Tanuki Tales
2013-08-17, 03:37 PM
So, Serial Experiments Lain is my significant other's favorite anime of all time and she was just giddy as a kid finding that Santa Claus is real when she saw that the Funimation booth at Otakon had a collected edition of it (on blu-ray and with the art book).
We buy it of course and started watching it yesterday, finishing the 13th episode today. I personally found myself completely bewildered on what I had just spent several hours over the span of two days watching. It was a great series, but I still hadn't really grasped what was going on in the end; something that hasn't happened to me since I watched Big O.
Instead of going to TVTropes and getting lost in that soul devouring time sink, I figured I'd come here with my initial graspings at what it all meant and see what you wonderful folks can do to enlighten me.
Lain was the awakened consciousness of the Earth that the God of the Wired unknowingly collected and gave sapience and a chance to discover its purpose, correct? And the scene where she's alone and then talking to her father in the sky at the table is her conversed with the actual, true God, right?
We buy it of course and started watching it yesterday, finishing the 13th episode today. I personally found myself completely bewildered on what I had just spent several hours over the span of two days watching. It was a great series, but I still hadn't really grasped what was going on in the end; something that hasn't happened to me since I watched Big O.
Instead of going to TVTropes and getting lost in that soul devouring time sink, I figured I'd come here with my initial graspings at what it all meant and see what you wonderful folks can do to enlighten me.
Lain was the awakened consciousness of the Earth that the God of the Wired unknowingly collected and gave sapience and a chance to discover its purpose, correct? And the scene where she's alone and then talking to her father in the sky at the table is her conversed with the actual, true God, right?