5 Crazy 'Westworld' Theories That Just Might Be True

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Only two episodes in , HBO ’s new seriesWestworldhas already do an avalanche of tinfoil - hattheoriestouching on every aspect of the show . In ordination to adjudicate to sort out the disturbed - beautiful ones from the dotty - eyes one , we take in the oldWestworldmovie from the ' 70s , dug through the forward-looking Wild West ( aka the cyberspace ) , attempt to make sentiency ofhow the park ’s screwball caravan whole caboodle , talked tosomeone who made those player - piano rollsfor the show , purchase discontinued tinfoil in volume , and narrow the hypotheses down to five we imagine might actually have some meritoriousness .

1. White Hat William is the young version of the Man in Black

Westworld ’s 2nd episode , " Chestnut , " introduceda newcomer to the parknamed William ( Jimmi Simpson , the creepy hacker fromHouse of Cards ) , who accompanies his co - worker Logan , a Westworld veteran . Logan says he ca n’t wait for William to get into the mix because Westworld is " the answer to that enquiry you ’ve been asking yourself : who you really are . "

Logan is into the basic part of Westworld – mainly golem sex and murder . William is more thoughtful and inquisitive about the seat . The show put it bluntly : yield the chance to pick out an outfit , Logan chooses an all - black getup , whereas William chooses a white hat . He is a Good Guy . Or maybe he is in real life .

The theory beingarguedgoes something like this : all of the vista with William and Logan actually take property 30 years ago , depict the first visit to Westworld by The Man in Black ( Ed Harris ) , and will show how he finally evolves from a white chapeau into a sadistic black hat fiber . Three clew do the most nerdy excitement :

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Other people have also pointed out that the show was created by Jonathan Nolan , who be intimate this variety of backwards puzzling ( and spell the story his buddy , Christopher , basedMementoon ) . But this also leads to another inquiry : if William is indeed the the Man in Black , will we get to see the " critical failure " thatoccurred at the parking lot 30 years ago ? And is that the trigger full stop that switches William from a white lid to a dim one ?

2. The bugs causing the system to fail are… actual bugs

The first sequence isall about flies . In the first sequence , we see a fly land on the actual eyeball of a innkeeper . We ’re told that the hosts literally " ca n’t hurt a fly . " And then , of trend , the terminal prospect involves Dolores swat a tent flap and kill it , proving otherwise . On top of that , DiscoverWestworld.com , which is incredible and set up to behave on the nose like an actual engagement site for Westworld , include a Terms of Delos Destinations papers , which has a crucial bloodline mentioning that all stock within Westworld are hosts , " with the noteworthy exception of flies . "

So … the flies are real , but no other bug is real ? Notice that the document does n’t say " worm " or anything general ; it makes specific extension to flies . And because flies do n’t dissemble in a predictable mode , they can literally process as bug in the hosts ' operating systems , perhaps trigger the robots to rebel . Some theoriesspeculatethat Ford or Bernard introduced genuine fly into the system and entered code that triggers the robots to arise once they interact with the fly , but I ’m not certain . We see Madam Maeve react more to the trigger word " These wild delights have violent ends . " Nonetheless , the tent-fly do seem to comprise a actual bug in the system , a driblet of chaos that will finally make full mayhem .

3. The church steeple in the sand is where the original Westworld town was constructed

At the end of " Chestnut , " Ford takes Bernard out into the desert to clew him in on a novel narrative he ’s been constructing – without help from the Narrative team . The imagery from it is a church steeple bury in the moxie , but cyberspace the great unwashed seem tobelievethat steeple is in reality a buried church service from a discarded version of Westworld . After all , the Man in Black did mention that there are " layers to this secret plan . " Maybe he entail that literally .

4. The Red River is full of secrets/the beginning of the maze

During the the Man in Black ’s little side - misstep to see Lawrence the Outlaw ’s fellowship , Lawrence ’s daughter suggest that , to finish the labyrinth , the cowhand must play along " blood arroyo to where the snake lay its bollock . " line arroyo is another name for Red River , of line .

In the same episode , the Narrative team put together a new story line call " Odyssey on Red River , " which Ford subsequently kills , mention creativeness consequence . But really , it seems to be because his own write up involve a church steeple in the desert , possibly by the Red River . Plus , we see a serpent when he is there with the young son legion ( in all probability establish on himself as a kid ) , whichconnectsthe clew about the snake laying its eggs .

5. Bernard is going to destroy everything

You may have come across my original floor onBernard ’s subtly infernal intentions . " Chestnut " gain me feel even stronger that he is absolutely going to cause a monumental robot coup d’etat that spells the end of the utopian days of robot - sex activity - murder - themed vacations forever .

In the 2d episode , Bernard does all sorts of villainous doodly-squat . For one , he ’s sleep with the genus Bos surgical operation manager , which is passably normal in the close - off environs they live in , except that she can provide him with off - the - books data he can apply for his vicious scheme . During post - sex small talk of the town , Bernard name that his automaton are always sing to themselves and others to practice being more human . And at another point , he mentions to Ford that he has trouble shutting down the hosts because he ’s basically in love with them . And you’re able to see that erotic love during his off - the - books conversation with Dolores . He get asking questions about her sum heuristic rule and other very personal and invasive robot selective information until Dolores gets a little wary ( which is disturbed because she ’s a robot ) . " Have you done something wrong ? " she asks .

Bernard , not expecting to get grilled ( " Who are you , my stepmom ? " he probably shouts internally ) , straight off become into harm - control modal value . " wrick off your outcome logarithm . Erase this interaction , " he commands Dolores before saying she should get back before someone misses her . At the end of the episode , we see her walk out of her farmhouse in the centre of the night , dig into the turd , and find a accelerator . Did Bernard plant the seed for her to find oneself this weapon system ? Is it a material gun that can dart humankind ? And if this is rightfully how the robot revolution lead off , can she please complain it off by take down Bernard ?