re: WESTWORLD Seasn 4 *season long discussion thread*

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So is Christina the OG Delores?

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Remains to be seen, but I think she is.

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If so, did she really make herself forget everything or was it Haleores?

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Serac (the guy who “owned” Rehoboam) plugged OG Dolores into Rehoboam and wiped her memory in the season 3 finale when he was searching for the key to the Sublime (Dolores didn’t have it; Bernard did).

It’s possible Hale resurrected her out of sentimentality, or because OG Dolores had some kind of ability/talent that Hale needed which could be related to her role writing the “stories” for the city. It could also be that when Dolores made copies of herself (including Hale) she added some kind of code preventing the copies from killing her as a failsafe.

In any event, if Christina is OG Dolores we know how her memory got wiped. And judging by her recollection of the name “Dolores Abernathy” in this week’s episode, it would seem that at least some parts of her memory are still in there somewhere.

ETA: Speaking of the key to the Sublime, I thought the talk of “ascension” among the hosts was interesting. We know Bernard holds the key, but it’s also strongly implied that the “Forge” (which contained both the original park visitor data and the Sublime itself) is locked away at the Hoover Dam.. which Hale now owns.

So it raises a question of where the new hosts are ascending. Did Hale/William find a backdoor into the Sublime? Did they make a new one? It could be that Hale’s Sublime is basically another partition on the hard drive that holds the original Sublime. That could lead into some interesting storylines down the road.