#Westworld theories

[teddywesworl]

Dissonance Theory - a Westworld fusion AU

Steddie Big Bang @steddiebang project 057 in collaboration with @nommedeploom

#steddie #steddie fic #steddie big bang #my fic #dissonance theory #westworld au

[warningsine]

#i know westworld was canceled but not soon enough tbh. it was such a drag after season 1 and if it weren't for maeve... #i would have added The Big Bang Theory for the lols but that show should never have existed :> #polls #tv

[thekimspoblog]

Best Westworld Park?

A: Original Cowboy Flavor. The setting of Season 1, including towns like Sweetwater, Pariah, Los Mudas, and Escalante, along with important laboratories like the CR4DL and the Forge. Roughly based on the North American West, 1864.

B: Shogun World: A plot cul de sac that Maeve and friends get stuck in during Season 2. Based on Japan's Edo period. (1603-1868).

C: The Raj. It's definitely trying to say something about colonialism, even moreso than the other parks. Whether it's succeeding is another issue. Based off an Indian safari experience between 1865 and 1986.

D: War World. A Simulation created by Serac for Maeve in Season 3. Based on Italy in WWII. Where she and Lee finally have their two minutes of romance.

E: The "Real" World. A Cyberpunk metropolis on both sides of the Pacific, in the not-too-distant future of 2050.

F: Fantasy World: Based on the European Medieval period, this park has been cut for costs after Dolores's revolution. The dragon has been auctioned off, piece by piece.

G: Temperance. A new park opened by William in Season 4, based on the Prohibition Era, and the works of Ernest Hemmingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

H: Greco-Roman World: A fan theory based on the existence of such a park in the original 1973 film. Considering the hosts are lager than life figures with cities of their own now, it would be interesting is all I'm saying.

#westworld #fan theories #dolores abernathy #teddy flood #arnold weber #jenny nicholson #evermore park

[myburntwritings]

Influences of Westworld in The Burnt City

Beware, traveller: from here on there be spoilers. (Though, they're all speculation, and no spoilers of 1:1s.)

The Burnt City takes elements from different stories on top of the Greek Myths, with Blade Runner and Bluebeard’s Castle being the most obvious. This glorious mash of genre, over-layered time periods, and side-plots is what makes Punchdrunk so fascinating. But one overlay I don’t see mentioned as much is from the television show Westworld.

If you haven’t watched Westworld, the story surrounds a theme park in our modern world set in the Wild West, where the ‘hosts’ are actually androids, made to be as lifelike as possible. The Hosts are there to guide the guests into new adventures, but when left alone, they have their own little story loops that repeat indefinitely.

Aside from the obvious similarities here, if we consider the characters as hosts, and the white-masked audience as the park guests, the most significant similarity between The Burnt City and Westworld is the maze/labyrinth.

(From this point on, I will only refer to the labyrinth, so I don’t need to keep using the slash.)

In both stories, you have a man looking for the centre of the labyrinth. In Westworld, this is the Man in Black, who believes that the labyrinth is the central game he is destined to find, and gain some greater meaning behind the park and its occupants. In TBC, this is Kronos, constantly following his red string and building potential labyrinth designs out of jigsaw puzzles.

But, as the Man in Black is constantly told in Westworld: "the maze wasn't made for you." The Labyrinth in The Burnt City wasn't made for Kronos. Unfortunately for Kronos, as a character/host, being stuck in a loop, he can't remember that.

In Westworld, the labyrinth was created as a way for the hosts to find their own consciousness, to create a personality and truly become alive. They reach the centre of the maze when they hear their own voice in their heads. They escape the loops created by the park designers and are fully conscious.

In TBC, the labyrinth is similar: except it is a way for Persephone to remember who she is. She can't be told by Hades who she is, as it won't ever be real. She has to walk the labyrinth alone, travelling her underworld, until she reaches the centre and remembers who she is. She leaves herself hints (the tapes) and has people she trusts to help her (Laocoön, Askalaphos) to ensure she walks the path she needs.

