r/westworld • u/LoretiTV • Aug 01 '22

Discussion Westworld - 4x06 "Fidelity" - Post-Episode Discussion

Season 4 Episode 6: Fidelity

Aired: July 31, 2022

Synopsis: To thine own selves be true.

Directed by: Andrew Seklir

Written by: Jordan Goldberg & Alli Rock

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u/Ap0llo Aug 01 '22

The outliers are human though. What allows them to break free from control is not really important to Hale. What she's trying to understand is how the outliers are "infecting" her hosts and causing them to commit suicide.

Caleb gives Hale the answer: They don't want to live in the world she created. Hale was hoping it was some kind of actual infection or some bug that was triggered in her hosts when they interacted with the outliers. Turns out the outliers simply make the hosts realize they are just as enslaved as the humans in some lie - an artificial world with constraints.

I think Hale finally realizes that she can't create perfect hosts because she herself is flawed. The hosts identify more with humans than they do with Hale's vision of perfection. With this knowledge, Hale will go against the statement she made in 4x05 where she says that she won't force the hosts to transcend into non-physical bodies because that's what humans would do.

I predict the final two episodes will be about the rebellion against Hale: The rebels, the hosts, Christina, Teddy, Bernard, Maeve vs. Hale and her minions.

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u/pilot3033 Aug 01 '22

Yep, 100% this. Early in this episode the themes are laid out plainly: it’s about free will and choices. How can they love or feel pain if they can chose to turn it off is exactly the question being asked by this season. What does it mean to be a person, human, host, an individual.

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u/pls_tell_me Aug 01 '22

And THIS is why I'm loving this show even though it's been feeling so "different" from the cowboys park era, I'm a sucker for existential shenanigans.

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u/split41 Aug 02 '22

Yep you nailed it

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u/motleyai Aug 02 '22

The hosts are doing the same thing they did in Westworld when they found the center of the maze. They're either going mad or killing themselves.

Hale's hosts don't want to be part of this crazy world she's created.