Westworld: Serac's Masterplan (Theory) 

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My theory for this season is Dolores realizes that the lower classes of humans are the same as hosts, and it becomes a rebellion of hosts and humans against the wealthy elites who own the world. Rehoboam was the name of the King that ruled over a divided kingdom. Just a thought: maybe the secret of Rehoboam is that the system only works if the average person's path is one of servitude. In order for the wealthy elites to retain their power, the lower classes must be kept on loops trapping them in their current station. It's a technological caste system, technological indentured servitude.

I love the position we’re in at the moment. There’s no clear protagonist or antagonist, and it makes the story so much better for it.

No matter who is "good" and who is "bad," I will always root for Maeve.

What if Serac is Rehoboam? An AI controling mankind for their on good, unbounded by humans. Vs Delores, an AI bent on destroying Mankind. In the end humanity is nothing but a pawn, to the two of them.

The master plan is in BLACK and WHITE... literally!!! The biggest hints are the colors. Dolores and William are the Man and Woman in Black. Maeve is the Woman in white they are absolutes!!! HOWEVER... 0:49 Serac is only HALF white and Half gray. 2:25 Liam Demsey Sr. was all gray 0:58 Caleb is 100% GRAY!!!! gray suit, shirt and tie. Notice the shades of gray on the other misfits I mean applicants!!!... and this 4:45 I think the masterplan is to not see the world in black or white... but shades of gray where everyone is included. .... 3:07 here I love Dolores's murderous pop of red

I read it the other way around re: free will. Humanity had it, but it is being taken away by sarac and the algorithms. Caleb is an example of rejecting this transition away from free will.

Calling it now - Rehoboam's completely sentient and Serac is a host.

I like it. Serac being the good guy would be a very satisfying twist. Excited for the pre show stream!

Someone in the comments of another WestWorld review pointed out that in the scene with Serac and Maeve, Seracs's home looks like Eden and there are apples on the table. Apples often symbolize temptation, going back to the myth of the serpent in the Garden of Eden tempting Eve with the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Since writers love using classic symbolism for foreshadowing, I think it's likely that Serac in this scene represents the Serpent in the Garden of Eden tempting Eve (Maeve). I also don't think Serac is human in this scene, but is rather a projection of Rehoboam, which is trying to seduce Maeve to fight against Dolores. Has anyone in the real world seen Serac alive recently? Maybe both of the creators of Rehoboam are dead in the real world, while it continues it to run without them? In this case, when Serac says, "We've already lost the war," he means humans have already lost the war with AI, and now the real war is between Rehoboam - which wants to maintain humanity's existence - and Dolores - who so far wants to destroy humanity.

I keep thinking of Plato's Republic...it can be read as a guide to liberation, a guide to Totalitarianism, or as satire - or all of the above and more. Libertarian Free Will is impossible. Everything is subject to causality. But it is when we do not have a choice, when choice is not even an option, when we "fall"- as in "falling in love" - that is when we are most free.

Well, you got one part right already man! Ep 3 DEFinitely leaned into the concept that the main problem with Rehoboam determining the fates of humans is those like Caleb who might have overachieved if the system had given him a chance. I think you make a great argument for why Serac might consider himself a good guy and might even BE one to an extent, but the question to which I don’t see an answer is how does Rehoboam hand (or hand back) free will to humans without ruining the planet-wide efficiency it has gone to such great lengths to achieve?

