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The Nextlander Watchcast 057: Serial Experiments Lain: Episodes 07-09
🕑 Added 2023-08-21 22:13:48 +0000 UTCWe've got layers upon layers to peel back this week on the Watchcast, as we cruise through some of Serial Experiments Lain's most surreal imagery and dense infodumping yet.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:30) - Intro.
(00:02:00) - Our layers for this week: Society, Rumors, and Protocol. Also a brother check-in on where we're all at.
(00:09:50) - Drilling down on Layer 07: Society.
(00:12:56) - Justin.tv man, and these everyday folks who seem to be up to something.
(00:19:32) - The first of many infodumps to come.
(00:33:02) - Checking in on where we're at leading into the next crazy episodes.
(00:33:59) - Break!
(00:34:16) - We're back, and it's time for some blasphemous rumors.
(00:37:55) - Mom and dad's death stare.
(00:40:44) - Alice and friends think Lain did something, and God's back.
(00:48:55) - Alice sees Lain of the Wired.
(00:55:59) - What is Lain to do?
(00:58:20) - The Metal Gear Episode.
(01:04:50) - Polling the podcast about what we know about all this freaky history.
(01:08:46) - Cyberia, and dolphin stuff.
(01:16:19) - A date with Taro.
(01:24:11) - Xanadu. Not the Olivia Newton John one. The space library one.
(01:26:32) - The Schumann Resonance.
(01:34:57) - Trying to make sense of what we've seen.
(01:39:51) - Outro.
Comments
Pantalones Johnson
@ 1:14:57. Meow.
David (Lumpy Larper) G
I've never seen Lain before, so I'm glad I had this show as an excuse to watch it. It's pretty wild so far.. I would be down for more anime, strike or not, since I'm only recently getting into it. Enjoying it so far, excited to finish it up!
Michael Wheldon
Watching this with my partner and housemate, having previously watched it decades (!) prior and these podcasts have been a good addendum to each chunk of episodes. Got my issues with the back half (up to episode 10, so not quite through) but it has been interesting revisiting and contrasting to contemporary times - occasionally very much a product of its time but more often incredibly smart and prescient, particularly those first 7 or so episodes.
Alex Giannavola
I’ve watched Lain before and had absolutely no idea what was going on. I decided to rewatch along with the Watchcast episodes and it’s been helping me understand so much more, as well as helping me form some of my own theories not discussed in the podcast itself. Hope you guys cover more anime even after the writers strike ends, because I’ve thoroughly been enjoying this.
Zeemod
By the last batch of episodes, I got the sense that Lain had more than just distant/strange parents. That she was treated like an imposter only wanted by her dad. But now that it's been alluded to I'm waiting for that to be un-confirmed. Did the dad want some digital/Wired ghost daughter made manifest because he's such a Wired geek and found a way to do so? Or did their real Lain die and was revived through techno-ESP dark magic? Either would explain why the Mom is so deadpan. Or has the Mom's consciousness gotten lost in the Wired long ago?
Zeemod
Haah Haah Haah
Parker Leach
can’t wait till you guys get back to literally anything other than anime
Alex Giannavola
Present time.
Forrest Covington
Present day.
