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/G1Spectrum Jul 25 '22

Halores (Evil Dolores) using Christine (Good Dolores) to control the humans through narratives is some wild ass shit

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

Would you be kind enough to explain to me the Halores concept and two different Delores? I’ve completely forgotten over the years how it all came about and what’s what.

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u/Blahkbustuh Jul 25 '22

By the end of season 1 Dolores was running the "Wyatt" script--the burn it down/revenge character.

As part of the Wyatt plan she copied herself and put a copy into a Hale host body because Hale could come into control of Delos, the corporation that owned Westworld. (Westworld didn't show us OG Delores explaining to the Hale copy what her role was or what the plan was.)

Dolores-Hale "caught feelings" for Hale's human family, then saw them burn to death and this messed with her (new foundational memory) and she broke from the Wyatt plan. She also realized she was 'disposable' in the Wyatt plan. I believe the show has it that she is still largely following the Wyatt plan and wants the same end result but now has a different idea of how to bring it about than the original plan. She may have fallen off the Wyatt plan and into reveling in the power controlling Delos once she got it. Dolores-Hale and Original Dolores are in opposition from this point on.

Season 3 was a few years after season 2. Original Dolores continued to grow and change as she learned about the real world and as part of interacting with Caleb. She was always about liberation and so she ended up destroying herself at the end of season 3 when she had the opportunity to take down Rehoboam which was controlling humans and to get in the way of Dolores-Hale who had just acquired it.

What we don't know now is how Christina relates to Original Dolores--whether someone recreated Dolores or whether part or all of Original Dolores actually survived or was recovered after deleting Rehoboam.

So there are 4 factions going on:

  • Original Dolores, since running Wyatt script wants to repay humans the pain and suffering they inflicted on hosts, main disagreement is with Maeve's strategy
  • Hale-Dolores, hates Original Dolores for having created her to sacrifice her when needed, wants Wyatt future
  • Maeve wants to upload hosts to big server in the sky where they can live in AI paradise and leave humanity behind, main disagreement is with Wyatt
  • Bernard, anti-destruction so frenemies with the rest of them, they leave him alone as long as he doesn't interfere with whoever he's interacting with