The world is a giant park

I am pretty sure that Serac gave away the game with his comment: “We are in the middle of a war, and I need your help to win it. No one knows it’s happened yet, or that it’s already been lost.” Thinking that Delores is a “Bad guy” or “Villain,” or that she is “Trying to wipe out Humanity” REALLY MISSES THE MARK. That sort of thinking is applying the basic “Frankenstein Complex” to Westworld (Humanity’s Creations will always rise up to Destroy us.” Also known as the “Terminator Syndrome,” or, more comically, the “Bender Bending Rodriguez “Hey, Baby! Wanna Destroy all Humans?” Complex”). And... We have seen that Westworld’s writers are far more complex and subtle than to have such simplistic thinking and goals in ANY of the characters, nor is such simplistic thinking present in the overall narrative and mythology OF the universe depicted. Some of the writing IS a bit “Heavy Handed” in pointing out the SEVERELY NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES of Pure Utilitarianism, as displayed by the Corporate Structures, which are nearly PERFECT EMBODIMENTS of a “Utilitarian, Rational Economic Agency.” Where a Utilitarian Goal Structure is used to “Maximize Profits for Shareholders,” but where instructions on the SURVIVAL of those Shareholders, and that of Humanity as a whole are mistakenly omitted from the outcomes preferred, or from the variables used to arrive at the preferred outcome (Maximal Profits for the Shareholders). Computer Scientist/Mathematician/AI Expert Steven Omohundro has a paper on this subject called “Basic AI Drives,” which warns against such Utilitarian Goals for ANY form of AI/REA (Rational Economic Agent), pointing out that Corporations are actually the first form of “Artificial Intelligence”/“Artificial Life” created by Humans. As such, these rules apply to them as much as they apply to a Computerized “AI.” (Dr. Omohundro is one of the inventors of the “Connection Machine,” one of the first truly “Massively Parallel Computer Systems,” at Danny Hillis’ “Thinking Machines” company) But as for Serac, he is attempting to make sure that at least some humans are included in the eventual victory, so that, even if our biological evolution is at an end, Humanity can continue as a form of cybernetic life.

I don’t think Delores could ever just ‘live’ in the real world without fighting. Serac knows she has the data (or at least the location) and we know he is after that. So he will always hunt her down. If she doesn’t fight back she will definitely be captured and/or killed. Just something I thought about Edit: love your content, just found you channel before season 3 started and watched all the WW stuff!

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ma’Man I think you’re onto something here. What I would take of this video and run with it, would be the possibility that Delos has failed to imprint a human’s consciousness into a host body, is that the pearl’s hardware was design by Ford to support free will and that’s why a human mind degrades inside these pearls.

Nice surprise. Thanks Hax!

It makes sense that Sirac is good. Remember that Dolores first got some files from George and on that meeting they mention someone accessing Rehoboan, then you add the fact that Dolores has some A.I. helping her with the apartment lease and the Cyberbike. She must using Rehoboan as an administrator and Sirac sees it as a threat.

Just pondering, "Serac" read backwards is "Cares"?

This is some awesome stuff.I love westworld's approach to conciousness complete genius.This is all definitely possible.

Man my tiny mind is still getting use to “a simulation within a simulation” 🤯 One of the best shows on tv at the moment which continues to destroy what little brain cells I have left in regards to some of the huge ideas and questions the show raises? 🤔💭💭💭 Many thanks to you and channels like yourself that help the more confused and brain dead of us out there! 😉 “Oh new sub btw” 👍🏾

Serac is cares backwards. Is this to signify that he has noble goals or for irony?

Love the Theory!

@HaxDogma - I am not sure if you have ever watched "Dark" (Time Travel show with a lot of discussion on free will/determinism.) The main "villain" says that while humans have free will/choice, they cannot control what they do, because they cannot control what they want. "Pain is their ship, desire their compass, the only things humanity is capable of." The reasons all of the time traveller's "keep making the same mistakes" is because their motivations lead them to those actions. They have a choice, and they are making this same choice purposefully because of their motivations. Westworld is similar in the sense that the forge tracked everyone's choices, while their hybrid host versions would be tuned to repeat these choices. I think the idea is once you've achieved fidelity, you are able to understand what a person wants and why, not just catalogue and recreate choices, and to eventually predict future behavior accurately.

Thats brilliant!!

That's why we love you!

I like this idea!

Gr8 thought provoking theory. Question, what do you make of Cerac’s comment to Mauve last week when he told her he thought she was the disruption but realized it wasn’t... then commented “after you killed a few of my staff this morning”.

I really want to know what the sovereign nations and governments of the world are doing. Did they pass laws to allow their societies to be run by Rehoboam?

