Westworld
Executive producers Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan revealed there will be a time jump in “Westworld” Season 2. In this photo, Joy (left) and Nolan participate in a panel for the series “Westworld” at the HBO Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills, California on July 30, 2016. Reuters/Danny Moloshok

The first season of HBO’s “Westworld” left fans with a lot of questions after its finale aired. Is Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) still alive? Is Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood) now an outlaw? What does the Man in Black (Ed Harris) plan to do with the park?

Show creators Jonathan Nolan and his wife Lisa Joy said that Season 2 will definitely answer all of these questions. However, they are attempting to do so with a time jump. “You’re definitely going to see the aftermath and the effects of what happened,” Joy told Entertainment Weekly, to which Nolan added: “We are definitely not picking up right where we left off.”

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Meanwhile, the two revealed during Paleyfest that they were forced to change the script for Season 2, episode 3, after fans correctly guessed the huge twist they had planned.

“Reddit has already figured out the third episode twist,” he said, according to NME. “So, we’re changing that right now. It’s annoying sometimes when people guess the twists and then blog about it, but the engagement is gratifying, on one level, because if someone guesses your twist, it means you’ve done an adequate job [of structuring the series].”

Nolan is now pleading with fans to stop forming theories because it’s difficult changing something that they have already elaborately planned. “You can’t complain when people are that engaged,” he added. “It’s very gratifying — but stop doing it, please.”

However, Nolan cannot help but applaud fans for correctly guessing the truth about Maeve Millay (Thandie Newton). In the finale episode of Season 1, she changed her mind at the last minute and decided to go back to the park to find her long-lost daughter.

Reddit users deduced that it was her first act of free will. Nolan said they were correct. “I’ve been waiting for the message boards on Reddit to tell us,” Nolan said. “The way that we designed it and the way we shot it… that is really the first decision she’s ever made. For me, it’s a very emotional moment in the episode because you’re seeing the first freewill.”

“Westworld” Season 2 will return to HBO in 2018.

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