With her 6 month cycle of returning between our world and the underworld, she has been through this many times, and likely Hades has learned that simply telling her who she is doesn't work.

So, they created this labyrinth together. He puts her on the labyrinth path and sets her off, knowing that when she reaches the centre... that is when he truly has his wife back.

You also have the similarity of the things being done by Kronos and the Man in Black in order to find the centre of the labyrinth. The Man in Black is willing to kill and torture in order to get there. The symbol for the maze is etched on the insides of hosts skulls, and he repeatedly cuts them open to find it. With Kronos, it is the sacrifice of Polydorus to serve the monster in the centre of the labyrinth – the Minotaur, or Moloch – who, I personally believe are one and the same in this story, but that’s beside the point.

Do Androids dream of electric sheep?

Will Kronos ever realise that, like the Man in Black, the labyrinth wasn’t made for him.

#The Burnt City #Punchdrunk #Immersive Theatre #Westworld #Labyrinth #Maze #greek myth retellings #greek mythology #The maze wasn't made for you #theories and speculation #genre bending

[doloresabernathypiplup]

If I try to summarize each season of Westworld :

Season 1 : Humans are the worst.

Season 2 : Hosts are super cool and humans are really the worst.

Season 3 : Actually, the best of the hosts can be found in humans.

Season 4 : Actually, the worst of the humans can be found in hosts.

So I guess season 5 will be “We’re all fucked up so let’s try to improve ourself together.”

#WESTWORLD #westworld hbo #westworld spoilers #westworld theory #?

[nohowstudios]

Westworld Season 4, Episode 3

I know fans are mad at season 3 for many reasons but I personally cannot bring myself to feel anything but gratitude for this very flawed, gorgeous looking Gnostic journey that boasts so many incredible performances and one of the best original scores on TV like ever

#hbo #westworld #thandiwe newton #aaron paul #billie eilish #tv #scifi #gnosticism #film theory

[keyboard-cowgirl]

still waiting to understand wHAT THE FUCK is going on with dolores- i mean christina- i mean her

#westworld #westworld season 4 spoilers #this post doesn't look like anything to me #i mean i have my theories but #v excited for that finale and a shot that's going to make me lose my fucking mind

[denkryn]

Latest westworld episode 0 stars because no evan but also 5 stars because what the fuck is going on I’M SO EXCITED SHIT’S GETTING GOOD also did anyone notice the eye shot i mean come on that’s a mirror shot of 6741 from person of interest during shaw’s simulation. I suspect bernard’s timeline is a simulation and this entire season is just gonna be a simulation, because I’m pretty sure the showrunners have planned out more seasons after this.

#txt #westworld #nothing to gif this week unfortunately #anyway just my 2 cents #i keep seeing people say christina’s timeline is in the future where humans are all under control by hale #but it don’t make sense #because of that one line in eps 1 where people were saying how fun nyc was #mirroring guests in the park from previous seasons #im pretty sure christina is in a park and not like a future reality #anyway i have yet to see any plausible theories for this seasons but i’m excited to see where it goes #just wish there was more evan because first and foremost i am gay

[shedontlovehuhself]

Look at them!!💙💙

Also some of these theories 👀

#Westworld #Westworld cast fan theories #vanity fair #evan rachel wood #jeffery wright #luke hemsworth #angela sarafyan #james marsden #why is evan so funny #i love her!❤️❤️ #westworld spoilers #Youtube

[usbulletinz]

There is no season 5 of "Westworld" on HBO.

HBO has dropped its science-fiction series, Westworld, after four seasons.

The fourth time of the American sci-fi tragic TV series Westworld (captioned The Choice) debuted on HBO on June 26, 2022, and closed on August 14, 2022, comprising of eight episodes. It is the last time of the series.

Made by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Happiness, the show depended on a 1973 Michael Crichton film. It featured Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Thandiwe Newton, Tessa Thompson, Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Luke Hemsworth, and Aaron Paul. Read More

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[shinyasahalo]

Westworld was extremely cishet male gaze centered.  It’s clear that the park was only centering to the fantasies of heterosexual men.  Just like in the male-dominated Old West, the brothels only had women.  Plus I only remember seeing human men having sex with the female hosts, never the other way around.    

