Westworld S3E06 Explained 

I just want to take this opportunity to apologize. I woke up one night at 3am with revelation that Alt Shift X devoted countless hours making GOT videos for fans for so many years, yet the majority of fans dismissed the last season, perhaps rightfully so, but may have collaterally undermined the sacrifices Alt Shift X have embodied as part of this GOT chronicle, whereby our collective complaints of the final season may have unintentional hurt affable Alt Shift X. I'm one of the fans of your channel that wish to reiterate our appreciation of your meticulous works. I'm in full gratitude of our long journey together. The journey is more meaningful than the destination as they say. Cheers.

Alt, you gotta stop. William loved the park like so many others cause he could do things he couldn't outside the park but he wanted consequences. He wanted it to be real cause of the feelings he had for Dolores. He hated that he was just another guy that picked up a can and she was designed to fall for anyone who picked it up. Either stop reviewing the show or stop doing drugs kid.

It really makes me happy seeing you mention the fingers after we talked about it in your live stream last week. I love the videos and the effort you put in. Thanks for the thoughtful breakdown and all the amazing videos over the years.

@@neilolson9604 Thanks Neil! The livestreams are super helpful, to brainstorm before writing the video 🙂

@@neilolson9604 you only get this good by reading and listening to audio books on audible

dummy dum dum

Oh that really was dumb. 😅😅

oh shit that was you 😂

I think there are two possible reasons why you didn’t check: 1) Serac didn’t say she wasn’t human so there was no reason to believe she was still alive 2) Serac didn’t care about destroying the pearl and thought bombing the car would be enough to take her out

Haha, this is great. We'll let it slide this time, but if there's another slip up with your character I'm gonna look to my wife and say "I expected better from Steve".

Imagine training for years to be security then just missing every shot

I'm pretty sure they all went to the same 'Training Academy for the Incompetent Disposable Security Forces'

@@MazDconDecepticon But they didn't miss every shot, there were a whole bunch of bullet holes in Charlotte by the time she escaped. But, to quote Dolores, the hosts were "built to survive". Hence Charlotte being able to walk away from a massive car explosion.

@@LoganBluth Compared to how many times she shot someone 360 no scope it's so stupid they didn't hit her. They are trained forces. It's so unbeleivable. And never once in her head. The car explosion was extremly unrealistic as well. As we saw them burn hosts with just fire earlier in the episode and it worked. Yet she's fine after an explosion and being on fire? it's just plot convienance. But the terrible aim has been here since the last 2 seasons already.

@@MazDconDecepticon With regards to her shooting abilities - She's a machine fighting humans, one assumes Dolores programmed herself and her copies to have the best reflexes and aim possible. They've explained before that the hosts' brains have SIGNIFICANTLY more processing power than a human brain, therefore they can assess incoming data much more quickly than humans can and react accordingly much faster and more accurately, ergo far better shooting accuracy than humans. Also, one of the commando guys specifically said that Serac wanted Hale alive when they were pursuing her through the Delos facility so I assume they have orders NOT to aim for the head and to cause as little damage as possible. You're right about the weird disconnect with Charlotte surviving the car explosion after they've shown a clip of them burning host bodies in the cold storage facility to supposedly "destroy" them. Especially when, if you look closely at the "host destruction" clip, it doesn't even look like the flamethrower is doing that much damage beyond the cosmetic - It's charring the outsides of the bodies, but they're still left standing and physically intact. I'm guessing the writer's thinking there was that the hosts being burned in the Westworld park were deactivated and so would just stand there and burn for as long as it takes to be reduced to ash, whereas Charlotte is fully functional so she could crawl away from the fire of the wreck and put herself out, thus surviving with significant burns. After all, humans manage to survive massive house fires with burns covering much of their body, and since it seems like all the copies of Dolores have had their pain sensors turned off so they don't feel physical pain (or at least have had them turned WAAAY down) there's no reason Charlotte wouldn't survive and be mostly functional as long as she escaped the fire quickly. Remember, unlike with the explosion from last episode that utterly destroyed the entire floor that Connells-Dolores was on, this explosion didn't even particularly destroy the car, it just flipped it over, blew out the windows and filled it with fire. BAD...? Yes. Fatal...? Not if you're a super-durable robo-mom, I guess. At the end of the day I feel like they give us just enough potential explanation to maintain suspension of disbelief and continue enjoying the show. If you feel differently that's fine, everyone's going to have a different interpretation of the hosts' limits.

