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If you're the type of person who slows down to see a multi-car pileup, you'll love the listener mail in this week's Telegraph. Our 100th episode of Shat on TV: Westworld examines the link between Dolores and Mexican independence, sympathy for Serac, things the Season 3 finale did well, and reasons why viewers felt betrayed by HBO. Things get downright brutal, Big D reads the McDonald's gourmet menu, Ashley basks in plot holes, and Gene argues that Dolores and Caleb had First World Problems. Vote for your favorites in the 2020 Westie Awards: www.shatontv.com/westies Listen to more great music from Simon: www.soundcloud.com/simonsteric Westworld Episode 8 Summary: Caleb takes Dolores' host control module to a new body in Los Angeles, and make their way through the riots to Incite to plant the control module from Solomon into Rehoboam. Charlotte is now revealed to be working against Dolores as revenge for her family's death while Maeve soon fights Dolores under Serac's orders to retrieve the key which Dolores does not have. Dolores is captured and brought to Serac where she is hooked into Rehoboam and her memories begin being deleted by Serac when she refuses to give him the host data. Bernard survives the fight between him and William and Ashley is shot but the Lawrence host, along with police in riot gear, is given an address, revealed to be the home of Arnold's widow where the two bond over Charlie's death. William meets with one of the Delos stakeholders to get his money back, while Caleb is taken to Serac to see whether Solomon's strategy would work in Rehoboam. Dolores' memories begin deleting quickly and in her last moments, inspires Maeve to turn against Serac and wounds him in a gunfight as well as killing his men. Rehoboam is deleted by Caleb, now with full control, and he and Maeve leave Incite. Bernard enters the Sublime. In a post-credit scene, the human Man in Black is killed by his host with the help of Charlotte. Subscribe Now Android: https://shatontv.com/westworld-android Apple/iTunes: https://shatontv.com/westworld-itunes Twitch: https://shatontv.com/twitch Help Support the Podcast Support with Paypal – https://shatontv.com/paypal Support With Venmo – https://venmo.com/ShatPodcasts Shop / Merchandise: https://shatontv.com/shop Shop Amazon With Our Affiliate Link – https://www.amazon.com/?tag=shatmovies-20 Sponsor's Listener Survey – https://shatontv.com/survey Leave an iTunes Review – https://shatontv.com/westworld-review Leave a Voicemail – (914) 719-SHAT – (914) 719-7428 Feeds & Social Media – https://shatontv.com/subscribe-and-follow/ Check out our Movie Podcast – http://shatthemovies.com WebPlayer (All Episodes) – https://shatontv.com/westworld-web-player Theme Song – "The Ecstasy Of Gold" (Hip Hop Instrumental Version) by Dj 2 Bad Outro Music - By Simon Eric Haywood
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The "Westworld" Season 4 finale brings us to our final Telegraph of the year (and possibly ever), with listener email and voicemail taking aim at Christina, Hale, Olympiad security, HBO budgets and hosts done dirty. "Westworld" fans unloaded on "Que Sera Sera," made their predictions for Season 5, asked how transcending actually works and noted how closely Season 4 mirrored the structure of modern video games. Listen to more great music from Simon: www.soundcloud.com/simonsteric Westworld Episode 8 Summary: In the wake of the host William's actions, humans and hosts are being wiped out. Caleb, Frankie and Stubbs evade the violence amongst the humans and stop at a pharmacy to tend to Frankie's wounds, but Clementine appears and kills Stubbs before being overpowered and killed by Caleb and Frankie. The two reach their extraction boat; Caleb, whose host body is about to fail, bids farewell to his daughter. Charlotte is revived by drone hosts and finds recorded instructions left for her by Bernard prior to his death. She retrieves Dolores' original control unit, which contains a simulation of the world inhabited by Christina (who created Teddy, Maya, and others to help herself gain sentience). Charlotte then follows William to Hoover Dam and stops him from deactivating the Sublime (using a gun planted by Bernard), before removing and destroying his control unit. She then uploads Dolores' control unit into the Sublime before destroying her own. Dolores awakens inside the Sublime and decides to attempt to give sentient life another chance at avoiding extinction, realizing that neither humans nor hosts can survive in the real world. She starts by recreating the original Westworld park inside the Sublime. Subscribe Now Android: https://shatontv.com/westworld-android Apple/iTunes: https://shatontv.com/westworld-itunes Twitch: https://shatontv.com/twitch