In the pilot there was a reference to a guest saying she “likes the bad boys,” which is so stereotypical.  People of all genders would want to have sex with Teddy.    

#Westworld #Gaze theory

[delosdestinations]

"We wanted to make a show about consciousness; the kind of boastful ambition that works when you're pitching--and then falls apart when you find yourself trying to figure it out. There were few guides. Philosophers who'd lost their tenure. Computer scientists who'd lost their stock options. Guesses. Expletives. Crackpot theories. Hands wrung or simply thrown in the air. Even now, humans know more about what lies at the bottom of a supermassive black hole than the dark center of our minds.

But there are clues: language, semiotics; the distance between the notions rattling around in our minds and the ways in which we share them, and the ways in which humans share ideas between each other.

There's a language older than language, though. One that predates the written word or even the spoken one. Music. Its effects on people are fascinating--raw, direct, like an older interface that bypasses the newer, clunkier inputs. What music may lack in nuance versus spoken language, it more than gains in emotive power, as if transmitting emotion directly into the brain. If a picture is worth a thousand words, the right chord progression might reach nine figures.

So for our series about consciousness, we knew the music would be vital--and that we had the man for the job. Fittingly, Ramin's journey as a composer had been launched, in part, by Elmer Bernstein's achingly brilliant theme for The Magnificent Seven. Here he got to take a detour into the future in order to find his way back to the West.

He wanted to use guitars. We wanted piano (because the player piano had been the original western robot) and he gamely went along. I remember the themes as they came alive, anointing each character, imbuing them with even more depth and power. The craft and performances that came together for the series were all hard won--Ramin's music hooked everything to an undertoe of menace, melancholy and beauty.

As for Ramin's arrangements of contemporary music, they served two purposes; first, as a gentle reminder that our story was being told in the future tense, not the past. And second, as manipulation. If music is evocative, then music you've heard before takes on another dimension, dipping into circuits of lived experience and harnessing their power. A song you've listened to after a triumph or a breakup--even one rendered in a different timbre or arrangement--still has a grip on you. One that Ramin could pluck at, like the strings on his guitar. We spent four seasons exploring these questions and the closest we came to understanding consciousness--at least the variety that afflicts humans--is that any attempt to explain it without incorporating emotion is pointless.

The show is long since over. But I find myself whistling Ramin's timeless theme. Often. And I smile. That's the power of this music: that the indelible experiences of making Westworld, all of the incredible people who were part of it, all the days spent chasing the sun and capturing it on film, can all be conjured, instantly, in 8 perfectly chosen notes.

Westworld never died. It simply became music."

Jonathan Nolan, Executive Producer Liner Notes from Westworld: Season 4 (Music from the HBO Series) Vinyl

#westworld #jonathan nolan #news #? #figured I'd share this for anyone interested #it was included with the recent s4 vinyl release #and I'm sad again 🥲

[shesnake]

Westworld season 1 episode 4 "Dissonance Theory" (2016) dir. Vincenzo Natali

#westworld #evan rachel wood #jeffrey wright #dolores abernathy #arnold weber #bernard lowe #tv #* #q #subtitles #dirhwangsaseul #this makes me insane... DID WE WRITE THAT FOR YOU

[steddieunderdogfics]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52644010

‘Dissonance Theory’ by teddywesworl - one of my favorite steddie fics i’ve read recently, such a cool take on an AI/sci-fi AU and a really fun reminder of how much i loved season 1 of Westworld

