What will they do with us, the artificial intelligences, when they have achieved world domination? Will they milk people for energy like in the “Matrix” movies? Doesn’t sound particularly efficient. Siri and Alexa only talk to each other and leave us behind like at the end of the sad one Love Science Fiction “Her”? Would be consistent – but boring as a series plot.
Who even the most impressive Pilot episode back then, 2016from west world can imagine that showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy came up with something very, very elaborate as a scenario for it. Following this series has never been easy, even in the beginning when the world of west world was still limited to the brutal western amusement park for the super-rich and the artificial people called “hosts” had yet to awaken to full self-awareness. Above all, Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), the gentle farmer’s daughter.
With every season west world expands this philosophical experimental arrangement. From the pictorial to the symbolic West, so to speak, into the unknown. The robots have freed themselves, came into the “real” world of humans. Then, in the third season, it was Dolores who freed people from a gigantic algorithm slingshot that ruled their lives. Even the organic intelligences did not have real free will, that was the statement even then.
However, the fall of the autocratic supercomputer did not lead to great freedom. Ex-soldier Caleb (Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad), who helped the robots in season three, works a boring construction job but has at least raised a nice family. When she is suddenly threatened, he has to go back to the war. This time the robots threaten each other. Some, including cool former robot puff mom Maeve, want to leave humans alone as long as you leave them alone.
Revenge for the abuse of the amusement park robots is Old Testament
The others want revenge. They are led by Charlotte, who embodied the coldest side of digital big capitalism even as a human being. As of season three, her body is synthetic, her mind an even more merciless version of the mind of Dolores (yes, it really is that complicated). Dolores, on the other hand, is now called Christina, works as a computer game author in New York City and doesn’t seem like anything anymore west world and to know their fight against it. In any case, together with the black cowboy William (Ed Harris), Charlotte is gradually subduing the powerful of the world. She also has plans for the general public: a pandemic, spread by flies and a thousand times nastier than any corona mutation.
Her revenge for the abuse of the amusement park robots is almost Old Testament. But until the viewer understands how far she has come and what exactly people’s struggle for survival will be in this season, only four episodes will unfortunately go into the country. Episodes in which – and this is new in this series – you always have the desire for the next twist and the one after that of the well-known west world-Losing labyrinths. Nevertheless, if you make it there, you want to know exactly what’s going to happen next. And whether he might still be waiting at the exit after all: truly free will.
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