Help Support the Podcast Support with Paypal – https://shatontv.com/paypal Support With Venmo – https://venmo.com/ShatPodcasts Shop / Merchandise: https://shatontv.com/shop Shop Amazon With Our Affiliate Link – https://www.amazon.com/?tag=shatmovies-20 Sponsor's Listener Survey – https://shatontv.com/survey Leave an iTunes Review – https://shatontv.com/westworld-review Leave a Voicemail – (914) 719-SHAT – (914) 719-7428 Feeds & Social Media – https://shatontv.com/subscribe-and-follow/ Check out our Movie Podcast – http://shatthemovies.com WebPlayer (All Episodes) – https://shatontv.com/westworld-web-player Theme Song – "The Ecstasy Of Gold" (Hip Hop Instrumental Version) by Dj 2 Bad Outro Music - By Simon Eric Haywood
For a straightforward "Westworld" Season 4 finale, we decided to do a straightforward recap of Episode 8. Ash is gonna tell you exactly what happened; Gene is gonna discuss different characters' senses of identity, and both will dig into what a potential Season 5 could hold. In this "Que Sera Sera" Deep Dive, the Shat Crew also will cover Season 4's loose ends, the nature of Christina's Final Test, who's dead, who's left alive and what gets looted first at drug stores. Listen to more great music from Simon: www.soundcloud.com/simonsteric Westworld Episode 8 Summary: In the wake of the host William's actions, humans and hosts are being wiped out. Caleb, Frankie and Stubbs evade the violence amongst the humans and stop at a pharmacy to tend to Frankie's wounds, but Clementine appears and kills Stubbs before being overpowered and killed by Caleb and Frankie. The two reach their extraction boat; Caleb, whose host body is about to fail, bids farewell to his daughter. Charlotte is revived by drone hosts and finds recorded instructions left for her by Bernard prior to his death. She retrieves Dolores' original control unit, which contains a simulation of the world inhabited by Christina (who created Teddy, Maya, and others to help herself gain sentience). Charlotte then follows William to Hoover Dam and stops him from deactivating the Sublime (using a gun planted by Bernard), before removing and destroying his control unit. She then uploads Dolores' control unit into the Sublime before destroying her own. Dolores awakens inside the Sublime and decides to attempt to give sentient life another chance at avoiding extinction, realizing that neither humans nor hosts can survive in the real world. She starts by recreating the original Westworld park inside the Sublime. Subscribe Now Android: https://shatontv.com/westworld-android Apple/iTunes: https://shatontv.com/westworld-itunes Twitch: https://shatontv.com/twitch Help Support the Podcast Support with Paypal – https://shatontv.com/paypal Support With Venmo – https://venmo.com/ShatPodcasts Shop / Merchandise: https://shatontv.com/shop Shop Amazon With Our Affiliate Link – https://www.amazon.com/?tag=shatmovies-20 Sponsor's Listener Survey – https://shatontv.com/survey Leave an iTunes Review – https://shatontv.com/westworld-review Leave a Voicemail – (914) 719-SHAT – (914) 719-7428 Feeds & Social Media – https://shatontv.com/subscribe-and-follow/ Check out our Movie Podcast – http://shatthemovies.com WebPlayer (All Episodes) – https://shatontv.com/westworld-web-player Theme Song – "The Ecstasy Of Gold" (Hip Hop Instrumental Version) by Dj 2 Bad Outro Music - By Simon Eric Haywood
The "Westworld" Season 4 finale propelled us headlong into The Test of Season 5, wiped out some key characters and cranked up the body count. In this Instacast, Gene cheers for Clementine; Ash evokes "Return of The King;" and Big D feels like he's seen this one before. Listen to find out how The Shat Crew felt about "Que Sera Sera" and what we'll be covering in Tuesday's Deep Dive. Listen to more great music from Simon: www.soundcloud.com/simonsteric Subscribe Now Android: https://shatontv.com/westworld-android Apple/iTunes: https://shatontv.com/westworld-itunes Twitch: https://shatontv.com/twitch Help Support the Podcast Support with Paypal – https://shatontv.com/paypal Support With Venmo – https://venmo.com/ShatPodcasts Shop / Merchandise: https://shatontv.com/shop Shop Amazon With Our Affiliate Link – https://www.amazon.com/?tag=shatmovies-20 Sponsor's Listener Survey – https://shatontv.com/survey Leave an iTunes Review – https://shatontv.com/westworld-review Leave a Voicemail – (914) 719-SHAT – (914) 719-7428 Feeds & Social Media – https://shatontv.com/subscribe-and-follow/ Check out our Movie Podcast – http://shatthemovies.com WebPlayer (All Episodes) – https://shatontv.com/westworld-web-player Theme Song – "The Ecstasy Of Gold" (Hip Hop Instrumental Version) by Dj 2 Bad Outro Music - By Simon Eric Haywood
