildest instincts, knowing what they were doing. it had no consequences because nothing was real. But the machines’ patience reached its limit and exploded. The machines stood up and began killing sadistic visitors to Westworld, the scenario expanded to include all of humanity. In the third season, the conflict between humanity and machines was served. Some robots managed to escape from the parking facilities and transferred the conflict to the real world. Not all humans were savage sadists, nor were all ruthless robots terminators. There were those who advocated peaceful coexistence between machines and humanity.
In this fourth season, we finally saw a world controlled by machines. We went from Jurassic Park Matrix. An apocalyptic world with machines subduing humanitydepriving them of all freedom and take away your free willand cannot distinguish fact from fiction. While algorithms doom people’s future, some eerie sounds and tones seem to be coming from the ship. Third Stage Encounters they can control the crowds and cause them to destroy each other. In this technological dystopia, we have a certain vision of paradise. The almighty is a kind of virtual purgatory, the cloud that stores millions of terrabytes of different artificial intelligences within themselves. A kind of virtual universe Key in the conflict between resistance and artificial intelligence controlling evil delos company. Even in this fourth season, the familiar a new parkset in roaring 20s when we think that the last century, the parks are left behind in the series.
It’s as if we’re inside a video game, as we see with the characters of Bernard, different characters explore all available options to get out of a given situation (Jeffrey Wright) and Caleb (Aaron James). If we see them die, nothing has happened. It was another simulation and they continued the game with a new life. Finally, Bernard sees the solution: one final sacrifice to destroy everything and reset the world. The key to this reboot is that Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) turned out to be equivalent to Neo (Keanu Reeves) from the Matrix. A more humane Dolores, although she is one of the visible heads of the rebellion. She appears in this fourth season as an entirely new character named Cristina, without knowing what her connection to the other Dolores is, and with no memories of her. By the way, this is blonde while Cristina is brunette.
On the other hand, paradoxically, William (Richard Harris), embodying all the evils of humanity, the man in black has become one of the greatest villains of the series, but transformed into a cold machine that kills without hesitation. We’ve seen a lot of hurtful deaths in this final episode, and we don’t know how many will come true.
The season finale of Westworld took us back to the beginning of the series. In the first episode, its characters seemed locked in a loop, in the style of a recurring Groundhog Day. In this reboot where the last episode left us, we’re back during that loop. In theory, the new season gives us innovations in this newly created world and its differences from before. Dolores still has something to say. Will they succeed in creating the ideal world of peaceful coexistence between heroes, humans and machines? Time will tell whether it is a story we will tell one day or a fantasy destined to live in the metaverse.