What i understood (i think)
>lain is an A.I. made in the wire (basically the internet) by "God" who is actually just the real God's pawn to bridge the gap between the real world and the wire.
>The wire is somehow connected to another dimension/reality
>Humans have a primitive form of telekinesis that can help them interact with this reality, it was also hinted that the collective hive-mind of humans can make planets conscious i think?
>Everyone has had their identities and memories stolen to make copies of themselves on the wire (i think).
>God reset the real world at the end to correct things.
What i am still uncertain of.
>What the hell happened to Lain's sister?
>Is lain's mother and father meant to be God?
>Who were the guys with the cyber glasses and the man that delivered that brief case to them? Were they just hit-men hired to kill of the knights members? except for the briefcase man, he seemed to know about the bigger picture, could have he been another manifestation of god?
>Who were the knights and what was their goal, i think it was mentioned that they were related to the knights Templar? And what is the prophesy? Are they trying to prove god's existence through the wire and the dimension?
>How is the Roswell incident and aliens connected? Was alien technology used to make the wire and Lain?
>Why did that girl kill herself at the beginning in the first place? The same with the other girl in the vision with the train, was it to truly transcend to the wire and the other dimension?
>Does that Cyber drug enhance your telekinesis therefore giving you a stronger connection to the wire and the other dimension?
>Who the hell was the little girl with the teddy bear?
> Is Lain just another manifestation of god? Is God just playing with itself?
>What was that online game all about and who was that girl that the guy supposedly killed?
I left with more questions than answers, is this the kind of thing that i need to go back and watch more than once to fit all the puzzle pieces together or am i just a brainlet for not fully understanding the story?
Fuck it, Might as well post these here since I have never seen them anywhere else on the internet. There are a bunch of stuff in here that you can't get with normal resource extraction. I don't want these to be lost forever, and I wish I remember how I got them out of the .ISO. Something from the jPSXdec "laintools" java stuff, I'm not as good with coding languages as a SEL fan should be.
https://anonfile.com/t6Bct0v0ne/SELAINDATA_zip
It was really nice to see lighthearted animations in such an aesthetically and thematically dark game.
anime R&A general
possible points of discussion:
-lain's nature, history, and health
-which scenes can be considered real events and which scenes are metaphors (including illustrations of exchanges over the Wired)
-the nature of the Psyche/pushuke computer chip
-Professor Hodgeson's psychic research and its possible relation to seemingly psychic phenomenon in the anime (if they are real events and not metaphors)
-whether or not Schumann Resonances truly have anything to do with the Wired Protocol 7
-lain's development as a character, especially towards the very ending of Layer:13
-lain's nature after the events of Layer:13
-the significance of dolphins (if any) and their connection to arisu/alice
-lain's family's conspiration with Tachibana Laboratory
-veracity of each of Eiri's claims
PS1 R&A general
possible points of discussion:
-lain's nature, history, and health
-lain's parents
-the absence of such things as NAVIs, the Wired, and Protocol 7
-the significance of lain and touko switching roles
-the high school shooter, and what lain silently mouthed to her
-touko's boss's suicide
-shinji's significance
-robodad's anomalously accelerated development and lain's theorization that he was hacked into
