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This blog will contain spoilers for Westworld season 3 Episode 1. So here’s your spoiler warning. And before we dive into the episode, can we take a moment to appreciate the opening theme of westworld. Ramin Djawadi has done such a great job. It’s one of the few shows where I don’t skip the opening theme just because I want to hear the opening theme. As much as I love the opening theme, I have so much to talk about just the episode, So let’s get into it.

The title of the episode, ‘Parce Domine’ is a latin verse which translates to ‘Spare, Lord, spare your people: Be not angry with us forever’. Which is a reference to Dolores later in the episode where she says “the real gods are here, and they’re very angry.”

According to the timeline the episode starts off after a few weeks of the massacre at westworld. The Episode starts with the visualization of the huge AI sphere Rehoboam(more about why it’s name like this in another blog) where it shows there’s some divergence in Beihai, China. Then we jump to China where we see a really angry businessman named Gerald who was a former Incite employee( the new evil corporation of the series), who had some stocks in the Delos’s Company which he was looking forward to selling. We cut to night where we see Jerry put a small disc inside his mouth, which on closing up to it reveals it’s called ‘limbic sedative’. He is then visited by Dolores, where we find out that Jerry visited the park and they both have a history and also about how he killed his first wife. She then blackmails him into giving her access to some files containing crucial information about Incite and gain money. Then she gives poetic justice and kills him the same way he killed his first wife. Technically she didn’t kill Gerald but I’ll count it as one.

Then we get to see the new opening for the first time, and the ending of the opening is definitely a reference to warworld, another park by Delos destination. So hopefully Warworld plays a bigger role this season.

Then we jump to Los Angeles, where we see Caleb(Arron paul) for the first time. We see he’s just trying to make a living for himself and her mother’s hospital bills(Ik she refused to call him son). But his job could not cover the expenses so he takes help of a crime app( tinder but for matching people to crimes), and earns money through small time stuff like robbing a ATM and helping to subdue some rich fool who took the wrong kind of drug. He’s also messed up because of his army days and not being able to make ends meet doesn’t help either. He also keeps on getting calls from an army friend of his, which later turns out is an AI.

We later jump to Delos Headquarters, where we met Charlotte Hales and we don’t know who’s control chip i s inside her(I have like 3 or 4 candidates for this, I’ll talk about it in a later blog). But we know that Charlotte is running the show now. Charlotte tells the board of directors not to worry even though the stocks of Delos have taken a hit after the massacre. And the board also has a secret board member who was represented by an AI for this meeting(have some theories about it too).

Then we later meet Bernard, who has two different personas this time around which interchanges with a press of a button. He has been working at a meat packing plant and laying low since he is being blamed for the massacre that took place at the park. But his cover is blown when two of his coworkers discover who he is, where we see the button being used and how drastically it affects the personality of Bernard. He kicks his coworker’s ass and then leaves the meat packing plant.

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Then we jump to London and learn that Dolores has been trying to infiltrate Incite. So she becomes the girlfriend of Liam Dempsey Jr. within a month under the name of Lara Espin. Liam seems like a guy who even though is rich, isn’t spoiled by his wealth. And Dolores actually seems to like him even if she’s just using him to gain access to Incite. Then we see the couple leave for LA.

Once we get back to LA, we see Caleb go to therapy for his PTSD. Then he again goes to the crime app Rico for a new job. Where he had to subdue a rich fool who took the wrong type of drugs.

Then we jump back to the couple, They go to Incite headquarters and get to see Rehoboam for the first time. Then Liam says goodbye to Dolores to meet up with someone from Delos company. Dolores follows Liam to spy on him. And Incite and Delos representatives had a disagreement. Liam leaves the meeting.

It is here where Dolores pushes Liam into revealing Incite secrets regarding Rehoboam but finds out he’s just the face of the company but has no idea about it. Dolore’s cover is blown as the Company’s fixer finds out Lara Espin is just a False Identity. Later Dolores is subdued by the Incite Fixer. He hires Caleb for a drop off via the crime app. Caleb gets suspicious about it and asks the thug what’s it about, but the thug tells Caleb to leave and after a conversation he leaves after he has a look inside the helicopter. The Fixer tries to kill Dolores, but she survives the attack and kills the fixer and replaces him with a host version of himself. Even though Dolores survives she was wounded. Caleb returns to the place of drop off of the car and finds an injured Dolores. It was a reference to William rescuing Dolores in season 1.

We then see Bernard, presumably looking for Maeve. And to find her he goes back to westworld. And for the first time we see where it is situated in the real world. It’s on a Island near the South China sea.

And during the post credit scene we see Maeve inside warworld where she was torturing captured personnel but doesn’t seem to remember any of it.

Review:

So all an action packed episode, The real world that they showcase is really cool, with those fancy looking helicopters, self driving cars, and the dope motorcycle that Dolores rode.

The fact that the future has hoodies with different emotions written over it and the emotion glows according to what you are feeling is a nice touch.

And god am I excited to see Aaron Paul again, but I’m curious about his army career and the fact that he said he wanted to meet someone real and met Dolores was interesting. I’m curious and confused about how they are gonna proceed, but hey if you are not confused while watching Westworld, are you really watching Westworld. Overall I enjoyed the Season 3 premiere.

I’m gonna write more blogs about the first episode, but not today, it’s really late and I still have to study, but still thanks for sticking around and reading the whole blog and don’t forget to subscribe if you enjoyed my blog. And you can read my other blogs down below.

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