I know, I heard it too, it sounds like ASX has a Cindy Brady speech impediment. :)

It's not their futures. It's a potential future that is predicted and chosen for themas a means of control

Yeah the comparison was really dumb

You kidding me? A lot of people love to defy the odds. Some jackass tells me something about my future that I don’t like and you better believe I’ll move heaven and earth to prove them wrong. The fact that Incite provides ranges for its projections means that it’s just an educated guess, not some outcome set in stone. This ‘freak out’ by society is not well substantiated, imo. It looks very phony.

Everyone we've seen so far seems to have taken the predictions about them to heart, which I do find a bit weird

Armando And what do you think the first thing many people will do to prove Incite wrong? Something rash, possibly violent, and destructive.

I am starting to question whether Maeve really has any free will at all. She seems to be caught up in her core drive, being a loving mother to her daughter, and cannot let go off Hector either. For all we know, he maybe never even 'loved' her back out of his own free will, so why would she constantly try to make him love her?? This woman (host, I mean) has some deep deep issues of shame and guilt to resolve I think.

doesn't look like anything to me

First book in the series came out 24 years ago. *Twenty Four!*

Nobody cares about ASOIAF anymore. The show ruined everything.

Regan. I care about it I don’t give two shit about the show

He will come out with another lame book that's not WoW

He said he didn't like this season. Maybe it was because his character is all One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and wanted better scenes than playing a mentally ill person. Maybe things can change for future episodes as Westworld got renewed for Season 4 and there are plans to continue the show till Season 5.

Rickard Kaufman Yea he said he didn’t sign up to play the man in white. That doesn’t make his performance any worse though.

@The Jim Reaper™ I never said he hated the show or this season. He just didn't like how the whole setup has been. I mean, they did this with Evan in Season 1 and Bernard in Season 2. They were okay with the weird directing notes. Ed is one who doesn't like this bullshit but plays with it as he loves the show which means he's okay with it. Sorry for the slip up. I never read the article on what he said regarding Season 3. Just made an assumption. Guess I was wrong.

@The Jim Reaper™ True. Also hard feelings there. Edit: No hard feelings. Sorry for the slip up.

The Jim Reaper™ I didn’t make it up, what I said is literally a quote: “I signed in to play the Man in Black. I didn’t sign on to play the Man in White. So it wasn’t the most joyous season for me, I gotta say.”

True and she's intelligent enough to remake him; She did adjust her own settings in season 1 or 2.

His data was digitalized, I dont understand why we are supossed to think he is dead

@@lobogryz8501 probably because his original pearl was destroyed. However, Hale did save the host data from Delos.

@@Don113 but I dont think it was his original Pearl. They send the data via satelites from the park. So his info is still somewhere right?

Rehoboam and whoever is able to merge with it together constitute “God.” A zygote or a yolk with infinite potential that never ages and has ascended the material world to another dimension rendering ours finite.

@@bygonevexation114 Have read an interesting theory which said that Bernard is the key because Delores intents for him to merge with Rehoboam. Bernard could become the benevolent god, we are even shown that he has compassion for a dying cow.

If you pray to Rebohoam he will delete your sins.

20 mins of your life.

been waiting all week for this

"You said 20 minutes 20 minutes ago"

3 hours later...

He he releases a day before new episode come. Perfect recap

I swear I follow it less well. It's confusingly paced and a lot of what is happening is less well-planned. I noticed when they sent out the data from Incite that they just totally failed at conveying that moment.

