WESTWORLD Season 2 TIMELINE EXPLAINED (Full Chronology!)

Westworld Season 2 Finale breakdown! What is the full Westworld timeline? How do the events of Season 2 fit in with the overall Westworld chronology? Erik Voss explains the multiple timelines of Westworld, and how season 2 updated the sequence of events. When does the post-credit scene with William take place? How do the scenes with James Delos and William line up with the events in the park? What was going on with Bernard's dual timelines in Season 2?
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[@riparianlife97701]

I'm going to re-watch the season now. For fidelity.

[@OrenTubing]

Docktor Jim is this now?

[@riparianlife97701]

Oren According to KZbin, it's 4 hours ago.

[@robertonome2448]

for how long have you been on youtube?

[@riparianlife97701]

marlene g Every time I spill something, it makes me wonder.

[@riparianlife97701]

Oren Analysis. Why do you say that?

[@SickSticks666]

Me before watching: *"I don't really need to watch this, I understand it mostly."* Me while watching: *"Wait, what?!"*

[@JohnPalmerUK]

HAHAAH!! Me too!

[@austin78993]

Kind of a metaphor for life too. You think you have it figured out, but you could live a million years and never get it.

[@carlingnugent]

You watched S2 and felt you understood it!? ..... damn..

[@jbstuff4472]

Me too😂😂😂

[@JoshuaDay0550]

@@carlingnugent wasnt that hard to follow. then again, i waited until it was all over t o watch them in a row. cant really watch one episode and come back a week later and expect to remember little details.

[@moxypirate]

Season 3 will be Hosts going to human parks.

[@fanngurl164]

Delores visits Hershey Park!

[@snehalmane]

human parks aka cities

[@imperialsecuritybureau6037]

That’s twisted lol

[@HealthInspectorz]

Dolores is going to slowly convert humans to AI. Remember when everyone is paranoid about AI's controlling the world? Well in this tv series, here's how its going to happen.

[@drunkpilates]

like six flags..?

[@kristinesorensen4275]

One problem I see is that William's profile has the scene of him dragging dolores on it. This means he went way darker even before his wife killed herself.

[@Tom-qo4mz]

I noticed this too

[@Stinger430]

I want the past timeline. I want the future timeline. I want ALL timelines!!! I think I may have 4 braincells remaining that haven't fried yet.

[@bjornironside6125]

Young turds sure fried most of them 😂😂😂😂

[@nongcebomchunu3894]

Stinger430 lmao I also felt like I was frying my brain cells watching this 🤣

[@Chauchatness]

This is an old comment but such a great one 🤣🤣🤣

[@jaykingthoughts]

Lmao

[@stuart2777]

Anything about William is good, future or past..I love the character, his story and the actors..

[@genieali7178]

@Long Tang still love him because,well you know shit happens sometimes

[@panosthunder643]

Agree! My best character! And when he killed his daughter, I tided more with him because, he seemed to lose the powerful evil side he had in the first season.

[@zahiddogan]

Yes contrary to meave and native american scenes , i want cut myself when i see them

[@INucLeaRI]

I want to see a mix of the future and the past. Sad that there won't be any more Hopkins. He was sensational.

[@jdcompas]

We'll probably get a flashback or recording that blows up the minds of everyone involved in the timelines. That's how crafty Ford is, even when he's dead he's still turn the plot on its head.

[@Meleny95]

why no more Hopkins?

[@docibal4684]

My brain exploded while watching this seasoj

[@dbboss8455]

same

[@prod.hxrford3896]

yeah it was sloppy

[@rajaakaking9053]

Nolan scribbled it in his own way😂

[@Michaentus]

The security team were stormtrooper level inept (and poorly armed, hosts had some miniguns and explosives on the park)

[@thesexyskywalker3283]

I agree the security team was unrealistically represented. Like c'mon not every robot can kill mercenaries! I would believe an advanced team like so would be more smarter and perhaps even stealthy

[@memyself898]

Of everything about season 2 that irked me, this was my number 1. I mean really, hosts with 19th century era type weapons on horses are wiping out dudes with full autos and dune buggies? Come on. No helicopters? Or hovercrafts?