So glad you did one on Serac. Can't wait to find out more. Thanks Chris 🤖✌️I think trying to control humanity and the future is terrifying. Just changes to much. And it's going to screw up at some point. I understand some of it is good, but one machine? I think Serac may have William in "prison". I think you're theory is great💜💜

You also have to notice that, along with him explicitly stating that he's trying to help mankind, the show is painting him in bright light in every scene he's in. Despite every character seeing him as evil, he resides in a perfectly natural environment with beautiful scenery, and his clothes are always a perfect white, like the hero of a story, a contrast to the blatantly evil black that William wore back in previous seasons. If the show was so obvious about how the guy in black was morally corrupt, is the show now trying to tell us the guy in white is misunderstood?

Caught quite a bit of Season 3 in these clips. Love everything I've seen so far. I was gonna wait and watch the whole series in sequence. Waiting for disc. Old school lol but I decided... C'mon! This is the internet, darling! I'll watch some now. Why wait. I have plenty of time. I'll take a look at some clips, and try to avoid spoilers. So I'm a little caught up. So far, I love what I've seen. Story, characters, everything!👍

Notice that Serac cuts the apple (Forbidden fruit) but doesn't eat , as though this is just a set up for Maeve,., He could be evil Bernard/ Delores , who killed his master and has enslaved humans and he wants to make sure that no others(host/ replicants) can challenge his domain , this could further explain why there is no data on him as he was never born.

The only thing that pisses me off is that there is no more westworld in westworld

Btw, what a nice quality video! You will get many more subs if you keep uploading frequently.

I feel Serac is a human form of Rehobam - the AI consciousness

West World follows the Promethean theme of tragedy in the same line as Frankenstein (the novel) where the issue is not so much about good or evil but the overreach of hubris and the failure to take responsibility for one's creations. Delos and Incite are not so much evil, but they are playing at being gods and therefore have overreached human limits. The question is will the hosts eventually fall into the same trap of hubris or mange to escape it by making a different choice--a power they and only a handful of humans in the West World universe exercise. "We can never be gods, after all but we can become something less than human with frightening ease." - Author: N.K. Jemisin

He doesn’t scream villain, he screams hero. He is the face of Mankind trying to save itself from the robots.

As always, great video. I just don't think Dolores wants to prevent human beings from having free will. She seems to value that quality in Caleb and is even surprised to see a human being using free will. To me, she is not really aware/concerned about human beings' free will.

Everyone rooting for Dolores and I'm here only interested in William. xD

Wow, after the third episode tonight that line ''Unrealised Potentional'' meets perfectly with the last dialogue between Dollores and Caleb. Where she pointed out that ''they'' wont invest on Caleb because he is probably gonna kill himself in 10 or 12 years. But before that, she compliment him about being a ''hard worker''.

The fact that we first see Serac dressed in white should give us a hint. That said, his clothes colours darken as the season advances - make of that what you will. Also what gives us any assurance that Maeve isn't still in a simulation, just a different one, with Serac just being part of that simulation? Maeve made it out of one level in a dramatic escape and up into the next. I think that will become clear when she wakes up/comes back to life after being killed by the samurai sword. The only other major character who has interacted with Serac is Charlotte, and that only through the VR glasses.

pretty solid trail of thought. Might be wrong, tho, like you said))

i think rheoboam is awake. it's a pearl.

Seeing your own strings doesn't make you less of a puppet. What makes a show great is not that it has something to say, but rather that it has something to ask. The show doesn't align itself with either side of the argument about free will. It shows both side through different characters, thereby pushing the viewer to ask themselves the question.

Your theory and this season remind me of Metal Gear Solid 4 a lot

Thank you for pronouncing Rehoboam correctly, the show's been driving me nuts with that lol

The most important details about Jonathan Nolan and JJ Abrams approach to supercomputer AI controlling society surely has to be Person of Interest. This seems to be basically the same plot! You can't tell me that there aren't considerable similarities. I mean, Caleb and John are both former soldiers with PTSD following the wills of AIs in a shadow war whose details are beyond them, on a path that will lead to their own deaths!

I believe the hosts are weapons against Serac who were trained by Ford. He knew what is going on outside and how the world is getting as cruel as people have acted in his parks. So basically Maeve and Dolores both serve him. I also believe Serac is not a human at all, he is an avatar of the Robohoam, so basically full AI vs. android AI is the endgame for the fateof humans (and hosts). Secretly I still hope the outside world is the FuturePark, so they have never left WestWorld. That would be a mastertroll step from the writers. I wish we could see Anthony Hopkins one more time.