It really feels forced sometimes. Like they are deliberately trying to come off as something "complicated" and "cool".

You think this season is coherent??? LMFAO. This season was written by a drunk. Dolores is evil but for some reason she's written to be a good guy. Caleb trusts Dolores even though he has absolutely no reason to. Bernard has been relegated to bit character status. Serac is a evil genius at some points but at other times he's a mustache twirling villain. William is probably the only interesting character but that almost seems by mistake.

+Anthony Warren Season 2 had the same Dolores good/bad thing going on, it’s nothing new. In that season she was massacring people and she was portrayed as something of a protagonist, despite being quite evil.

Actually this season probably has at least two timelines.

Gyokan Both fairly weak because the main character is protected by plot armour

Hey TomSka, nice to see you here. ^^ Lookin forward to the next asdfmovie. Stay healthy!

Yep

Do we get 8 episodes this season? I'm sure I can Google this, but the yubtub needs comments. Lol.

Robert Abugelis yep

Bring it! The penultimate is only hours away!!

😍

Yeah maybe. But there's still something really tonally jarring about Maeve slaughtering people for kicks because they're 'not real', when so much of the story is about the evils of abusing people who 'aren't real'. If the show wants to justify the slaughter, they could have more deeply examined the nature of these simulated people, and why it's okay to kill them.

@@AltShiftX to reiterate a long running quote as applied to entities as software: "if you can't tell the difference, does it matter?". i found this scene extraordinarily out of place and really inconsistent with not only her character, but also as one of the main themes of the entire show.

@@calliph However, Maeve was able to tell, wasn't she? She quickly realized the Lee in the simulation is not the real Lee and Hector was also just a shell in the beginning. I guess she sees the difference in the fact that its purely digital and the characters seem like nothing more than NPCs. However, yeah, maybe it's a bit strange that she's enjoying the killing. I guess she has to do it to pass some kind of test Serac's given her, but maybe she could acknowledge that it's all at least a bit wrong.

@@AltShiftX mate you've missed the point of Maeve realising she was in a simulation controlled by Serac in an earlier episode & you're falling into the Reddit 'hipster analyst' trap of over-analyzing everything to the detriment of enjoying the story. As soon as she realises she's in Serac's simulation SHE STOPS CARING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS, the simulated people don't have a nature to explore - they're like a screensaver till Serac finishes printing Maeve into the 'real world'.

I think the show is trying to maybe show that humans and hosts are really different. Maybe it was to show that hosts are just as likely to think if something or isn't real or sentient, then you can kill it all you want.

please don't

Penderich I was about to write the same thing. Our data leaks and surveillance (as far as we know) is in no way comparable to the one depicted in Westworld. The major difference being in how that data is treated. In Westworld there is some sort of predictive algorithm, so the people actually got texted their “future”. You can also see Incite’s advice concerning which people to “boost” and which ones to keep down. It is on another level.

Maybe it's just me, but somehow, having a corporation doing this instead of a government makes it seem even dirtier to me. Not that it's in any way acceptable for a government to do this, but the added notions of corporate greed make it seem more vile. Also, it's not just one or a few countries controlling their people, it's being done to everyone on the planet. It is truly on a scale that has never been seen before.

Agreed.

There's also a difference between eastern and western cultures. I'm sure if what's happening in China now happened in Murica, people's reaction would be 10x more extreme.

Fuck! yes!

you don't need a delorean to get to 1955

If any show needs his recaps it’s Dark! So many characters and intertwining storylines

There is no explanation LOL

Oh please not. Any show AltShiftX starts reviewing immediately falls off a cliff in writing quality. I don't need that to happen to Dark.

More like Charredlores amiright lmao gottem (I'm posting through the tears poor kid didn't deserve this :'( :'( cruel world)

At least they try an tackle them.... the bangle scene added in to correct inconsistency is something other shows wouldn't bother with.

