Gathered around are a gaggle of goons and their boss, Serac. Above, in all his throbbing red glory, looms the Rohohohoboam. Dolores is laid out prone in the centre, her limbs attached to luminous white tubes. The climactic location for this season is a tableaux not unlike a sculpture in a Renaissance chapel – except with added machine guns. Eventually, Caleb gets through to a police chopper and, after a wistful glance at his pals, flies off to a rendezvous with fate. Giggles gets shot, although not before he has the chance to do some mini-Beast Mode action on a canister of tear gas and a concrete wall. On the way, he meets Giggles and Ash, who are leading the revolution against Serac (and helping Dolores, even though they don’t know it). Thankfully, you can always rely on Rent-a-Goon, who spirit up some meat to help Caleb march through the crowds. There are pockets of heavy rioting along the route this looks set to affect journey time. Meanwhile, Caleb is charging across town trying to get to the Rohohoboam and switch it off with his big dongle of doom (it flashes red). Where is my mind? Bernard enters the simulation. In a jot, Maeve is over to scoop her up and take her straight to Serac. Got it? Good, because the fact that Hale is Hale but also Dolores means she has the power to tighten Dolores’s neck nut remotely, or something, making the Abernathy gal slump to the floor. Hale is, of course, Dolores, but also a bit Hale, which is why she is pissed off with Dolores, who kind of left Hale in the lurch when it came to the whole Delos takeover thing. When I say “herself”, I mean Hale, who got sizzled like a sausage in an exploding car the other week, but is back in hologram form. She gets up, leaves Maeve to find her own path – and is immediately floored by herself. She has Maeve on the floor and could finish her should she choose to, but no – choice is the whole point. New Dolores is rough, tough and great with a windmill kick. Instead we have to cut straight to Maeve coming at Dolores with her katana and, this time, getting her ass kicked.
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You may be asking yourself why anyone would bother with that palaver when this new Dolores just pulls on her skin like a glove and is ready to fight, but, viewer, we have no time. Caleb has used one last control unit to build a new, battle-ready Dolores that is not made from milk and doesn’t have any blood. After dispatching one Dolores in last week’s battle, she finds herself face to face with another almost immediately. She really is one for the swearing, our Maeve, but after all she’s been through, I’ll allow it. “This is the new world,” she tells Caleb, “and in this world you can be whoever the fuck you want.”
Having begun this finale knocked out on the floor of a hangar, she ends it surveying chaos, but she seems pretty happy about it.
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The undisputed champion of the new normal, in which buildings are blowing up and everyone is rioting, but at least they did it of their own free will.
Hale is a hologram and Caleb got his hair mussed. Stubbs is bleeding out in a tub drinking rubbish booze, while William survives till the credits but not beyond. Do not read unless you have watched season three, episode eight.ĭolores is dead. Spoiler alert: this blog is published after Westworld airs on HBO in the US and Sky Atlantic in the UK on Sunday night/Monday morning.