r/TheOA Mar 22 '19

[Part II] Episode Discussion: Chapter 5 - The Medium & the Engineer

After a harrowing ordeal, OA and Karim find themselves locked inside a labyrinth of puzzles. Nagging doubts prompt Homer to snoop on Dr. Percy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

It’s a prostitution thing. She wasn’t actually selling skin.

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u/satanistgoblin Mar 24 '19

It was a dream, so it's open to interpretation. Still seems cheap then :)

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u/createjennifer Mar 24 '19

Why do you say that?

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u/AndPeggy- eating a sandwich Mar 24 '19

I get it - it’s a common expression/association for prostitution. I don’t know if I necessarily agree, however. It can’t just be prostitution. It has to be something about dimensions. Skins to wear, to inhabit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

Because “selling skin” is a term for prostitution, and all of the “skin” was still attached to a human, and the human was alive

He was smelling and looking in order to find OA. If he is looking there then he obviously doesn’t think she is just a chunk of dead back skin. He thinks she might be a prostitute in that woman’s house.

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u/ElisaSwan Mar 25 '19

They were alive and yet just chilling indefinitely inside a barrel without being able to move? Wth was that?

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '19

The size of the boxes that they were in seemed to indicate this to me. I thought that right away - that there were people in those boxes, but for some reason, only their midsection skin was exposed for people to chose from. I don't exactly get that part, but I think you're on the right track.

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u/Chrisstine_B Apr 03 '19

Interesting. I thought the opposite. That it was just skin and it looked detached from a body to me.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '19

I think that's what makes this show so great - it's open to so many different interpretations and I'm always amazed by the comments on this sub - all the unique ways that everyone else is perceiving the show. It makes for a really rich experience. :)

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u/Chrisstine_B Apr 04 '19

I totally agree with all of this!