Westworld Season 4 Ending Explained: What is the Final Test/Game? Who Who Died At End?

In Westworld Season 4 Episode 8, the last episode of season 4 of the HBO Max series Westworld (What will it be, will it be) the only thing that is clear to us is that there will be season 5 and that season 5 of Westworld will be the last season. Because that’s the only conclusion we come to that there’s time for one last game, that game is going to be played at the Westworld original, in the digital infrastructure of the Sublime, and the rules in this virtual environment will be set by Christine (Evan Rachel Wood), who is and is not Dolores (although in the end, we see her in the eternal blue dress). “A game of my own making. Very dangerous, like the others: survival or annihilation,” says Christine. The end of the series tells us that although the hosts are made in the image and likeness of humans, there may still be hope for them. Does this mean that the best version of human beings is hosts… with no humans around? If they are not exposed in any way to humans?

Yes, of course, we consider only the latest versions of the hosts and get rid of the oldest versions is there a chance? If there is no Man in Black involved, is there hope? Because that is what Christine (I refuse to call her Dolores yet) comes to say with her final speech (when we already know that all the people who have surrounded her, including Teddy -James Mardsen are also a creation of ones and zeros for that he does not forget where he comes from, who he is, what he was and what he should be… this, of course, if I have found out something, because if not… turn off and let’s go). But who will participate in that game? Who’s left? “Life on Earth as we knew it is over,” says Christine. Do you mean that although we have seen Frankie escape, he ends up dying? Aren’t any humans going to show their heads? And is there, for example, Westworld? Another version of Maeve? And can a new beginning be proposed in the form of the last game with new rules?

Westworld Season 4 Ending Explained: What is the Final Test/Game?

And one more question: who has died in this season and this last episode? The dead aren’t dead… are they? If their consciousness has ‘climbed’ into the Sublime, they may not be dead-dead. They may have a new chance in a new setting. Although there are deaths that seem definitive. Like Clementine (Angela Sarafyan) and William, the Man in Black (Ed Harris), who died in the last episode of season 4, or not? Clementine is one of the oldest hosts in the park, so her death raises a certain succession: the possibility of evolving into something that looks less like humans and more like an improved version of the hosts (which, ultimately, is an improved version of humans? Or can only humans be an improved version of humans?). And William is the worst version of all, of the humans, of the hosts… Christine, contrary to what Dolores believes at the end of Westworld Season 3, doesn’t believe that the world deserves a chance, that men should be free, but that the hosts are the ones who deserve a new chance and a new world.

Many viewers, I imagine, have also seen this ending as a metaphor for the weight of memory, and yes… but that was already the reflection of the end of season 3! The end of season 4 is a mirror of the end of season 3, only with the hosts in the center of the universe. In the last episode of season 3, Westworld I also reflected on what constitutes identity, which is nothing other than our memories. Who is Dolores, or Christine, for that matter, without her memories? But there is more. In the (undeservedly) maligned season 3, the series also raised another key that we find at the end of season 4. Dolores told Caleb: “What matters is not what we have been but what we can become.” And that ties in with Christine’s plans for season 5. Somehow, it seems like Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan have either exacted peculiar intellectual revenge on critical viewers of season 3 or they’ve never strayed from your destiny. Circular, but destination after all.

Again, at the center of the series is the inability of human beings to evolve and how they react when faced with a crisis. Christine now asks herself the same question that Dolores did in season 3: if the human being is not capable of evolving in the same way as a robot, is he doomed to be immersed in successive crises repeatedly? If you look closely, the crisis theory that applied at the end of Season 3 and that Dolores wanted to test applies here. “The emotional functioning of a person acts within certain coherent and balanced schemes”, says the theory of the psychiatrist Gerard Caplan. “The balance is altered when the individual is faced with a force or situation that modifies his previous functioning. [Then] he deploys a variety of ineffective resolution mechanisms.

Although, spoiler preview for season 5, that hope, from Bernard, from Christine, from Dolores, from the series in general, that the hosts have that things will be different in a new world, is human. Hope is the most powerful feeling in human beings. And hope makes us behave like we are humans. Christine believes that Teddy, a version of Teddy, a version of love, the aspiration of love, exists in this new world. And I bet what you want that he will try to preserve it with whatever means are necessary. There is a lot of hope in season 5, for sure.