“Who are you?” – one of the phrases that is most often repeated in the first chapters of the fourth season of the series. Western world. Several of its main characters pronounce it in a bright, elegant and neat landscape, but in which palpate tension and confrontation in the door. The series about Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy has left the half-truths and the game of timelines behind – at least for now – face his central dilemma.
What will happen to artificial intelligence when it gets out of control? The series tries to answer your best questions and questions with a smart and thoughtful look at free will. But decides to do something different: explore its many and complex possibilities on a new journey, less abstract and deeper than on previous occasions.
The premise, this time, is not about the dilemma of artificial intelligence contemplating the mystery of its existence. These are not the first signs of violent control over the human mind and will. In the fourth season of the series Western world growing interest in the nature of the world where robots blend in with the crowd. The series dives deep into the question of power and, more troublingly, into a world that has endured total control and managed to abandon the lines that define its fate.
The origin of William is a great mystery
It’s been seven years since Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) shattered the heart of fascist information control. Maeve (Thandie Newton) survived and hiding in the shadows, just like Caleb (Aaron Paul), now father and husband. Amidst what seems like a calm vision of a world recovering from wounds, even William (Ed Harris) has a place.
The one that dooms you to the darkness of the master plan, the lines of which are immediately visible, but the motives of which are not obvious, much less predictable. Again, the big question about the character’s origin becomes a creepy part of the main move. But what is its purpose? Long-cherished revenge? A master plan for the entire domain?
Western world he doesn’t need it right away, but he carefully navigates new places in William’s psyche; when he sees a man die who cuts his own throat or contemplates killing in cold blood. Sinister in the series is more sophisticated and precise than ever. A clock whose hands move through landscapes, luxurious rooms and golf courses. William, this time know what you need, how to get it and especially how to create the conditions for its possession. “Power is an attribute, it is a desire. This is the center of the world,” he says, his smile tight and expressionless.
The double life of Dolores
William appears in this fourth season as pure evil, although his origin or his true nature has yet to be revealed. While the series hints from the opening scenes that robots and humans mingle in an unsettling secret coexistence, William remains a mystery. At the helm of a process that can be a duplication or replacement of key figures in an innocent society, he is more than ever an agent of change. Grim, without opposition, fear, awe or anxiety, which is associated with the eternal idea of whether William is – or is not – a product Western world as a cultural fact.
One question is whether William was ever revealed to be a robot. The question arises in the middle of the fourth season Western world like a spectrum. Similarly, the resulting idea that evil – this time not technological or computerized – takes on different guises. There’s something unsettling about the black figure, which is reminiscent of the first season again. To a broken and wounded man who came Western world destroy their suffering. But William is something else. It’s fear, it’s a furious whirlpool of questions. All without answers.
On the other hand, Dolores lives in the midst of a duality that the plot draws in small, disparate pieces of information. The first chapter shows that the cycle in his life repeats itself. That under the name of Christina she lives a peaceful and calculating existence, imagining the lives of others. But Dolores/Christina is at the center of something more violent, more unsettling and tense. Again and again it seems that danger lies in wait for her. Recognition of another life or even another person that exists under her brilliant exterior. Dolores has once again become a puppet of an unknown force. That, at least, is what the series questions in its first chapter.
Westworld: Machiavelli’s plan
Western worldApparently he doesn’t play with his timelines anymore. Not with the intentions of their characters. Questions of the identity of his most familiar faces are once again at the center of the story. This allows the series to intuitively and well plan the balance of collective cultural fears. Western worldwho, throughout his unique transit on television, did not lavish his secrets, returns with an elegant and efficient script.
“Who am I?” – one of the most frequent phrases of the first season of the series. Western world in 2016. A fruitless interrogation that held the threads of the entire plot to the last frame. In addition, he ordered parts for the artificial life uprising. The island enclave of the most complex theme park on television has become the core of a twisted and twisted conspiracy. It was not only a question of identity, fear and perception of the individual with all its philosophical load. Also the way in which Western world he played with traditional roles and science fiction canons.
For its fourth season, Western world back to the same question. At the same time, an excited and restless look at the characters of his heroes. With better pacing, tone, and darker language, the series finds its finest moment. So powerful that it soon becomes a transition to something more sinister, ready to explode.
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If in the third season it was a machine saving people from a machine, then in the fourth season a man seems to be about to plunge the world into chaos. Will the series fulfill its brilliant cycle? From a formidable first season to two dubious ones and a fourth that promises to be exciting, Western world the same question arises.“Who am I?”says Cristina/Dolores. A question that repeats itself over and over again in every chapter of the season.
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