The Big Detail You Might Have Missed In This Week’s Episode of ‘Westworld’

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One of the best things about Westworld is that one viewing of each episode is never enough and I always discover new details and nuances in the days after my Monday morning spoiler reviews. One of the worst things about Westworld is that one viewing of each is never enough and smart people out in internet-land always discover new details and nuances that I completely missed, leading me to feel like a real idiot. In this case, I completely missed an interesting casting decision in this most recent episode, “Trace Decay,” and it may be another clue to deciphering the series’ complex timeline.

Spoilers for “Trace Decay” follow, of course.



You may have not noticed, but actress Talulah Riley has showed up in Westworld three times, seemingly playing a different character on each occasion. Redditor shine_o put together a side-by-side comparison on the Westworld subreddit, just in case you’re like me and can be totally thrown off by a change in hairstyle and a little dirt on a face.



So let’s break this down.

When we first met Talulah Riley’s Angela in “Chestnut,” the second episode of the season, she was working as one of the first robotic Hosts guests encounter as they prepare to enter the park. Specifically, she guided Jimmi Simpson’s William through the science fiction theme park equivalent of a character creation menu, helping him select a wardrobe and weapons. Unlike the Hosts who actually populate the park, Angela was programmed to be aware of the artificiality of her existence, a neutral presence rather than a character.

We then caught a quick glimpse of Angela when Dolores reached the center of the Maze and had her dizzying flashback/hallucination to a small town where Westworld technicians in lab coats were fine-tuning a group of hosts. You probably missed it. I know I did.

And finally, Angela re-entered the narrative in a big way when her unconscious body was discovered by Teddy and the Man in Black. Of course, she was actually an agent for the uber-villain Wyatt and she assisted in getting both of them captured. Her exact role in Wyatt’s organization remains to be seen.

So, what does all of this mean? While this could just be Westworld reusing an actress to showcase how the park cycles its various Hosts through different identities (the same episode explored how Maeve was reprogrammed to be the madam of a brothel after originally being written as a frontierswoman), these three Angelas seem to add further fuel to an already roaring discussion about what is taking place when.
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For starters, the fact that Angela can be seen in Dolores’ vision at the heart of the Maze suggests that she is remembering a past event. After all, Angela is currently working as an introductory Host at this time, not as a Host within the park itself.

And that brings us to Angela playing a completely different character during her interactions with the Man in Black, which further suggests that those scenes are taking place sometime after William’s first visit to the park. After all, she can’t be welcoming new guests to the park and playing a key role in the Wyatt storyline at the same time, right? And if this does confirm that William and the Man in Black exist in different times, consider this more evidence for the “William is a younger version of the Man in Black” theory.

In conclusion:
The Distant Past: Angela is among the Hosts being tested, possibly before the park even opens.
The Past: Angela is the introductory Host who welcomes William to Westworld.
The Present: Angela is a character in Dr. Robert Ford’s Wyatt narrative.

Or this could mean absolutely nothing at all and we’re just over-thinking things. Then again, Westworld has always been about these tiny details. Nothing in this show has been an accident.

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‘Fantastic Beasts’ Sequels: Everything We Know About the Next Four Movies

Walking out of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, I found myself confused. This is the first installment of an announced five-film series but the movie somehow feels like a standalone one-off movie. I know critics like to complain about films which seem to exist only to set up a potential franchise, but this felt to me like the exact opposite. As the characters concluded this adventure, I felt like I was shutting the book on their stories. What could the Fantastic Beasts sequels possibly be about? Who might they focus on? Let’s take a deep dive into the Wizarding World to discover what we know and can speculate about the Fantastic Beasts sequels.





The following article contains spoilers for the first Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them film and the Harry Potter book series. I also highlight excerpts from previous articles posted on /Film.
How Many Movies Are Planned?

Originally envisioned as a trilogy of films, it was recently revealed that JK Rowling and Warner Bros now plan to make five Fantastic Beasts movies.
Why Did They Expand to Five Movies?

