Westworld S3E07 Explained 

Alt Shift X Waiting all week on this. Thanks for making my Saturday night! Have you ever thought of doing Mr. Robot videos? There is a lot to dive into there and I'd love your pro insight. Thanks again!

This is Alt Shift X's Westworld season penultimate recap. We are going to cherish this one and the final recap next week. We will miss the long dry-spell afterwards. Thank you in advance for a wonderful season as I won't have access to this account next week to comment.

Need to give mr robot a go, very good series and end.

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what about the scene where caleb visits cuddie in jail

Dog-lores! 🐶

Imagine?! 😂😂

Dolores is a skin changer confirmed.

a bit stange and novel idea, perfect disguise yeah, but how can the leader actress behaves like this, i guess william would turn around and turn to be the final boss 👀

"Westworld" is one of those shows that you know it's a pile of crap but you continue watching it anyway. Like "Lost".

I love the technology in this show, especially the military tech. Feel like Nolan would be better off making a seperate series, based on future conflict.

@@grubbybum3614 Or maybe that's the gamer in J. Nolan showing himself. Nano-technology which suppresses stress, emotion and moral judgment (MGS4), a plan to break free of the AI that secretly runs the world (Patriots from MGS2 and MGS4).

@@sunjoexys7251 I wonder where he got the anti-material rifle + drone gun, thing, that Delores used this episode

@@grubbybum3614 i think i heard it's similar to a weapon being worked on now

That entire fight was interesting from a storytelling perspective: Normally a fight like that would depict and emphasize who's the underdog("good guy") and who's not("bad guy"). Dolores had a small knife, Maeve a katana. Dolores had a small drone, Maeve a chopper. Dolores had a rifle, Maeve an autocannon. Westworld-twist, or are they blatantly spelling out that "Dolores ain't a bad guy no more"? We'll see next episode.

it would be pretty depressing if dolores succeeds tho :D

this was me for so long lol

But he has the best story !!

not... they end the system and going back to westworld style in real world... next season just going to be another story about host going at it at each other... there r no side in the stroy since in the end we (human) are all lose.....

LOL!!!!!!!

PERIODT

Yeah, he'll make an excellent scientist

*bad

It's not that confusing if you're paying attention but I do enjoy all the callbacks to earlier seasons, thematic links and freeze-frame analyses. It certainly enriches the viewing experience.

better than any other channels out there, I actually understand stuff now

really only the first season can be hard to understand on first watch

Nick C the only way to know a new Sunday is on its way.

Ooh what will you do when he runs out of WW explains next week?

The times they do pass, but only recognizably with these videos

I feel the same way. What's going to happen now that the season is ending tonight?

… when are we?

ASX seems very orally fixated

I'd blow her cartridge.

That was my favorite part 🤣🤣🤣

@@Tyrael112 damn right)

well if they'd happen to maybe get some sort of tech enhancement to their bodies as a condition of being able to indeed go on surviving from there, I mean c'mon, the name's kinda right there staring at us in the face -- ROHOBOTS. or Rohobeings.

Mr. Skampers god that character sucks ):

I had hopes when the first episode came out. I really enjoyed the world they created. But now I'm starting to think all the characters suck. They have no personality.

True. I hope it doesn't turn out exactly the same way season 02 did. As having high hopes in the beginning and being more and more disappointed troughout the season. I thought they learned their lesson with the crappy previous season.

My thoughts exactly on bboth points with him!

That ID number thing is intriguing, it would be hilarious if it was actually a production error all along! I mean, I am trying to reconcile William and Caleb, maybe Dolores is trying to recreate 'white hat' William like she recreated Arnold, but with edits where we got Bernard?

I think the William (host) was William’s (human) attempt at beating death and Dolores knows

I agree I personally don't like his man in white direction, but at least it's somewhat justified and built up to unlike some twists... Cough cough Game of thrones cough cough

SereneGaming I honestly think that William is another version of Dolores but who doesn’t have a Bernard to be the opposition. Which makes him even more dangerous than Dolores

Yeah i heard that part and I was like, you mean like present times? lol

yeah sounds like socialism. System = state

This entire series is predictive programming. Everything transpiring in the series is also taking place in real life

This is the biggest thing for me too. Season 1 is miraculously good. The contrasts in tone and setting made each setting (the modern Mesa, and the park) more interesting and alive, because you see how on one hand, there's an elaborate, emotional, rich story playing out in the world of the Hosts, and on the other hand, the somewhat banal yet equally relatable reality of the park as a Disneyland Attraction, seeing the different "storylines" and their unique characters starting to interrelate, the guests acting like boorish tourists and workers doing routine maintenance in high tech labs while management, Behaviour and QA all try furiously to keep it from imploding. I loved the internal tension between the different Delos departments - Behaviour wants to find solutions to things one way, the engineers want to solve it another way, Ford and Bernard in other ways, QA believes the solution is to bring lots of guns, etc... the idea of who comes out on top of that internal conflict was a great hook, and they basically got rid of that in the 2nd and 3rd seasons. In s2, the Mesa and later the park becomes just a depressing backdrop for gunfights rather than a living place of its own. The unsuspected transitions between who is "in control" in each of these two settings make for some really striking imagery and cool contrasts. For instance, you never know when someone from the park staff might hit the Freeze All Functions button in the middle of a high stakes, high tension moment in the Park to strip away the veneer and cast doubt on everything we just saw presented to us. "Is he really going crazy or is he malfunctioning?" Setting the third season (almost) entirely within the real future deprives some of that magic, especially after the torturously complex 2nd season. Serac and Dolores are cartoon villains pitted against each other in a struggle for... nothing in particular other than the dominance of their poorly justified worldviews.