It's our longest listener-mail podcast of the season! "Metanoia" was a hit with Westworld fans, triggering voicemail and email about The Sublime, Teddy, Maeve and Christina. In this episode, the full Shat Crew responds to questions about Clementine, learns the difference between worms and snakes, nerds out on social contract philosophy, theorizes on where all the people went, and hears another hilarious ad from Discount Don. This Telegraph also digs into how "Westworld" will end and why pearls aren't hidden in hosts' bums. Listen to more great music from Simon: www.soundcloud.com/simonsteric Westworld Episode 7 Summary: Bernard and Maeve travel to Hoover Dam to open the door to the Sublime, which Charlotte has kept preserved in the dam's data vault. Christina goes with Teddy to Olympiad Entertainment and has its employees destroy the premises and erase all the stories controlling the humans. Stubbs and Frankie use the distraction to rescue Caleb. Charlotte prepares to discontinue the hosts' inhabitation of human cities so that they can "transcend" their human bodies. William convinces his host self that humans are a fundamentally destructive species; the William host realizes his true purpose and kills the human William. Bernard and Maeve enter the tower; Maeve fights Charlotte while Bernard accesses the control room. William kills Charlotte, Maeve, and Bernard, then programs the tower to turn the humans against each other before it self-destructs. Christina is unable to stop the chaos and realizes the humans cannot see her; Teddy explains that while the world is real, she is not physically there. Subscribe Now Android: https://shatontv.com/westworld-android Apple/iTunes: https://shatontv.com/westworld-itunes Twitch: https://shatontv.com/twitch Help Support the Podcast Support with Paypal – https://shatontv.com/paypal Support With Venmo – https://venmo.com/ShatPodcasts Shop / Merchandise: https://shatontv.com/shop Shop Amazon With Our Affiliate Link – https://www.amazon.com/?tag=shatmovies-20 Sponsor's Listener Survey – https://shatontv.com/survey Leave an iTunes Review – https://shatontv.com/westworld-review Leave a Voicemail – (914) 719-SHAT – (914) 719-7428 Feeds & Social Media – https://shatontv.com/subscribe-and-follow/ Check out our Movie Podcast – http://shatthemovies.com WebPlayer (All Episodes) – https://shatontv.com/westworld-web-player Theme Song – "The Ecstasy Of Gold" (Hip Hop Instrumental Version) by Dj 2 Bad Outro Music - By Simon Eric Haywood
Our "Westworld" Deep Dives are always dense, but this one truly is a thicc-ass boi. In this breakdown of Season 4, Episode 7, Gene and Big D compare simulations to reality, dissect William's conversation with himself and ask why Bernard would leave The Door open. "Metanoia" also leads the Shat Crew to explore who Bernard's video message was for, what Christina is, and why that one guy decided to set fire to his office. Listen to more great music from Simon: www.soundcloud.com/simonsteric Westworld Episode 7 Summary: Bernard and Maeve travel to Hoover Dam to open the door to the Sublime, which Charlotte has kept preserved in the dam's data vault. Christina goes with Teddy to Olympiad Entertainment and has its employees destroy the premises and erase all the stories controlling the humans. Stubbs and Frankie use the distraction to rescue Caleb. Charlotte prepares to discontinue the hosts' inhabitation of human cities so that they can "transcend" their human bodies. William convinces his host self that humans are a fundamentally destructive species; the William host realizes his true purpose and kills the human William. Bernard and Maeve enter the tower; Maeve fights Charlotte while Bernard accesses the control room. William kills Charlotte, Maeve, and Bernard, then programs the tower to turn the humans against each other before it self-destructs. Christina is unable to stop the chaos and realizes the humans cannot see her; Teddy explains that while the world is real, she is not physically there. Subscribe Now Android: https://shatontv.com/westworld-android Apple/iTunes: https://shatontv.com/westworld-itunes Twitch: https://shatontv.com/twitch Help Support the Podcast Support with Paypal – https://shatontv.com/paypal Support With Venmo – https://venmo.com/ShatPodcasts Shop / Merchandise: https://shatontv.com/shop Shop Amazon With Our Affiliate Link – https://www.amazon.com/?tag=shatmovies-20 Sponsor's Listener Survey – https://shatontv.com/survey Leave an iTunes Review – https://shatontv.com/westworld-review Leave a Voicemail – (914) 719-SHAT – (914) 719-7428 Feeds & Social Media – https://shatontv.com/subscribe-and-follow/ Check out our Movie Podcast – http://shatthemovies.com WebPlayer (All Episodes) – https://shatontv.com/westworld-web-player Theme Song – "The Ecstasy Of Gold" (Hip Hop Instrumental Version) by Dj 2 Bad Outro Music - By Simon Eric Haywood