[@PratikLawate]

Miguel Álvarez yeah, the scene where Delores and William kills those 3-4 men from that batmobile in episode 10 was the weakest of them all.. It was pistol vs the 2050 automatic guns. And they like killed them with like one shot. Seriously

[@serioussahil]

storm troopers are actually better adept.

[@TehIdiotOne]

@@PratikLawate I mean the Delos security forces are using the FN P90 which is a weapon from the 80s, a 70 year old weapon at that point. But yeah i agree it was sort of dumb

[@renzgarcia84]

The scene between Logan, Angela and Akecheta and the party takes place prior to Arnold's death, as he's reluctant to send Dolores to meet with Logan

[@Sujay95]

I thought that was obvious.

[@brycekempf1322]

Who's to say that that was Charlotte in the end? I thought it was two Delores identities in two different bodies...

[@jasondeday5685]

That is possible... it could be any of the hosts data cores in Charlotte

[@orcas87]

Teddy

[@zackaguon4053]

Oscar .Jonsson nah I’m pretty sure Delores left teddy in the virtual paradise

[@reactions5783]

Bruce Jenner

[@matthewchow4991]

Saving Private Ryan

[@raulojeda8567]

Im going to say it again where was your review for every episode?

[@Nickypoo700]

I've been asking the same thing in the comment section of a lot of their Marvel movie vids the past few months. This channel really became oversaturated with Marvel vids. I'm glad we at least got this and the S2 finale review.

[@orc001]

Too many channels arleady do that

[@joost199207]

Raul Ojeda They said in the previous video that it's useless to do because of all the plot twists and weird timelines.

[@baronessvondengler]

Lumor Sounds like a cop out to me

[@14Asura14]

I'd say check Nerd Soup, not only do they cover every episode well, they also discuss the meaning and different interpretations of the events (which is far more important)

[@billb8996]

I don’t care if it’s future or past, I just want a season without 3 separate timelines.

[@creativical]

But that's the whole fun in the kind of storytelling of this series isn't it?

[@CPAJayhawk]

Seriously....

[@aliceinthewired]

I agree. We're at the point where we don't need to rely on separate timelines and the mystery box to have an intriguing plot.

[@robertonome2448]

IMO it should have 2 timelines. future William's and hosts'

[@hannahplas2495]

Bill B I don’t mind, if there are three separate timelines as long as they don’t make everything so confusing and scrambled. And I would like to see some more of the past - Arnold and Ford developing the characters and the park. And maybe a little bit of how and when William started getting SO obsessed with everything. And how much he visited the park.

[@hannahplas2495]

Today I started rewatching season 1 and thanks to your video explaining season 1’s timeline, it’s so much better. Also, having watched everything before is really good, because you can pay more attention to the little things, because you don’t have to figure out the story anymore, you already understand what’s going on. I highly recommend rewatching everything!

[@gotdotnet]

For fidelity

[@Mr.Ponton]

RIP ELSIE :(((((((((((((((

[@romeblanchard3419]

That question isn't what happened? but when it happened?

[@camicatdv]

I understood that reference

[@Jay-nl9gu]

Dark

[@SudinJoseph]

Darkworld

[@filiperocha4025]

I have one better, whi is gamora?

[@Nic0G0nca]

I feel like we should see content from both the past and the future during season three, maybe tying them together in a more prominent way than the other seasons did

[@cinthyae.3357]

Why is Dolores LOL!

[@JEMurl]

Where's Sam Bashor? He never appears anymore. He seriously one of the funniest guys.

[@jason99king]

Why is gamora?

[@Gr33nB4st4rd]

Bautista(Drax) improv'd that line

[@ari_is_faded8611]

I'll do you one better. Where is Dolores!

[@ammyvas]

I'm still wondering how the heck Teddie's body move from the shack to the valley beyond

[@amym888]

Right!! Only if Dolores moved his body!

[@ador7572]

After Teddy killed himself Dolores took his brain thingy and uploaded it to the Forge using the satellite thingy Delos was supposed to use to transfer the guests files.

