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Re:The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 ... by GuB-42 on Monday April 19, 2021 @02:10PM (#26866124)
As much as I liked the anime, I tend to put it into the "pseudo-profound bullshit" category. They drop in loads of philosophical concepts, fringe science, wild extrapolation, and a bit of conspiracies and paranormal. There is no way you can't make parallels with the real world.

If may sound harsh but it is not a bad thing. It creates an atmosphere, and it is thought provoking, as evidenced by the article. It is a work of fiction, and fiction is like magic, it is all fake, but we enjoy being tricked into it. And that is a perfectly good trick when well executed.

Maybe Lain overdid it a bit, but I enjoyed the show, and for me, it is the important part.

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Re:The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 ... by teekert on Monday April 19, 2021 @06:52PM (#26868753)
Yeah I remember the weird fringe science, using certain frequencies to get online without a Navi, etc, but if you Googled it, it was all investigated before and real fringe-y. But I tend to agree with you, it is trying to be deep in some ways.
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