All right, everyone. Bring yourselves back online. Here we go.

I’ve now had about a week with the first four episodes of Westworld‘s third season. Those four episodes represent half of season three, which clocks in at a total of eight episodes (unlike seasons one and two, which each had 10).

On one hand, four episodes is a significant chunk of the season, and I’ve got a lot of spoiler-y opinions and thoughts and theories that I can’t yet get into. On the other hand, past experience with the show strongly suggests that the really big stuff will remain hidden until the very last episode of the season—and four episodes is just enough to get a taste of what’s to come.