The movement stuff is weird and kind of stupid. Yet, this show some how is still good.
Awesome series so far but I think this is the episode where it all starts going down hill.
I’m late to the party, having known about this show since it first appeared on Netflix but just now getting around to watching. I’m enjoying it so far. A couple of thoughts and observations about this episode:
Prairie tells her story to her audience an hour at a time, and they sit and then try to puzzle out pieces of it together. The OA (the show) and its audience does the same.
We now know that Prairie’s NDE’s element was air (to Hap, she described wind as its prominent feature), and her creature was a bird. Homer’s was water - we saw the flooding urinals and the aquarium, and his creature was a fish. (The aquarium, incidentally, was shaped like their holding cells, and Prairie’s celestial room seems to be, as well, though it’s harder to discern). We didn’t really get to see much of Scott’s NDE but it appeared to start with fire. I’m guessing the final two will be earth and then aether (spirit), and the spirit will involve ethereal beings (angelic forms).
I have to go back and watch the final moment of each episode and pay more attention to the glowing ring. In this episode the one ring became two. I assume one for Prairie and one for Homer, and the glowing rings are actually halos.
In the scene where Hap is in his bed (and notices Prairie and Homer practicing their moves, via the monitor), I noticed that above his headboard their is a big art piece in the shape of a scaled snake/serpent. If the prisoners are angels, then it seems like the show is letting us know that Hap is the devil.
so far this show is so esoteric without getting hamstrung like Lost inevitably did (iykyk). I hope I am devestatingly disappointed by the S02 cliffhanger.
(also goddamn these comment sections are so CinemaSins jfc. Can y'all just suspend disbelief for an hour lol?, I simply wouldn't watch anything if I was looking for holes at every turn. Hey fam how do people fucking travel interdimensionally? Isn't that unbelievable? Okay that's unfair, it makes sense within the story's context but c'mon. This is good OC and we're using it for target practise.)
Could not like so much
I dont understand why people liked so much.
Why could not he still understand she was not blind anymore, if there was camera. It is not so realistic.
Now there is a team students-teacher. They sit together. interesting. Because of stories, they are united.
At first she was saying "flexible" but then she did not insist about it.
It is good there is transgender person as i understood.
Alfonso's mother is so antipathic.
Seeing cuba and cultural things were nice. Homer could escape. If he escaped, could hap kill others? no. It was nonsense. Instead he brought another prisoner.
Homer and oa could open that portal alone. So, 2 people are enough? And how does oa know about those movements? And why could not he come back alone just how others do? And maybe he did before?
There was no gas so scott could easily escape.
I cant understand such things. That is why i cant like and maybe because i dont like stuff like angels.
Why could not he stillundertan if thereis cam
Now there is a team. They sit together. interesting
At first she was saying "flexible"
It is good he is trans and.
Alfonso's mother is so antipathic
Seeing cuba and cultural things were nice. HOmer could escape. If he escaped, could hap kill others? no. It was nonsense. Instead he brought another prisoner.
Tensegrity - Carlos Castaneda - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk9VlwH_yME
that came in mind when I watched the movements, hmm
"In the spring of 1998, shortly after the death of New Age writer and philosopher Carlos Castaneda, 5 women closely connected with Castaneda and his movement, called “Tensegrity,” vanished from the Los Angeles area.
Their names were Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar, Amalia Marquez, Kylie Lundahl, and Patricia Lee Partin. Aside from Partin, whose remains were discovered in 2003, all of the women remain missing to this day."
Patricia Partin, a.k.a. Nury Alexander
Prairie Johnson - Nina Azarova
hmm...
The movement thing was kinda cringey.
Review by N'Delamiko BeyBlockedParentSpoilers2016-12-21T03:52:21Z
Hap is monstrous for what he's doing to these people. Homer (Emory Cohen), is tragic, sad, indeed Homer being the lynchpin and Hap mercilessly using him to manipulate the others, break the trust between them... just ugh! Jason Isaacs is doing a magnificent job of making me loathe this character.
The OA is amazing. She's amazing. The 'movements' and the celestial portal... yeah, I'm down. I get it. I SCREAMED when I got it!!!! And regardless of what he's done, Homer remained a soldier and a believer in what they were doing.
Oh this show just slipped into a whole level of weirdness that I super appreciate. The OA, who as I previously noted, while appearing to everyone else to be 'unhinged', is proving to be a strong, tough, relentless pursuer and believer in love and freedom and truth. At the end of this episode, we see just how strong and truly powerful she is.
Oh my, what a good episode this was! Oh how I loathe Hap, but one has to ask this question: If we are working with the holographic universe model, and that which is observed changes to produce the effect that the observer requires, desires, or simply as a reaction to being observed, how much of what is happening with these five people is being made possible by the evil, twisted, horrible, disgusting, awful Hap Hunter?
Oh my... This is certainly one of the best written shows I've seen in awhile. As weird as the ride has been, it's remained consistent and engrossing throughout.
I get how this would never have worked on network television, but finds a perfect niche with the Netflix crowd. Long live the Internet!