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** What Bugs Be is that Lain never even ''considered'' the possibility of good old-fashioned THERAPY for Alice. And she gave up so quickly - who's to say that another minute or two wouldn't have calmed her down enough to function? Sure, there'd be nightmares, but she'd get over it eventually.
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** What Bugs Be Me is that Lain never even ''considered'' the possibility of good old-fashioned THERAPY for Alice. And she gave up so quickly - who's to say that another minute or two wouldn't have calmed her down enough to function? Sure, there'd be nightmares, but she'd get over it eventually.
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** It's possible that the Knights are supplying her with equipment, rather than her dad. The Knights sent her the Psyche processor in the first place, which is when she started modifying/expanding her setup. The added equipment made her more able to enter the Wired, which is presumably what the Knights would've wanted from her. And according to the MIB, the Knights were the ones to sabotage her cooling system at the end of Layer 6, causing an explosion. They would've needed to have knowledge and access to her cooling system, which is much easier to do if they're the ones who supplied it in the first place. Finally, her dad seemed startled when he saw how much her setup had grown, implying he wasn't aware of how much equipment she had obtained.
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** The name "Lain" in Japanese translates to "the sound of jewels". And given the references to the Schumann Resonance, which is the Earths vibrational frequency, it's pretty clear what Lain is. She IS the Schumann Resonance. A manifestation of the Earths frequency. That's why she is able to remain without anyone to remember her. And it's why she's so different even compared to Eiri who fully dove into the Wired. She wasn't born in the Wired, and doesn't need it to exist. She is a sort of antithesis to the Wired. She is neither software nor is she hardware. She is music. Navi, play track 44.
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* Why did Chisa jump off the building in the beginning? Did Eiri give her the idea? How did know to upload herself to the Wired beforehand?
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* Why did Chisa jump off the building in the beginning? Did Eiri give her the idea? How did she know to upload herself to the Wired beforehand?
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** The alien appears because [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the rumors about it sometimes appearing made it real]]. (Cnaraters mention the alien on multiple occasion.) It has an impact on the story in that Lain weaponizes the fact that it exists by using it as a messenger for Alice. (The scene where it has Lain's head.) The Roswell Incident exposition explains the geneology of many alien rumor including this one.
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** The Cyberia shooter claims that Lain of the Wired made him do it, and since he appears together with Chisa in the Wired later, Lain of the Wired presumably also drove her to suicide.
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** I honestly don't know if there is a concrete way to interpret that portion of the ending, but I think your conceptualization of it could work; basically it's a manifestation of Lain's own memories that serves as a sort of self-actualization in contrast to her deleting her "self" from reality, so she doesn't actually disappear completely. It could also be that her father was really meeting her in the Wired because, if he figured out what she was going to do, he wanted to offer a kind gesture to Lain and properly say goodbye before she resets reality since he actually did care about Lain. So it could have actually happened or it could just be in Lain's head.
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** Chisa uploaded some part of herself onto the Wired and the gist is that, whatever part of it she uploaded, she lost the will to live without it - maybe it was her happiness, or some important source of her will to live? As for where she got the idea, it might have been the Knights that convinced her to do it since they spread information about submitting yourself to the Wired in order to achieve their goal.
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** Presumably her dad is getting it for her, since he is a major computer buff himself and fully understands what Lain is. Since Lain was planted there, it may have even been part of the deal with him raising her that he eventually get her addicted to computers by supplying her with tech.
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** That seems to be what sets Lain aside as the true "god" of the Wired while Eiri isn't quite there - she has ''full'' control over merging both planes of existence while Eiri can't do it perfectly, which is why his attempt to physically manifest is grotesque and imperfect while Lain's is not.
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** I'd say it's not so much that Lain is doing a specific task with the Wired as she is getting engrossed in it in general, like an addiction. As she tries to find out more about it and her own connection to it, it ends up consuming more of her life and so she feels the need to browse it non-stop while buying a ton of equipment to bolster her system, even if she might not actually need it. It's basically just an extended metaphor for her getting more and more absorbed into it, and thus getting closer to her intended purpose.
* Was Mika really the Iwakuras' daughter or was she also a random person planted there?
* Was Mika really the Iwakuras' daughter or was she also a random person planted there?
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* What exactly is it that Lain is supposed to be doing on the wired? I'm on episode 7 now. Near the beginning of the series she got a Navi apparently just to check her email. Later she somehow receives a device that will apparently give her greater access to the Wired, but it's not made clear just what that means or what she would do with it. From then on her computer seemingly becomes a self-replicating organism, and she's always on it, even accessing it remotely from school, but... what exactly is she doing? Aside from a couple of fragments of conversations, and her telling her friends at school that she has friends on the Wired, there's not even a hint. What does she need all these servers and coolant units for?
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** Please note, the 'copy Mika' interpretation is just that- an interpretation. It's not directly supported by any information the series provides. I read that scene as Mika's mind and body meeting up briefly before her mind was either sent somewhere else in the Wired or disintegrated completely from the mental shock of encountering herself after everything she'd already seen. Real world Mika doesn't start mentally deteriorating until after her mind vanishes, so maybe it was a proximity thing and the deterioration is a gradual result of her consciousness being separated from her body and her brain subsequently forgetting how to emulate it. As for the question of why nobody seems to give a damn, she's a character in Serial Experiments Lain. It just comes with the territory of being part of Lain's family in direct proximity to major plot events. If a social worker came and sent her off to an asylum then we wouldn't get those scenes of her babbling and repeating a dial tone to underscore the weirdness of Lain's household as the series progresses.
