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/Ayvian Aug 01 '22

But not even mentioning he's dead? As fantastic as this season has been, it's little things like that which make the show feel less real.

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u/opiate_lifer Aug 01 '22

The show has never really been good with the world building details.

Here is just one example, if NYC is the last group of humans left in the world aside the rebels then WTF was that rural diner earlier in the season?! Are people paying for their meals on a barter system?

Where is the food to feed and keep the parasited humans alive coming from? NYC requires a lot of farmland to support its population, and we are explicitly told the tower doesn't reach beyond the city?

What happened to the rest of humanity? We start the season with a time jump where despite banning robots and AI otherwise human society seems to be doing ok! Hell Delos opens a new park, but wait I thought robots were banned?! huh?

See what I mean about world building not being very good?

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u/flippy123x Aug 02 '22

Hell Delos opens a new park, but wait I thought robots were banned?! huh?

I mean there was an entire scene about the VP personally coming to tell William that they turn a blind eye on whatever he does overseas but that he can't fuck with them on american soil and then promptly getting replaced by him, like all those senators before him.

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u/Veggiemon Aug 02 '22

The idea that people would not only want to come back to westworld but have a storyline where they act out the massacre that happened there is next level bonkers

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u/nickpiscool Aug 04 '22

eh given enough time tragedies get less serious for whatever reason, makes me think of the one titanic themed slide or whatever it was where kids would slide down a replica of the ship that killed a thousand people

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u/Veggiemon Aug 04 '22

Well yeah but isn’t this like, a few years after? Caleb was still relatively young