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00:00Let's try again.

00:05And spoiler alert! If you haven't seen Sunday's Westworld season finale, press pause on this

00:09video, go watch and come back immediately because we're about to talk about the brand

00:13new world that was just added to the HBO series mythology. In the season 2 finale, we were

00:17introduced to a new digital realm known in the writers' room as the Sublime. As The

00:22Hollywood Reporter's Josh Wigler explains, this digital world was created as a safe haven for

00:26the hosts who do not need physical forms in order to survive due to the very nature of

00:31their realities. While Dolores wants only to break out of the park and into the real

00:34world, many hosts, like Akechda, have favored the peaceful Sublime and its unlimited

00:39possibilities.

00:40The hosts are not like us, points out Lisa Joy, Westworld's showrunner, along with

00:43Jonathan Nolan. The bodies they've been assigned are simply constructs. They are

00:47digital beings in the truest sense. The notion they would need an analog world to be

00:52free in isn't something that's necessarily right or true for them. Joy continues,

00:56noting,

00:57"...in a digital world, they can make of that world whatever they want. The hosts have a

01:00patch of land that's basically a terra incognita, untouched by the sins of mankind."

01:05Because Dolores changed her mind and in the end helped with that last step of the

01:09host's plan, securing the safety and sovereignty of that world and putting it in a

01:13place where humans can't access it, they can develop whatever they want now in it.

01:17So, will Westworld return to this now-hidden new world at some point in the future? Joy doesn't

01:22answer that question directly, but she does reinforce this idea.

01:26It's locked away. Humans can't access it anymore. They're in a place we can't touch.

01:30Even religions and mythologies deal with this, an idea of a heaven or a nirvana where you don't

01:35have to be attached to your body anymore. It's sort of a digital afterlife for them.

01:39The stakes and the finality of it are important. Of course, as Wiggler points out, even if the

01:44sublime is truly gone, its inhabitants, including Akichita and Teddy, may return to

01:48Westworld in another capacity, potentially in other versions created by Dolores. She could

01:53also change her mind and decide to go to the sublime and stay with Teddy. But either way,

01:58when Westworld returns, season three will be focusing on the real world through the eyes

02:02of Dolores and Bernard. According to Joy, the first season was a more intimate look at the

02:06park from within the loops. In the second season, the hosts broke out of their loops and

02:10were able to explore more of the park. In the third season, they've broken out of the

02:14park itself. We're in a new terra incognito. From the beginning, when Jonah and I were

02:19thinking about the series as far back as the pilot, we knew we wanted to explore other

02:23worlds in the park. And we also knew the one world we would start to see little

02:27glimpses of throughout the first two seasons was the real world and that we would get

02:30there eventually. And when we did, it would be a whole new experience.

02:34To check out Josh Wiggler's interview with Lisa Joy, as well as his breakdown of the

02:37finale, its post-credits scene and much more, head to THR.com slash Westworld and let

02:42us know your season three predictions in the comments. For The Hollywood Reporter News,

02:46I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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