It ended. No cliffhanger. Somewhat confusing.
Yeah, they should have just called this the series finale instead of a cancellation, show was weird AF anyways.
That wouldn’t make much sense since the end of season 4 very clearly sets up a season 5. Plus, Lisa Joy said - before it was officially canceled - that they had intended a season 5 despite not knowing if it was coming back.
And just in case anyone out there thought Westworld couldn’t go out on a wetter fart than it did, not only was it canceled, but as of yesterday it was officially scrubbed from streaming on HBO Max. Bit of an ignominious ending there. All that’s left now is for David Zaslav to introduce the new HBO slogan: “It’s not TV — it’s content for free ad-supported streaming services.”
It was a few days ago actually, I had to download the last couple episodes. And the set up for next season barely made any sense, all the humans are gone already… what is Dolores little matrix westworld supposed to accomplish?
Boy, that sucks. How many prospective fans now won’t even be able to watch the first season?
They’re leasing the show to another provider. It will be available again soonish. That is why they pulled this one. The Discovery CEO is trying to turn his mess of a company profitable when it is actually in the phase of trying to grow the service.
This is sadly not going to go well unless the entire mess gets bought out soon by some corporation with deep pockets. Amazon would be interesting.
Disclosure: I had AT&T stock, since this stupidity AT&T has lost about 15% of value. The split stock of WBD {WARNER BROS DISCOVERY} has lost 67% of value! So the pair of CEOs behind this mess are utter shit to my mind.
I’ve read someplace that Comcast might want to buy Warner Bros Discovery.
BTW, you might enjoy this New York Times article (gift link); “Was This $100 Billion Deal the Worst Merger Ever?”
Given that a previous merger put Warner together with AOL, that’s saying something.
Dunno, but Joy and Nolan had something planned apparently. The show has always been about existential stuff like what does it mean to be human or guest, free will, consciousness, are we just inherently vicious animals forever doomed to destroy everything around us, yadda yadda yadda. So Dolores’s final test that she had planned was probably something like to see if the humans and guests that were in the Sublime could learn or evolve into something new or better, possibly together as a best-of-both-worlds type hybrid.
Thematically, it makes perfect sense, even if it probably wasn’t going to make good television.
…what I hated about what the show eventually turned into was that by the end I didn’t care about any of the characters at all.
In the first season my favourite character by a large margin was Elsie. The first season fake-out (was she dead? no she isn’t!) was immediately undercut at the end of the second season where she became dead-dead.
They made Bernard boring. Pairing Ashley with Bernard instead of Elsie was a lost opportunity. They turned Dolores into a cartoon villain. Maeve’s motivations became inexplicable. Caleb was supposed to be the guy the audience identified with, but so much of that depended on people loving what he did with Breaking Bad but the thing is…I hated Breaking Bad.
By the end Maeve was the only character I was cheering for, and she went out with a whimper. Dead, but probably not dead, but since we aren’t getting a Season 5 as good as dead. Just pointless.
Back when I was about 15 the Drama teacher at the school I was at wrote a play that his students preformed in, and I went to opening night. And it wasn’t very good. But the worst part was that when it ended nobody knew that the play had ended and we all sat, silent in the audience waiting for the next act only for the drama teacher to poke his head through the curtain to tell us all “its over, you can go home now.”
And that’s how I felt at the end of Westworld. As all of our main characters “died” and as humanity ceased to exist I kept expecting something else to happen but instead all we got was Nolan poking his head through the curtain and saying “nope. That’s it. That’s all you get.”
It was all just so profoundly disappointing.
I mean, it wasn’t SUPPOSED to end like that.
…yeah, but that’s how it ended. The chessboard had been cleared.
The humans are dead.
Everybody’s dead Dave.
It’s game over man.
Perhaps Season 5 they could have built a fire. Sang a couple of songs. They could have tried that. But it would have been another soft reboot: just like the soft reboot at the start of Season 3 which was followed by the soft reboot at the start of Season 4. It would have been a different show. Again.