To add to the above
geek references:
Is it just me, or does the 'be' in the 'To Be Continued' at the end of every episode look a lot like the old logo for Be (the company behind BeOS)?
In at least one of the earlier episodes, the blackboard in Lain's classroom has C code on it.
Magenta: Could you be a bit more
specific with your criticisms? Lain is by no means
perfect, but I personally found it to be
pretty good. Now, I haven't seen
Ghost in the Shell or
Akira in a
long time, but from what I remember, Ghost in the Shell didn't have a
network changing reality so much as a single
artificial intelligence challenging
the definition of what is and is not sentient; and the 'powers' exhibited by some
characters in Akira had nothing to do with
hormones. (For that matter, what kids have
powers in Lain, hormone-based or
otherwise?)
Are you watching the
dubbed or
subbed version?
Voice acting in dubs is usually less than wonderful, in my experience. But are there specific
problems you have with the writing/sound/direction, or do they just not seem right to you?
I saw
Perfect Blue a couple days ago. It was very good, but I'd tend to prefer Lain myself, though only by a slight margin, mostly due to the
subject matter than any
stylistic differences. And what do you mean by '
techno-bullshit explanations for real world stuff'? I didn't notice
anything like that when I watched it, so could you give an
example?
I'm not trying to
flame here, I'm just curious as to what exactly you're
basing your conclusions on.