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Serial Experiments is a terrible show. A lot of those 90s anime have a bad rep as overwrought, pretentious, and rhetorical; think stuff like Angel's Egg and EoE. But these only seem that way to the casual viewer. Someone who's really watching can see how heartfelt they are. Meanwhile, Serial Experiments actually is overwrought, pretentious, and rhetorical. It's a show that revels in its intellectual complexities, and as Mr. Davis once said, only a fool marvels at complexity. I hate Serial Experiments so much, it really makes me wonder why I love Lain

>only a fool marvels at complexity. Nice truism... I wonder why simplicity is the dominant ideology hmmmm

>>869 >why simplicity is the dominant ideology It's simple

There's nothing complex about Lain, the pretentious stuff is in the art choices like pretending having 2 minutes of power line noise filler adds to the atmosphere and so on

>>877 Yeah, the power lines had nothing to do with the theme of everyone being connected, why did they bother including them really.