WESTWORLD: Season 2 News, Speculation, Bicameral Mind HD Images, & Video Essays [HBO]

Westworld: Season 1 Video Essays

The HBO video ‘Dr. Ford’s New Narrative: Westworld (HBO)’ explains to the viewer how the first season was defined by control and that the second season will be defined by chaos.

The ‘Westworld Ending Explained (Ford’s Master Plan, The Maze & Dolores)’ video does a great job of explaining how a Host reaches consciousness. Some of the other explanations I take issue with but the consciousness explanation is rock solid.

The ‘Westworld Timeline Explained (Season Finale & Man in Black Theory)’ video puts the TV show in chronological order for the viewer. Westworld: Season 2 revealed key moments out of sequence. This video puts it all in order so that it is easier to understand.

Westworld: Season 2 News and Speculation:

The Man in Black

The ‘Westworld Episode 10 Finale and Season 2 Explained Top 10 WTF Questions’ video talks about [Spoilers] how Ed Harris has been confirmed for the next season of the series. If anyone can survive inside the park, with lethal Hosts on their heels, its The Man in Black. [End Spoilers]

Filming is not expected to begin until next June or July 2017. That means Westworld: Season 2 will not premiere until 2018. It seems that they are shooting for March 2018 as the launch month of the new season. It also seems that Westworld‘s writers are taking their time to get the story-lines right.

From a recent interview with Variety:

“We wanted to in the second season spend some more time writing, then switch gears into production, then cut. So we’re not going to follow the annual year-on-year tradition of television. Television’s changing. And the ambition of the project is such that we’re going to take our time to get the second season right.”

Waiting over a year for new episodes of Westworld is unfortunate but perhaps fans can look at it in terms of motion pictures. Sequels to popular films do not come out for years. Film fans wait patiently for them. TV fans will have to do the same for Westworld.

Charlie Schneider of Emergency Awesome believes that The Man in Black (Ed Harris) will protect the sentient hosts in Season 2 of Westworld. At the end of Season 1, even-though the Hosts tried to kill him, William was overjoyed that he had been shoot for real and what that implied. Because of that, Schneider’s theory is possible. William / The Man in Black’s wealth and influence could be used for the benefit of the Hosts if William and the Hosts came to an understanding. I do not believe that The Man in Black will want the sentient Hosts destroyed like Delos and possibly the rest of the world. William journeyed too far and for too long (thirty years) to reach his goal. He won’t want that goal snuffed out prematurely.

Many of Schneider’s other theories in the video I do not give credence to, especially about Maeve, the fate of Logan, and The Man in Black’s Wife. My theories and analysis of the season finale of Westworld: Season 1 can be read here.