Seasons 1 and 2 of "Westworld" are as titled, focusing the story on a theme park called "West World", showing the vaguely antagonistic relationship between humans and robots. .
However, in the third season, the playwrights completely tore the relationship between humans and robots, and moved the camera to the real human world. Does the name "Westworld" seem to be off topic at this time? Or is the show's true theme hidden beneath the hilarity of Westworld, which has always been about the human world?
In the first part of the story, that is, the "Westworld" park created by humans, the legal constraints and moral fetters of the real world are stripped away, leaving only endless indulgence. Guests can temporarily escape from the real world and enjoy a full release of their inner desires. That's how the park has been open for decades, bringing great wealth to the Delos company. However, with the superimposed operation of the park from generation to generation and the founder Ford gradually surpassing the modern logic of living in the park, accidental factors appeared in the original strict mechanical system, which was manifested in the "awakening" of Hosts such as Delores and Meave.
When Meave found a "script" written on the control panel that was a self-righteous Free Will, Delores pointed the gun at the back of Ford's head and Ford smiled indifferently and relieved, we knew that Ben was the "God of Park World". (God)" Ford liberated his Creature in a self-destructive way, sacrificing the blood of himself and his kind on this "tragic" human path to godhood. This farce, directed and performed by itself, is full of modern tragedy.
The story ends with gunshots.
It is a pity that if the story had ended abruptly here, it could have written a thrilling and profound reflection on modernity. However, we can't expect too much. "Westworld" is still a commercial drama circulating in the opinion market. Just as "Westworld" brought huge benefits to Delos, "Westworld" has also become HBO's cash cow. The birth of the third season is almost an inevitable fact. If the income is not low, four, five, six, seven and eight are just around the corner.
As a result, the fallen curtain was lifted again. This time, the creators smashed the old stage and replaced it with a larger, more attractive and futuristic human world stage. This can also be seen from the crew. ambition.
Doing so, however, raises some tricky questions, such as what does "Westworld" refer to in season three?
From the creator's point of view, the best explanation here is that "Westworld" becomes a metaphor. Perhaps "Westworld" has always been an allegorical existence, and it has always referred to the "real world" outside. This explanation can make the production of the third season seem natural and necessary, because the screenwriter can say: "Ah, our first two seasons are actually to pave the way for revealing various phenomena in the human world!"
But again, but this logic will inevitably lead to a greatly reduced mystery and unexpectedness in the new series. In "Westworld", we have learned the "truth about modernity" that the creator wants to give us, so the human world will inevitably escape the fate of old wine in new bottles.
In the real human world, the opposing side of the struggle has changed from the Hosts and the Makers to those whose destiny has been determined (robots & low-level people) and the determiners (system & high-level people). In fact, there is no essential difference between the two. One is looking down from God's perspective, while the other is struggling for his own freedom and liberation.
These two groups of corresponding similarities depict the same path for human beings to become gods. In "Westworld", Ford and his colleagues created the setting of Hosts and various parts of the world, and went to the temple. In the "modern world", the high-level leaders who have mastered the Leihebo system have obtained various information about each person, determined each person's future actions, and arranged suitable positions for people, so as to board the modern temple of science and technology. .
In the story of "Westworld", the Hosts were not liberated by their own power alone, but were largely helped by Ford, which is God's suicide. [God's suicide plays a pivotal role in this play, and it may take a lot of space to discuss this topic alone, with deep meaning, and it may involve the two ways of death of God envisaged in Nietzsche's "tragic philosophy", but it is a bit far from the theme of this commentary , so it is not discussed here]
In the second half of the story, Rehobo's sudden death may have been an impossible dream for Delores and his companions.
Since only the third episode has been updated, the specific direction of the plot will be determined according to the original drama. But as I just said, we already have a "learning from the past", and can boldly imagine that the final ending is not very different from the first story (the one in "Westworld") that has ended - the deterministic system collapses , free to return to the world blahblahblah.
The decrease in unpredictability is the reason for the deducted star.
Even so, I still hope that the creators will open their minds and have a great explosion of inspiration, so that we can all be amazed, and then I will definitely come back to supply you with stars!
It's getting late at night, so I'll watch a few more episodes in the future, think about it and write more.
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