[@Tiaanvanniekerk]

Me too...

[@juliosantiago7182]

Dolores brought him... this scene cracked me up because teddie looked confused like wtf ... lol basically like heres your paradise bye

[@Momijisu]

Thank you! This is the Rockstars I know and love

[@specialagentorange4329]

I was on track until the finale. Confused as hell. So William took an elevator down to the future?

[@jasondeday5685]

The human version of William was rescured outside the forge by Delos security team

[@maryfontenelle8633]

Different timeline, it was to mislead the viewers, that's why the elevator was empty when it reached Bernard.

[@jackthetech5105]

2 theories, it seemed that either the hosts are continuing with their own version of the Delos project for unknown reasons, or William has been put in his own private "hell" by Dolores as payback for his brutal crimes against hosts while in the park.

[@TehIdiotOne]

Real William never went down the elevator. You see him unconscious on the beach when Delores-Hale was leaving. Plus the producers confirmed the post credit scene happend in the far future.

[@MonaWonderlick]

thats just how long the elevator ride was.

[@beautywisz]

The twists in season one had greater purpose whereas in this season the twists didn't seem to fit the narrative the same way and the characters became irritating with a lot of their choices.

[@gryotharian]

Yes, I agree, season 1 felt like everything fit together perfectly, it was incredibly well written and every confusing plot thread tied together, season 2 felt like they went more for showing off what they could do by making it more focused on action than plot

[@sebs2210]

i agree even though is well made, also Hopkins gave that 20% more charisma to the whole thing

[@VictoryAviation]

Just finished S2. There were definitely character arcs/decisions made for the sake of the script and not because of what made sense. I started getting frustrated with this also. S1 was so good and I was worried S2 would start to drop off. It did. I’m a few episodes into S3 and it seems to really be taking a nosedive, but now I’ve invested 20hrs in the storyline so I’m stuck lol.

[@JohnnyRoseofVersailles]

My problem is, why would Delos or even William want an AI clone. If they're after immortality, that's not real immortality. It's just a copy, not the real you.

[@FirstLast-rm7mb]

that was just the beginning.

[@gendengraven5049]

Joni Rose if they can replicate james delos consciousness from his brain? Its just same he is being alive again, but again, Delos Corp failed to copy james delos brain juat because, they can't, too impossible

[@Sapia_Papia]

@@gendengraven5049 Even the Logan-Core couldn't copy the consciousness of Delos after so many trials. Also Ford had said that consciousness is an illusion.

[@kylespratt4072]

Yeah but than how was ford able to make Arnold around or before the same time Delos failed?

[@richardcoulson6027]

That is the transhuman question exactly.

[@ChandanSikder]

I was looking for a 'season 2 explained in 5 minutes' and this is awesome. Thanks for your excellent content.

[@benfraley12345]

I think the next season will have a timeline in the current day with Bernard, Delores and others, and a timeline in the far future with William. Not sure of the relationship...

[@alexsilva28]

William's timeline would be the present then and Dolores/Bernard are now a flashback

[@mitchellp7739]

Ben Fraley Lisa joy said something about maybe not even touching on the post credit scene until season 4

[@grantbiteman306]

makes sense, season 3 will be about their 'takeover' or 'infiltration' or whatever of the mainland, then season 4 will probably be all humans wiped out in the future, with some kind of war going on, or some kind of conflict.

[@havcola6983]

Tbh, I wouldn't be surprised if they left William out. From a story perspective his 'arc' as it is is fairly completed. Buuut, I guess I could see him coming back just due to popularity.

[@Babyboo97ish]

I feel like we've seen all the relevant things from the past. I'd like season 3 to move forward. Can't wait to see what Dolores is up to !

[@diskjokk]

OMG! Thank you for this. I was so confused. This video, really cleared things up for me.

[@newageMisterX]

Good job and thanks a lot for this video, helped me with all those timelines

[@joetheman0291]

Loved this season but had a hard time understanding when things happened, can't wait for season 3

[@laughsngasps]

My brain needed this! Thank you!

