Dancing Robots

The House





The Old night

Transdimensional Net

The Tree of Knowledge

Sleep study





The meta ending

Here's hoping for Part-3.





The mythology of The OA is complex, intricate and ambitious. It's a show that mixes eastern, western ideas and creates a universe, where they both feed into one another. Part-1 introduced the idea's of interdimensional travel, NDA(Near Death Experience), and the movements. Part-2 however significantly expands the world of the OA with Psychic Octopus, Tree of Knowledge and so much more.Let's have a rundown on these concepts, and see what works and what doesn't.The robot's doing the movement's, in my opinion, is a huge misstep. Let me explainThe movements have always felt like a group of people are calling to a higher cosmic power and now we do know that it connects them to the Tree of Knowledge, as the wind increases around them. It feels tribal, raw and real while the robots doing the movement's feel artificial at best, and silly at worst. It's also counterproductive to the rest of the universe that focuses solely on the human experience with the NDA's, Transdimensional maps branching out from the human brain.I understand the creator's intention to merge technology with their own idea's, but it just reduces the importance of the movement's. They could have come up with a different way to use modern machinery for jumping into other dimensions.I found it to be the most compelling mystery and storyline of the season. Its creation is fascinating with a couple, of different faiths: One in science and one in spirit's joining together to create a puzzle house. It's an interesting idea and true to the show's philosophy of mixing science with mystical elements.The idea of what was happening in that house is not completely clear, but the way I interpreted the event is that; It's a test, and the worthy one will see what's behind the rose coloured window. Every person has to enter the house through the back entrance and get drenched into the naturally occurring spring water. The tree of knowledge plants a seed into the brain of the guest and the high mercury sulphide concentration; open's their mind to different dimensions, and the growing plants as stated in the show are the multiple forking paths.The rose coloured window show's the one person or the one thing you want in your life, another dimension, and it's yours if you jump to it.The second most WTF moment in the part-2 is a giant octopus connecting to Nina Azarov's body and talking through her to the crowd. It's a pretty disorienting scene because till now we've not seen anything like it. I was rewatching his scene's and noticed a lot of new things, that I didn't catch previously.Azreal or the Old Night is part of an underwater universe that the show has not explored yet, and it's somehow connected to Khatun. Azreal implies that Karim is her brother and "she sent him to protect you in every dimension". I don't know any other goddess, that has a soft spot for Prarie. It explains a lot of things: Why Karim sees Prarie when he opens up the window and bows down to her; why she appears in his dreams.There's a time travel twist as she dies for 37 secs and is transported into part 3 to awaken Brit's memories on the plane.The one thing that bugged me about the whole scene is the lack of security and the cavalier attitude towards the ceremony. It's a rare creature, and there's no one protecting it; No contingency plan for the safety of Nina. When Pararie meets the night club manager, later on, he seemed rather unfazed by the whole thing, and it was something that was brushed aside rather quickly.The big arc for Hap, this season, was to figure out a map to guide him through the multiverse, and he managed to figure out the final piece with the help of the mysterious traveller Elodie. The same figure then helps Prarie to balance things out. It reminded me of Dark, where people are jumping through time or in this case dimensions are knowingly setting things in motion, to create the events in the future. It's another cool Netflix show that everyone should check it out.Talking about the scene in Hap's laboratory, it perfectly showcased both of their worldviews. He's desperately trying to convince Prarie to join him, and sacrifice of these teenagers was the only way to change the world; she is instead horrified, mourning the death of her loved ones and blames him for crushing her. At that moment, Hap realized that she will never understand his view and has to wipe her memory.The inclusion of this story answered the big question about how did Prarie know about the school shooting. The whole conversation in the scene, however, didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I'm paraphrasing here, but The tree says you need a tribe helping you and she says no I'm better at it alone. Prairie has always been someone who has sought people's help. The day she got out of Hap's captivity, she formed a group and told them her story. For her to say that no I'm going to take on Hap alone seems odd.Another question I have about the tree is: why is it helping Hap, and Prarie at the same time.?? Is this a thing about creating balance in the world?? I feel like a person scraping at the tip of an iceberg, while the real story is yet to be told.Dream interpretation is not something that's a modern practice but has been going one for centuries, and different civilisations have placed different meaning to them. Mesopotamian history considers it to be an important part of divination. Ancient Greek constructed temples to incubate healing dreams. Modern psychology views it to understand the subconscious mind.They have smartly combined all these ideas and turned it up onto its head. The house sent echoes that could only be interpreted by the subconscious mind, and it called for Karem to play his part. We still don't know about Karim's dream of falling from a skateboard, after seeing Prarie in the forest. BBA also has dreams that she interpreted and understood that Steve is the chosen one.The OA is famously or infamously is known to throw crazy left-field twists and cliffhangers. I know a lot of people who had a polarising response to the school shooting plot of part-1; It did feel poorly set-up and anti-climatic. In part-2, however, they foreshadowed what was going to happen, and it made sense from the narrative point of view.I have a lot of meta idea's I would like the show to incorporate: Hap sees The OA part-1 and gets to know her side of the story. It would be interesting to see him become more empathetic towards Prarie. Hap hasn't changed since the show began, and if he's going to be the antagonist for the whole show; I would like some character progression or change in him.The scary part of these crazy twist endings is that we now have so many questions left hanging in the air and if Netflix pulls the plug on part-3, then we are screwed. It's possible that they may release a film but with the narrative's this complex; it's hard to pull off a satisfying finale.