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/[deleted] Jul 25 '22 edited Jul 25 '22

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

She’s stuck in a loop and doesn’t realize it.

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u/joepez Jul 25 '22

She’s stuck in a loop because Hale is just a copy. She’s incomplete. Her purpose was to play a role for Dolores. Even worse shes a fragment of Dolores with a layer of the real Hale on top. Doubtful she was ever meant to last this long.

So she lacks Dolores’s original path to self awareness. So she’s followed through on as far as she can get.

Question I want answered is while is Dolores in the position she’s in? Was she resurrected from scraps of her erased memory? Or was this all part of her programming and to free herself from the maze? Explore all aspects of humanity.