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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Lain's split persona took over her real life D: |
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| This anime was lame :( |
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| It is getting quite esoteric! I do hope it all makes sense in the end. Finally getting to see some more of "wild Lain" - what a b****! |
| This episode is terrifying. The doll are great. |
| Does anyone here know the band "she"? (http://www.shemusic.org) I noticed that there are audio samples from this episode used in the track "day 5" from album "days". (listen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqJrgNucF8E) There are more samples from "Serial Experiments Lain" in that album. If you like electronic music I recommend you check it out. There even is a "cyberpunk" side story to it http://www.shemusic.org/days/17/ It's also interesting, because the musician's name is Lain Trzaska. |
| O_O This was the craziest and most mindfuckish episode so far, basically Lain is being completely isolated from the real world, or so it seems... |
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| Completely mindfucked. |
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.~ |
| The part where Lain was happy that her friends forgot everything and then suddenly her other personality appeared.. that was the best part for me. |
| Not even gonna pretend like I know what that was about x.x But I enjoyed it all the same. If I had to make a guess on anything, I'd speculate that Lain is probably the physical manifestation of the wired/internet, hence the crumbling of the boundary between the real world and the wired world. But that's just me speculating :) |
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| Those dolls were so creepy. Also, wild Lain is horrible. |
 If you don't remember something, it never happened. If you aren't remembered, you never existed. <3 |
| Definitely not echoing the 'Mindfuck' consensus, either for this rewatching, or when I originally watched it back a couple years ago. Lain is already established to be a goddess of the internet by this point. As well, since there's likely interference from 'God' and the other parts of Lain, it's no surprise this attempt at a reset didn't work. |
| I'm not sure of this, but maybe Lain's personality has once again split at the point where she became aware of her abilities. Maybe she can't remain the old Lain after this, but at the same time her "past" personality wasn't erased, but more likely - recreated... |
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| Whoa, this is getting pretty crazy. Wild Lain is pretty insane. |
| Things just got a whole lot creepier. It also feels like things are piecing themselves together, though. |
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| And once again - some questions got answered, while many new ones arose. Has her Wired-personality taken over? If that's the case, then where is the real Lain? Have they switched places? Really hope that all of this will make sense in the end... |
| This anime is quite the epitome of 'mindfuck'. Whenever you begin to conceptualize things, you get lost again. It's absurd yet fascinating at the same time. |
Wow, this was so messed up and creepy. The wild Lain is a nut. O_O |
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| Gorgeous episode. Absolutely. That doeasn't mean I liked what I saw, beacuse I didn't - wild Lain that takes her life, Lain hated by the whole school ect. yet the episode was ingenious. |
| This episode for me had the most WTF moments in it so far along with even more questions. It appears that the wild lain did some research on the 7th protocol, but I am not sure what that means yet. Maybe it has to do with the end of the episode where wild lain has taken over her real body? Also, what was up with her little handheld unit saying peeping tom and suddenly everyone in the school was just staring at her? Some things were revealed, but in the end, even more questions are being asked. |
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| Seems Lain having problems with her own personality now, her split one or her wired personality seems to have taken over... it's getting really weird now but lets keep watching! |
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Runko said: but essential for the up cumming episodes.This anime was lame :( |
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| So is Lain God? I have a feeling that the "real world" that the "good" Lain sees doesn't exist, and the Wired is the real thing. |
| Lain is slowly getting isolated from reality. Wired Lain is taking over! |
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| I wonder if the ending will be satisfying |
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| man, lain's family sucks. so lain was spying on arisu masturbating to her teacher? lmao |
| Wow, easily the best episode so far! I really, really enjoyed it. For the past episodes you are focusing more on what is going on and why it is happening, but this shows the first major breakthrough. I'm not sure if I'm correct or not, but what I'd like to think is Lain was from the Wired. The "real Lain" is an ego that formed outside of the Wired, but the original, omnipotent one is trying to switch places with her so she can become the malevolent god of the real world as well as the Wired. |
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| I really wanted to see the wild Lain but damn i hate her. I wonder what is going to happen to Lain. Mindfuck all over again. |
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| I think that "peeping tom" message refers to incident when Lain spied on Arisu while she was fingering herself. Anyways, this episode was mind blowing as usual. |
 "And if, there were so many people in the world, there had to be someone living an interesting life that wasn't ordinary. I was sure of it. Why wasn't that person me?" - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Part V [/center] |
| We seriously need a proper explanation for all this stuff... |