Money? Writer J.K. Rowling explained that the reason she expanded to five films from three was because she found the story arc needed five films to be told correctly:


“Originally, to tell you the truth, we said a trilogy as a placeholder. We wanted to be honest with people that it was going to be more than one movie, but we were feeling our way. Then, there came a point in the drafting of our story where I said to David [Yates], ‘You know, this feels like five movies, and I think I’m pretty certain about that.’ It’s ambitious to tell it in five to be honest because we’re spanning 19 years, but I can see an arc to five – so that’s how it happened. It came out of the material.”

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Who Will Direct the Fantastic Beasts Sequels?

David Yates, who directed half the Harry Potter movies and returned for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, will be back for the next movie and probably the next three as well.
What Will the Fantastic Beasts Sequels Be Titled?

We don’t yet have a title for any of the Fantastic Beasts sequels, but star Eddie Redmayne has revealed that the sequels will keep the “Fantastic Beasts and” subheading, with the second part of the title being changed out for the various sequels.
When Will They Be Released?

The sequel is already scheduled to hit theaters in November 2018, with the third film planned for November 20th, 2020. If we’re looking at the release pattern, this probably means we’ll see the fourth Fantastic Beasts in 2022 and the fifth and final movie in 2024.


What Do We Know From the Source Material?

Unlike the Harry Potter series, Fantastic Beasts is not adapted from a series of highly successful narrative books. Fantastic Beasts is adapted from a textbook on the magical creatures of the wizarding world that author J.K. Rowling penned for charity. While the book was never intended for the big screen, Warner Bros circled back to Rowling hoping to make more films in the Harry Potter world and Rowling pitched the idea of a series of films following the author of this textbook, magizoologist Newt Scamander.

According to the “About the Author” section of the book, Scamander became a magizoologist because of his own interest in fabulous beasts, as well as the encouragement of his mother, an enthusiastic Hippogriff breeder. The Hufflepuff was expelled from Hogwarts, and later joined the Ministry of Magic in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.

One fan asked Rowling why Newt can carry a wand, practice magic, and do work for the Ministry of Magic when he was expelled from Hogwarts, especially since Hagrid wasn’t afforded those liberties. Her response: there are four more movies. Here is a bit more info on the known character’s future history:


His career included a brief stint in the Office of House-elf Relocation, a transfer to the Beast Division, the creation of the Werewolf Register in 1947, the 1965 passage of the Ban on Experimental Breeding, and many research trips for the Dragon Research and Restraint Bureau. His contributions to Magizoology earned him an Order of Merlin, Second Class in 1979.

Newt retired in Dorset with his wife Porpentina and their pet “Kneazles”: Hoppy, Milly, and Mauler. He had a grandson named Rolf, who married Luna Lovegood some time after the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
What Do the Harry Potter Books Tell Us About Newt?

While the character appeared briefly in some of the books, making an appearance on Harry’s Marauder’s Map, in house portraits, and on a Famous Wizard card, this is his first real story. And Rowling penned the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them screenplay, her first.


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One of my biggest problems with Fantastic Beasts, despite how much I enjoyed it, was that Newt Scamander’s story already felt tangential to the story that Rowling is building up to. The story leaves all of our heroes split up, and it seems like getting the gang all together again and having Newt continue as the main character might feel incredibly contrived.

Producer David Heyman has admitted, “I don’t think [Newt will be at] the heart of all of them. I think he’ll be part — so will Tina, Queenie, and Jacob — will be part of the next one.” Further confirming what all the Harry Potter fans have assumed, he clarified in answer to a follow-up question, “[Dumbledore] and Credence and Grindelwald. I think they will be the main players.”

Who else may return for the next films? We do have some hints of who may return and what to expect from the story.

We do know Johnny Depp, and Zoe Kravitz are among those scheduled to return.

Dan Fogler told us that his “original contract was for three films with a chance of four.”

And Rowling has confirmed that Alison Sudol’s Queenie Goldstein will return in the next movie.





Is Credence Still Alive?

