Westworld: Season 2 News, Speculation, The Bicameral Mind HD Images, and Video Essays
In this news article and editorial about Westworld: Season 1 and Season 2, the reader will find the following:
- Westworld creators discussing the ending to Season 1 and what to expect in Season 2
- When Season 2 of Westworld will begin to air
- A collection of Season 1, Episode 10: The Bicameral Mind HD Screencaps
- Video essays on the ending of Season 1 and possibilities for Season 2
- Speculation on how Delos and the world will respond to the Massacre and sentient Hosts
We have captured 37 high-definition images of Westworld: Season 1, Episode 10: The Bicameral Mind. The Westworld The Bicameral Mind screenshots offer an overall impression of the episode and its key events. A few of the images are NSFW. Click on the images to enlarge them.
The Westworld: Season 1, Episode 10: The Bicameral Mind images:
Other Westworld: Season 1 high-definition images:
- Westworld: Season 1, Episode 2: Chestnut HD Images
- Westworld: Season 1, Episode 5: Contrapasso HD Images
Westworld: Season 1’s cast:
WESTWORLD stars Anthony Hopkins (Academy Award® winner for “The Silence of the Lambs”; Academy Award® nominee for “Remains of the Day,” “Nixon,” “Amistad”), Ed Harris (Golden Globe winner and Emmy® nominee for HBO’s “Game Change”; Academy Award® nominee for “Pollock,” “Apollo 13”), Evan Rachel Wood (Golden Globe nominee for “Thirteen”; Emmy® and Golden Globe nominee for HBO’s “Mildred Pierce”), James Marsden (the “X-Men” films), Thandie Newton (“Mission: Impossible II”) and Jeffrey Wright (HBO’s “Confirmation”; Emmy® and Golden Globe winner for HBO’s “Angels in America”).
The series also stars Tessa Thompson (“Creed”), Sidse Babett Knudsen (“Borgen”), Jimmi Simpson (HBO’s “The Newsroom”), Rodrigo Santoro (“Focus,” “The 33”), Shannon Woodward (“Raising Hope”), Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (“Chernobyl Diaries”), Ben Barnes (“The Chronicles of Narnia” films), Simon Quarterman (“The Devil Inside”), Angela Sarafyan (“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn”), Luke Hemsworth (“Infini”) and Clifton Collins, Jr. (“Star Trek”).
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.
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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