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* Why did Chisa jump off the building in the beginning? Did Eiri give her the idea? How did know to upload herself to the Wired beforehand?
* Where is Lain getting all her equipment for her HackerCave?
* If Lain is a software program how does she have a corporeal body? When Eiri tried to make a body it turned into a mess so why is Lain's relatively stable?
* Where is Lain getting all her equipment for her HackerCave?
* If Lain is a software program how does she have a corporeal body? When Eiri tried to make a body it turned into a mess so why is Lain's relatively stable?
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* I don't get the last part of the ending. Lain has erased herself from everyone's memories, is brooding in the darkness alone... and then her father greets her, and they are drinking tea in the sky? The mention of madeleines by her father makes me think of a possible Proustian interpretation - similarly to how the protagonist of the Search eventually found his "lost time" after being flooded by his old memories, perhaps Lain can continue existing because, though she may have been forgotten by everyone, she still exists within her own memories. However, I'm sure there must be other (more convincing) interpretations.
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** Her saying it's not a rumor doesn't mean it's true. She could simply have meant that it's true that she likes the teacher, which is basically what the really creepy Lain reiterates a few seconds later. Plus the guy she's seen with at the end doesn't look like he'd be significantly old enough to be her middle school teacher when she's a graduated teacher herself.
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** Lain has a dissociative identity disorder. She is not really aware of her other personalities to a certain extent. She only began to realize about her other self, but can't control the switch and her memories.
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* What on earth is the whole "Present day, Present time" thing all about? I honestly don't know what bugs me more - the fact that this makes little in the way of sense, or the fact that the voice sounds [[HeyItsThatVoice weirdly familiar]].
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* What on earth is the whole "Present day, Present time" thing all about? I honestly don't know what bugs me more - the fact that this makes little in the way of sense, or the fact that the voice sounds [[HeyItsThatVoice weirdly familiar]].familiar.
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* Lain tells Taro that her other self can't physically appear outside of the Club and the Wired, yet we see her replace Lain in the episode prior. What does this mean?
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** KIDS happened in the past and was the inspiration for what the Knights are doing during the series, to some degree. As for Accela, it was used by the guy who did the shooting, which was responsible for a few more plot points and foreshadowing being brought up.
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** I read it as a reference to the last episode, which doesn't use it at all. The entire anime takes place in the present time and day but in a world where the Wired exists. Lain, in the final episode, removes herself and the major connections to the Wired and leaves the world we live in currently. Namely, we live in the {{Retcon}} universe where Lain doesn't exist.
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** I interpreted it as trying to set the scene, and then mocking it's own attempts to. Serial Experiments Lain obviously does not take place in the present day and present time, it takes place in some sort of weird alternate sci-fi variant, so it was saying "this show takes place in your completely normal world. hahahahaha!"
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** The series isn't really incredibly dark - it's pretty hopeful when you get right down to it. It's just very wierd. Watching it a couple of times over helps considerably to understand how the plot works. If you want something ''really'' dark by the same creators, go check ''{{Texhnolyze}}''. After that ''Lain'' is sunshine and puppies.
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** The series isn't really incredibly dark - it's pretty hopeful when you get right down to it. It's just very wierd. Watching it a couple of times over helps considerably to understand how the plot works. If you want something ''really'' dark by the same creators, go check ''{{Texhnolyze}}''.''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}''. After that ''Lain'' is sunshine and puppies.
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** Adding to the answers above - the KIDS system was reverse-engineered by the Knights to create the technology for the Psyche chips, and probably also to blur the line between PHANTOMa and the game for the younger kids. It's also possible that Lain got her power partly because children all over Japan were receiving subliminal messages to worship her, e.g., devote their psi energy to her.
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** It was explained in-series that Eiri planned to use the Earth's electromagnetic field to link all humans' innate psychic power, reassembling the dormant collective unconscious and recreating God with the side effects of this wiki and other cyberspace-materials coming into your face right now. The Kids experiment, which uses EM waves to harvest psychic energy, is what gave Eiri the insight to that happening. That's kinda like NeonGenesisEvangelion, but using EM waves, Internet, and cyberpunk instead of Angels, cyborgs, and other Freudian psychosexual horrors to link the PiecesOfGod that is Mankind. Although probably, what Eiri and the Knights really desire is to read, watch, search and edit interactive Wikipedia, Youtube, Google and TV Tropes instead of reawakening [[EldritchAbomination God]] himself.....
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** It was explained in-series that Eiri planned to use the Earth's electromagnetic field to link all humans' innate psychic power, reassembling the dormant collective unconscious and recreating God with the side effects of this wiki and other cyberspace-materials coming into your face right now. The Kids experiment, which uses EM waves to harvest psychic energy, is what gave Eiri the insight to that happening. That's kinda like NeonGenesisEvangelion, Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion, but using EM waves, Internet, and cyberpunk instead of Angels, cyborgs, and other Freudian psychosexual horrors to link the PiecesOfGod that is Mankind. Although probably, what Eiri and the Knights really desire is to read, watch, search and edit interactive Wikipedia, Youtube, Google and TV Tropes instead of reawakening [[EldritchAbomination God]] himself.....
