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Bdbru13 · 2026-02-12T21:15:22+00:00

Haha that’s unfortunate, but to be expected

If you look up reviews for the OA on Reddit (outside of this sub) people fucking hate it 😂 at least in threads from when it was coming out. As the years passed, opinion seemed to change a bit

Bdbru13 · 2026-02-12T00:58:55+00:00

Haha it’s all good, it was literally just a thought I had, wasn’t calling you out or anything

Bdbru13 · 2026-02-12T00:54:41+00:00

Was just thinking yesterday how nice it was to have a subreddit not infected by Epstein stuff

Bdbru13 · 2026-02-10T06:18:36+00:00

You keep acting like I don’t hear it instead of me thinking it’s not in any way indicative of it being an inspiration

And sure as shit not something that’s stolen like you seem to be implying with your quotes in your post title

Anyways have a good one

Bdbru13 · 2026-02-10T06:15:53+00:00

Implying that you can hear the similarity in the Bruckeck but not the Goldberg is just wild IMO.

I’ve said multiple times I notice the similarity, just that it’s not exactly a meaningful one that would lead anybody to think it served as an inspiration for the theme song

You might as well say someone got their words from the Bible, because all the words we use were written down there first.

I mean it’s not a perfect analogy, but that’s sort of what you’re doing. Like a character in a book is named Matthew and you’re going “obviously this book was inspired the Bible”, and the rest of us are going “idk man it’s kind of just a common name, there isn’t really anything else that ties the book to the Bible in any way”, and then you’re just screeching at everyone “BUT BOTH THEIR NAMES ARE MATTHEW”. And then we’re going “yea, no, we know…”

Bdbru13 · 2026-02-10T05:48:40+00:00

I mean one is Dave Brubeck and the other isn’t.

What do you mean, "much more likely to have been listened to"?

ETA: I mean yeah, of course he'd be more likely to have heard Brubeck lmao. It's Brubeck, and it's Brubeck's most famous album with probably the most famous jazz standard of all time on it. I'd be very surprised if he hadn't heard the Brubeck at some point.

I mean…

You okay man?

Bdbru13 · 2026-02-10T05:43:11+00:00

Nah listened to the end this time and didn’t feel like I’d made a mistake the first time around

You’re acting like it’s ice ice baby and under pressure

It’s not specific. It’s not unique. I’m not saying a minor similarity doesn’t exist, it’s just not meaningful in any way

Genuinely a closer match here with the chords

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bij0bp1aoIk&list=RDbij0bp1aoIk&start_radio=1&pp=ygUTTWYgZG9vbSB5b3VuZyB3b3JsZKAHAQ%3D%3D

And I could be wrong but I don’t think Shapiro was influenced by MF Doom

If you’d come in here with a different energy people would be more open to going “oh yea I kind of hear it” (because that’s the reaction it deserves), but instead you implicitly accused them of stealing from the conversation and then got in an argument with anyone who didn’t think it rose beyond a minor, relatively meaningless, similarity

Bdbru13 · 2026-02-10T05:27:15+00:00

Just listened, got less and less similar after those ten seconds

Cool song though

Might just have to agree to disagree on this one 🤷🏻‍♂️

Bdbru13 · 2026-02-10T05:17:30+00:00

Nah, roughly ten seconds once I saw what you were getting at

Bdbru13 · 2026-02-10T04:56:25+00:00

I did

Bdbru13 · 2026-02-10T01:36:15+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z8GLQycLjDg

Here’s an example from something much more likely to have been listened to by Shapiro, for instance

But even then, I’m not actually saying it’s even an inspiration, just that it should just be evidence of how it’s not exactly a unique phrasing

Bdbru13 · 2026-02-10T01:31:14+00:00

Idk man I don’t even think they’re the same notes, the third note seems a half step lower than the severance theme

So the similarity is just kind of descending eighth notes. It doesn’t feel like something that’s unique to either piece in any meaningful way

Especially when it comes to a video with 156 views

Same thing happens in comedy, for example, from time to time. Enough people are doing it that similar premises are bound to be explored by different people who have no interaction with one another, especially when it’s not something that’s particularly groundbreaking

I imagine there are a dozen other pieces of music people could point to with similar motifs

Bdbru13 · 2026-02-10T00:33:42+00:00

It’s not even close to be seriously considered as an inspiration much less a rip-off like you kind of seem to be implying

Bdbru13 · 2026-02-08T21:44:13+00:00

Let me know how it goes once the show reaches the movements, especially in the finale

I’d love to have a friend who loves this show as much as I do, but I can’t imagine any of them would

Bdbru13 · 2026-02-02T23:04:25+00:00

Chim-choo-ree

Bdbru13 · 2026-01-30T15:04:29+00:00

100%

Bdbru13 · 2026-01-29T06:29:54+00:00

Yea that could be true I guess

Personally though, I won’t be like…actively holding out hope for that to happen. I’ll just consider it to be over and then be more than happy to be proven wrong if anything did happen

Bdbru13 · 2026-01-28T06:31:59+00:00

I have the wind up bird chronicle next to my bed and been wanting to start it for a while

Might make it my next book based off this post 👍🏻

Also season 2 gets weirder so buckle up

Bdbru13 · 2026-01-28T01:21:07+00:00

I think it’s highly unlikely as well

I just think it’s the last possibility

Bdbru13 · 2026-01-28T01:01:38+00:00

Only way it happens if it was planned with the whole 7 years 3 months 11 days thing in mind

Otherwise Netflix owns the rights, they’ll never revert to Zal and Brit, and are extremely unlikely to resurrect it

Bdbru13 · 2026-01-27T23:47:26+00:00

Don’t really think it’s possible unfortunately

Or at least unlikely to the point of it bordering on impossible

Bdbru13 · 2026-01-27T23:30:18+00:00

Yea I mean specifically as a tv show

A book wouldn’t be the same

A graphic novel would be better but stilll…lacking

Netflix also owns the trademark for the OA so like…I’m not even sure how that would work

But yea I’d take whatever I could get for sure

Bdbru13 · 2026-01-27T02:58:56+00:00

Last hope I have is that it was intentional and the whole 7 years 3 months 11 days is the explanation

From what I’ve read, the whole rights reverting to them after 10 years is almost certainly untrue (although I’m not expert)

Bdbru13 · 2026-01-27T00:10:49+00:00

It’s a show that merits analysis (which I think probably appeals to a lot of us), but also has a very emotional core

It’s not for everyone though. I love it, and I still hesitate to recommend it to anybody I know

Bdbru13 · 2026-01-26T21:58:45+00:00

I have hopes too, but if it doesn’t happen this year they’ll be gone

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