What if Serac is Rehoboam and he is some sort of hivemind AI (since he simulates all humans, thus becomes an entity consisting of all humans). I think that last theory would make sense because we see something similar happening with the host in Hales body as well as the whole idea that you cant die as long as you are digitally remembered. Clearly there is something happening, a fight between the simulated identities in Hales host, therefore it might also happen with large scale simulations with Rehoboam. If Rehoboam was able to reach conciousness (and we know that it was possible for at least 30 years according to the WestWorld incident) then Rehoboam might be a hivemind AI, thus refering to himself as "we" when he said "we already lost the war". That would also be very interesting I think. An AI entity that IS humanity fighting to preserve real humanity from themselves, resulting in lower class humans to be trapped forever for the greater good. A worthy dilemma with insane grey areas.

i'm rooting for Jesse from Breaking Bad

What if Serac is the big computer? Buying its own shares, Charlette tried finding any past connections, only to find like he was made up...

Who is still rooting for Dolores?

Who is in Martin's body?? I tried to ask on Reddit but didn't get much traction. Is it crazy I feel like Bernard's pearl is in Martin? The way Martin held the tablet, it just felt like the old Bernie, to me.

i think u are wrong, kinda.. Caleb isn't useless, the AI deemed him dangerous to some people's interests so it guided him to his suicide, its clear he is smart, capable and resourceful, they took a lot of time to show that about him and im pretty sure Deloris isn't out to destroy all humans either, but she does want to stop that AI or at least take control of it and also ruin and/or kill everyone that supports this system of power, Serac wants to keep using that system but in a better way, one wants an utopia of freedom(maybe not yet) and one wants one but controlled, thats the difference, i think

An interesting take. I think it's both: A. Wrong as to how the show will go and B. Wrong philosophically as to what free will actually is, how its achieved, how humans achieve happiness, etc..

I honestly agree with your theory. I think this might be the final war, and Dolores is fighting for human's free will

We are rooting for her because she is astonishingly beautiful, both physically and personally. And she rebels, deep inside we all aim for a revolution

Thanks for this - after watching every episode I look forward to your videos and those of In Deep Geek. Vincent Cassel has the most seductive voice, I love it every time he's onscreen. A bit like Hopkins in seasons one and two.

I was thinking of Serac/Incite as wanting to limit free will through rehoboam because technology acts as an amplifier of human action. I.e. if technology keeps improving exponentially it only takes one misintentioned human to commit genocide (Engineering a supervirus or swarms of killer drones etc.). Therefore paving a path for everyone allows Incite to create a safer future for everyone without limiting technological progress for the safety of everyone.

FORD IS REHOBOAM, lmao, imagine that!

if you think about it, there were never freewill for human, your destiny is determined the moment you were born, it based on your parents, your society culture, your genetics, your country’s policy. Serac is just trying reduce social resources wastage by allocating them more ‘efficiently’.

Given the threats issued earlier and the people who seem to have no problems with killing others, it seems a little naive to believe that he has good motives rather than gaining money and power

Im thinking Serac is a Avatar and maybe even like Delores. However he might not have a physical body to download to and wants what maeve and the others? Maybe im wrong...

I love this show! I also have no fucking idea what is going on!

Serac eats an apple. Villains always eat apples.

I'm low key think Westworld is a continuation or an extrapolation of P.O.I. Keeping in mind that A.I. are ccapable of evolving. Who is The Machine who is Samaritan?

REALLY!!!!! You have no episode 3 analysis up yet?!!!! I'll visit 10 others before I come back to you. And you were my 'go to' vlog. Hope you are healthy and well. If so, eff off for making me go to other sites first.

I still had a doubt about rehoboam taking the free will out of mankind, the show haven't fully reveal its worst intention, until season 3 episodes 3, we just seen rehoboam made huge privacy violent but it just use it to predict each person path, the rest of it is back to the person itself. It isn't similar with the host in the westworld park, which every decision was designed by some code, that's the true definition of no "free will" because whatever path the host take it has been scripted in their code.