| MY MIND. I'm just... This episode was enjoyable, but the biggest mindbubbling episode yet. So i'm guessing the 'lain' we've seen throughout is an entitiy thats stuck between both reality, and the wired? having no parents, no history or anything? Maybe she was born when the 'wired' was born? Or even more far-fetched, that the knights created her?? Smiley Lain looked hilarious, but i'm guessing whenever she changes the 'timeline' a different Lain comes about?!? I'm so lost, yet intrigued!! I honestly don't see a good end for Lain in this. vhynz said: I think that "peeping tom" message refers to incident when Lain spied on Arisu while she was fingering herself. Anyways, this episode was mind blowing as usual. Yeah, thats what i thought!! >___< |
| Wondering if her sister will return to normal. |
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| so wired lain is taking over.. wonder why.. is it just to affirm she exists? @Baldark "Also, what was up with her little handheld unit saying peeping tom and suddenly everyone in the school was just staring at her?" i didn't understand it the first time, but once the episode was over it seems it was meaning they knew she spied on them @xAvengerx "Wondering if her sister will return to normal." wondering that too, she's looking pretty pityful now |
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| i recognize myself, thus my absolute ego is inside me. Mindfucked. |
| looks like the 2nd Lain is unable to stop the 3rd Lain. After all, they are herself, and the Wired world IS reality without a body after all. Is there even a fine line that segregates both worlds in the first place? |
| "If you reject me, I'll blast a hole in you!" Kanzaki H. Aria Just kidding.  |
| Well, at least we know her parents are total weirdos. |
| In this episode we learn about how Tashibana laboratories are trying to control the next-gen protocol for the wired since the 6th gen is reaching its limit. Later on we see how lain is looking for information in the wired and we heard again about the small child-like person with a red/green stripped sweater, probably related with the bug in the protocole 6, this was mentioned before in the episode 3 in some random conversation in the wired. Kami-sama (god) speaks to Lain, he explains that he's everywhere and only has slight influence in the wired, he also says that Lain is just a part of him, as some kind of extension from the wired, lain don't believe this, but it could explain why sometimes there is another lain in other places. After that lain receive an email from "peeping Tom?" and starts the creepy part of the episode, lain's reality is imploding in some weird way, she is doubting if she's real or not and she's looking for Arisu, probably the only one she sees as a friend. From what I understand, the other lains are part of kami-sama in the wired and the lain we know is also part of him but with less knowledge of what or how they work. The problem for the lain we know is now that she knows who is she and also knows about the existence of the other lains and about kami-sama as a whole, she can't be part of that life she was before. She's contemplating about deleting the memories of her from the people she knows, but I don't think she haven't do it yet as we see in the final part of the episode, she's still in her room. We don't know if all this is actually true, because there is also the possibility that this "kami-sama" is lying and he's doing this just to confuse lain for some reason. |
TyrantRCDec 12, 2013 7:24 AM
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| Splendid episode. I'm creeped out. Lain's world is a riddle wrapped in an enigma where nothing is what it seems. Or is it? |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| Awesome. It definitely takes a couple watches to catch the details in this episode, and even then it's difficult to fully understand. It's also pretty interesting how everything's being revealed "from the inside-out." |
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| Now that im starting to understand the message of the anime's theme, it seems to be the epitome of Facebook in a way. |
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| Beautiful episode. It was perfectly unsettling. The transition from endless accusing stares to the absolute isolation of being left behind was especially poignant. It’s rather depressing… because I have the feel Lain will stop existing if everyone forgets about her. |
I think, then procrastinate. Therefore, I am. |
| Wow, I didn't even realize 9mos past since I watched the last episode. I like thinking of this as a horror series more than anything. Just a nightmare for Lain. |
| Such junk... |
Anisamar said: Beautiful episode. It was perfectly unsettling. The transition from endless accusing stares to the absolute isolation of being left behind was especially poignant. It’s rather depressing… because I have the feel Lain will stop existing if everyone forgets about her. |
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| man, lain looks pale af. |
| this shows meta is messed up |
"Urushibara Ruka. The mannerisms and voice of a woman... No... More feminine than any woman. But he's a guy. Taller than Mayuri, but so very thin... But he's a guy. Looks great in a miko outfit... But he's a guy. It's already twilight And yet, it's so hot. The cicadas are crying. But... He's a guy." |
| Lots of development in this episode. - It was true that Lain is omnipresent in the wired in some form of her or another - There are not 3 but tons of different Lain's that exist within the wired - This could all just be a metaphor for how people act differently online because there were tons of different kinds of Lains, there were business Lains and little girl Lains and all different kinds. The metaphor also symbolizes how those personalities sometimes consume them and change how they are in real life -Lain's alternate wired version took over her body. - The whole fight between Lain and Arisu could have been between their wired versions of themselves and nothing happened in real life. It could also all just be in Lains head or the wired or both. If either of these are true, then the real versions of them probably made up with each other and went back to how it was and that's when the wired version of Lain took over. |
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