So initially I didn't want to watch
Westworld season 3 because I didn't
really like the second one
or even remember like what happened?
I did really like the first season and I
like the idea of A.I.
and the park, but the second season was
very forgettable, and honestly kind of
boring. However, I asked people on Twitter
if they liked season three
and the reviews were mostly positive.
Some were more critical than others, and
overall the season got
so so reviews, but it seemed as though
there were enough people committed
to the show to continue watching. So I
thought why not? And I watched the season
and overall, I thought it was really good.
Though I have to say that my
expectations after season two
were pretty low, but definitely after
watching season three
my expectations for season four are 
through the roof. So before I get into
what I like and didn't like this season, I am of course going to give a plot
overview, so if you haven't seen
Westworld season 3,
yet this is your chance to click out of
the video.
So the plot. Season 3 starts out with
Dolores entering the human world,
finally, and we don't really know exactly
what her plan is, but it seems as though
she wants to kill all the humans and
have the androids take over the earth. We
also know that from season two she's
taken
five balls of consciousness with her and
we wait
to see who she chose to be her
companions.
We also meet our new William, if you will. 
Aaron Paul plays
Caleb, who is a rundown construction
worker, who's
poor, and also suffering from PTSD. He
struggles
to take care of his sick mother, who has
dementia,
and to get extra money on the side he
uses this dark web crime app named Rico.
In the meantime, Maeve's consciousness is
floating around in a War World
and is being controlled by Serac, a
French billionaire,
who has created Rehoboam. So Rehoboam is
this algorithmic god that's been weeding
out
the "undesirables" and tweaking everyone's
paths - 
genetic or otherwise - in order to slow
down the inevitable
demise of humanity. And though Rehoboam's
intent was noble, to
stop humans from killing each other and
the earth,
what it's turned into, as you could
probably guess, is a eugenics obsessed
robot,
who not only takes out the "undesirables"
and puts them in hyper sleep
indefinitely,
but also fixes normal humans
paths so they have no free will in who
they become.
So Serac tells Maeve that if she kills
Dolores, whose goal is actually not
to destroy humanity, but actually to
destroy
Rehoboam, as humans are also on loops and
are being controlled by the system, he'll
let Maeve
see her daughter again in the Great
Valley Beyond. Anyway,
back in San Francisco, where most of the
show takes place,
Dolores meets Caleb and she tells him
why she chose him and that is because
like her, he has been a pawn
in the system and used as a puppet for
their own
gain. And also we learn in a flashback
that
Caleb saved her and her fellow androids
from being
sexually violated in Westworld. So it
turns out that Caleb is actually an
"undesirable" who successfully went
under Incite/Delos's
reconditioning
program. And actually only one in 10
"undesirables" successfully go through
this training program
and then after they complete it they are
used by
the companies to control crime around
the city.
The app called Rico that I mentioned
before makes it seem as though
it's all underground and makes you feel
as if you're in control,
but in fact it's just another algorithm
created by
the man to literally organize crime.
So in the past, Caleb went to district 5
in Westworld to undergo some military
training where the androids,
including Dolores, were acting as
civilians
and at the end of the day some of the
soldiers were like thinking of using the
androids for sex because,
"That's what those rich assholes do when
they're here right?" And
Caleb sticks up for them, and thus saves
them. Dolores sees the good in humanity
in Caleb, and I guess makes it her life's
mission
to find him once she's out to use him to
help her take over the world.
As for the Man in Black and Bernard they
do meet in the real world
because they're both trying to find and
stop Dolores because they both think
that her
intent is to wipe out humanity. However, 
they leave each other as
enemies because it's now the Man in
Black's goal to exterminate all
androids. And neither of them confront
Dolores this season,
at least in her usual form. So one of the
biggest plot twists this season is that
those five balls of consciousness are
actually copies and clones of Dolores
and she puts these five balls into five
different people.
One in Charlotte Hale, one in a
bodyguard who she uses to get closer to
Serac and Rehoboam,
one in Lawrence, one in her Evan Rachel
Woods self,
and one in Musashi. Anyway, Bernard is
given a suitcase by Lawrence and inside
the suitcase
are VR goggles that I guess show him
what humanity looks like or what the
future of humanity looks like,
and Bernard puts them on and then
collapses.
In the meantime, Dolores and Caleb work
together to send everyone their
predetermined paths and loops,
and that of course incites mass chaos as
the veil of society
has been pulled back and the truth has
been revealed.
Caleb, Ash, and Giggles, portrayed by Lena
Waithe
and Marshawn Lynch respectively, go out
and try
to control the looting, rioting, and
protesting etc,
while Dolores and Maeve have their epic
showdown.
Maeve by the way weilds a samurai sword.
I've
noticed that the showrunners really love
the Kill Bill.
And it's of course the cat fight we've
all been waiting for. Talk about the
future of being female.
But in the middle of the fight Charlotte
comes back
with the Dolores consciousness slowly
fading and Charlotte's
finally taking over fully and she
disables her creator.