[@mrdieselsir]

thanks for clarifying everything! great video to sum it all up

[@colunizator]

Could Dolores make a copy of herself in different bodies? #AlteredCarbon

[@jasondeday5685]

Yes that is a possibility

[@kristyandcowreact]

Haha...I just finished watching S2 of Altered Carbon (after another rewatch of its S1, of course, since it was so amazing), and I automatically thought "wait...is Dolores double sleeved!?!?! lol :)

[@AKfireKMK]

There is a 3rd timeline. As we find out in post credit scene Bill is being tested for fidelity way in the future. When does this test start? I think it starts right away in ep. 1 at the party. No doubt he made all the same choices when it was real. The whole season bill is in his fidelity test way way in the future.

[@squidvidv266]

10/10 video, explained it all quickly. have my like.

[@tankcommander4136]

There appears to be scenes from season 1 that actually happened In the Forge w/Logan showing Delores and Benard around

[@anne_g1658]

Very helpful! Thanks!

[@naimishar8320]

How can they change their own programming. That's just not possible. Why does the command "freeze all motor functions" work on Bernard and not other hosts.

[@alexandera.8725]

Because J.J Abrams

[@premier641641]

A lot of mistakes in this season

[@NotEnoughAttention]

just what i needed! awesome channel

[@RaRa-tl3dc]

Great great explanation! Thank you!!

[@celestinenox]

I feel like we've gotten enough from the past--let's explore the distant future.

[@maelyodasss5880]

meh not interested it will be probably go in the path of human extinction and robots enslaving the few remaining humans

[@callmemaybe1164]

@@maelyodasss5880 The future only exists only as a simulation. The future is the matrix

[@TheJusgu]

One thing that I don't understand: did dolores erased all the data Delos had on the guests?? The file the security team was about to transmit before dolores/charlote kills everybody was too heavy, does that means it was all the hosts information+ guests information? 🙃

[@FrankMoreiraV]

i was waiting for this since sunday!!! LOL

[@aentoaento1596]

Take my heart when you go... Scene about native american was the best.. In season 2 we needed more emotional narrative. .. Not so much plot in scenes...

[@amazon1606]

This vid was a better watch than the entire season 👍🏾👏🏼 thanks

[@serbiangamer]

Post credit scene doesnt need to be set in distant future at all, it could be just another game of Ford that happend before timeline b.

[@princeprocrastinate6485]

Trouble is one of the show's creators, Lisa Joy, already stated that scene takes place in the distant future.

[@justabitofjunkie2595]

Couldn't be because the forge is destroyed.

[@chelseaclo3180]

This is great! Thank you! :)

[@mateustravaglini6103]

lets go forward!! stop the spinoff trend pleasee

[@gian8448]

._.

[@davejoco489]

Ha “Two weeks”. - Total recall.

[@Deeplycloseted435]

Dave JoCo these kids don’t get that joke.

[@andyb7855]

Get yer ass to Mars!

[@ashleyalston4433]

“No I’m breaking up with you!” @ 3:33 Idk why I started dying when u said that

[@coomdoon]

I just hope that it has a faster pace than season 2

[@cap8e]

why do they keep saying two time lines? ITs ONE time line but different points the story is told in a nonlinear fashion. A different time line would be if someone went back or forward in time and changed what was originally suppose to happen, making the time line split after the change. so you get normal timeline and Alternate timeline.

[@alexandera.8725]

Yup.

[@Akirashinto]

How are we suppose to understand when Bernard himself doesn't understand the timeline.

[@MIKUIEL]

thank you for these videos i loved the season, but i was completely lost at some points lol.

[@adityalokapratama8495]

I like the idea of exploring the past. William's and Ford's storylines are easy to love; I wanna see them in their younger selves a bit more.

[@elia_simon]

i get you were trying to go quickly but i think this video would have been better a bit longer and slower because obviously, the timeline makes sense when you break it down simplistically like you did, but it would have been cooler to see more detail put into exactly what happened when. Also I think it might be smarter to see season 3 focus on the past with nuggets of the future stuff, and then if we get a season 4 they can explore the future timeline.

[@SidK26]

AWESOME!!