Christopher Matei well said. The magic that made season 1 so special is absent and it shows.

@@ewanandris4832 season 1 had a great way of showing us one thing, getting us to believe in a certain truth, then subverting that belief under our noses, visually and narratively. S2 and 3 just tell us what narrative to believe (Freedom Good, Slavery Bad) and shuffle the alliances between characters around, leaking more backstory along the way, to show us different ways in which they think we should believe the same thing.

There is ugliness in this season, disarray, I chose to see the beauty.

They should have kept Mauve in the park and have her defend their land with the help of Hector, Felix, Musashi and the rest.

good eye

whoa nice catch, it still must mean something

Yeah it could either be writers throwing a doozie for viewers or it means there's some "correction" between characters.

@@buhlayz It might actually be a red herring to keep the conspiracy theorists busy.

Occam's Razor says it is just a production "thing". Someone could be bothered rendering a whole new number sequence so they copied Williams & just changed one character.

I was just thinking this!

+1 i think it's the best name, and for musashi-lores i always say "Dororuresu chan"

I prefer Lalores

don't matter.... the basic Gag app for GTA fan who want to do in real life.. and a why to control piss off people... same as normal video game...

that's brilliant! 😯

it was weak from the outset. Maeve is the least compelling lead character in the series by far. her plot line is nauseatingly boring

^^Yes, THAT^^

what about her walking around with a giant fucking ninja sword, and her actor performing way too many of her own stunts?

Maeve's daughter arc ruined the credibility of the show. Felt like it was forced into the show for sentimental reasons.

I feel like everything happening to Maeve was a part of Ford's plan because she literally had everything she needed to escape the park and survive out in the real world, but she decided to stay. Hopefully, the plan was that Maeve would be the one to kill Serac because if it isn't, then her character should've not returned at all since it's pointless for her story to be continued. She already saved her daughter by making sure she entered the Sublime. Also, if Maeve programmed herself to be extremely intelligent, then shouldn't she know Serac cannot be trusted?

Delores was literally about to DELETE the sublime! Maeve knows that Delores has no intention of bringing back the souls from the sublime

Ah, but do we actually know her motives in full yet? I'm hoping not, because other than that possibility, you're 100% right! She's gotten 2D.

They made it seem like we would get Dolores vs Bernard at the end of season 2 but they’re forcing Dolores vs Maeve this season and I agree that Maeve’s motives are weak af. Why is she helping someone that’s literally trying to destroy her kind and does she seriously believe he would let her and her not real daughter live happily ever after? If so then she’s dumber than I thought

@@harithmadawaki8766 Literally what choice does she have when her only motivation in life is being with her child?

Deer Lord her motives are as weak as William’s.

I hope it's not future world. That would just be too predicable. I know it was in the sequel. But I think Dinosaur World would be good. It would give a nod towards the author of Westworld who wrote Jurassic Park,

@@cole6245 We are already in future world bro

@@profbfc I really hope not, but I can see it heading there. I like how it has humans in their loops and breaking free from them. It's a good mirror to Season 1.

Has this been future world the whole time!?

Won't it have to be fanstasy world/medieval world? We've seen a dragon and sword fights and shit

Dolores made thing up as she go.. same as writer..(they excuse is she a mad robot).. they never had plan just the same as GOT... it would end as dissapint as the same... HBO... all they care is our time...

campkira We need to decode you in order to understand any one of those sentences lmao

Dolores should've done what, had time to do what? I went back to 14:25 but don't understand what you're saying. sorry, just curious. especially like that quote.

I'm waiting on Lawrence and his family now. :)

TriXJester i agree. I think dolores doesn’t want to destroy the humans anymore. She wants to have a world where both humans and her specie can live in peace. In serac’s plan there is no space for robots because rehoboam cannot make a prediction on them. I think Solomon made a prediction, the final strategy, where the most humans can live in together with robots. Maybe its a strategy without rehoboam in it so it can also unfold itself in a way that serac must fight against his brother. Maybe, i am very curious to the last episode. I hope you too.

16:52 yup

estranged son then?

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Electronics can be shielded from EMPs.

The writers sort of forgot about the EMP.