Charlotte tells her that she feels
abandoned by her and also very angry
that Dolores didn't stop
a planned car attack by Serac, which
killed her kid and also her boyfriend.
Charlotte disappears vowing revenge on
Dolores and Maeve takes Dolores
to Serac and he desperately searches her
mind
for the key I guess he thinks she wants
to upload to Rehoboam to end him once and
for all.
As Serac tortures Dolores and wipes her
memory looking for the key,
Maeve enters Dolores's mind and realizes
that she doesn't have the key and
actually has given it
to Bernard and that her true intent is
to
create a new world for both humans and
androids.
Maeve then exits Dolores mind and
confronts Serac
and we realize and learn that he's
actually being controlled by Rehoboam
and is essentially a puppet. And Maeve
also learns that he was just using her
and that he was never going to let her
see her daughter
in the first place. Maeve then kills
Serac and his guards
and Dolores tells Caleb with her dying breath
that he is now
in control of Rehoboam and it's up to
him to do the right thing. Maeve and
Caleb exit the building after hearing
explosions from outside
and the movie, or the show, ends like
Fight Club,
with our two heroes standing in the
middle of a city as
skyscrapers fall down around them. So the
good and the bad. I've put
what I liked and did not like into a
numbered list,
so let's go. So number one - I really liked
how we finally got to see the outside
world and also I just want to applaud the
special effects team.
We already got a taste of what the
outside world looked like
in season two when we saw Bernard's
house, which is actually the Frank Lloyd
Wright house
in Pasadena and it's honestly just
incredibly beautiful. I love what they
projected the future to look like. The
sets are amazing
and of course, the special effects, visual
effects,
and makeup is just incredible. The show
is obviously
very expensive to make and it shows. The
opening credits are gorgeous
and the hands on the piano just get me
every time.
The people in those faceless white body
suits are real people and that is
like a real costume done by the makeup
and costume team. The practical effects
in this show are also just stunning.
I think the best one or most memorable
from this season is when Charlotte gets burned
alive. Tessa Thompson talked about
in the Hollywood Reporter how she needed
to get a full
body cast made and she didn't know why
until she got the script for episode 6.
Some other really memorable special
effects from this season were of course
when Dolores got her arm chopped off
and when Dolores was basically half
android for
a really long scene. It was just really
good stuff.
So number two. and this is a small one, I
really like how
they use the Rico app 
and how when you use the Rico app you
think that you're stealing from the rich,
when in reality you're just giving
corporations more money.
And I also really like how it's later
revealed that this
app is actually used to control crime
and to actually monitor crime that's
happening in the city. So number three, I
think that season three
as a whole tied into seasons one and two
really well. Season two kind of dragged
its feet, but it was necessary to see the
aftermath of the massacre,
and we also did learn that Delos
was selling the clients' data. The seasons
build on each other in a very logical
way.
In season one we thought that the park
only existed
because Ford wanted to expose people's
baser instincts, and then in season two
we learned actually that it was about
immortality and
they actually were using the park to
harvest the clients' data.
And then in season three we learned that
that data is being sold to corporations
around the world and also used by the
algorithm to control humanity.
And actually this plays into a deep fear
that most of us have now,
and that is that our personal private
data is being
sold and bought all over the world. So
number four, I think season three is a
good and compelling dystopia,
especially now in 2020 as the world
seems to be coming to an end.
This season asks us, should we just
create an algorithmic god
in order to save us from ourselves?
Should we all just be happy in our loops
as long as we know that it's for the
greater good?
Should we weed out the dissenters and
the outliers in order to make sure
that humanity lasts as long as it
possibly can?
These are all questions that this season
asks, and obviously the answer to all of
them
is no, and the show agrees. Rehoboam and
Serac
are seen as evil throughout the season
and
honestly, they are seen as essentially
bringers of
utilitarian and eugenicist genocide. But
it is something
that I think billionaires around the
world have already thought of,
and we already live in this world
controlled by little algorithms.
Trying to monetize your personal brand
online for instance. You know, Youtube
chooses what to boost and what to bury.
So number five - 
good class commentary, but no race
commentary. I really like this idea that
they put in this season that even though
everyone is on their predetermined paths
the people at the top,
the rich white elite, get to choose who
they want to invest in based on
their presumed paths and outcomes.
However, I hate how they
reveal that society is unequal as if
it's something that they've just
discovered.
Like it's not that big of a revelation,
especially for Black and brown people
who have been suffering at the hands of
various systems
for their entire lives and existence in
this country.
It's both funny, and sad that people only
start
caring about class inequality and
inequality in general
because poor white people are suffering
like Caleb.
I thought that Lena Waithe's character or
Marshawn Lynch's character were going
to talk about how they always knew that
the American dream was a farce, but they
never really do.
Westworld never addresses race, even
though it's very eager to talk about
class,
which is strange because you cannot
address one without the other.
