Ya see, earlier in the show, Charlotte revealed that the board voted, and Ford will announce his retirement at a big party that night. Robert Ford to attend a big soiree that night. We later see MIB gets up, he’s approached by Dr. Teddy ultimately shoots MIB down, saves Dolores and trots her off to the sea where she dies in his arms. Ford admits he’s been “trying to fix his mistakes” during that time, riffing off a quote from atomic bomb papa J. Later, later on in the episode, Ford confirms another point that clever fans figured all along: The timeline we’ve been traversing has been 35 years. One that will never die.” If that isn’t a foreshadowing to the robot revolution, I don’t know what is. She tells him, “One day you will perish…with the rest of your kind in the dirt, your bones will turn to sand, and upon that sand, a new God will walk. This is the center of the maze, and Ford has left a tin with a maze game in it near Dolores’ tombstone. “I really ought to thank you Dolores, you really help me find myself” says older William/MIB. ![]() William learned who he was at his core while looking for Dolores: a violent, ruthless guy (“He found himself among the dead,” MIB says about his younger self). He double-crossed his douche brother-in-law Logan (Ben Barnes), whose family ran Delos. Fans were keen about this for quite some time, and finally, Harris’ black hat sharpshooter downloaded Dolores to the reality of who he really was and is. There were a number of twists and turns tonight, so we’ll try to pare it down to the basics.Īt the top of tonight’s list, we finally have a bingo: Young William (Jimmi Simposon) had grown into the Man in Black (Ed Harris), who invested in Westworld, arguably after the death of Dr. Tonight’s finale, “The Bicameral Mind”, marked the second episode to be directed by Nolan after the premiere episode “The Original”. Perhaps centuries from now, we’ll still be deconstructing Westworld. “The message being that the divine gift does not come from a higher power, but from our own minds,” Ford explains about the painting. Ford points to Michelangelo’s painting “The Creation of Adam” and tells the robo prairie girl about the hidden brain in the art which took someone 500 years to discover in the painting. Read when Logan stabs Evan Rachel Wood’s Dolores in episode 9, we see her robotic guts made of pistons, indicating the action of the scene is taking place decades ago, because that’s how robots in the park were made then! Talk about hidden details. Ditto for the show’s production design, props and costumes which indicated that the action was taking place across three timelines (35 years ago, 30 years ago and present day). With Westworld, it was essential to deep-six a trio of espressos before indulging: Its characters quietly and casually tossed lines that pointed to bigger reveals. ![]() There’s enough payoff in the episode to keep one giddy, and enough metaphors and foreshadows to keep you rewinding the DVR through Christmas. One thing is certain and that is after trying to figure out this Rubik’s Cube of a show for the last two months, tonight’s finale “Bicameral Mind” is truly the best of the series’ ten at an hour and a half. Some compare Westworld’s intricacies to HBO’s first season of the Wired, or even ABC’s Lost. No other network arguably could take a risk, get away with it, and paint such an acute, labyrinth episodic TV series, chock full of subtleties and Easter eggs that move the narrative. With Westworld, they’ve allowed creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy to completely move the needle on complex storytelling. However, that’s a positive testament to HBO. Or more to Delos executive Charlotte’s (the sublime Tessa Thompson) exclamation in tonight’s finale, “This place is as complicated enough as it is.” That’s right, add Westworld to life’s list. ![]() ![]() There are many things in life that are complicated: rocket science, film profit participation, and human relationships. This recap contains spoilers about tonight’s Westworld finale “The Bicameral Mind”
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