The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)
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Re: The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)
#2"Fulfil the prophecy!"
Re: The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)
#3close the world, open the next
Re: The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)
#4close the world, open the next
It's perhaps worth noting here that the tagline is actually stylised as:
"Close the world, open the nExt."[0]
with the capitalisation presumably being a reference to the company NeXT, founded by Steve Jobs.[1]
Re: The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)
#5I think about the dad on the computer every time my kids see me while I'm using one.
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#6I thought this was a good article, but I wonder at the author's background.
>her hardware expands to turn her bedroom into a dim, electrified jejunum
I'd like to think I'm well read, but who the hell pulls "jejunum" out of their duodenum!
Re: The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)
#7Serial experiments lain is my favorite anime of all time. I'm shocked at hoe obscure it continues to be, even in hacker circles.
I figured that coding in lisp is all she needed for the show to become a cult classic - but here we are...
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#8close the world, open the next
It's perhaps worth noting here that the tagline is actually stylised as: "Close the world, open the nExt."[0] with the capitalisation presumably being a reference to the company NeXT, founded by Steve Jobs.[1] [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500092/taglines [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT
Seems likely, with how many other Apple-adjacent references are in the series (including Copland among another things).
Re: The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (2018)
#9I thought this was a good article, but I wonder at the author's background. >her hardware expands to turn her bedroom into a dim, electrified jejunum I'd like to think I'm well read, but who the hell pulls "jejunum" out of their duodenum!
I assumed it was a reference to the protagonist's lack of maturity, as in jejune[2], but I admit I had to look up what the word actually meant.
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#10There's a certain brooding, existential atmosphere and mystique to anime like Serial Experiments Lain, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Steins;Gate that really make them stand out and stick with you.
Even if the show turned out to not be prescient at all, it would still be one of the top classics. Combined with the fact that it was, it's really something special.