#mmm something abt mining in general too.. haps mine ninas fathers mine and the spring under the house on nob hill

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it would just be easier to do an anti-psych or a family abolition or a meta-narrative storytelling analysis for the oa but ofc i am fucking stuck on the ecocrit as always. bc i feel like the show offers a clear connectivity presented between humans and the natural world-- in s1 with them eating the bird/anemone/etc. and in s2 w the natural spring, the trees, and old night-- which develops like: first the natural world entering/integrating with humans, and then the natural world speaking with the oa and defining terms for their relationship. so it was clearly trying to reach a point where all things are agents and they have different levels of ability in terms of being able to directly interact with one another. all humans can consume the natural world, but only a few can listen to, respond to, and translate for the natural world. i just dont know if it's a transcendence angle or not.

and something that is just clearly underexplored in the story, the seed in the human mind and its ability to bloom, the garden of forking paths-- something to highlight is that hap is the gardener in s2, the one who feels he can/should/must extract the seeds and cultivate them, that feels like he must provide order to the natural occurrence-- which i know that it would have been elaborated later on. so it's harder to look at, but it's also our bluebeard room moment in s2 so there's a lot of foundation to work with.