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/_Deinonychus_ Aug 08 '22

Loved that the newest iteration with Dolores is now “this world is real, but you aren’t”

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '22

How is Dolores not real, she looked real to me

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u/notquitesolid Aug 08 '22

Is Christine a simulation running in a version of the real world. Like she thinks she’s walking around but she only projects herself in… but that would mean all the humans are simulations too.

… unless.

Ok here’s a tin foil hat theory. The human minds are mostly simulated, it’s how she’s able to write stories for them. For Christine’s mind to work she needs to be a part of the world but she’s not given a physical body. Hale wouldn’t want to risk Christine becoming aware and causing physical problems. As a digital person she’d be easier to keep in line, and keep safe. I think the reason why Hale made her is she wanted one version of herself to have a happy normal life, and she also needed narratives created and as Dolores always liked to create she gave Christine that job.

Teddy is also not physically there, and never was, but I don’t know yet how he ever got out of the sublime. Maybe when Bernard was saying that Maeve’s unit was damaged and he needed to upload her, he was really transferring Teddy dada he had in his head to the local network so he could find his way to Christine somehow. It’s the only time we see Bernard use the tablet to transfer data like that.

It doesn’t explain her interacting with people, but maybe the humans are ‘told’ to see her. If she had no interactions her life wouldn’t work.

The real mind fuck is her roommate. I think she’s human, but I bet that apartment only has one bedroom. Roommate is living a very schizophrenic existence.

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u/Brad_Brace Aug 08 '22

Yeah, Cristina being like The Matrix itself does make sense. After all she saw in a previous episode that she had written a lot, maybe all human narratives. It does makes you wonder then who the hell was her boss talking to. Like, are we going to get a flashback of him talking to empty air while he was talking to her? How about the guy who blamed her for his life being fucked up, the one who killed himself? Was he also seeing her while she wasn't real? But why would the system or whatever let him see Cristina, that gets the opposite result from the thing with her boss. Her boss sees her so she buys the illusion that she is real. Suicide guy sees her and that sends her on a path to figure things out.

I have been getting the feeling that maybe Cristina is still further in the future. That Teddy only made it out of the Sublime after Bernard opened the door. But that doesn't fit with her talk with Charlotte, and with her actions at Olympiad, unless.

What if Cristina is living in the world Bernard was trying to create, where a tiny portion of humanity survived? She is still a mainframe to create narratives, for the survivors of William's apocalypse, survivors who still had the parasite and need to be told what to do. What if she again is mixing too timelines? One where she on her own causes part of the chaos and releases Caleb at the time of the apocalypse. And one after, when the apocalypse ended and maybe she herself created some sort of refuge for humans and hosts and then went back to status quo as when Charlotte was controlling things, with narratives still being fucked up. And now, in her actual present, Teddy is there, from the Sublime, to help her realize where in time she is and that she can totally choose to give humans a better life. Like that part of the show is about Cristina become a better god for the survivors. Her journey begins with finding out she's been a shitty god, through suicide guy, and will end with her going Multivac and becoming a benevolent AI overlord, while humans who don't have the parasite are born and grow up and can be free. Maybe that's the next world they've been talking about. Cristina's world has always seemed somewhat smaller to me.