@@wombat8812 "subverting expectations"

They were in a tomb underground. It was shielded from the emp

Hey yea, you're right! The first character before the two 0's is an "I" on Caleb's! Ooooooohhhh! I'm really intrigued about this even more now!

it sure is. William’s is M two seven zero two one … and Caleb is M Two seven zero two I …. , as all the letters are upper case and the font has no serifs there is no horizontal on the top and bottom of the capital I. It does appear that they put effort into make it look like they were similar to throw people off, the letters are larger than numbers in Williams and his also says PATIENT, where as for Caleb the letters are the same size as the numbers and the “patient” is much smaller and over to the left on the UI to making the capital I in his serial number harder to discern

thanks for pointing it out, probably its on purpose that the letter I represents the I = self, while 1 represents the specie who will left to survive.

YOU ARE SO RIGHT! They are so super similar down to one letter/number out of 14!

This is 100% like this for us who dive deep to piss us off

Good question

hosts could be controlled with voice commands. There has never been an instance where this was false before the end of s1 so the use of an EMP was never needed.

plot convenience

Delos is full of idiots lol

@@OxygenPeople how did nobody ever think of that as contingency though? And mostly, surely Delos, given their resources, could have acquired an EMP within a day of chaos at Westworld...

Someone who had "nothing to lose" not no family.

@@rehatbir. well thanks for nitpicking me for not having the perfect memory but it is the same thing, he had something to lose if he had a mother. we also knew that his mother abandoned him when he was a kid.

@@evertchin You made perfect sense and it's the same criteria that's used when asking people to volunteer for a one-way mission.

It's sad how ambitious they were in the first season with details and hints and stuff everywhere. And how all of this was turned into meaningless kick ass action moments throughout season 2 and sadly season 3 once again...

@@Fussfackel Yup ... I think they were too quick to turn the park into chaos and leave it behind. The park had so much cool mystery and adventure within it ... while the future real world is just filled with typical villains and fighting.

@@martynstembridge7714 All that mystery has been explained though. What more is there to do in the park? Also I don't get what you mean. The park is filled with typical villains and fighting too. The park was about the hosts gaining consciousness, and then fighting to liberate themselves. The real world is about humans breaking out of their system, and now fighting to liberate themselves. So your point makes 0 sense.

it just another GOT... fucking HBO... at least the action was fun..

Maeve has been my one real hangup this season. She's never felt this one note before. I'm really hoping this last episode adds some heat to her.

@@noelcrenshaw7969 i hope she betrays serac at the end and helps dolores.

So true. I used to love her but now she's just 'there"

Maybe Serac realizes that trying to cheat robot is a bad idea (Maeve was build for predict human desiers with one look), and he actually can keep his words.

Maeve is a fucking dud. Who cares about her fucking digital daughter? Over her storyline.

Or related. Caleb could be Williams son, right?

don't the whole thing is just of fan to kill time before next ep.... the whole show is the same as GT.. fucking HBO

I’m convinced the writers haven’t a clue what the story will be.

you mean Schwiftly becoming

@@210SAi jj abraham syndrome

So, spit on her and smack her around a bit?

I know Alt Shift X has a Cindy Brady speech impediment sometimes but I clearly heard him say, "blow on it like a Nintendo cartridge;" which is what you would do to clean the terminals not go down on it. LOL

omg he's gonna do that? so here for it

In some ways I kind of lament the timing of "Lost", it would've been really interesting to see ASX sifting thru all that week to week, especially given the volume of different literary references and whatnot that Lindelof & Cuse put in there. I mean I remember especially over the last two seasons in 2009 and 2010 there were some certain places (including a couple YT channels) that were chugging along trying like a precursor to the more comprehensive type things we have now, but it was really just like the minor leagues. and oh crap, I hope I didn't just invite one or two (or god forbid several) obligatory 'Lost sucked' reactions lol I just do not at all get some certain takes on that, it's like we were watching two different shows. And I'd never by any means try to suggest it was like 'greatest ending ever' or anything like that, but it wasn't by any metric the other extreme either. It was very good, if someone were to claim to me that like some laundry list of questions they've got were never answered, I promise I'd be able to clearly explain almost all of them, and trust me I'm a fucking idiot lol okay sorry, that wound up going way further down the rabbit hole than I'd initially intended or thought I would hahaa

AKM 762 first few episodes were fun. Now its kinda getting lame

Because if only Serac against Dolores-series & allies, It would not complicated enough , so they're f*ck-up with Maeve and Benardnold ...

Because having multiple factions and lots of morally grey characters all working against each other is what's "in" for big budget tv right now

Nobody should be working with Dolores.

Specially when last season Bernard had decided to help the host revolution. He is the one who revived Dolores and now he wants to stop her. Makes no sense.

Andrew Aziz I LOVED Person of Interest, watched it from beginning to finale. Very underrated show.

Oh, I actually am looking forward to a Lisa and Chris cliffy this season! Seems like they'd enjoy torturing us for two years like that... ;)!

A cliff is almost inevitable, which is scary considering how uncertain production for any movies or shows will be in the coming couple years.

@@rhythmchyc3089 by the time the next season comes out, it will be looked at as a historical tv show about the year 2058

Daniel Stevens it’s funny because it’s true... and sad, too. 😩😩