She has almost no arc to speak of, and it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly how or if the character changes from the season’s first episode to its final one. Look what's happening in the world. Viewers everywhere cheered her journey to sentience, which was initially presented as a triumph of her own hard work and singular focus. "Isn't that just one of the worst things imaginable?" Maeve, unfortunately, often sees her similar gains erased, and she’s spent the past two seasons…not really doing a lot.

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For all that Maeve is awesome, she’s also almost never allowed to exercise or keep any of the power she fights so hard for each season. ", Newton's view of the scene, which sees Maeve wandering through an impromptu behind-the-scenes tour of how the Westworld sausage gets made, falls in line with how showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy view the HBO show's use of violence. I feel like the word 'humane' needs to be re-thought quite seriously. – but to the prickly and complex relationship she’s built with Dolores over the past three seasons. In season 1, Maeve was formidable and uncompromising, dedicated not just to learning who and what she was, but to using that knowledge to escape the park she viewed as a prison.

But if you're told it's real, that it's actually a snuff thing you just saw, then what?

Sensitivity is one of the things that keeps us alive.

Our sensitivity to noise, our sensitivity to danger ... we're turning it off. "It's right up there with waking up in a coffin underground. You feel delayed concern? October 09, 2016 Her feelings about Dolores’ mission are not really explored, and the show seems happy enough to simply present Maeve as a foil for the other host, albeit one who may have little real choice in her actions. ", "When you realize that the people involved in the show care a lot, that they really care about the robots and the characters and humanity, that's why they're revealing this stuff," says Newton, echoing her support for Nolan and Joy's vision of Westworld's violent world and how it relates to our own. "We have an ability as humans to turn our empathy on and off," she says.

But we also have no idea what it was about her final mental conversation with Dolores that inspired about her sudden, thorough change of heart. Which is why her ultimate choice to turn and around and remain in the park is so impactful – it’s quite literally the first autonomous decision she’s ever been allowed to make. In a high-octane action sequence the pair battled across the facility, with Maeve seemingly gaining the upper hand after severing one of Dolores’ arms. Because this is Westworld, that goal wasn’t easy, and, on the hardest day of Akecheta’s bloody journey, Maeve’s daughter saved him from the brink of death. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited.

She can literally control other hosts with her mind, and in Season 3, that ability seems to expand to encompass pretty much anything technological. The show clearly loves the idea of Maeve – a formidable butt-kicking woman who takes no crap from anyone and forges her own future, even when her programming tells her she can’t. View our online Press Pack. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed, Westworld's Bernard actor reveals season 4 time jump after the fall of Delos, Caleb rushed to help Dolores, but had no luck, Dolores and Caleb scoped out the sight before launching their attack, Westworld's Evan Rachel Wood shows off her incredible transforming dress, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). When Caleb (Aaron Paul) rushed to Dolores’ side he was unable to wake her, but their fates remain uncertain. (The three women never even share a screen this season. What made Maeve choose not just to stay and fight, but to give up on reuniting with her daughter, at least for the foreseeable future? However in a major case of reversal Dolores pressed a button gifted to her by Solomon which saw both fighters collapse to the floor in dramatic fashion.
She spends most of the seven episodes in which she appears chasing after Dolores in the hopes of somehow reuniting with her daughter in the Valley Beyond, and apparently that’s supposed to count as a character arc. Terms of Use |

There's something that [one of the robots] says in a future episode: 'I've died a million times.

Do you understand the cost to other people in the world? ), Sure, Maeve suddenly decides to change sides in the season 3 finale, opting to help rather than hinder Dolores’ efforts and it’s this choice that ultimately frees humanity from its algorithmic chains. This time it’s Serac, who threatens her with erasure and cold storage if she doesn’t help him track down Dolores. Her writing has been featured in Paste Magazine, Collider,…, what he’s trying to do with supercomputer Rehoboam, Westworld: What Dolores’ Fate Means for Season 4, she engineers her own escape from the Warworld simulation, Westworld Season 3: 10 Unanswered Questions We Have from the Finale, Westworld Season 3 Post-Credit Scenes Explained, Westworld Season 3: How Solomon Will Chart a New Path For Caleb, Westworld Soundtrack: Complete Details and Playlists For the Show, Halloween: Timeline Explained for Horror Movie Franchise, The Most Terrifying Magic: The Gathering Cards, Best Horror Movies on Netflix: Scariest Films to Stream, Topps' Fright Flicks Cards: Where Horror and Comedy Collide, How Westworld Failed Maeve (Again) in Season 3. That would probably be the most Westworld move of all, though – for Maeve to finally control her own future and to live with no strings, only for viewers to never actually get the chance to see it. There’s every possibility that Maeve’s new partner Caleb might be dead and gone by the time this show returns, the world the two of them build already destroyed, and Maeve’s entire narrative trajectory altered. She’s unlocked all sorts of special abilities over the course of the show’s three seasons: She’s an accomplished fighter.
Sadly, we see almost nothing of Maeve’s interior life in season 3.

Firstly, the device couldn’t have been a generic stun mechanism, as other nearby hosts like Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) and Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth) were completely unaffected by the blast. The former madam of the Mariposa Saloon had precious little to do in Westworld’s third season. by

Unfortunately, Westworld has never really seemed to want to walk the proverbial walk when it comes to her character. She gets to end the season in a hero pose alongside Caleb, staring into streets filled with chaotic rioters and echoing one of her earliest lines: “This is the new world, and in this world, you can be whoever the f— you want.”.

[Warning: This story contains spoilers for the second episode of HBO's Westworld.].