I do like however that the villainous
algorithm Rehoboam
thinks that everything is about genetics
and that he needs to change people's
genetic
coding, when it's very obvious
that the systems that work in this
country - particularly capitalism
is to blame for famine, homelessness,
poverty, etc. He fails to realize that
inequality
exists in society because of human-made
systems,
and not genetics. It's very obvious that
Rehoboam was made by
a white guy. So number six - the algorithm
and the outliers.
The algorithmic god is human made and
therefore has
flaws. However, the outliers fate is just
very anticlimactic.
It turns out that all the outliers are in hyper sleep
like indefinitely and it was just
a very weird reveal to me, especially
because they were building this up to be
like
something really terrible and gruesome,
but
they're just like in pods? I am happy
that they didn't show
something really gruesome and terrible
and that the outliers are still alive,
but they were really like hyping this up
for a few episodes
and it turns out that the outliers are
still
alive, and compared to like what they
were going through before,
which were terrible experiments and
you know torture essentially,
being a hypersleep doesn't
seem to be that bad? Hopefully they are
reintegrated into society and that
next season they'll all wake up and
be part of the revolution and be part of
society, so I think that that could have
a really happy ending actually. And I
actually don't know
um what Rehoboam told these people
like families, friends, co-workers, people
who knew them?
Like I don't know if they were presumed
dead or not.
Like that is just totally unclear. So
number seven - I didn't like how Serac
and Rehoboam took a while to find
Dolores. It seems very
unbelievable to me that in a world
where they know that A.I. can look very
similar to humans that they don't have
like checkpoints
or something like GATTACA where they
have to make sure that everyone is
who they say they are. Like there is
nothing barring Dolores from just
entering the human world and passing as
a human.
It's just like very unbelievable,
especially
after the second season when we know
that there was like a robot uprising and
that these things can go rogue at any
second.
Like the humans are just totally
incompetent and I get that and I know
why
it took them such a long time
to find Dolores - the plot needed to
happen -
but I just thought that there were going
to be extra security measures or
something, I don't know.
So number eight - I really like the plot
twist
that actually Dolores just cloned
herself five times, however I am curious about Teddy.
Where is Teddy? What is happening to him?
I really missed him this season. Nine - the
protests
and class commentary. It seemed very
Joker-esque to me. I didn't know if the
protests were like
genuine and if they were actually really
backing them, and by they I mean like the
show runners. I didn't know if they were showing the
protest as a good thing or if this is a
cautionary tale
because the protests are seen as violent
and
therefore, bad. We in the real world know
that violence is necessary and
that protests only really turn violent
because of the police,
but I think the showrunners say that the
protests aren't good and aren't worth
the risk, especially after Marshawn
Lynch's character of Giggles
gets severely hurt in the end. I can't
help but feel as though the show runners
want to make Westworld into a cautionary
tale and are telling us the protests
aren't good
and that we're supposed to see them as a
"step too far."
So number 10 and the last point is -
strong female representation. I really
liked the idea of Charlotte's
consciousness taking over and being
Dolores
downfall. I love the female
representation in general in Westworld,
even though
"strong female character" does kind of
mean woman shows no emotions,
but I do have to say that this only
really applies to Evan Rachel Wood's
character of Dolores.
Tessa Thompson and Thandie Newton, who
portray
Charlotte Hale and Maeve respectively do
get very emotional
arcs. Charlotte is now on a quest for
revenge for her dead lover and her child
and that actually like makes her cry,
and she does get some emotional scenes
in
this season. Thandie Newton's character of
Maeve
also gets very emotional scenes and she
has always gotten emotional scenes
because of her daughter,
and also now because her lover is also
dead. It's interesting to see
the woman in the refrigerator trope
reversed. Another good thing is that this
season really toned down
the nudity and sexual violence. Actually
I think that in
season two there wasn't that much sexual
violence. Correct me if I'm
wrong in the comments,
but I think after season one they really
toned it down and that's good.
I also really like how this story has
women controlling the fate of the world.
This story has like global consequences,
and as much as I love
domestic dramas, and no shade to
them,
it's nice seeing women be at
the helm of like
this world-changing story even though
they just kind of hand that power over
to Caleb in the end, right?
And just to end with a small anecdote, my
college sociology professor one time was
showing us a video on YouTube and there
was like a small ad for Westworld season
one before the video played
and it showed Dolores you know on her
horse wielding her rifle and he made
like this really snide remark
that was to the effect of, "Now even women
want to shoot guns."
In a very sarcastic and condescending
tone, as if women weren't capable of
holding that much power.
Like please just shut the fuck up. So
that's it.
I do want to say that I hope that there
is more Asian representation next season
and that they don't continue
to just justify Asian people existing in
the real world
because they're androids from Shogun
World. All right that's it.
Overall I really enjoyed season three
and I am
hyped for season four. I am a Westworld
fan once again,
so if you haven't seen season three yet
and like Westworld and the concept in
general,
go check it out. Just so you all know I
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