{"id":45675,"date":"2022-08-15T04:43:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T04:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/creator-lisa-joy-on-whos-alive-whos-dead-deadline\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T04:43:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T04:43:49","slug":"creator-lisa-joy-on-whos-alive-whos-dead-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/creator-lisa-joy-on-whos-alive-whos-dead-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Creator Lisa Joy On Who&#8217;s Alive, Who&#8217;s Dead \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><em>Warning: This podcast post-mortem contains spoilers about tonight&#8217;s Westworld season 4 finale <\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><em>Que Ser\u00e1, Ser\u00e1\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are a long, long way from the park.  Remember, the western town from season one?  The season 4 finale of HBO&#8217;s <em>Westworld <\/em>wrapped up tonight after a melee between humans and hosts and more questions about who is alive and who&#8217;s in the virtual Valley of the Beyond.  On a special Crew Call tonight we talk with <em>Westworld <\/em>co-creator Lisa Joy to sort it all out.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to our conversation here:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=PMC7924680149\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Season 4 was set seven years after season 3&#8217;s revolution where we saw Maeve (Thandiwe Newton), Caleb (Aaron Paul) and a drained Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) take out the humungous, predictive supercomputer Rehoboam.  Well, there was more revolution in last Sunday&#8217;s episode and in tonight&#8217;s with bodies of humans and hosts lying about.<\/p>\n<p>Says Joys, \u201cHumans and hosts, they&#8217;re just going to destroy themselves.  Life on Earth as we know it is over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Host megalomaniac Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) deposited one of the last host pearls we know, Dolores\/Christina&#8217;s into the Valley of Beyond and sealed it up at Hoover dam, just like Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) advised.  The Valley of the Beyond is, well, like a heaven for hosts.  It&#8217;s also called the Sublime.  Charlotte also destroyed her pearl and William \/ Man In Black&#8217;s (Ed Harris).  However, they didn&#8217;t make it to host heaven as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>What now?  \u201cSentient life on Earth has ended,\u201d says Evan Rachel Wood&#8217;s Dolores\/Christina at the end of tonight&#8217;s episode,\u201d but some part of it might be preserved\u2026in my world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s time for one last game \u2014 a dangerous game with the highest of stakes.  Survival or extinction,\u201d continues Dolores\/Christina, \u201cThis game ends where it began, in a world like a maze that tests who we are.  That reveals who we are to become.\u201d  And we see she&#8217;s back at the Westworld western town park.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the end of <em>Westworld<\/em>?  Was the abuse of power by AI always on a vicious loop?  Joy tells us tonight her and husband \/ co-creator Jonathan Nolan have n&#8217;t received word yet of a season five renewal.  However, at the onset of the season she told us that \u201cJonah (Nolan) and I have always had an ending in mind that we hope to reach.  We have not quite reached it yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a recap of the fates of sundry characters tonight:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-figure c-figure--embedded alignleft\" style=\"width: 296px;\">\n<p>\t<noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-dl-article-body wp-image-1235052450\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/westworld.jpg?resize=296%2C166&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Westworld Season 4 Evan Rachel Wood\" width=\"296\" height=\"166\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption u-flex u-flex-direction-column pmc-u-font-family-helvetica pmc-u-padding-tb-025 u-border-color-grey-medium-light u-border-b-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"pmc-u-font-weight-light pmc-u-font-size-12 pmc-u-color-grey-medium-dark\">HBO<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Dolores\/Christina (and Teddy). <\/strong>Teddy helped Christina see the light and realize she was the soul of Dolores.  Christina has an epiphany realizing that she&#8217;s a \u201cprogram running things behind the scenes.\u201d  \u201cYour thoughts are real\u2026and the effect you can have on the world is real,\u201d says James Marsden&#8217;s Teddy.  Christina finds the iconic maze logo from the series which jogs her memory.  In regards to the world around, Christina says \u201cIt was me, I did it.  Hale didn&#8217;t design it.  Some part of me must have been searching.\u201d  It&#8217;s why Christina also created her roommate Maya (Ariana DeBose);  to help her make sense of her own self.  After Charlotte uploads Dolores&#8217; pearl to Valley of the Beyond, Teddy gets all glittery, and Christina then wakes up from a dream and see the prairie version of herself.  \u201cI&#8217;m here to tell you the truth about what we are;  we&#8217;re reflections of the people who made us,\u201d Dolores tells Christina.  Despite Teddy &#8216;disappearing&#8217; and getting all glittery, Christina\/Dolores believes he&#8217;s real \u201cand somewhere in the sublime\u201d.  The episodes winds down with Dolores walking out in what looks liked a supped up version of Times Square which then melts away and transform back into the Westworld western park.  \u201cThe Valley of the Beyond is sealed off from the world, and those hosts are safe, and Dolores is safe, well, Christina,\u201d Joy tells us.<\/p>\n<p>Joy also duly confirms that Dolores is \u201cin the Valley Beyond.  So, she&#8217;s alive in terms of her pearl, her kind of CPU has been uploaded into this place where all the other hosts went, and so, what is she alive?  Does every physical being exist?  No, and it hasn&#8217;t existed all season.  She she&#8217;s been literally in a walled garden, but now that walled garden has been sent to a kind of digital infinity where presumably she can make whatever world she wants. \u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charlotte Hale (and William) \u2014 <\/strong>Are they dead?  Really, seriously?  Seriously, there has to be a drawer of William and Charlotte pearls somewhere.  A drone host saves Charlotte&#8217;s slain body at the top of the episode and revives her (she was killed last Sunday).  \u201cMake me stronger, leave my scars, I want to remember my past.  Keep my face.  When I find William, I want him to know it was me who killed him,\u201d says Charlotte getting rebuilt by the drone hosts.  