Generation Lost
In the opening minutes of “Westworld Season 4,” we see more context to Caleb and Maeve storming that small compound and taking out Rehoboam with explosives, symbolically destroying the remnants of season 3. ..
Caleb wakes up to find Charlotte watching him. She scoffs at his attempts to get up, claiming that he’s her pet and this is just the start. She’s intent on spreading her disease, coming in the form of these flies. This is just the “first wave” and Charlotte has plans to expand and take over all of humankind.
William nonchalantly tells Maeve that he’s taken out all of her kind and she’s the only one left. Maeve reaches out and manages to control the computer’s frequency levels.
After messing with her own audio fields, making sure she’s silenced, she blasts out a massive soundwave that takes out William and leaves him lying face-down on the floor.
The shockwave that follows the stabbing of Charlotte causes most of the glass in the room to shatter. Caleb is able to hold her at knifepoint using only his bare hands.
Maeve and Caleb show up at the floor and leave after admitting that the parasite is actually inside them. They need to get out of the park, believing that every human could be infected by now.
Charlotte and the others are determined not to make it to the extraction point, as that familiar frequency sounds again. It’s an interesting juxtaposition, seeing the humans now acting as hosts. Unfortunately that includes Caleb as well, who struggles to fight off the parasites inside him as he raises the machine gun and looks to fire.
Maeve ran away from the raid to keep Caleb safe, but when she left he was stabbed in the gut. Maeve was able to run back and save him, but the past has caught up with her and she’s now watching over him.
Maeve went off-grid for all those years to try and keep him safe. She got curious one day and reached out, which is when the grid went out and thus, caused all of this to drama to ensue.
When they arrive at a demolition site, everything goes wrong for Charlotte. She tries to control Caleb, but he somehow manages to fend off the parasites. Down on the floor, Maeve sets off a bunch of explosives that consume both Maeve and William, the latter having shown up just prior to this and attacking her. ..
Christina wakes up to find that things have changed. She had been up late painting and it seems like the tower is back. Mia encourages her to go on another blind date… and that happens to be with Teddy. ..
Christina and John hit it off immediately at their first meeting. It was like they had known each other for years, with Christina getting the sense of deja vu. Of course, we know they’ve had a long, storied history together and it brings up that intriguing idea of fate and two lives entwined together alongside true love. ..
We cut back to Bernard, who is with his group of people using a fan to blow sand across the ground in an attempt to find this weapon. Now, there is a cut from Charlotte mentioning Frankie to seeing Bernard with “C”, who happens to be the girl Bernard hitched a lift with. It could well be that this is a different time, sometime in the future.
This is a shocking revelation that has rocked the community. 23 years! It seems like the parasite has been working for a long time and it’s only now that we’re aware of it.
He’s been there all this time and in fact, he’s actually still in the park but confined to the same cell that Dolores was in originally. That weapon Bernard is after? Well, it happens to be Maeve, who’s buried in the sand.
Christina’s world is a frequency within the world, and it’s controlled by a tower. This bombshell revelation will likely shock viewers. ..
The Episode Review
This season’s finale left many questions unanswered and it’s clear that the showrunners are still working on this story. In this article, we take a look at some of the biggest revelations from Westworld Season 5 and what they mean for the future of the show.
This chapter in particular reframes everything we’ve learned so far this season. The tower, Christina’s life, the splintered visions, Bernard’s journey and the timelines; these all converge into a ten minutes of non-stop twists and turns.
In a season 1 finale that left many questions unanswered,revealing that Caleb has been dead for a while and using the same narrative crux from season 1 but reversing that to include humans instead of hosts, is a deliciously poetic bit of storytelling and something that raises those ethical questions that made the first season so endearing.
Westworld is still going strong and there’s still a lot of potential left in the show. It could be that Westworld has shown its hand too early, but we’ll have to wait and see on that front. Westworld has been an enjoyable watch so far and it seems like the series is back on track.