[@thegawjus22]

how am i confused watching an explanation video? my two brain cells can't handle this

[@rashadjones]

Stories aren't just stories, they're PUZZLES!!!!!

[@acexone]

a few aha moments sprinkled in here and there but ultimately this left me more confused lol

[@fruit032]

YES!! 🤣🤣

[@jenljune]

I would love for it to delve way into the past but also putting alternate timelines of the far future so we can have more of your explanation videos! ;)

[@Nitah89]

Thank heavens for this video ... Just finished watching season 2 and was at. a. loss. :')

[@nicksholtz1354]

Delores is running the fidelity test on William in the future...

[@RK-ep8qy]

Nick Sholtz really?!?! OMG I bet no one in the whole world realised that

[@FirstLast-rm7mb]

stfu gtfo.

[@clarkgriswald9909]

I still say hybrid William shot Emily - not "actual" William, who is in the real world at that time. One other thing that bothers me, at the beginning when they find Bernard on the beach, there is a wine glass next to him in the sand, like he'd taken it there after the party - there was no wine glass at the end when he lays down to scramble his memory so he could be found - where in the hell did that wine glass come from?

[@sv2296]

I highly contagious l recommend watching this video before watching season 2

[@snchick12]

very helpful as i just finished s2 and was lost a bit but this helps thx!! WTF right lol

[@chrisnasil1752]

Thank you so muck 😘

[@BicicIentiu]

"Is this the present?" Even Bernard got mindfucked...

[@joshuapeek9555]

Just make S3 chronological S1 was great with separate timelines was brilliant S2 felt like it was almost trying too hard to have separate timelines The stories are established and the characters are developed S3 would do just fine if chronological

[@Sachin6197]

s2 timeline jumble felt better to me

[@johermeah2785]

This comment is bang on.

[@jimmymelonseed4068]

Many thanks

[@sloppygirlz]

Thank God for this I was lost

[@Ericapires12]

Now i have to watch the season again

[@crazyfool1]

I watched it and it confused the shit out of me so thank you for this video

[@gryotharian]

Wait, but if William killing homestead Maeve happened in 2052, then why is Maeve already a prostitute in 2052 in episode 1?

[@jasonlam8588]

William's wife committed suicide after seeing all the villainy stuff he's doing in the park with the iPad thing and the profile.

[@ritzzzy2042]

I felt this was a bit of a cop out on the writers part...

[@bobbywog]

Rashida Islam how? There has to be a reason, and it wouldn't have been this entirely.

[@GhostFan-ev4di]

Jack Smith juliet was just a mentally ill person.

[@rohithkumarsp]

there was a scene where karl took both bernard and Stubbs to get the key. what timeline was that ?

[@Mark.Taylor.]

Question: Can someone explain the Abernathy Encryption Key part? - Who 'hid' the key in him in the first place and why? - What was all the smuggling the data out from season 1 about? - Season 1 implied there was some nefarious outside 'something' that was paying a lot for it. - Why would Delos need a key for their own program? - Was Abernathy really just transporting the whole Forge in his brain ball? Thank you,

[@marydauby5229]

Past so I can see more of Jimmy Simpson

[@danielleo1227]

His story was so intriguing in season 1 but what more is there to explore? We saw his transformation. I hope we do see him again.

[@MrAntoineglenn]

Thanks

[@truppelito]

Wait, how did Aketcheta start putting the maze symbol underneath scalps? How would he do that? I'm confuseeed

[@MrAmal88]

Alexandre Truppel He found that symbol in one of his tribe people, when he scalped his head.

[@truppelito]

Yes, so he didn't *put* the symbol there, which is what Erik says, I think

[@P07H34D]

I am pretty sure the scalp carvings were done to conceal the message under the flesh when the bodies were sent back to processing.