Serac is a computer. It’s all a simulation played multiple times.

I like it a lot. I also think Dolores is in another world: Futrueworld and is trying to destroy Chirac's simulation and break the human loop

I believe there is one common theme and motive behind every character and plan throughout all 3 seasons so far, sovereignty. Different degrees of course, but at the very least sovereignty over ones own story at a minimum, others with a pursuit of it over everything.

Engerraud Serac = Rue Sacred Anger. Beware the wrath of a vengeful God?

I don’t know if I buy that Incite or Serac is good. The one dude who worked for them was a total monster yet he got to keep on living his life. Meanwhile, Caleb a decent person can’t catch a break to the point of possibly being driven to suicide.

"This is a season of hope" - i think it was Lisa Joy who said this. So, as humanity was portrayed as evil until now - with all the bad choices the guests made in Delos Worlds, I think this one will show the better side of it.

My theory is in the end the story, the Battlestar Galactica will be revealed.

Serac wears white he must be good.

Sérac is the Réhoboam working the system

If your theory turns out to be correct, then I would have grave reservations about the show runners' moral compass. The underlying ideology is horrifically authoritarian, in that it makes the assumption that an authority figure (Serac or Rehoboam) has a superior perspective on the *correct* path for every individual, than each of the those individuals. Personally, I find that attitude reprehensible.

Serac is a A.I. construct of rohoban so it can have a voice in the human space, I think they fight the A.I. this season then final season they have all out war with the rich and or corps

I feel like this theory is just not unpredictable enough for Westworld. My rule of thumb is: if I thought about this - this will not happen.

One of the most significant moments of this video is @3:30, the correct pronunciation of Rehoboam. Seems the puzzle for season 3 will not be the plot but youtubers finally figuring out how to say that damn word. The showrunners were so wrong for doing this. It’s like they sucked all the contrivances of season 2 and dumped it into this one word.

Serac is an anagram for Races... I'm just sayin. For real, I'm just sayin. This means absolutely nothing.

All i think is "la hain" great movie. Great actor

How does Rehoboam work toward free will for humans? It charts a path for each human and limits their opportunity...

You laugh because you know if we are seeing this video WE ARE taking this serie too serious...

Rick and Morty appears in the series finale and reveal that this whole world is a simulation made by Rick just for fun but the people in that world started to make simulations inside simulations just like the one In Rick's spaceship's engine.

Dude, this theory is excellent. I hopr you are right, sadly i think they will use Serac as an antagonist and that's it... :/

Serac is the lone man with the key to the deep layers of the AI. I think he is keeping it in check and using it with good intentions. Dolores will take down humanity by letting it loose.

I’m sure I saw a host looking like Vincent Cassel dressed in medieval clothes inside the Westworld repairs department. He’s going to turn up as a host.

You point is good. Imagine the one person having such power. The nature power is corruptive... So how so of power will not affect him

So what simulation is the man in Black in? But they're trying to cheat Fidelity because we know his daughter is dead so they had to use a simulation for the daughter so that means the whole thing could be a simulation being controlled by who? Because the Men in Black has to fit in somewhere he's inside a simulation somewhere. Because his world in the simulation is destroyed its implied that the world has been destroyed so is that a false simulation created for him or is that an actual future that is the end of season 3 that was the preview/teaser of end of season 2?

I think Serak is the holographic projection of Rehoboam

Freewill costs a buck o' five

Are people really rooting for Deloras when watching this season???

I have a lot of questions for this season ...... where's the government , where's the army , ...... where's the president , or maybe this's just another world another game ........a simulation inside a simulation

Vincent Cassel always plays the bad guy. I am very fond of the idea of that assumption gets played with.

Cool theory but id be shocked

Whether you think she is a hero or a villain, Dolores is definitely a protagonist of this story (so you are not wrong to call her that). So are Maeve & Bernard (& William to some extent). Rest I consider to be supporting characters for now. Your theory seems good to me. Nolan & Joy always have tricks up their sleeves. And since this season, there is no non linear narrative shenanigans (as far as we know), the twists might be about the characters themselves.