THE OA: PART 1 Episode 1 “Homecoming” Part 2 !!SPOILERS!!
I’m gonna rewatch the OA with the most critical eye possible and note everything I find.
Let’s start with the names of our characters.
Abel: breath, vapor ,or son. n reference to the biblical story, Abel is usually linked with his brother who killed him, as Cain and Abel.
Steve: a crown, a garland. The name is borne in the Bible by St Stephen, one of the seven chosen to assist the apostles, and the first Christian martyr.
Betty: In Greek the meaning of the name Betty is: From the Hebrew Elisheba, meaning either oath of God, or God is satisfaction. Brodroick: Or Nordic Decent Allen: Harmony, stone, or noble.
Alfonso(French): "noble and ready" Other theories claim the first element is hadu or hild (see ILDEFONSO), both of which mean "battle".
Buck(Michelle: "Who is like God?"
Nina:Native American name meaning"mighty warrior" On a lot of baby name sites you will find that it says it is of Spanish origin and means ‘little girl’. Hindi name meaning "pretty eyes."
1. Not even 38 seconds in and there’s so much to talk about. The boy saying “She’s going to the other side.” A flock of five birds flies in V formation just as OA lets go.
2.Seven is an angelic number, and Prairie was missing for seven years.
3. Seven years, three months and eleven days*
4. An old woman in a dusty car. Who was she? Will we ever hear of her again?
5. When Prairie is looking through the computer room there’s a cork board with several head lines tacked to it, missing persons signs, articles from magazines calling her the Michigan Mystery, FBI Seeks Answers, Prairie Still Missing, and interestingly ‘A year later, lights over Michigan still a mystery’
6. In the video of prairie sleepwalking as a child taken by able, young Prairie is saying this in Russian ‘I'm going to find you. I'll start in the old house, or may be in the farm's grandfather, or in the old mine’
7.Nancy tells Prairie ‘doors must remain open at all times’
8.After the dog attack, in the bath, Nancy asks OA if she’s “Hearing voices again” (this is one of the first of many moments that supports my theory that Nina jumped on accident when she went back to her body as a little girl.)
9.OA says “I do need help,” to Steve’s proposition of “ I thought I’d help you out and you could help me out” In Part 2, Old Knight tells OA that her brother has been sent to her in every dimension to help her.
10. When we meet BBA she’s completely surrounded by purple, she’s wearing purple, the board around her has purple birds. Purple can represent as much as wisdom, nobility, devotion, peace, mystery, and magic.
11. There are a lot of threes on the board of BBA’s classroom. 3 is an angelic number. I still don’t really know what that means even after extensive googling, so. Do with that what you will.
12. There are a lot of images of birds throughout the meeting between BBA and OA.
13.Homer’s accident was on November 2, 2007.
15. OA was born in russia in 1987
16. High pitched ringing can be heard in Nina’s premonition. The ringing, tinnitus, is a side effect of inter-dimensional travel.
Those are all my thoughts on Episode one: Homecoming
