Unless all that data is taking up an obscene amount of memory, it can continue to go unnoticed and remain a promised land as Dolores drags the real world to hell. That post-credits scene, right? And then it’s totally weird because no one is in that elevator. That’s it, Westworld season 2 is over. To keep them truly safe, off-world sounds like a good idea to us! And if so, why didn’t they run into Bernard as well? (The same way he performed a fidelity test on James Delos.) But Delores thought the gateway was just another prison, a false salvation. However, Dolores thinks that this virtual Eden is just another gilded cage and that the hosts deserve a real world - the world beyond Westworld. Season 2 aired almost two years ago. At first we thought those Battlestar characters were allowing for internal monologue, but they ended up being actual entities (light spoilers for an old series). And we get the feeling that, in the far-flung future, the Man has been somehow reconjured and brought into this world and he’s being tested the same way the humans used to test the Hosts. Let’s talk about that Westworld season 2 ending… with spoilers. Does Stubbs know Charlotte is Delores? The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. The second season of "Westworld" kicked off with many surprises, including an important conversation between the young Ford host and William. HBO's Westworld returns with its third season this Sunday. It all sounds a little too convenient to me. After reaching what we think was sentience, Teddy decided that he couldn’t follow Delores, so he killed himself. Is Ford Really – and Truly – Gone After ‘Westworld’s Mind-Bending Season 2 Finale? Now, what we tried to do there is establish this context: he collapses on the ground, [Dolores and Bernard] go down, Dolores and Bernard have all the events that unfold down there. He always makes the same damn choice. And that last bit, the reason we put it after the credits was because we wanted to be like, “No, you have it. TheWrap: So because we do know that Emily died in the current timeline we’re in, is it fair to assume whoever is down there with this iteration of the Man in Black is similar to Dolores training Bernard? If you're looking for more about the Westworld season 2 finale, then check out our full interview with showrunner Lisa Joy where we question her about some of the biggest mysteries from that final episode. It’s in some ways a full reversal of what was happening to Dolores. That there is something else happening here. Is anyone else wondering why the Man in Black didn’t intercept Bernard when he left the Forge after shooting Dolores? We break down all the revelations from that dramatic ending. He has become Sisyphus, spiting the gods, doomed to his own hell. Unfortunately for Karl, one of the books that Dolores reads in The Forge is the one containing the code for his mind. We don’t know who is running the William host experiment or when. Bummer, dude. (Stubbs, apparently, came out of the Charlotte/Dolores Mesa showdown two weeks ago on Team Dolores, amazingly.) He then erased his memories and woke up on a beach—where the second season first began. So we asked the show’s co-creator Lisa Joy to explain it to us. It appears that Ford is the voice inside Bernard’s head that takes the place of his own, much like how Dolores heard Arnold in her head until she was ready to acknowledge her own voice. Did they escape the security teams? What Happened at the End of 'Mindhunter' Season 2? I think he’s gotten up and he’s coming down this elevator and they’re gonna meet! Peter Abernathy's control unit contains an encryption key that unlocks The Forge and also grants access to The Door and the Valley Beyond (more on them in a moment), which is why Delos was so desperate to get their hands on it. As she’s boating away from Westworld, she opens her bag to reveal five gray (non-human) pearls. The only explanation I can think of is that Dolores needs them to drain the Forge, which as we know was flooded and turned into an ocean before Strand and co arrived. This relationship culminated in the question of whether or not Bernard wanted his "kind" to survive. He always kills his own daughter. Future US, Inc. 11 West 42nd Street, 15th Floor, Receive news and offers from our other brands? “So when the second season starts and Ford, though this little Ford boy, says, ‘This game is meant for you,’ he means that the stakes are real. Just as her crew show up to rescue her, she reveals that (with a little help from Ford), she's taken control of all the host corpses in the vicinity and used them to heal herself and kill the guards. Here's a handy guide to Season 2 Episode 9, "Vanishing Point.". You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io, 40 Celebrities You Didn’t Know Wrote Fiction Books, Peel Garlic in Seconds by Using This TikTok Hack, Season 3 of ‘The Boys’ Is Already in the Works, 'The Outsider' Season 2 Could be Filming Soon, The Big Twist in 'Bly Manor' Episode 5, Explained, These Are America's Favorite Halloween Candies, How 'The Bachelorette' Made Its COVID Bubble Work, 'Monsterland' Tackles Corporate Greed and Demons. If we had to guess right now, the next season of Westworld won’t mess with going into the untouched digital heaven, aka Virtual Eden, aka the Forge, wherever that's been beamed. Either way, I’d be surprised if the human back-ups didn’t come back into play for Westworld season 3. There is much more to the troubled son of James Delos, whose virtual form lives within a simulation of Westworld, the Delos Mansion and the library filled with data from all guests from frequented the parks. Mind. They’re gonna meet!”