I enjoyed Lain. I also have a regular discussion with someone about what it 'means'.

I'm lending the entire thing tomorrow to an associate of mine who was going for his Doctorate in English Literature until such time as he found that he couldn't actually afford most of it. He's the kind of person that started pulling 'tributes' to Batman AND Flash Gordon in Big O (his current pet theory is that Paradigm City is all a plot by Mongo to figure out how to beat Earth in another war, and Angel is the daughter of the King of the Hawk-Men).

I expect that Lain will either reduce his synapses to a thin fluid or make him take his deconstructionism somewhere else.....

(I find it highly amusing that Lain, Big O and Digimon all have the same core creator...)

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Geoff Depew - Mephron
"Big O! Showtime!"