The OA
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- Bennn2
"It will be up to people to decide, anywhere in the world. If people connect to the series, if they want to see this story continue, it will have a sequel ... But in any case, we have already planned everything. The whole series is a vast enigma. There's a lot of clues. And frankly very few people have really managed to spot all the clues so far. "
- Brit Marling
Seems like season 2 will be made, cool
- Bennn0
and +1 for putting some Arvo Pärt music in this!
- Bennn3
the instagram is a work of art : https://www.instagram.com/the_oa…
- Miguex0
Pretty cool, not amazing but if you are already on neflix it's a good watch. A bit slow in the beginning, but it got better after episode 3 and then your are already committed to the show.
I liked how they made a kubrik reference just before they started focusing on the lab with the circular panel arrangements.
I give it a 7 out of 10
- Gnash0
as ramanisky already mentioned, that FBI agent in the house is still bugging me. I can't figure out why he was there. she never told him the story so planting the books doesn't make sense.
And speaking of the books, why was it Homer's Illiad that was there and not Odysseus? Odysseus would have been more appropriate, I think.
(I have that very same translation of The Illiad, it's a good one. the best I've read, aside from maybe Pope's version)
- the last episode as a whole lacks cohesiveness to the rest of the story. oh shit, outta budget, lets just make a little change herejaylarson
- Bennn2
Maybe some answers and theories >
http://time.com/4605895/the-oa-e…''8. What was the FBI guy who was counseling her even doing at the OA’s house?
For most of the series, Elias comes across as low-key and on her side, only “passing along” the most crucial tidbits if they could help bring her captor to justice. But by the end, it seems like he’s much more invested in this case because he’s already lurking around her house when French breaks in. The likeliest explanation? He’s trying to uncover more information for the FBI, or maybe he’s increasingly obsessed with her disappearance because it’s just that bewitching.''- and there: https://www.theatlan…Bennn
- and here: https://moviepilot.c…Bennn
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- TOMMYxGUNN0
So let me get this straight. The five were all in, practicing the dance, fully believing in her. Then it all unravels and they find the books, she's carted off somewhere and time passes. Who knows how long. Days? Weeks? Months? Enough time for them all to start to get back to normal life and seem to be fairly over it all.
Then a school shooting happens and their overriding instinct is to stand up and do the thing they had no proof would do anything at all. Not run, not tackle him, not call the police, nope. Let's all stand up and do the strange dance the crazy lady taught us. When this happened I literally burst out laughing and shouted FUCK THIS.
Also, why the fuck did they have to leave their front doors open?
So many holes. Fun up to a point but ultimately it feels like they made it up as they went along. Perfect for the conspiracy generation. Connect the distant dots yourself. Would not recommend. Watch Westworld or Stranger Things instead.
- they've made the dance because they had nothing to lose trying, otherwise it was death.Bennn
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nah, standing up like that is calling for a bullet, stay underneath the bench and have a chance at survivingMiguex - I don't think they stood up because they had no other option, I was actually hoping the gunman would just pop all five of them because it was so dumb.TOMMYxGUNN
- I also LOL'd at that part.Al_dizzle
- inteliboy0
Really enjoyed it...
Until that last episode... incredibly frustrating. And leaves it all wide open. Nothing was resolved. Felt all a bit silly, which is a shame, up until then I was totally in.
FBI in the house makes sense to me... the dimensional movement "technology" is known... FBI wasn't around to help OA, he was there to make sure the information didn't get out and/or to learn more from her. He was a spook / MIB kinda of fella.
Anyway, very easy to critic a show like this - still a pretty impressive feat I'd say.
- If there's to be a second series, I think FBI will play a rather more significant role in the plot. It's just too fucking weird he was in the house.Continuity
- yup, ending bugged meKnuckleberry
- would make sense if there was a second season. otherwise, wtf with agent slim in the housejaylarson
- Miguex-2
- TOMMYxGUNN1
Anyone know why they had to leave their front doors open?
Clever plot twist or shit writing?
- Bennn1
OA
"away"
- Bennn0
Some more theories based on the (amazing) instagram account of the show :
http://www.polygon.com/tv/2016/1…
the instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_oa…
- Bennn0
More explanations and theories: https://www.bustle.com/articles/…
- Bennn0
Some more here, some very interesting : https://moviepilot.com/p/the-oa-…
- Noggin2
Disappointing ending with predictable writers response "It's not about whether her story was true but the message".
- i_monk0
It's pretty flawed, but I liked it. I've heard it's planned to have a three season arc, so I wouldn't expect a whole lot to be resolved.
The did-she-make-it-all-up? unreliable narrator part was very sloppy: it comes in too late, is undermined by how her entire backstory is played straight until then, her search/obsession with Homer before she could possibly have ordered the Homer book from the internet (and the video corroborating his existence), and her description of the third premonition (and the fact she knew to run there at the right time) matches the event in question.
Hap letting her go was also sloppy. He has no trouble killing his test subjects over and over again and perma-killed at least two of them (though one did come back) without issue, so why dump her at the side of the road? A mine-owning doctor with a pilot's license and known ports of arrival/departure and a dead/missing cop and ALS-suffering wife shouldn't be hard to cross-reference.
When Prairie's mother said she never left a note, I was convinced the Prairie we saw was one who had travelled from another dimension – she'd left a note, but the Prairie she replaced didn't. Sad that didn't turn out to be the case.
I thought the movements were awesome. Sorry. Reminded me of the finger tutting magic in The Magicians. Having "OA" stand for "original angel" was stupid though.
- feel0
I'm just waiting to see people cosplaying that dance