

That said, you don’t create panic on the streets of Los Angeles by sharing good news. There is something to be said that Westworld’s abiding philosophy is misanthropy and that it would be a better show were that not the case. There’s nobody looking at their phone, skipping to the conclusion and finding “lives to 95 and enjoys a lovely garden”. It does appear, by the looks of the mass freak out, that everybody gets bad news.


And during a leisurely wander through futuristic LA on plane, train and automobile, she decides that the best thing to do with all this data would be to send it directly to people’s phones, causing them to learn they will have early onset dementia on the subway home. In jacking Serac’s data, she also steals the files of an unspecified number of other human beings. On the other hand, you do get the sense that were Dolores to exist in our current reality, she might have some struggles remaining GDPR compliant. the mysterious Engerraund Serac, played by Vincent Cassel is the target of Dolores’s theft. She is not for determinism, and having lived umpteen lives as a host in Westworld where not only are events preordained but unremittingly brutal, you can understand why.īig data. Namely the Rohoho file on Serac which predicts the future of the billionaire tech mogul, émigré Frenchman and wannabe God.ĭolores is of the mind that predicting people’s future with a degree of accuracy that allows someone to control their lives, to keep them on a loop as Bernard puts it, is not fair. Liam became expendable because Dolores now has all the information from Incite that she needs. Eventually he dies in Caleb’s arms, his last words enigmatic and just a little bit mean: “ You did it! You did it!”. He couldn’t help whinging about how all the human scum deserved to have their futures written by the Rohohoboam and how he’d had all his money taken and blah blah blah so, anyway … he gets a bullet in the stomach and falls into the sea. She did it to prove her own agency, her free will … and also just to shut the dude up. The heir to the money man behind Incite bleeds out on a Californian beach after being shot by Caleb’s pal, Ash. Let’s take a moment to reflect on the passing of Liam Dempsey. Do not read unless you have watched season three, episode five.
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Spoiler alert: this blog is published after Westworld airs on HBO in the US and Sky Atlantic in the UK on Sunday night/Monday morning.
