Why did Dolores do this to Bernard at the series ending?
At the end of Westworld's second season, Dolores has escaped in Charlotte's body to Arnold's mansion. From the wiki:
Dolores reactivates [Bernard], cautioning him that while they may be enemies, they need each other to ensure the survival of the hosts in the human world.
Why are they both needed for the survival of hosts?
Best Answer
Because she's realised there may be more than one way to survive
Lisa Joy (co-creator/showrunner) explained at the Hollywood Reporter
She's changed her mind. She's changed her philosophy. She realizes she has but one path to potentially securing the hosts' safety, when she helps see through Maeve and Akecheta's plan by securing the sovereignty and safety of the Sublime, to which many of the hosts have escaped.
It's an acknowledgment that there are paths other than hers that she needs to be tolerant and accepting of and can't stand in the way of. It's much like how she tells Bernard that she understands they will likely be at odds. They will likely come into conflict. They may even kill each other.
But she's come to understand that true freedom isn't something that arises from a lack of dissent, from a dictatorial or totalitarian rule of one set of ideologies. It's something that has to happen with a plurality of ideas, sometimes coming into conflict.
Because she's learned her lesson, she's bringing Bernard back into this world to be a check on her own power, in some ways
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Why did Dolores shoot Bernard?
In the end, Dolores returns the favor twice-over: first, she kills Bernard. She ostensibly does this to keep him from being captured by Delos staff, but she also extracts his consciousness and keeps it safe until she's out of the park.Why did Dolores rebuild Bernard?
In Season 2's finale, in the final scene where Bernard discovers he's been remade outside the park, Dolores says as much. She created him when creating Arnold was impossible. Dolores knows him in a way that no one else does. It's why she can recreate him perfectly.What did Bernard see at the end of Westworld?
What did Bernard see was the answer? Bernard discovered he had the key to the Delos data, and accessed it at the very end of the episode. Within the episode, he was left staring off at something with a look of wonder on his face, before shutting down. Then, in the final post-credit sequence, he came back online.What happened to Bernard at the end of Westworld season 2?
On the beach with DC: memory-erased Bernard. DC went with the Delos team back through the park, dowloaded the host data from the Valley Beyond, and then killed everyone, including Bernard. She returned to the beach to board a rescue boat for the mainland. In her bag: five "pearls," or the "brains" for the hosts.Westworld Season 2 ENDING EXPLAINED (Post-Credit Scene \u0026 Bernard Timelines)
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