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Am so ANGRY!!! SPOILERS!


The finale... really???!??? The premonition was for her to be a part of the Flash mob?!?!????
Maybe the nose bleed was because the flash mob was terrible to begin with!!

WTF Netflix!!!

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It was an elaborate scheme to distract a random shooter, who then got tackled by someone else. Tap dancing or nose guitar would have worked as well.

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It was just stupid. They could have come up with a bigger end plot.

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It was just stupid. They could have come up with a bigger end plot.

Because saving students and teachers from a mass shooting is so very very trivial.

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It was just so random. I wanted there to be some type of tie in without it being so random. I personally was expecting a different ending so when this happened I was a bit shocked and surprised (not really in a good way).

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I will admit, I wanted the dance to heal someone on the scene. But I still thought it was emotional because it united those 5 characters and there was a sense of sacrifice and then achievement...those are pretty classic themes; they always work. So that was enough for me.

A lot of posters keep harping on the dance looking embarrassing. The fact that it DOES look a bit ridiculous is kind of what makes their doing it powerful. They put dignity aside for a greater good.

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Not to mention that the "ridiculousness" of the dance could have temporarily stunned the shooter allowing for just enough time for him to be tackled and disarmed. The ending works because no matter what we make of Prairie's story - these 5 individuals were each improved on a personal level (most performed an act of selflessness) and all did something together that was very brave (and, arguably, very stupid).

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I will admit, I wanted the dance to heal someone on the scene.
Sounds more interesting than what happened.

I totally get what they wanted to accomplish and maybe it worked on paper. But acted out it felt rather pointless.

And I feel said for the bullying they will have to endure, as it looked to everybody else like the guy tackling the shooter saved five dancing imbeciles.

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If I'm in that cafeteria, I might be thinking that they were "5 dancing imbeciles" whose dancing might, just might, have saved lives. So, no - at least from me - they would receive gratitude.

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I like to believe that they did heal the shooter or at least started to and that's why he stopped shooting. You have to be very sick after all if you decide to shoot up a school.

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It was about faith and belief. In my opinion she made the story up and was crazy. The kids kinda figured this might be true but still believed enough to stand up in front of a shooter with a rifle and distract him.

Whether it was real or not it saved countless lives, and with out OA's story and them believing her you think they would of stood up and did anything in front of a shooter hell no.

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Somebody would have still tackled the shooter.

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But he may have shot others beforehand. The distraction likely saved at least a few.

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Tell that to the many victims of shootings where bystanders do just that - stand by - and either do nothing or merely film what's happening. Most, as shown in the Paris shootings, run for cover and try to save themselves, they sure as hell don't stand in front of the person holding the gun like the kids did. It's human nature.

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It didn’t make me happy when I realised I’d made my guardian angel into a functioning alcohol

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Tell that to the many victims of shootings where bystanders do just that - stand by - and either do nothing or merely film what's happening.

On that note, no one present in the earlier episode comes to Prairie's aid when a huge dog is poised to rip her throat out. one person's just filming it.

Classy.

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I seriously doubt it was all false. I think we were being dupped by the idea that it was just a story. Perhaps some elements were false or at least embellished, but some almost had to be true. We know she really did go to New York as the kids found a video of her playing in the subway just like she said. Plus, she had a vision of something bad happening in what turned out to be the cafeteria. Perhaps that was vague, but I'd say it did confirm she has some type of precognition. She even realized it would be the cafeteria and ran there just in time to witness it even though there's no way she could have known otherwise. It all being fake just doesn't add up.

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I agree. I don't think The OA made it all up.

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Not to mention- she left blind and came back with her sight.

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Well yeah. That alone proves there's something to her story as no known cure for blindness currently exists. Even if that was just an unexpected side effect of Hap's experiment then we already know some of it happened.

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if the mine or any of her story were true a simple Google search could find it. An abandoned mine near new york where a sheriff and his als wife went missing.

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It wasn't that close to New York. Didn't she say they were flying for several hours?

"The past is a ghost that haunts you from the moment it exists until the moment you don't"

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You sound so sincere but yet all logic points to sarcasm. :)

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well all of her dreams as a child were of her firat death, the next series of dreams were about her nde's with hap when her father filmwed her, it would make sense that this next fit of visions would be about another death.

this show isn't for everyone.

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My thought was that it wasn't all about the dancing and the stopping the shooter. Prairie got shot and rushed off in an ambulance, with the bully character (sorry forgot his name) running after asking to go with her.

I thought another NDE is likely for her and might take her to Homer and co, since they were doing the movements when she got shot, and that perhaps the others decided to believe her.

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