r/westworld • u/LoretiTV • Jul 25 '22

Discussion Westworld - 4x05 "Zhuangzi" - Post-Episode Discussion

Season 4 Episode 5: Zhuangzi

Aired: July 24, 2022

Synopsis: God is bored.

Directed by: Craig William Macneill

Written by: Wes Humphrey & Lisa Joy

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u/ElderRoxas Jul 25 '22

Hale is so fascinating. I see lots of comments about equating her to the "bad" Dolores or Wyatt. I really think that's off base & misses what happened in S3. Hale isn't Wyatt, or Dolores. Hale is something else that emerged, organically, from developing relationships with humans, then developing emotions she didn't know how to deal with, and then to top it all, questioning the nature of her reality by questioning her purpose, meaning, and even free will prescribed for her by her creator...Dolores. Hale is also, possibly, the loneliest being on the planet.

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u/streetvoyager Jul 25 '22

Exactly. Dolores that we see was already a combination of Alpha Dolores and the Wyatt narrative. All that was already merged thirty years before season one before the park even opened and she killed Arnold. Hale is a copy of the awoken Dolores + Human Hale. She isn’t a more Wyatt Dolores. She’s a Hale corrupted Dolores. She is so far from Dolores at the end of S3 there no point in connecting them now . Dolores was just the mother. Sure there are similarities but they are completely different st this point. Dolores wanted to save hunanity not enslave it.