[@MargaretElyas]

I think that he scalped members of the ghost nation and carved the maze on their scalps knowing that they'll be patched up and sent back to westword with the maze concealed. Cause in one scene the other tribe member tells him about the maze"hide it where they can't find it" and then proceeds to scalp himself

[@SmeeGuitar]

While I do agree that it's quiet complicated with all the timelines and all I do believe it's a great choice to do so. It's much like the movie "memento" which goes backward to make you understand how he feels forgetting everything. Those androids don't really have a concept of time, sometimes their memories get whiped, they are immortal etc. We can't understand it, since we experience time lineary, but they may not and this is a stylistic choice to tell the story like this so we might understand how they feel

[@weareorigin]

Analysis. Explain what happened in season 2 since I got confused.

[@kdpowers]

Pretty sure Williams timeline is at least 500 years into the future. Where it's possible that hosts have taken over the world. Didn't they say they tried the William simulation to the forge over 110,000 times? That alone in days is almost 500 years.

[@justabitofjunkie2595]

They did not say. "Emily" just said a "very long time" and that it was testing in the real world, not simulations. You're thinking about Bernard and it was just shy of 12,000 times for him.

[@cliffcheung186]

kdpowers where did you get that number of 110 000. I do not recall anyone ever stating that.

[@kdpowers]

Yeah i might've been mistaken; someone else said they simulated someone over 100,000 times...might've been William with J Delos...

[@niebuhr6197]

kdpowers there were around 130 test on a embodied Delos performed by Willy, 18 million simulations of Delos in the Forge (this high number is probably due to Delos being the very first mind reconstructed, hence the Forge was inexperienced and took longer) and Dolores needed more than 11000 runs in the cradle to recreate a version of Arnold

[@StevenTasler]

The question I have is this...How much and which of the old Wiiliam scenes are the 2052 timeline and how much is distant future? Im wondering because distant future William has the same injuries (i.e. blown off hand) caused by Dolores. Is that scene in the distant future or does distant future William keep getting his hand blow off time after time? Thoughts?

[@richardcoulson6027]

Thank you for this. I wasn’t paying attention so at the end nowt made sense. Future. Wanna see how Dolores turns into skynet.

[@mamba_skillz1474]

Season 3 trialer just dropped!

[@plaize]

*WOW JUST A GREAT VID*

[@jorgesalustiano3424]

I want both!! past and future hahaha

[@msjkelmolol123]

They drove those characters and their stories into the ground. They said themselves “humans are only 2,000 lines of code.” the writers don’t believe we are complex creatures, though they keep diving too deep into the human psyche. For season 3 please just give us some cool sci-fi, black mirrory moments with the sentient AIs exploring the future human world and leave all that extreme “self awareness” and the confusing timelines in the past.

[@xBROOK]

Omg thank you

[@Buenomars]

Charlores! But then, why upon escaping into the real world, we see "Charlores" and another Dolores??

[@alexandera.8725]

It might've been Teddy

[@PapaWooody]

Thank! This more than makes up for your lack of episode analysis during the season! 👍🏼

[@FirstLast-rm7mb]

1:20 , WOAH never noticed how big Bernard's head was!

[@piano_master_5246]

I gave the 8 thousandth like

[@kyhomebirth708]

So I’m confused about after Arnold shoots Delores and the Forge floods, so much so that it fills the entire valley and creates a giant lake, when we return with Halores, there is no evidence of the Forge having been affected by giant quantities of water and Delores’ body is in the exact same place it originally fell....?

[@ashutoshsahoo1044]

Past timelines are more intresting for sure

[@tyeshab2010]

Watching all the recaps before I move to season 3... let the confusion begin 💪🏿

[@unstoppableExodia]

Thanks for clarifying the timeline. It got a little messy in the season 2 finale

[@CataratasdeArcadia]

Please, Could someone explain to me, how is posible return to "the Forge" as Dolores/Charlote if it flooded before? I can't sleep, I need to know. thanks

[@MarielikestoCrochet]

Let's do both! Forward & Past

[@Tharkz]

I don’t think Williams pow is present day. I think his entire trip from waking up under corpses (and not where he got svot in season 1) is his fidelity test. Just like Delos having a few days with his coffee and treadmill. For the entire season he doesen’t cross path with the other narritives except that last meet with Dolores. Like the Dorge is animating all roles of the scene Bernard visits. The future of the park could be that the central AI is animating hosts for the sake of Williams repeated trips to see if can better himself.