Westworld Season 4 Ending Explained

Micheal Crichton certainly has no love for theme parks. At least not ones built on cutting edge technology. His cautionary tale about cloning dinosaurs has become a massive film franchise. His other book about a theme park run amok had a movie starring Yule Brenner many years ago called Westworld. The premise is that robot ‘hosts’ create a wild west where people can live out their six gun fantasies without any real repercussions. So long as the robots don’t mind taking it on the chin for the amusement of humans. Spoiler, they do in fact mind. The HBO series has taken the novel beyond the robots run wild nature of the book and turned it into an epic spanning decades where robots getting in the ‘kill all humans’ groove is just the beginning of the questions asked. At the core of it is a character who hardly ever appears in the show himself, Arnold. He’s represented by the copy of him his partner made and named Bernard. Arnold and by extension Bernard are more concerned with what is the nature of sentience. Also, what happens when that complex question is stumbled upon by someone who doesn’t do complexity? The hitch of the show is that millionaire and investor William has found a game meant for a Host to trigger sentience and mistaken it for a game meant for him, torturing the host it was meant for so that when she gains sentiance the first thing she wants to do is kill all humans. What’s followed has been a treatise on whether or not a creation can live beyond its creators or is doomed to be a reflection of them. Season 4 has brought us to that final question, but how exactly? Let’s get into it. What do you think season 5 holds in store for us? Let us know in the comments and be sure to like and subscribe while you’re there to get the latest videos in your inbox.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:34 How Did We Get Here?
3:18 Season 4
4:39 Finale
6:05 So…uh…Huh?

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Written by: Ryan Carbrey
Narrated by: Joey Criscitello @OfficialJoeyc
Edited by: Joey Criscitello

[ScreenRant]

How would you rate Westworld's season 4?

[Matkavz]

This guy somehow makes Westworld more confusing with his breakdown. C-

[jeremycas]

“deelows, ” “sub lime, ” and “rehobum” hurt my soul lol

[RSquaredOnline]

Decent recap but completely irrelevent accompanying visuals throughout.

[TherdCraigRobinson]

Couple notes: Caleb didn't get caught with Maeve destroying Rehoboam at the lighthouse. He survived that - barely - and then met his future wife in the hospital. Also Caleb wasn't patient zero for the fly virus. There were already humans infected in the Temperance park because Hale turned the infected humans inside the park against Caleb and Maeve after Caleb was infected. If anything Caleb was likely the first Outlier Hale encountered because he resisted the tone-commands. Also Caleb didn't infect the world. He died before leaving the Temperance park and then Hale kept his body and turned him into a host and put him through 270+ fidelity tests over the next 23 years because he's an Outlier and resisted the commands. I don't think the fly virus passed human to human. I think Hale simply release scores of millions - maybe even billions - of them to infect the world, tho this is speculation.

[The_MightyReptar]

So many things wrong here. First has your narrator watched the show? Its not "DEE-los" or the "sub-lime" Its "Dell-os" and "su-blime", small details but again it just makes it sound like someone who doesn't know what they are talking about is trying to explain it to us.

Also very little of what you were saying matched up to what you had on screen at the time.

Also, stop yelling at me

And its weird you mentioned the fact that it was based on the foundation which gave me hope for what you would say but then you have the most simplistic view on what's going on..

[docmccoy]

As The Office's Michael Scott would say : "now explain it to me as if I was 5 years old"

[DenSanAZ]

I couldn't watch more than a few minutes of this review because of him continually calling it Dee-Los when it's Deh-los. It's pronounced through the entire 4 seasons!

[thetruth]

The tree in the final episode symbolizes Delores and Hale. Delores was the roots in the tower behind the scenes while Hale was above ground in the real world

[neilsamuel]

How did this video manage to make it more confusing? 😅

[FabioRossettiFI]

Westworld wasn't a novel, originally. It was a 1973 movie written and directed by Michael Crichton

[mellowman]

What I wish to see in Season 5: Dolores runs the simulation of the Delos West World Park and we get a retelling of season 1, but from her perspective. But this time, because of her character development through the seasons, the original Dolores that awakes and young William falls in love with doesn't get rebooted. And because William never loses Dolores he doesn't become the man in black but a white knight. And the fact that it would have been possible for William to be a good person if he would have gotten the love he so much desired proves to Dolores, that humanity has the possibility to be good and is worth saving.

[positronicfeed]

Westworld isn't a book adaptation. There was a subsequent novelisation but originally it was a '73 film written and directed by Crichton himself.

[MrLassner]

personally i found season 1 to be a 10/10 and it went down hill rather quickly from there

in season 2, you could tell that they reeeeally tried hard to reach that same level of genius from season 1, but didnt succed

season 3 pretty much killed the whole idea of westworld for me, since it entirely took place in a reagular city, which was not what "i signed up for" (also i felt like the overall quality just degraded several levels in pretty much every aspect, especiallythe writing)

season 4 was maybe a little better than 3, but overall a little confusing at times and again....just not "westworld" anymore

in the end, after s1, i always felt like an entirely new team of less talented ppl took over this show and you could just tell that they struggled to provide something that at least gets vaguely on the same quality level that s1 had.

[lesliehoang]

DEElose????

Did you even watch the show??

[TangoNevada]

Deelos? It has always been pronounced Del-os. No one on the show has ever pronounced it Deeelos. How does this happen?

[Hugocraft]

1st part about the show being based on a book doesn't sound right because the HBO show is based on 1973 FILM of the same name by Michael Crichton which seemed to like writing about parks since he later wrote Jurassic Park.

[richlisola]

Rehoboam was the hero—Serac was right, mankind was doomed without a higher intelligence charting us a path—We needed a god, sadly, naming that god after a damned King of Judah was probably not the best foreshadowing.

Season Three had much potential but fell flat. I really didn’t like how Dolores became the “hero, ” while Serac who cared about mankind was deemed the bad guy.

I also do not understand how Dolores could have possibly defeated a vastly superior AI that had limitless resources at hand.

[strells]

I'm usually very impressed with SR videos, but what the heck happened here? The narration does not match the video at all except for a few very small snippets. And how can you discuss how we got here without showing a single clip of stuff from seasons 1-3? Very confusing video.

[BigSmokeJitsu]

With west world I never know what’s going on but I just sit back, watch n enjoy the ride