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

Stubbs and Elsie

If I had to wager, I would say that Stubbs is alive and Elsie is dead. The viewer saw Stubbs get tackled by a Host but not killed. The viewer saw Bernard choking Elsie. Why half choke her? Because of that, I believe she is dead.

Some others, like Pete Peppers, have different thoughts.

Demands and Warfare

I believe Delos will deal with the Host issue in three ways during Season 2 of Westworld: appeasement, containment, and destruction.

I foresee the Hosts in Westworld sending out a list of demands to Delos. Delos with try to contain the uprising within Westworld and regain control. Sentient robots and their Westworld board being massacred will be a PR nightmare for Delos. They will want that news and that situation completely contained. If that news were leaked to the public, it would kill their stock price (not to mention the government intervention that would occur). Delos will try to negotiate with the Hosts while simultaneously cutting them off from getting out of the park and communicating with the outside world.

I see Dolores / Wyatt in charge of Westworld during Season 2 with Bernard and Maeve as her lieutenants in their joint struggle for survival.

There will certainly be military action against Westworld by Delos in Season 2. Negotiations with Dolores with be a pretext by Delos to buy them time to organize a military strike. Westworld is a gigantic money-maker for them (not to mention that the Host IP only exists in Westworld). They will not let it go without a fight, not when the possibility exists of rolling everything back to the way it used to be before the massacre.

The Inner Workings of Hosts

From a recent Entertainment Weekly interview, Westworld‘s co-creator and writer Jonathan Nolan spoke about the construction of Hosts and how that will be explored in Season 2:

“Their construction and their power source is something we’re really going to get into during Season 2. So we’d like to keep that mysterious. They’re closer to biological than they are to mechanical, but they don’t suffer brain death the same way we do. They’re largely indistinguishable from a human beings, but their brains don’t require oxygen — which opens up interesting possibilities. Their brains are not as fragile as ours. On one hand, their cognition is controllable and malleable, but on a structural level they can’t be killed in the same way you and I can. There are advantages and disadvantages to being a host. Season 2 we’ll be exploring more the nuts and bolts of what they are — as the hosts themselves are trying to understand.”

Hosts could be powered by nuclear, iridium, or hydrogen power cells like various Terminator models. We will have to wait and see.

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