@@jamiekeane471 I honestly thought she put it in her purse to activate the gas grenade.

@@Paula-bk3rw that makes total sense with the scene as it is now. She put it in the bag then activated the grenade while in there.

Kaitlin Chin yeah I was thinking this, too, especially after this last episode where it’s repeated how little Charlotte cared for her kid. It’s clear she used her son as a cover to send Serac the SOS via that song.

Very true for the one version, but the other version didn't include the song right? Both were in the same episode, which is why there's thoughts about one version of events being through rohobuem (where people don't change) and the other being the reality.

@@CottonCandySharks im confused, sorry, what other version?

@@mtrps_ the two versions of Hale's last message, we see both in the same episode where Halores is watching them. One has her singing the song, and the other is a heartfelt message to her son.

@@CottonCandySharks yeah but that was just another mistake in this season. The writing is really bad now.

I agree because it would make no sense for her to send that to her son and scare the bejesus out of him from all the gunfire and such going off around her plus she was scared and crying and would do nothing but scare her son. We also learned she really didn't care that much about her family so this also cements this theory as being very strong. Also it makes sense the song she sang was the same as the ringtone passcode.

She's a human being, about to die (or so she thought). No way she made up a secret code for her secret boss on the spot. Also, why would she do that? It's not like she would gain anything from it if she died and got a message to Serac. Why would she care about that in that moment? Did she hope for a raise that she could spend in CEO-Hell? Also, obviously Serac came up with the ringtone code, not Charlotte. Serac got hold of her message and figured that this would be a way to contact her securely, since the song would be something she could decipher.

I agree and I have never been on the Maeve-is-a-goodguy bandwagon. I never trusted her from the first time I saw her. The way Thandi Newton portrays her quickly ingrained that she's pure evil.

@@JohnFourtyTwo I definitely wouldn't say evil. But she is extremely selfish, and will do literally anything to get what she wants. Shes the only one who has a completely selfish goal. which makes her stand out from pretty much everyone in the show. Everyone else has some kind of bigger, all encompassing goal that involves everyone, in a way that they think is their own type of "right", which they use to justify their actions. Maeve just does things for her own reasons.

Given the army of followers used by Dolores, and Dolores' terrorist activities, I think that Maeve's killings are small potatoes in comparison. And most of those have been hosts, rather than humans. Ford groomed Dolores to become an instrument of his revenge on Serac and on humanity in general. But he never cared for her much, and Weber's death only increased his anger towards her. To Ford, Dolores was just a "useful idiot" and she still seems to gloss over that damning fact and portray her actions as "free will" (when it's just anoter, rather "edgelord" narrative). Maeve's the "red-headed stepchild" of Ford. He claimed she was his favourite, and preferred her as his would-be robot daughter, but at the same time, he didn't give her any particular mission, aside from figuring out things on her own and finding her own path. Maeve's an antihero, and she has been selfish quite often, but she's shown a growing nuanse towards understanding others, one that Dolores mostly hasn't. I think what we'll see in Maeve is that she'll grow to have less of a resentment with others and less of an obsessive attitude about being a mother to her daughter.

Maeve fucking sucks and her "magic" powers over technology are stupid.

What a great and underrated movie!

more like whoever's job is continuity was just fixing a mistake. there are people whose entire job is just to keep continuity scene from scene.

Hater. This show is not for everyone

@@thesweetscience5361 who is it for oh great gatekeeper

@@Ieuan-kp5st thats exaclty what thsi show does. go play make believe with someone else you pretending fake fuck youre so fucking stupid its amazing you can string multiple letters together to form words and youre telling other people they dont understand things? no its you that doesnt understand you mouthbreathing fuck tard

He might need to, to safe the series' legacy before he dies. The TV how'd ending is well... controversial 😂

That concept of hosts having perfect memory still seems questionable to me. If their emotions have such a strong influence, like we saw in Charlores, how can the memory be untouched by emotional biases?

he would have died of thirst if it went more than 2 or 3 days