At the end of the first film, Aurors end up defeating the Obscurus, despite objections from Newt Scamander not to hurt Credence so that he might coax the Obscurus out of him. However, it turns out that maybe Credence is not entirely gone. After his apparent destruction, Mr. Scamander notices a wisp of the Obscurus, with a flash of orange light within it, floating away from the scene of the action. It’s not clear what that might mean for the future, but there’s at least a hint of his possible survival. It turns out that such a tip was originally slated to be much more apparent in a scene that ended up being deleted from the final cut of the movie. David Yates said this about the original scene:


We actually had a scene, which we cut, which was Credence going to a boat, to get on a boat somewhere else. But we cut that, because we didn’t want to have it be such an, ‘Ahhh, here we go.’
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Yates added that his choice of transportation was “maybe a boat with Newt, maybe not,” which implies that Credence may be following Scamander, perhaps in hopes that he might be able to help him with the dark force he possesses. Another quote said during the press conference seems to suggest that Credence may have a much larger role in the upcoming series:


….once she found a story that she really wanted to tell, passionately, which centers on Credence ultimately, she flew…

And you can imagine how Credence could continue to play a part in this series. Newt and Tina would probably want to help Credence harness his power, while Grindelwald would likely want to exploit it for his own means.


When Will Fantastic Beasts 2 Take Place?

The five-film story arc will span “19 years” in the Wizarding World. Considering the first film is set in the year 1926, that means the last film will end in 1945.

Yates told us that the sequel would take place not too long after the events of the first movie: “A little bit of time [has passed]. Two years later. A year or two later, I should say.” So sometime in 1927 or 1928.
Where Will Fantastic Beasts 2 Take Place?

The sequel will follow Newt to Paris. Yates told us that the reason for this is “Grindelwald is from Europe and it feels natural to take it [there] — and we’ve never been to Europe before. And Paris thematically has a kind of romantic element about it, and if you’re gonna have a romantic element, it seems absolutely right to set a movie in Paris. So that’s one of the reasons.”


Which Romance Will Be Focus of the Sequel?

The first film is pretty light on romance, which makes us wonder what romantic relationship may be the focus of the second film.

In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, we get a little bit of information about Newt Scamander’s romantic history. While Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) and Queenie Goldstein are exploring the inside of Mr. Scamander’s magical suitcase full of creatures, the latter stumbles upon a black and white photo of Zoe Kravitz’s character, who we learn is named Leta Lestrange. And it’s clear that Newt had a crush on Lestrange, if not a full-on romantic relationship that didn’t end well. Queenie, a skilled Legilimens who can read minds without using her wand, senses what happened between Leta and Newt and expresses her sympathy. But she also offers up a detail that makes us wonder just what happened between Newt and Leta. Queenie sweetly tells Newt that Leta was a “taker” and he deserves someone who is a “giver.”

Yates has revealed that Leta Lestrange is a larger part of the second movie.


She’s quite complicated and damaged and confused and Newt is absolutely still in love with her, so she has a kind of power over him, and she, yeah, she’s a kind of tragic figure, so we will see a bit more of her in the second movie.

According to the Fantastic Beasts screenplay, Leta Lestrange had an experiment she was conducting at Hogwarts that went wrong, and it endangered the life of a student. Newt Scamander took the blame, and it appears that’s why he was expelled from the school.

The Lestrange family were all loyal follows of Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter books, believing in preserving pure bloodlines of wizards. The wicked Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange (the cousin of Sirius Black, whom she killed) married into the family and had no problem fitting in with their evil beliefs.


Where Will the Other Fantastic Beasts Films Take Place?

The filmmakers have said that each of the Fantastic Beasts films will take place in a different major city. But they’ll likely be sticking around Europe, Heyman told us. “We haven’t really talked about it, but I suspect we’ll be, with the specter of World War II looming large in the not-too-distant future, it wouldn’t surprise me if Europe is quite central to the series.” He hastened to add, “But I have no idea.”


Who Will Be the Main Villain of the Fantastic Beasts Series?

This might be the easiest question to answer of the bunch. The only real loose thread from Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them hinting at where the story might go comes in the form of an appearance from Johnny Depp. In the film, Percival Graves (Colin Farrell) is revealed to actually be Gellert Grindelwald in disguise. In Fantastic Beasts, Grindelwald is on a search for the Obscurus, which he was hoping to use it to spark a war between the wizarding world and the non-magical world so that wizards might finally rule over everything and show their superiority to humankind.

While Grindelwald is arrested at the end of this film, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that somehow he will escape and be the big threat for this entire film series.