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This post contains full spoilers for Westworld Season 4. You can check out our Season 4 finale review here<\/u>. And, if you’re dying for more on the series, check out all of our burning questions after the Westworld Season 4 finale<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Westworld just wrapped its fourth season, one that took us on a full loop back to the original park. Three seasons have played out since the titular locale was left in the dust, and now we’re seeing the roadmap lead us back to the show’s roots. Westworld is arguably the pinnacle of mystery box shows, one that begs keen-eyed viewers to look up the meanings of posters in the background and obsess over even the smallest change in a character’s cadence. In that spirit, we sat down with series co-creator, Lisa Joy, to dig into all of this season’s mysteries and to decipher just what might come next.<\/p>\n

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Dolores’s Test and the Fate of Humanity<\/strong><\/h2>\n

At the end of Season 4, things appeared pretty grim for the fleshy versions of our race. Humanity is limited to the remaining few outliers that were unaffected by the call of the tower. Potentially proving that Season 2’s Solomon was right all along.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHumanity’s screwed. The humans and the AI \u200b\u200bdidn’t diverge from the course they run,\u201d Joy told IGN. \u201cThey were on a track. They were on a path, and they kept going and repeating the same mistakes again and again, and it was curtains. That kind of reality, that life on earth is done. It is something that is really important to acknowledge is possible.\u201d <\/p>\n

Joy considered the direction of the series in a way that felt like a reflection of \u201cour reality\u201d as humans when contemplating the end of our world, \u201cwe won’t necessarily be fine, but the earth is going to be okay. I think it’s that idea of \u200b\u200bthat hubris that we all have, that the human race is unassailable, and we are the gods of our own small universes. It’s just not true.\u201d As to whether the outliers have any chance at resetting the planet we’ve come to call home, Joy agrees with Dolores that, \u201cearth, as we know, it is done.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the physical planet in ruins, and a clock started for the demise of the servers housing the Sublime’s data, Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) appears to be teeing up one last test to decide the direction she will take in saving hosts, humanity, or both. \u201cThe test, should we get to a fifth season, which would be great, is the thing that [Johnathan Nolan] and I have been working for or looking forward to for a while,\u201d she told us, with hope that the series will be renewed so they can explore the idea. \u201cThe human experiment and the host experiment have failed.\u201d <\/p>\n

She’ll create her own test, her own story that will differ, I think, quite substantially from any tests that Ford originally had.<\/p>\n\n

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As for what the god-like Dolores will do, it comes down to the outcome of her last loop. \u201cDo they deserve a chance to live on somehow? Or is it best to just let go? Has evolution moved beyond the human race and their progeny? And so, she’ll create her own test, her own story that will differ, I think, quite substantially from any tests that Ford originally had.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ford and Dolores’s Capabilities to Check Fidelity<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ford (Anthony Hopkins), of course, spent his time at the park creating and testing hosts. Behaving like a god, Ford fancied himself the creator of hosts, controlling them like an omniscient being, testing them for humanity. Now, the earliest host creation has stepped into a similar role, but she has a different outlook. \u201cWhat makes Dolores so powerful in her ability to remember and recall and reconfigure beings is that she has been a victim,\u201d Joy notes. \u201cShe has been the aggressor. She has been the person watching from afar without even a body. And so she has seen so much and born witness to so much, and now it was a chance for her to take that wisdom and write her own story.\u201d<\/p>\n

So how will Dolores possibly test what remains of humans and hosts? While the status of the Forge data is unknown, Dolores did once view it all. \u201cIn the sublime there are, as we’ve seen, a lot of friends that she can be reunited with and there will likely be some additional data too,\u201d Joy says. \u201cIn addition to the things that she, herself, can remember and recreate from this prodigious ability to retain information that she has.\u201d <\/p>\n

In the series finale, Dolores rendered the park while saying a similar line to one Akecheta (Zahn McClarnon) once whispered to Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth), \u201cYou only live as long as the last person to remember you.\u201d <\/p>\n

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