May 02, 2020

Westworld Season 3 Episode 7 Review

1 hour 13 minutes

Westworld Ep. 7: Passed Pawn

Musashi is killed by Clementine and Hanaryo while Charlotte hangs in the background with a partially reconstructed face.

One more Dolores clone is off the board. Who is Charlotte and the others working for?

Dolores and Caleb make it to the reeducation center in Mexico. They find Solomon there who is the father of Rehoboram. This obsolete AI program tells Caleb about his past as an outlier who was brainwashed into becoming a hunter of other outliers and the Riot app is run by Rehoborahm to find and apprehend outliers. Maeve soon arrives and Dolores and her get into a duel which ends with Dolores having her arm blown off before she can activate the EMP that kills her, Maeve, and Solomon. This is not before Solomon is able to generate a revolution strategy for Caleb who is now the leader, and the one to overthrow Rehoboram (and possibly the human race).

Lot to unpack here. First, what do you think of Caleb’s backstory in this episode? Does his reveal satisfy you from what you were thinking or expecting from Caleb’s character?

Let’s unpack the Caleb Solomon dialogue. How does it add to this character’s story moving forward?

How about the plan with the Outliers. 1 in 10 are reeducated and sent back into the world to kidnap other outliers. Why are we getting some mid-season bullshit during the penultimate episode

Are we satisfied with Maeve’s story this season? What about her and Dolore’s elaborate fight sequence.

Were you satisfied with the build-up to Delores v. Maeve? The fight? Or, how it ended?

MEANWHILE, Bernard and Stubbs are with William and they are searching for something. After figuring out about he outlier program and how Serac has been treating them like hosts, the 3 of them seemingly travel to find Caleb out in Mexico when they stop at a gas station. William finds a shotgun and is holding them hostage or is about the kill them

Why are these characters in the show again? I feel like their importance is completely gone this season. Actually I feel a lot of characters are unimportant now. Remember when his control clicker was a huge plot device.

William nows his purpose now which is to destroy every host in existence thus cleansing himself of his original sin which is his investing in this technology.

What can we expect in the season finale? Trailers have revealed that Dolores and Maeve are very much still alive and in for one final face off? Will we have any resolution for the plot lines of this season? I honestly have no idea what to expect at this point.

**could the Caleb set up have been handled in one or two episodes?

**Couldn’t they have involved William earlier or not added this - again

**Is this the first season of a “new show”?

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