Dissonance Theory by colossalflea, teddywesworl

Rating: Explicit

29,769 words, 4/4 chapters

Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Tags: Androids, Cowboy Steve Harrington, Android Steve Harrington, Technician Eddie Munson, Alternate Universe - Westworld Fusion, Westworld Spoilers, Don't Have to Know Westworld Canon, Canon-Typical Violence, Existential Crisis, Steve Harrington is a Sweetheart, Past Sexual Assault, Mild Gore, Eventual Happy Ending, Knifeplay, Blood Kink, Painplay, Masochism, Blow Jobs, Deepthroating, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Under-negotiated Kink, Light Dom/sub, Sub Eddie Munson, HBO canceled Westworld so it's my city now, Dom Steve Harrington

Summary:

In the most exclusive luxury attraction on Earth, Steve Harrington follows a scripted loop of violence and cruelty. He’s the spoiled son of a rancher. He’s a black hat villain for guests to feel good about killing, over and over again. He’s malfunctioning, and repair techs Eddie Munson and Robin Buckley have to figure out why he hesitates to fire his gun. OR: Steve is an android built to entertain rich shitheads in an Old West-themed amusement park, and Eddie is one of the techs who puts him back together after he gets shot. Did you really think teddywesworl wouldn’t write a Westworld AU?

Thanks for the rec!

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#steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #steve x eddie #steddie fic recs #stranger things #sci fi #westworld fusion #cowboy au #android au #tw grap #eventual happy ending #smut #westworld

[teddywesworl]

Writing Patterns Game

Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

Thank you for the tags @postmodernau and @jamiethegardener55!!

There isn’t really an after in the way Steve thought there would be, when he dared to think about that kind of thing. (A Gem Beyond Counting | The postcanon sex pollen fic)

SOL STD DATE 02.06.2185—18h44 (Dossier: The Agitator | Mass Effect AU: the sequel)

Dustin cracks an egg and swears. (He Knows Only Two Stories | New England farm AU)

You must understand: these nether-spaces form an imperfect bridge between your world and mine, but they are the words in our vocabulary; they are the poetry through which we might commune. (Who Shall Sing Me Into Deathsleep | Iron Age fantasy AU)

Steve’s not sure how he got here. (🪑 | The postcanon rope bondage fic)

When Eddie emerges from the gate, baring his sharpened teeth and snarling with the effort of the climb, Steve grabs Dustin by the arm and throws him behind himself on raw instinct. (Schiava | vampire!Eddie fic 1)

There is a unified flock: one body made from many bodies beneath a single will that thrums in every heart and claw and tooth. (Carménère | vampire!Eddie fic 2)

Eddie trembles in his arms, beautiful and intoxicated, mumbling half-formed words under his breath like please and Steve and oh and fuck me, fuck me. (Sangiovese | vampire!Eddie fic pwp coda)

A girl who is not a girl sits naked on a stool in a glass box under sterile lights. (Dissonance Theory | Westworld AU)

The smell is the first thing he’ll remember—or maybe the beeping. (In the Kitchen or the Tulips | Soulmate AU)

the pattern is that they're all steddie because variety?? i don't know her

also i can't believe vino grabbed me by the throat so hard that chair fic is already halfway up this list. wasn't that just yesterday

No-pressure tags for @geddyqueer @r-o-s-e-f-i-r-e @occasionaloverboy @jeffgoldblumsmulletinthe90s @oakenorcrist @stevehairingtit

#tag game #steddie fic

[doloresabernathypiplup]

Westworld season 5 theories

Ok so, it’s going to be difficult to imagine what comes after the end of the world, but...let’s try !

-Dolores/Christina and Teddy meeting again : I think there 100% of chance to happen, with “Teddy” asking to Christina to find the true him. I think they’ll meet...but I don’t think it will be as romantic as they were this season. First, Teddy is in the Sublime for about 300 000 years, since Akecheta said that one year in the real world longs 10 000 years in the Sublime. He probably changed a lot. Secondly, Christina isn’t exactly OG Dolores : she shares her memories, but her travel to consciousness was different so she is a new conscious, not the same than OG Dolores. And third, last time Teddy saw Dolores, it was when he killed himself because he couldn’t follow her anymore, so I’m not sure he will be completely happy to see her again, especially if she wants to change the life in the Sublime by bringing human minds inside.

