With Season 3 of Westworld over, it is now time to try and make some predictions for season 4. Some things seem pretty clear from season 3 which is covered in this entry. However, where the writers are headed is a pretty wild guess. So here goes.

Season 4 Setting

Season 4 will take place in a dystopian future. That meme is so popular with the Hollywood crowd, that I don't see how Joy/Nolan could miss the chance to create one. The Bernard scene indicates at least a 2 year time jump. During that time, expect an ongoing conflict between two groups. The "free will" faction lead by Caleb and Maeve and a tyrannical, status quo faction lead by Hale/Dolores. Don't expect an all out military conflict, I think that would be too expensive to shoot. Instead, things will probably be closer to an underground armed resistance like the Irish revolution. Armed groups and hackers attacking the powerful and their societal control mechanisms. If the future is highly mechanized enough, the idea of armies becomes silly, whoever codes the best wins.

Halores Primary Villain

The Westworld season 3 post credits scene sees Hale/Dolores (Halores) replacing the Man in Black with a host. Expect the same thing to happen on an industrial scale. All those host machines will replace rich and powerful humans throughout human society. All that power and money will be used to create a self sustaining host society based on Delos technology. A society that can exist without humans: robot factories, robot power plants, robot trucks. (All this would need to be in place before you could kill off the humans.) This will of course take time and when season 4 starts, the wealthy elite will be living in wall cities with a large number of their membership being hosts. Halores will be moving close to a position where she can wipe out humanity once and for all.

Maeve and Caleb: Leaders of the Resistance

Maeve and Caleb will lead a resistance group against the ruling elites. Expect Maeve to get all her friends back, including Hector. (Remember Akecheta in season 2: You are alive as long as someone remembers you.) Their group will be mostly human with some host help. (It would be cool of Lutz and Sylvester will part of the resistance.) Given Maeve's gifts, it would be cool to see her build some new hosts, make cool machines, and do some really cool hacking. Anyway, they will be at least holding their own, when Bernard returns.

Bernard is Back

Bernard will be our view port into the world that has been created since the destruction of Incite. Beyond that, I've got no ideas on how he sill save the world. Hopefully, he won't be confused for too long in this season. :)

The Sublime (The Valley Beyond)

Where did Bernard go at the end of season 3? To the Sublime or the Valley Beyond, whatever you want to call it. So expect a decent chunk of time will be spent here. The most likely characters we will encounter will be Akecheta and Kohana, Teddy, and Maeve's daughter.

Predictions about the Sublime: * Time will move much faster there than in the real world. * Observing the real world will be a hobby for them and they will help Bernard save the world. * At least one of the Sublime hosts will send a copy to the real world to help Bernard.
* It's possible Teddy and/or Bernard create a version of Dolores.

Thoughts on the Sublime * The Sublime is connected to the Internet. Otherwise, Dolores could not have sent their world anyplace. * We cannot see into the Sublime because it is encrypted, but because the Sublime is connected to a network, those hosts can definitely see our world. * Time will move must faster there. * Intelligent AIs left in a vast virtual world? Just think of the crazy stuff they would invent! Especially given a few years. It would be nice to see some interesting toys created by the Sublime hosts and used to help the good guys.

The End of Humanity

Rehoboam predicted humanity would be extinct in like 50 years. But maybe that is just human life as we know it. One thought is the outliers are compatible with host bodies. Maybe humanity is gone because the next step in their evolution is become hosts? I expect this will be explored in season 4.

Dolores

Finally, Evan Rachael Wood (ERW) has said she is coming back in season 4. ERW could be playing Hale/Dolores or Lawrence/Dolores or one of the other two created last season. But I still see Dolores as the protagonist in this series. Therefore, I predict Bernard and/or Teddy will remake her in the Sublime and that new boss version of her will return to the real world.