I'm surprised there's not more essays about this show. Every time I watch it (and I rewatched it quite a few times) I find something new. A story like that does not happen often. Let's hope there will be more of it one day!
Interesting that you consider Hap light and good as the medical experimenting captor who exploits and Prairie dark who needs his approval to be considered a human being who deserves freedom.
I think you might’ve misinterpreted what I said, I was looking at the sides of the characters that are less touched upon. I think all of us generally see the OA as light and Hap as dark but in order to see everyone as *grey* you have to see the light in Hap and dark in OA too, so no I don’t consider Hap light or good, the point of the video was that I consider no one light or dark or good or bad at all
@Miles Memory kidnapping and holding people hostage against their will to experiment isn't good and their is no grey area there. Were they charged with a crime or was Hap simply interested or curious about their lives. Hap created a type of Stockholm syndrome in his kidnapped 'patients' making guinea pigs out of their existence. Prairie and the other captors tried to escape Hap's tyranny.
I feel u and would totally agree if this was real life, but as a fictional piece of media this video essay was more about broader strokes of yin and yang in what plays out fundamentally like a dark fairytale, not a realistic retelling of a hostage scenario But to me Hap did not create Stockholm syndrome in his victims, not only cuz the term is pseudoscience but because none of them actually enjoyed being around him/stayed because of him, or defended him against others. If the OA or the other Haptives had Stockholm syndrome they wouldn’t have tried to escape or fight back so many times, they did that for each other
@Miles Memory these types of situations do occur in real life. Your logic is the same that supports domestic abuse, financial abuse, modern day slavery, human trafficking, and a host of blackmailing scenarios etc. Why didn't they leave...perhaps because they were held captive and disability was a factor which makes manipulating 'patients' more revolting.
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I'm surprised there's not more essays about this show. Every time I watch it (and I rewatched it quite a few times) I find something new. A story like that does not happen often. Let's hope there will be more of it one day!
Same! There's quite a lot of discussion threads on twitter but it's bare bones over here
I’m looking forward to more OA video essays!
Absolutely amazing work.
Thank you so much 😇😇
I wish they would bring this show back! So much more could happen!
every time I re-watch this show I find new things to talk about w my friends
This is so sweet thank u for coming back to it!!
Keep up, it was a pleasure to watch
Thank you so much!
Interesting that you consider Hap light and good as the medical experimenting captor who exploits and Prairie dark who needs his approval to be considered a human being who deserves freedom.
I think you might’ve misinterpreted what I said, I was looking at the sides of the characters that are less touched upon. I think all of us generally see the OA as light and Hap as dark but in order to see everyone as *grey* you have to see the light in Hap and dark in OA too, so no I don’t consider Hap light or good, the point of the video was that I consider no one light or dark or good or bad at all
@Miles Memory kidnapping and holding people hostage against their will to experiment isn't good and their is no grey area there. Were they charged with a crime or was Hap simply interested or curious about their lives. Hap created a type of Stockholm syndrome in his kidnapped 'patients' making guinea pigs out of their existence. Prairie and the other captors tried to escape Hap's tyranny.
I feel u and would totally agree if this was real life, but as a fictional piece of media this video essay was more about broader strokes of yin and yang in what plays out fundamentally like a dark fairytale, not a realistic retelling of a hostage scenario
But to me Hap did not create Stockholm syndrome in his victims, not only cuz the term is pseudoscience but because none of them actually enjoyed being around him/stayed because of him, or defended him against others. If the OA or the other Haptives had Stockholm syndrome they wouldn’t have tried to escape or fight back so many times, they did that for each other
@Miles Memory these types of situations do occur in real life. Your logic is the same that supports domestic abuse, financial abuse, modern day slavery, human trafficking, and a host of blackmailing scenarios etc. Why didn't they leave...perhaps because they were held captive and disability was a factor which makes manipulating 'patients' more revolting.
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