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[Rani G2]

From what I understand, is that “other“ people, maybe family relatives get into a dynamic of understanding, or finding out about their own traumatic experiences. It necessarily doesnt have to be trauma. When groups or people find each other they process their own traumas by interacting with each other. Difficult for me to explain....

Family constellations, or systemic constellations make more sense, if you google. :)

Its not really a measure of mental health to be well adjusted in a society that is very sick.
— The OA, Episode 1.

 

[Crow]

To me that's just daily life. Everyone I meet in a day somehow helps me process whatever is working its way out. I have very little contact with my family and in group therapy I've not found it true we feed off each other's trauma. In OA I think the characters were regular unconnected people and OA assisted in a connection that ultimately saved lives (theirs and others). I don't think she created trauma for them. And I wonder if the flashbacks were her remembering or if it was what the five were imagining. The description to her parents was drastically different to what we saw.

 

[Crow]

Glad you watched @Fadeaway

 

[Rani G2]

I don't think she created trauma for them

I didnt mean it that way. Through sharing each of them processed their own.

 

[Crow]

Connection. Yep. That's what it does. Heals.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I checked and all Netflix Orginals are this short now. 6 to 8 episodes each season. That's upsetting as it takes like a day to finish a season and now you are sitting there and waiting for the next season. It takes me weeks to get through a season of something on tv.

I always have a show I am into and binge watch. So it just sucked in that way. I love Netflix Orginals and I don't know when this started that as Orange Is The New Black has 13 each episode.

I don't know. Maybe it's because I watch many si-fi shows, the si-fi part of it seemed a bit corney to me but the trauma part and healing from trauma was what I got the most from. What stuck out at me the most was that she wouldn't leave with him because of the others. Her conntection with Homer I found beautiful and it took me back to my trauma and though I would never wish my trauma on anyone else, the lack of a connection was huge.

Also, when OA and Homer finally touched, that was beautiful as well!

And of course the connection of all 5 of them back then and then the connection the other 5 and OA made. All of that was beautiful.

And I wonder if the flashbacks were her remembering or if it was what the five were imagining. The description to her parents was drastically different to what we saw.

I wondered that too. It swings both ways. Remember when they found her, shirt ripped with a knife? That seemed like a flashback. But when Homer had sex with the other lady (forgot her name) and when one (I think Alphonso?) got up and got mad. That seemed imagining. So I think they did a good job at making us guess which one it was.

Maybe I am just dead to spiritual stuff. I refuse to watch Christian stuff so I don't know. I know that hatred and rage is there and runs deep so maybe that's why I didn't get the spirital nature of this?

 

[Crow]

Great post @lostforgottensoul .

On the spiritual stuff, I am so far away from Christianity that it's just a distant whisper. We work with more core & universal spirituality

 

[Crow]

Just watched the last seven episodes of Sense8. Much more mind f*cking than OA. Love the Wachowski sisters film making. Sense8 had their trademark flaws but I pushed through and it was worth it. I wish they'd do Atlas Cloud in a long form series.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Just watched the last seven episodes of Sense8.

Do we have the same list? Lol.

I was going to start Sense8 tomorrow.

 

[Crow]

Be prepared to be stuck to your TV for 12 hours. And stay with it when it bogs down.

 

[Crow]

Yep T said it was the paradigm shift messages (ie spirituality) and the time we talked about OA she did not count towards session time. It was a fun discussion. Nothing about the trauma just the beauty of the story.

 

[One step at a time]

It's funny - I saw this thread get started, then I was away and the site crashed and I ended up binge-watching the series, too.

I didn't like the sci-fi bit very much, either. Rant ensues: please stop manipulating/making up science to pretend like this is possible - the many worlds theory is about multiple possibilities, but the whole point is that if you knew what all of the possibilities were, you could include them in the state-vector and then all the math would come out right, without having to claim "collapse of the wave-function as in the Copenhagen interpretation /end rant. [edited to improve accuracy of rant]

I disliked how the other characters were asymmetrically developed - we got these isolated fragments of their lives, some more than others - but I'm realizing it could be interpreted as a realistic portrayal of how trauma can make it hard to see the world and other people as they are...

I liked (1) a few things the trauma therapist guy said, and (2) I kinda liked the fact that they found those books that seemed to explain where pieces of her story came from. (3) I liked the ambiguity in the end - story totally/partially/not made up? girl totally/partially/not insane? movements totally/partially/not effective? (4) I liked the way the story reflected certain truths - that connection/bonding with others and hope/a plan (no matter how futile) help us survive.