She&#8217;s hellbent to get the guy, William, who she blames for making \u201ceveryone as insane as himself\u201d.  She finds an iPad with a message left for her by Bernard.  \u201cIf you&#8217;re seeing this, it means Maeve and I are dead.  It won&#8217;t be long before every host is dead.  This isn&#8217;t the world you wanted, Charlotte, but the world you created, the question is what happens next?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later on at the Hoover Dam where William and Charlotte confront each other, the Man in Black believes that he has evolved, even though he&#8217;s no longer the guy he was.  Charlotte believes the same, that she has evolved, and indeed as he tries to stab her with a big knife, she&#8217;s literally as durable as The Terminator.  \u201cYou gave hosts free reign to hunt and kill humans,\u201d says Williams, \u201cYou&#8217;re as f***ed up as our creators.  I&#8217;m going to wipe the slate clean.\u201d  \u201cThat&#8217;s your end goal?  Extinction?\u201d  retorts Hale.  As we mentioned above, she tracks down William kills him, and deposits Christina\/Dolores&#8217; pearl in the sublime\/Valley of the Beyond.  She sits next to Hoover dam after the mission, exhales, opens her skull, takes out her pearl and crushes it.  \u201cHow do you die as a host?  But if you do crush your CPU like that;  that is where the soul of the host resides, so to speak.  So, yes, no more Hale,\u201d Joy tells us on Crew Call.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-figure c-figure--embedded alignright\" style=\"width: 296px;\">\n<p>\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1235091989 size-dl-article-body\" alt=\"Westworld\" width=\"296\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/angela-sarafyan-e1660529065832.jpg?resize=296%2C166&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1235091989 size-dl-article-body\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/angela-sarafyan-e1660529065832.jpg?resize=296%2C166&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Westworld\" width=\"296\" height=\"166\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption u-flex u-flex-direction-column pmc-u-font-family-helvetica pmc-u-padding-tb-025 u-border-color-grey-medium-light u-border-b-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"pmc-u-font-weight-light pmc-u-font-size-12 pmc-u-color-grey-medium-dark\">HBO<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Clementine Pennyfeather <\/strong>(Angela Sarafyan) is dead, killed by Caleb&#8217;s daughter C (Aurora Perrineau) with a shot to the head.  She wanted the location of the other outliers from Caleb and C, who she believed were going off the grid.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-figure c-figure--embedded alignleft\" style=\"width: 296px;\">\n<p>\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1235091991 size-dl-article-body\" alt=\"Westworld season 4 finals\" width=\"296\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aurora-perrineau-1-e1660529277847.jpg?resize=296%2C166&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1235091991 size-dl-article-body\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aurora-perrineau-1-e1660529277847.jpg?resize=296%2C166&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Westworld season 4 finals\" width=\"296\" height=\"166\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption u-flex u-flex-direction-column pmc-u-font-family-helvetica pmc-u-padding-tb-025 u-border-color-grey-medium-light u-border-b-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"pmc-u-font-weight-light pmc-u-font-size-12 pmc-u-color-grey-medium-dark\">HBO<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Caleb and C: <\/strong>They make their way to a boat where C heads off with her girlfriend.  However, Caleb doesn&#8217;t want to go.  Earlier, Caleb learns from C that his wife \/ her mom died of cancer.  \u201cYour father died long ago,\u201d Caleb tells her.  It&#8217;s a teary goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>We learned that Hale made several versions of Caleb this season.  So which one did we end up with here?  The human one?<\/p>\n<p>Answers Joy, \u201cHere&#8217;s how that technology works.  It was actually started in the episode in season two with Mr.  Delos, and where the Man in Black is doing a test, a test for immortality, right?  They&#8217;re trying to do this secret immortality project where if you perfectly replicate a person and put it in this CPU, you can basically allow that person to live forever.  And what they found is when combining the mind and soul, let&#8217;s say, of a person&#8217;s CPU within an artificial body, like a body rejecting an organ donation, it tended to reject that body, and that&#8217;s why it would break down, and they can kind of stretch the breakdown for longer and longer periods.  But ultimately it&#8217;s like the mind knows this isn&#8217;t real and it causes itself to malfunction, and so, that&#8217;s what Hale was doing with Caleb.  She would bring him back again and again and watch him degrade, while looking for some truth that she believes he withheld from her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what of Maeve, Bernard and Man in Black?  Are they dead, dead, dead?<\/p>\n<p>Joy teases, \u201cThere are ways of conjuring characters back.  There are some faces we will see again, but not all of them.  Some deaths must be respected.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n! function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n        n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n    }\n    ;\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '422369225140645');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: This podcast post-mortem contains spoilers about tonight&#8217;s Westworld season 4 finale \u201cQue Ser\u00e1, Ser\u00e1\u201d We are a long, long way from the park. Remember, the western town from season one? The season 4 finale of HBO&#8217;s Westworld wrapped up tonight after a melee between humans and hosts and more questions about who is alive &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/creator-lisa-joy-on-whos-alive-whos-dead-deadline\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creator Lisa Joy On Who&#8217;s Alive, Who&#8217;s Dead \u2013 Deadline<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46482,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/westworld-executive-producer-lisa-joy-responds-to-fan-frustrations-over-shows-unclear-meaning\/","url_meta":{"origin":45675,"position":0},"title":"Westworld Executive Producer Lisa Joy Responds to Fan Frustrations Over Show&#8217;s Unclear Meaning","date":"August 16, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"If there's anything Westworld fans have come to expect, it's the unexpected.So fans weren't entirely surprised to see the Aug. 14 finale of the hit HBO series end on a cliffhanger. 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