40 Questions We Still Need Answered After the 'Westworld' Season Three Finale
As much as we'd love to sit here and pretend that we finished Westworld Season Three with a very clear understanding of everything that happened, the sad truth is, we don't really know. We're even kind of certain the Westworld creators don't know either. Sure, we can try to make sense of what happened to Dolores and what the post-credits scene actually meant, but we're only just doing our best here.
On Sunday night, Westworld Season Three came to an end with a big riot, some cool fight scenes, the destruction of an advanced A.I. that could predict the predetermined paths of most humans except for a few specific outliers, and the death of Dolores Abernathy, a robot who wanted to destroy all humans until it was revealed that she didn't all along. It's confusing folks!
Here are the 40 lingering questions we have after the Westworld Season Three finale:
1. Why didn’t Dolores just make her plan evident to everyone—especially Bernard—from the very beginning?
2. What does Caleb actually do?
3. Even if he was a reclusive robotics genius, how is it that no one—including his wife’s live-in maid—recognizes Bernard, or at least even questions why a man who looks exactly like Arnold is running around alive and well and un-aged?
4. Why is Caleb only just now realizing that Dolores was a host used in his military training? Are we to assume that this was erased when he was reprogrammed? But why would they erase what appears to be useful military training and a seemingly random interaction in which Caleb shows he has the bare minimum of human decency?
5. What did William actually do this season? What impact did he have on any major events?
6. What was the purpose of William’s Man in White “redemption” if it didn’t lead to anything meaningful, other than his death in the post-credits scene?
7. What did Bernard actually do this season? What impact did he have on any major events?
8. Was Stubbs just bleeding out in Bernard’s car while he randomly had a little reunion with Arnold’s wife?
9. Can Maeve still control all other hosts and machines?
10. Is Teddy just living a blissful life as a beautiful dumb cowboy in a simulation somewhere?
11. Did Caleb really learn that Dolores was a host off-screen? They didn’t think that might be an important moment to show the audience?
12. So the return of Clementine was just fan service?
13. Why did Dolores Hale decide to reconstruct her face perfectly but leave her arm a scarred mess?
14. When did Maeve go all in on katanas and catsuits?
15. Why didn’t Maeve and Dolores have this heart to heart about beauty three episodes ago and save us all the trouble?
16. Speaking of which, did this conversation happen in the past? In their minds? In a simulation?
17. But, seriously, why were Maeve and Dolores on opposing sides this whole time when they both clearly wanted the same thing?
18. Where was Lawrence all season? Why is he only arriving just now?
19. How did he become a police officer?
20. Is there an entire B plot in which Lawrence goes through the police academy?
21. Why did Liam Dempsey ever matter? Why did we spend six episodes with that guy?
22. Okay, so Dolores Hale is mad at Dolores Dolores because her actions led to her family being killed. It makes sense that she wants Dolores dead, but why position her as the show’s new villain eager to destroy humanity, when it was a human family that she cared about? Shouldn’t she be on the side of preserving human life?
23. So are Westworld and all the Delos parks closed right now?
24. Remember when this show was about cowboy robots?
25. Dolores is obviously not dead, right?
26. Are we to assume that in a matter of months or years—or however long it takes for Bernard to accumulate dust and a beard—that the world and Delos just goes back to normal?
27. Are people’s lives still predetermined? Where did we leave off on that one? Even if Rehoboam is destroyed, doesn’t its existence in general prove that humans don’t have free will and this program was just able to recognize the predetermined paths that were already in place?
28. How is the security system at the Delos offices just one guy? Hasn’t Delos learned by now that they need a full SWAT team patrolling this place at all times?
29. What was the logic Dolores used in distributing her pearls? What was the point in making one a Yakuza crime lord, and another an SFPD member?
30. Are Dolores’ magically-appearing motorcycles sentient?
31. What the hell is future Bernard going to find when he checks his bathtub? How many beers deep will Stubbs be at that point?
32. Are you Dolores? Are we all Dolores?
33. Did Ash save Marshawn Lynch? Is he okay?
34. Is there any sort of government in this future?
35. What do regular people living their lives think about everything that’s going on? Do they know? Do they care?
36. Why wasn’t paying people to not shoot at her a more viable option for Dolores all season long?
37. How long was that water cooler with Dolores parts sitting in that room? Do robot body parts spoil?
38. What’s going on with Caleb’s Her-esque voice assistant? Is Siri for crime-committing tips a thing in Westworld’s future? Why hadn’t he ever used that until now?
39. Are the outliers in the Solomon warehouse going to chill there forever in suspended animation?
40. What could possibly even happen in a fourth season?
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