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Westworld: Crisis Theory (2020)
Westworld was my favourite show - and i don't like what happened with it
Westworld S01 was my favourite season from any shows, ever. It was beautiful, smart, creative, twisted, and had amazing phylosophical thoughts about our beliefs, our gods, our motives, our morales - generally about ourselves. The dialogues were smart, the characters were amazing, and with the plot, we really felt like we were also in the labyrinth - just like the hosts.
Season 2 had it's problems (the plot was especially messy) but it had some great moments and messages - this time about free will, immortality, and generally about our self-consciousness. Also there were some amazing twists and episodes, such as the story of Aketcheta. I was really looking forward to this season, and it started well. But to the end of the season, nothing really worked out well.
Let's start with the positives. Dolores' character ark, and Evan Rachel Wood's performance was awesome. I liked Maeve's decisions at the end (for the first time of this season), i hope she 'll be her old self in the next season. The moral lessons were not that bad in my opinion: the AI-ruled society and the dilemma about the controlled order or the free chaos was pretty interesting, but it didn't get enough attention. Also, the acting generally was great. So was the music.
And now the negatives. This season had no focus. It just had random storylines running through and crossing each other. The fight scenes became kind of ridiculous. I wanted to see a coherent and clever plot with amazing dialogues and a creative world - just like in S01. Instead, i got some empty action flick. The fights had no purpose, and no consequences.
The characters were pretty simple. Willian was just wondering around - as through the whole season. He had no purpose, just that stupid "i'm gonna save the world" cliche. His transformation through the seasons didn't make any sense at the end. The scene after the credits was just the final straw.
I already mentioned Maeve. Her relationship with her daughter isn't that stupid as some people think: it means that even though her daughter is just a code, her feelings are real, and that makes her the person she really is. Sad, that here, she was just a puppet till the end.
According to this episode, Bernard can be a key player next season, but here he just played a plot detective. Caleb had no charisma. I really like Aaron Paul, and Caleb was a pretty interesting and well-written character, but i just couldn't picture him as a leader of a rebellion. Charlotte-Dolores made an appearance, but i just couldn't follow her motives - her change was too fast and too radical. She just had a family she cared about with humans, why does she suddenly wants to kill all of them? But the really bad decision i think comes with Serac. They completely destroyed his character.
I shouldn't even go through the logical mistakes of this episode (for example: how the hell could Charlotte-Dolores go inside the Delos facility, when everyone knows she's a host), i will talk about the main problem istead. I think they brought back too much characters from death, they made too much plot twists and alternative storylines in people's head, or in other realities, that they can't surprise us. Nothing has consequence. They kill off a character, but they can bring them back in the next episode. They can make a twist, and then turn it back. We just can't follow which happening is real with real stakes, or which is just a filler. So we can't root for anybody.
I'm still gonna watch the next season. I care about this show too much to stop there. But i don't like the direction we're heading...