. That means we’re right back to where we started at the beginning of the season - with a whole bunch of confusing questions we need answers to. ©2020 Group Nine Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. Westworld’s first season ended with a pretty pointed question: What’s going to happen to the theme park now that the hosts have become self-aware in the ugly power-struggle game for the rich that Ford and Arnold designed? So you totally nailed what the story is, by the way, and then we threw in that last bit just to tease some other s–t that’s gonna happen, before you drown in it. Here's what you need to know about what happened in that confusing finale. Here’s what all that means in a nutshell: The Forge is the area of Protagoras Facility: 01, where Dolores and Bernard can access the system. The question is, how much of the rest of this season has been William’s narrative he’s cursed himself to, and how much was us witnessing the original events? You have the story and the timelines. Even if two belong to the new Dolores and Bernard, that still leaves three other memory balls up for grabs. But now something has happened and the Man is now the subject — or some iteration of the Man is now the subject — of testing. Dolores doesn’t want to live on forever in a simulation — no matter how perfect or indistinguishable from reality it may be. Is Stubbs in on it? The other was whoever is in Hale’s body now. There was a problem. When Strand and his team finally got into the system they thought they found the human back-up data and were getting ready to transfer it to the DELOS servers when they realised that it wasn't the guests' data at all, but the Hosts' virtual paradise. She tried to stop it. And later on, when Hale, or Halores is leaving the park, you see him on a cot. Although Dolores originally didn't care about the Hosts who choose to enter the virtual paradise and was prepared to let them be destroyed along with the system, she eventually had a change of heart and sent them and their world "to a place no one will ever find them" for safe-keeping. Because … timelines. Oh yes, the Katja Herbers in the future talking to the Man in Black is now a Host version of Katja Herbers. And you’re totally right about the end and this is a tease as to what’s to come, because we see that one tiny bit where we thought he might be coming down an elevator. The man we know wouldn’t let a missing hand stop him from following Dolores and Bernard down to the Forge and anyway, how did the rescue team find him? It turns out that, through Ford, Bernard told Logan to give Dolores access to the system, thus giving her a “competitive advantage” in the outside world. She does say that she rebuilt Bernard from her memories though, so it’s unclear if she would need one of these memory balls for that. Considering we know that Dolores made it out of the park on several occasions and that Young William was still dealing with his early experiences, it’s possible Young William imparted some information to Dolores rife for flashbacking that’s important for her new revolution. But even then, there’s no guarantee that a Host version of a human would be able to enter Sublime. Or a host Emily Delos, who meets the Man In Black as he gets off the elevator into a drained, unused, and ruined version of the Forge. Afterward, she digs out his pearl and takes it with her to the Valley Beyond, where she uploaded it into the new host world, thus allowing him in without having to physically cross over. Host-Logan explains that this is the moment that defines James Delos, because there is no version of his life where he chooses to save his son - calling into question the very nature of human free will. She returned to the beach to board a rescue boat for the mainland. Hosts and humans converged in the Valley Beyond, Logan returned (kind of), and Dolores took on a new, albeit familiar, form. But why would Dolores agree to recreate a version of Arnold after killing him at his request? Is he awake now? The saga of James Delos, first introduced in Season 2, Episode 4, brought out a ton of metaphysical questions about humanity in this show about cowboy robots. Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer, The world's number one sci-fi, fantasy and horror magazine. It’s “Is this real? Season 2 makes a lot of the first's subtext text and delves directly into some very large issues. This version of the Man in Black is a Host and he’s been reliving his loop again and again and again, always ending up in the same place. But it recontextualizes itself when you realize that the entire season we’ve been going, we’ve been putting cards up in terms of our timelines. When Logan/the Forge was talking to Dolores and Bernard, he insinuated that William’s host is irredeemable, which is something we would have known from the profile Ford gave him that led to the death of the second and third most important women in his life (the first will always be Dolores, and the worst part of the time jump this episode is that we were robbed of a Dolores/William showdown). In fact, it looks like Dolores did most of the work! Also Read: 'Westworld' Co-Creator Answers Every One of Our Questions About That Insane Season 2 Finale. Using the hats that are handed out to every guest at the start of their Westworld visit, Delos had been secretly scanning their guests and filing away their "code" in a virtual library. Teddy finally got to see the beauty in some world without seeing the ugliness. She knows that Delos has the Forge and the Cradle, and that one backs up the park guests while the other, respectively, backs up hosts. So did Bernard. The good thing about this scene, is that they really could belong to anyone, which leaves it open for the showrunners to bring back any number of characters in the next season. On the beach with DC: memory-erased Bernard. So she's neither in the Matrix heaven, nor in the human world with Delores. Does death even matter if you can freeze the person in a living state? I feel like we could ask this question after every HBO show (yeah, I’m looking at you Game of Thrones), but it makes more sense for Westword than most, to wonder if those characters who died, will stay dead. For a more in-depth read about the Season 2 finale, check out the official synopsis. Episode 10 of 'Westworld' Season 2 "The Passenger," gave us a lot of questions to think over between the Season 2 finale and the return of Season 3. What you’ve wanted has come to pass. This will be a true test of your character.” Ahhhh! Joy: Absolutely [laughs]. She begins to wipe the human files from The Forge in a process that will also destroy the Valley Beyond, but Bernard shoots her through the eye and stops the deletion process. Fingers crossed! Her hobbies include drawing, video games, long walks in the countryside, and wasting far too much time on Twitter. Is the data still on the system? Oh my goodness! Dolores sees this “virtual eden” as another false promise from Ford and tries to destroy the Forge. Ah, the post-credits scene, the bread and butter of the modern teaser, making audiences wait through the credits, then punching them right in the gut with some new information that teases what's next. We may earn a commission through links on our site. DC then met up with the Delos team that arrived, responding to all the killing in season 1. All we’re told is our downfall will be the slow replacement as the dominant species on the planet by beings that CAN change: hosts. They've used the code they ripped from Maeve to turn Clementine into a horsewoman of the apocalypse - spreading a virus to nearby hosts that causes them to go insane and kill one another. Logan opens up The Door, which appears in the form of a massive crack in the world that only the hosts can see (Sylvester and Felix are very confused by the talk of a door). Inside The Forge is an AI with the appearance of Logan Delos, who was created using James Delos' memories of his son. Elsie is likely gone forever, shot dead by Hale. During a post-credits scene, we find William sometime in the future performing a "fidelity test" with a host version of his daughter. He thought it was right that the hosts live on in their Matrix heaven. HBO's Westworld returns with its third season this Sunday. The question is, where are they safe from DELOS? After saving all the hosts that had passed through to the Valley Beyond, Dolores uses Charlotte Hale’s body to leave the island, even though Stubbs totally knows what’s going on. But then we get to the end credits: OK, he’s clearly a Host but I don’t know if that’s one version of him or another and then we see [his daughter] Emily there, can you give anything to explain that and at what point and in what timeline that might be happening? Bernard is still pretty deep in his own maze. Stubbs is alive. Here’s where we left off with each of our heroes, heroines, and whatever the hell Charlotte Hale is at this point: You might remember that much of the conflict in season 2 involved the hosts reaching the “valley beyond,” an in-park portal to a virtual world where all the hosts’ consciousnesses could live free from violent delights. In the Forge, she "reads" actual humans, including -- very pointedly -- a Karl Strand book. © Is Ford Really - and Truly - Gone After 'Westworld's Mind-Bending Season 2 Finale? And that’s what we pay off later. But Bernard (and Ford? “I don’t think you can stop her.” Actors Evan Rachel Wood and Ben Barnes, and series co-creator Jonathan Nolan discuss the vulnerability of humans and the hosts’ varying perspectives on the world beyond the Door.