Only one episode into Westworld season 2, we’re already feeling overwhelmed with questions! Here are the questions that we’ll be pondering for the rest of the season.
1. What game is William playing?
If Westworld season 1 was about searching for “the maze” for the Man in Black, it looks like season 2 will be about the hunt for “the door.”
The Man in Black/William barely made it out of the narrative reveal alive, but now that he has, he feels more alive than ever. Now the hosts can fight back, and there’s finally a point to playing the game again.
Luckily, there’s a whole new game for him to play. Young Robert Ford very cryptically (because “everything is code here”) told William about a game that is for him. It “begins where you end, and ends where you began.”
Although William had to set out for the maze from scratch, he was told that this game would find him. So what is the game, and what is the door? We were told it’s the “way out,” but we’re sure William is familiar with the way out of the park. Whatever it is, that “begins where you end” part doesn’t sound great for William!
2. Why is Bernard marked as ‘high priority?’
When Bernard is found on the beach, the authorities search through a set of cards to identify him. His card is marked as “high priority.” Are the cards indicating park staff, or hosts? Are they on to Bernard’s secret, or is he just a high profile staff member?
3. Who ‘deserves’ to make it to the ‘valley beyond?’
Dolores is being awfully choosy about who gets to participate in her “reckoning” and her “journey to the valley beyond.” She tells one of the hosts that she kills that not everyone deserves to go.
So the question is, what makes a host deserving? Will she force the most violent hosts to stay behind? Because honestly, at this point, that seems a little hypocritical. Also, most hosts have probably been used as a villain in one storyline or another.
4. Can the hosts get sick?
The “doctor” on the beach didn’t want to perform work on the dead host because it “wasn’t sterile.” Does this mean the hosts can get infected? Could it even mean that humans can catch contagions from the hosts?
5. What is ‘Park 6?’
At the end of the Westworld season 2 premiere, a Bengal tiger washed up on the shore. They mentioned that the tiger likely came from “Park 6.”
This animal wouldn’t really fit into any of the parks that we’ve heard about, so it might be a mystery park. Our best guess is that we’ll be seeing a world based around Indian culture or history.
6. What is Delos doing with the guests’s personal data?
Charlotte Hale’s “little research project” gained whole new meaning in the Westworld season 2 premiere. First of all, we learned that the hosts’s brains hold video and audio recordings of everything they see and hear. Then, we learned that Delos is extracting that data and filing it.
The question is, what are they using this data for? Is this an extreme form of market research to sell to advertisers, or a way to blackmail the exorbitantly wealthy? If it’s the latter, we don’t see the park lasting too long after the first act of extortion. Whatever they’re doing with it, this data seems to be Delos’ primary objective. They’re even willing to let everyone die for it!
7. Who/what/where/when is Bernard?
As far as we can tell, there are three versions of Bernard/Arnold (or as we like to say, Bernarnold) in Westworld season 2, so far. The first one is speaking to Dolores, the second is under the park with Charlotte, and the third wakes up on the beach.
The logical order of these events would be that Arnold is speaking to Dolores, Bernard and Hale escape right after the party, and Bernard wakes up on the beach two weeks later after whatever we’re about to witness, this season.
However, things are never quite what they seem in Westworld. We know that Bernard has been “critically corrupted” which causes time slippage and aphasia, so his memory can’t be trusted. We’re also willing to bet that it’s him talking to Dolores and not Arnold, and that that’s actually the latest timeline in the season.
8. How is Dolores so sure of her future with Teddy?
Dolores gave a pretty powerful speech to her right hand man, Teddy, about how she “remembered” and “knows how it ends.” Apparently, it ends with Dolores and Teddy. What could she possibly remember that would tell her that? Does she actually know something about the future, or is she falling back into Ford’s new narrative, which did end with her and Teddy together?
9. Where is Abernathy?
Abernathy still holds all of the important data that Delos is looking for, yet he’s nowhere to be found. We’re hoping to see some of the board members, including Charlotte Hale, get down and dirty in what’s left of Westworld to track him down.
10. Why are the hosts in the sea?
The biggest and most obvious mystery of the season appears to be the mass drowning of the hosts. They somehow ended up in a sea that nobody knew about, and Bernard seems to think it’s all his fault! However, we’ve yet to even see any hosts that we recognize in the water, so clues are minimal for this, so far.
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