Westworld Co-Creator Breaks Down the Season 4 Finale and Hopes For Season 5 - IGN - IGN

This post contains full spoilers for Westworld Season 4.

You can check out our Season 4 finale review here.

And, if you're dying for more on the series, check out all of our burning questions after the Westworld Season 4 finale.

Westworld just wrapped its fourth season, one that took us on a full loop back to the original park.

At the end of Season 4, things appeared pretty grim for the fleshy versions of our race.

It's just not true.” As to whether the outliers have any chance at resetting the planet we’ve come to call home, Joy agrees with Dolores that, “earth, as we know, it is done.”.

“The test, should we get to a fifth season, which would be great, is the thing that [Johnathan Nolan] and I have been working for or looking forward to for a while,” she told us, with hope that the series will be renewed so they can explore the idea?

In the series finale, Dolores rendered the park while saying a similar line to one Akecheta (Zahn McClarnon) once whispered to Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth), “You only live as long as the last person to remember you.”.

How Joy related to Dolores reflects how Dolores is perceived as sub-human in the eyes of park guests, specifically, the Man in Black (Ed Harris).

Perhaps debunking any ideas that Bernard’s pearl is doomed in the tower, but Maeve might be rescued from the water feature where we last saw her, Joy explained that it was actually Maeve’s body seen lying beside him in the scene where Hale revisits her shattered tower.“We went straight to Bernard, because we felt like after you've seen Maeve's exit, you don't want to sit there and look at her inner body,” Joy said, commenting on why there was no focus on Maeve’s body.

On the note of bodies, one of the most enticing images in the Season 4 finale was one where Hale, having recovered from a gunshot wound to the head from the host-MIB, asks to be placed in a stronger body.

Shedding her typical fleshy host body for an exoskeleton, she claims to have evolved while looking like she’s wearing the same type of older body as the original Dolores.

Hale understands that the outside body is just some décor, asking the drones to keep her face just so the host-MIB knows who killed him.

But, as a copy of Dolores who once wore different skin, Hale knows the body is just a sleeve?

“Transcending for Hale meant many things, but in this case it really meant...

This season Hale is really a god as she says herself

Leaving us as hopeful and eager for a fifth season as ever, responding to some queries about choice character resurrections, she said, “these are the kind of things which I would love to say but would, in the hopes of a Season 5, be the things that would surprise.”