Serial Experiments Lain Episode 12 Reaction

Serial Experiments Lain Episode 12 Reaction

That was an amazing episode. Alice to the rescue. She is the hero of the series. With the power of love, she saves Lain. Maybe. This felt like it almost could have been the end of the series. What will happen in the last episode? Now it seems like a happy ending is in the cards... I still wonder if that suicide theme won't come back once again.

So Lain's creator believed in transhumanism. The body is unimportant, ultimately. He plans for humanity to evolve to a higher state, where they are perfect or near perfect, and are not limited by the body... Lain ultimately disagrees with him and says the body is important and better. Their disagreement is confusing, though.

Lain's creator sets himself up as a creator god in the Wired... It's still sort of strange and confusing that Lain is also a god. Now, in this episode, we have the suggestion that God in the traditional sense of an omnimpotent, uncreated, infinite, perfect being might exist! So many gods.

I guess I finally see why Lain had to have a body. She is the bridge between the two worlds. If she didn't have an existence IRL then she couldn't connect the two. Lain's creator suggests her having a body was necessary so that she could have an ego -- i.e., a unified consciousness. On the Wired, there were many Lains, scattered, as he says.

Lain connects with everyone through her god-like powers... That brings everyone onto the Wired (I think). Or it merges reality and the Wired, I guess. Lain's 'connecting' seems like possession. She is controlling everyone and everything in reality except for Alice. As we see, she can force her creator to have a body. Is Lain herself the embodiment (wrong term but whatever) of the collective unconscious...?

What does the "acting god" line mean?... Maybe that Lain is the real god of the Wired. I suppose that makes sense. The way that passage is phrased, it sounds almost like he was fated to bring her forth... Or something like that. If he is merely a "stand-in," he must be a stand-in for Lain, right?

Lain's seeming benefactor turns out to be a villain. Maybe the Knights were the good guys all along, then? I'm not sure what the source of the opposition between the Knights and the man who hired the two guys with the machine masks even was. Didn't they want the same thing? With Lain's creator now dead, this guy seems like the last antagonist left.

There was something funny about Alice visiting Lain in her room... This show really anticipated the future, didn't it? Lain was the first basement dweller. The first hikikomori. "I've just been watching stuff, that's all." That is the exact response that many people who have lost their lives to the internet could give. Ironically enough, the stuff they've been watching could very well be anime. It could very well be Lain! You log in, start surfing the web... Next thing you know, it's 20 years later.

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