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The fact that this show predicted so much in just this episode alone is outstanding
| @znjsensej to think that it came out 25+ years ago is crazy. Japanese people were really onto something with Lain and Ghost in the Shell. (Matrix was also heavily influenced by GitS) |
| These Men in Black kinda remind me of hackers/viruses, in the way they try to find system' weaknesses or get inside. When Lain shouted, her PC even said "intruder interrupted" (maybe what they meant is "intrusion interrupted"?) |
| Yep, she for sure has different personalities. |
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| her room slightly goes crazy and she so on. Irritating, who are these fellas and why did world instantly changed, its appearance, it had "bloody stains" and now it looks normal, as it has to, may it be 'cause of Lain's The Wire addiction? |
| When I thought I was understanding the anime better, and they actually start explaining something, they throw us 100 more questions. Well, Lain's personality is getting different, and it's clear she has become addicted to the Wired, probably because she can be a different person there. While last episode she only had a computer, now she has that computed attached to a bunch of different data bases, because she too now wants to become 1 with The Wired, just like the girl from the 1st episode that commited suicide. We are also introduced to Phantoma, which is a multiplayer game, that with the new evolutions of The Wired, people can play it anywhere, not only in the PC. But it seems that that is leading people to make things in real life, because they think they will solve the problem in the virtual world too. Just like how that man shot that little girl, because he thought she was part of the game, when in reality, it seems someone messed with the code, and joined a kindergarden game with Phantoma, and the man actually killed a little girl. It's kinda weird though, because what was the little girl doing there, and the scene actually showed 3 corpses. This also explains why the man killed those 2 woman back in episode 2 and was terrified by Lain, since it seems she's the one behind this. However, in the end of the episode we see that the Knights payed a visit to Lain, and it seems like they were in 2 different worlds, because when she screamed for them to leave her, it has some kind of barrier between them. I just don't know what is in each side of the barrier. Knights are described has some kind of religion, so this was her way of stoping them to influence her mind, maybe? Maybe they were trying to hack her? Maybe they are trying to make her stop making all those people killing themselves. Also, is really Lain the one behind all of this? And why? Lain's dad gave some advice that can still be applied today, to not mix the real world with the virtual world. It's kinda crazy how close to reality this anime actually is, even if it was released 27 years ago. But it's unexpected, coming from him. Also, what's up with him and Lain's mother, that scene between the 2 was off. Honestly, I can't still really understand what's going on in this anime. It's really confusing, although things are coming together, with the information I have in this episode, I still can't understand half of the stuff from episode 1 (like when she was seeing her fingers smoke away, or that creepy woman getting hit by the train). I guess I'll have to continue on watching. |
| And that's how they made the club guy shoot somebody. But now telekinesis..? |
| Lain becomes much more articulate when the subject veers to the Wired — which may as well be an alternate dimension that's gradually assimilating the "real world" at this point, rather than a mere abstraction of the internet. Her newly developed psychokinetic powers are confusing though. Not sure where they originated from. |
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