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For starters, I don't believe she gives a shit about humanity. I don't believe it. It was revealed in the final episode of season 3. The bad guy from the end of season 1 and all of season 2 cares about people. Not buying it. It's not a believable character evolution. Her entire arc in season 2 was about getting out of the park so she could end humanity.

Not to mention, she and Caleb are anarchists at best. Their version of "saving" humanity is mass murder. Am I supposed to be cheering for that? There's actually almost no one to cheer for in this show. One minute I think the show is good, the next I find it to be a mess. Delores was set up as the big bad in the season finale of season 1. Christ, Ford isn't even likable. He set her on that path. Ford wanted her to kill humans. William is a better person than either one of them and the show insists on making him "the bad guy". He's the only one making sense this season. I was all about Maeve and Bernard - even though he plays virtually no role of importance anymore - but making them both all sympathetic towards Delores is just dumb. I'm certainly not cheering for Delores, now I don't really want to cheer for Maeve or Bernard, but the show wants me to think Williams is the bad guy?

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Well you see, Dolores is a white woman so she can't be evil, all the people she killed was all part of her plan to save humanity. And they had William kill his own daughter on Father's Day so he's a bad guy, plus he is also a white man so he's got to be evil, there's no way around it.

Bernard is also a man, but he's black, so they can't make him evil (that would be racist), but they also can't give him a more interesting story than Dolores (that would be sexist) so he's mostly just there for background diversity like Finn in Star Wars. Caleb is a white man who is not evil, but only because Dolores liberated his feeble male mind and gave him the power to rise up, in which case now Maeve will lead him and show him how to be good because men can't be trusted to make decisions without the guidance of a woman.

If you know all the tropes feminists accuse male led stories of having or how those stories treat women, just reverse the genders and that's basically what Westworld has become.

You forget to mention that series 3 on the whole doesn’t make sense: series 1 and 2 at least had some consistency, which is not the case with s3: it’s an incomprehensible, hard to follow and inconsistent narrative where on the whole I can’t make head a or tails anymore. It lacks on all points you mentioned and just confuses the viewer on a multitude of subjects that were relatively clear and believable in the first two series. I found it a depressing, hard to follow end to an otherwise exceptional format. They should, in hindsight, have cancelled the third series: it only added to misunderstandings and strange behaviour of characters that were consistent in the first and second series. Westworld used to be a show I looked forward to seeing every new episode, but after series one and two I could hardly get myself to watch anymore because of bad writing, idiotic changed characters and unnecessary violence which didn’t even attribute to a good storyline. Sadly what started out as an almost brilliant SF series ended less than mediocre in all aspects.

@Colacoos said:

You forget to mention that series 3 on the whole doesn’t make sense: series 1 and 2 at least had some consistency

I'd argue season 2 didn't make any sense, that was really when I started losing interest in the show, when it went out of its way to try and confuse/trick us with time jumps and Dolores killing/replacing the black chick whose name I've forgotten.

@Colacoos said:

Sadly what started out as an almost brilliant SF series ended less than mediocre in all aspects.

If we could post images I would be posting the meme of Leo DiCaprio from WUATIH pointing.

And then season 4 was a train wreck.

@TheVorlon said:

And then season 4 was a train wreck.

Now I'm glad I didn't bother watching. Better to just give up and wait to hear if it was good or not than to force myself to watch it and risk being miserable.

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