If William is using armchair nihilism to convince himself that being a hero could be fun, that might actually get interesting. Everything is so terrible, what's the point of justifying anything? I can just decide to be good. But because so many people don't (Hosts or otherwise) it barely matters.Ĭall it an anti-epiphany, but it seems like William's attitude by the end of the episode is kind of like: Fuck it.
#WESTWORLD PAINT IT BLACK WILLIAM FORESHADOW FREE#
One could argue that his experiences in the mental facility have proven to him that he does, in fact, have free will. The notion of free-will has haunted the character of the Man in Black since Season 1. William has legit changed in Westworld Season 3 "I'm the good guy," he says.īut what does it mean? Here are some three options.
The Man in Black also tells faux-James Delos that he doesn't care about what he was "before" because now he thinks he's found his purpose. (We see William's therapist hang herself right before his AR treatment begins.)Īnyway, while all of that is going on, we also learned there's an "unknown protein" in William's blood, and later in the episode, when Charlotte/Dolores transmits some stolen Delos data, she seems to send it directly to the Man in Black, implying there's some kind of data storage tech in his bloodstream. After literally killing every single past version of himself (metaphorically, but visually, quite violently) the Man in Black is discovered still hooked up to the AR goggles by Bernard and Stubs, who seem to be on the run, fresh from their run-in with Dolores in the previous episode.īernard notes that the people running the mental facility seem to have left William there by himself, presumably because society has collapsed after Dolores released everyone's INCITE data.
This means Jimmi Simpson is back as young Man in Black, but we get a little kid version of William, too, who, apparently, was a violent, bad-seed child, too. In "Decoherence," he finally escapes.Īfter being given something called "AR Treatment" (which looks suspiciously like what happened to Caleb in last weeks' flashbacks) the Man in Black confronts all previous versions of himself and his father-in-law turned Host, James Delos. These days, the Man in Black has been placed in a prison, which we are meant to think is one he basically created for himself. The Man in Black is also a massive asshole in general and got his jollies off for years killing and torturing Hosts in the Delos park, behavior that eventually led his wife to commit suicide. He believed she was a Host so he killed her, but, apparently, he was wrong. Charlotte/Dolores briefly convinced him to come to the shareholder meeting to help vote against Sercac, but, at the last minute, she had him locked into a mental institution shortly before revealing her real identity.Įven before then, the Man in Black has been grappling with the "accidental" murder of his own daughter, Emily, in Season 2.
Spoilers ahead for Westworld Season 3 Episode 6.Īs a quick recap, so far in Season 3, the Man in Black has probably done the most self-exploration of any other character in Westworld. In fact, he now thinks he's "the good guy." But what could that possibly mean, and is the psychopath formerly known as William really poised to become a hero? Here are three ways of thinking about the Man in Black after as we try to bring some coherence to "Decoherence." In Westworld Season 3 Episode 6, "Decoherence" (the most Westworld-ly, Westworld title, ever) the Man in Black has once again asserted himself as the dominant main character of the entire series. That said, whether it's the '73 Westworld, Season 1 of HBO's Westworld, or Season 3, the Man in Black, on some level, is the man on the saddle, making the plot gallop along like the runaway horse that it is. In the original 1973 movie, the Man in Black was a robot host played by Yul Brynner, who is pretty much nothing like Ed Harris' Man in Black, though both share a predilection for excessive violence. Since before Westworld was HBO's Westworld, a character called "the Man in Black," has been the source of nearly all the plot twists.
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