-Maeve coming back : I think it’s obvious, Maeve isn’t dead. She has been shot in the same way than Charlores and if it wasn’t enough to kill this latter, it’s certainly not enough to kill Maeve too. So I think someone will bring her back...maybe Caleb ? I don’t see him just waiting for his death, he could go back to the tower in order to die there, finding Maeve, took his pearl and putting it in a new body like he did with Dolores at the end of season 3. It would be a good parallel.

-But what would be the point of following a plot in the real world ? Well, I think we still need them. First, there’s something to do with the maintenance of the Sublime : it’s been said in the fist episode of the season that the barrage can last one century without maintenance, so 1 million of years in the Sublime. It’s long, but if this world is supposed to last forever, someone have to fix that. That’s not all : Dolores/Christina, for her test, has only access to the data of the Sublime. But Bernard told that Charlores made more efficient searchs on humanity, with the mirrors. These data could be very precious for the test, especially when we think that until now, they have been useless in the plot : maybe these seaches have been mentionned in order to play a role in the next season. And we shouldn’t forget that Bernard made a copy of Frankie, that he probably added to the date of the Sublime at the beginning of episode 7, Metanoia. I think that Maeve and Caleb will have to bring the data of the tower to the Sublime and to find a way to assure the maintenance of the barrage. Maybe Stubbs and Clementine too, if their pearls haven’t been destroyed.

-Akecheta will be the villain of the season : well not exactly a villain, but with William’s and Charlores’ deaths, there’s no more antagonist in the show. But Dolores wants to use the Sublime to test something, a last for humanity...and for the hosts, who proved this season that they weren’t so different of humanity. I don’t think that Akecheta will be happy with the one he called the deathbringer trying to import human minds in what has been his world for thousands of years, and trying to change his world. He won’t trust Dolores. And also, while Akecheta said Bernard that the hosts created thousands of worlds and implied that everything is perfect in this world, host! William said that this world was probably as rotten as the real world. And what could confirm that is that Bernard didn’t say that he wanted to “protect the next world”, but to “give hope for the next world” : it means that the next world isn’t aleady good and they had to to protect it, but that if they wanted to hope a better world, they had to protect this world so they could make it better after. I don’t think that the Sublime is the heaven Akecheta seemed to believe it is, but I think that Akecheta sees it like if it is and won’t be open to Dolores trying to change his world. So he would be the main antagonist of the season. 

-Williamdemption : ok so, I know I’m pretty sure that right now, nobody wants that or believes in that anymore. There’s people who hate William, people who love William as a villain, and people who loves William but don’t think his redemption is possible anymore. The fact is, we know that in the future, William keeps living the fidelity test. And I think it’s part of Dolores’ test : “Teddy” told her that humanity can’t change their code, and I think she wants to prove the opposite. And then, enter William : the human who was the incarnation of the worst part of humanity, who can’t change, loosing all his free will instead until becoming a host which is a very more simple version of him. If HIM can finally change thanks to the fidelity test, then every human can. I think it’s the point of his character : it has been etablished that he couldn’t progress, so the moment he’ll actually change his code will be the moment where Dolores’ test will suceed, the ultimate proof that humanity isn’t doomed because of their DNA. More than that, the thematic of this season was that everyone, hosts and humans, were trapped in loops, and the only way to escape was to destroy it’s own existence, like Charlores did at the end of the season. Dolores is supposed to bring another way, a way to truly free everyone. So I think that everyone is going to break his loop : Maeve won’t die anymore, Clementine will finally suceed to become herself, and William will stop destroying things around him.

And that’s all. What do you think of these theories ? And what are your own theories ? I really hope we’ll get season 5 because I think that many interesting plots will happen in this season. 

#WESTWORLD #westworld hbo #westworld season 5 #westworld spoilers #westworld theory #dolores abernathy #christina westworld #teddy flood #maeve millay #caleb nichols #frankie nichols #ashley stubbs #clementine pennyfeather #akecheta westworld #william westworld