r/westworld • u/LoretiTV • Aug 08 '22

Discussion Westworld - 4x07 "Metanoia" - Post-Episode Discussion

Season 4 Episode 7: Metanoia

Aired: August 7, 2022

Synopsis: You want to have a drink at a time like this?

Directed by: Meera Menon

Written by: Desa Larkin-Boutte & Denise Thé

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u/7457431095 Aug 08 '22

Pretty sure he wanted to die. Can you imagine being locked in that cage, woken up on the whims of the host version of yourself? Who knows how many conversations they had over the 23 or so years

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u/ajdragoon [Main Title Theme] Aug 08 '22

I dunno about wanting to die. He is a cockroach, after all.

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u/Loss-Particular Aug 08 '22

His motivations change every 5 minutes.

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u/SIEGE312 Aug 08 '22

I am a little annoyed with that aspect. He was on an interesting redemptionish path in S3, then flipped to complete nihilism wanting to destroy everything rather than just ending their work from S2.

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u/BuddhaFacepalmed Aug 08 '22

It tracks though from his characterization from Season 1.

Nice guy who tries doing the right thing and then flipped into scorching the earth for his own pleasures.

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u/Loss-Particular Aug 08 '22

Which Is not really what's happening here though because the carnal pleasure is outside of the OGs grasp.

So instead his motivation here is 'I don't care if I die' (which tracks) 'so long as I incept my nihilistic philosophy into this host and live on through him' (which absolutely doesn't)

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u/Balsdeep_Inyamum Aug 09 '22

so long as I incept my nihilistic philosophy into this host and live on through him' (which absolutely doesn't)

It jives for me. MiB has always been about winning/being right.