Serial Experiments Lain Episode 10 Reaction

A stunning episode. Now it's confirmed that Lain is an artificial being. Well, unless everything she's being told is a lie. She could be in the Wired this entire episode, even when her father is saying his goodbye.

There are gods on gods on gods in this show. Lain's creator is a god. Lain is a god. There was that disembodied voice several episodes ago that called himself a god. He also said he was Lain, though.

The Knights simply seemed like the villains of the show before this episode. I did not expect them to all be killed. Now they seem a little more sympathetic. They were pro-Lain in a sense... With the Knights out of the way, Lain and her creator have been locked together, apparently. Lain has been made a prisoner by the men who seemed like they were her benefactors previously.

Lain says "I always tried to keep something like this from happening to me." She must be speaking in the voice of the Wired-Lain here, right? A second later she says she tried to never do something that "would arouse the slightest suspicion." That makes it seem like some part of her was always aware she wasn't a real girl... Whose suspicion would she even be arousing, though? That's confusing. And suspicion of what, exactly? And what precisely is the thing she's trying to keep from happening to her? Her own loss of faith in her being real? I don't know. These words seem important but they are mysterious.

I knew the suicide girl from the first episode would come back up again at some point. Sometimes this show seems like a long seduction... Lain being slowly convinced to exist only on the Wired. To give up her body, like the girl who killed herself.

The mention of the collective subconscious in this episode was interesting. Also interesting was the mention of Jesus. For all the talk of gods this was the first episode where there seemed to be a religious theme to a significant degree. Although, the Knights were always a religious order I suppose.

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Let's all love Lain!

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Forever and ever!

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