The revelation to Dolores proves to be one of the final steps necessary in getting her to finally shed her ignorance and successfully complete Arnold’s Maze. The latter is stripped naked and left to die out in the periphery of the park (although, it must be asked, where were the behind-the-scenes handlers, who are able to seemingly track every guest who sets foot on the property? Wouldn’t they have been able to track Logan down and rescue him at some point?). This epiphany leads to another: that Delos needed to get behind Westworld and become its major financial backer to ensure its continued existence, and that, furthermore, he was perfectly suited to run the company in place of his would-be future brother-in-law, Logan (Ben Barnes). William viciously hunts down and dispatches all hosts who had spotted that era’s wayward Dolores (especially those soldiers who had had their way with her), and he learns that, quite to the contrary of what his entire life had led him to believe up until that point, he had a propensity for violence – and a glee at being able to finally inflict his will upon the world. Frustrated that all this time might have been for naught (again), the Man in Black begins to viciously beat his host companion (again), prompting her to say that her savior, her one true love, will be arriving shortly to slay him and rescue her: William.ĭelighted at her ability to remember their time together – and, perhaps, delighted at the opportunity to inflict a whole new type of pain on her – MIB begins to regale the story of how his very first time in the park, 30 years ago, ended. As the sweet rancher’s daughter continues to act out her memories in the present – remember, hosts can’t differentiate between different time periods – she leads the black-hat cowboy to her “grave” and digs up a children’s maze toy, the clear originator of Arnold’s Maze’s logo that continues to dot Westworld’s landscape. The Man in Black and Dolores find one another at the church, the site where both believe the center of the Maze is located (more on which in just a moment). That Ed Harris’s Man in Black ended up being the future version of Jimmi Simpson’s William is not a surprising development for all keen-eyed (re)watchers, as the number of links between the two characters – from repeated lines of dialogue to the leftover picture of William’s fiancé being the piece of evidence that set off Dolores Abernathy’s (Evan Rachel Wood) father, Peter (Louis Herthum), way back in the first installment – were simply too great to be ignored.īut what was more impactful was the way in which the information was conveyed. The reveal of the Man in Black’s identity In order to process everything, however, we had better slice it up into its constituent pieces-parts and tackle them one at a time, or we just might otherwise end up like some of those poor, unfortunate hosts that go insane after getting just a peak at their own consciousnesses.
Robert Ford’s (Anthony Hopkins) new narrative proved to be simultaneously surprising and fully expected – which is to say, feeling as if it fit every single clue that had been dropped since the first very episode, providing an organic climax as opposed to an artificial surprise ending. The finesse with which everything was handled was impressive, and the answers were never pat, even if they were seen coming a mile away (William, we’re looking at you).
Westworld’s first season finale is everything that the cast and crew had been promising and that its fans hoped for – a grand resolution to the season’s overarching narrative, offering both obvious and subtle answers to nearly all of its questions, but also ending on something of a cliffhanger note that promises much more to come in the second season.
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