Talk:Serial Experiments Lain

message: At least from the first 4 layers I have watched, Lain seems to have very schizophrenic like hallucinations. Also the settings intentionally confuse night and day, very much like someone in psychosis. Should we should include this somewhere in the article? Dissociative identity disorder is pretty obvious anyways. My $0.02 --AnjinSan43 17:53, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schizophrenia and psychosis 

message: Lain's computer was not modeled after a iMac but the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. The iMac was just coming out when the Anime was made, and as of that time little resembled what the iMacs of today look like.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.198.254.243 (talk) 13:10, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That line was talking about Alice's Navi, not Lain's. Nervertheless, your contribution is good, so I restored what you removed, and re-worded what you added for clarification. Kazu-kun 19:04, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Not a iMac

message: Instead of just going ahead and doing this for it to be reverted immediately, I'll establish a consensus here: can we have a paragraph or section devoted to SEL's connections to formal computer science and informatics? I think it was quite well-researched and it'd emphasise these points - which many viewers seem not to even notice, and probably never will unless they rewatch it - and do justice to the people who decided to put them in. I can think of a bunch:
* The narrated montage in which Ted Nelson, Xanadu and Vannevar Bush are mentioned
* The Knights of the Eastern Calculus, a reference to the Knights of the Lambda Calculus and therefore to lambda calculus, which is equivalent with the concept of the Turing machine - central to computer science.
And less academic connections:
* The guy with the "wearable computer" runs Apple HotSauce http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500092/trivia
Alternately we could merge the article on The Wired (which needs work anyway) and mention the aforementioned points as well as discussing The Wired's relationship to the real-world comm. networks, web and internet. Maybe with a discussion of The Wired and the allusions to computer science, a whole new section could be fleshed out…? 
ʈɧɛ fɨʂɧ (talk) 19:40, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Also in one moment we can see lisp code in Lain's portable navi.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.224.219.172 (talk) 04:05, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  References to [[computer science]] 

message: ..."Think Bule Count One Tow" ("Think Blue, Count Two" is an Instrumentality of Man...
I've never watch the anime, but is that spelled right? I'm unsure so I didn't change it. Itzjustdrama (drama?) 01:49, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's how it's spelled when the phrase appears.  The phrase is used as a login password, and this guy mentions it's probably deliberately misspelled to prevent someone from cracking it through a dictionary attack. Musashi1600 (talk) 05:01, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for clearing it up! Itzjustdrama (drama?) 01:57, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling error? 

message: Just added a note about the Navi term note 39 as of 2008-09-14). True, I have no direct reference by the author that they thought about Canon's product, but the nature of the product and the innovations it embodied seem evidence enough to me. Feel free to revoke it that seems doubtful. Bokken | 木刀 19:44, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No original research, please.  --Fukumoto (talk) 04:24, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Navi 

message: Proposing that a character list be created from the character section in this article, per current practice and WP:SALAT.  --Malkinann (talk) 21:16, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Being current practice is not a good argument. Not every work of fiction needs a list of characters. As of right now, I don't see why this series would. For the time being, I'd suggest following the advice given by WP:AVOIDSPLIT. Also, what part of SALAT supports this proposed split? Goodraise 17:27, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: In general, character lists are considered to be a valid split.  Also, the article is reaching the point in WP:SIZE where it may need to be divided. --Malkinann (talk) 19:55, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "In general, character lists are considered to be a valid split." – Nonsense. Lists of characters need to be justified. Also, SIZE is no longer part of the Manual of Style. Goodraise 12:17, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Firstly, that's a deletion discussion from two years ago, when WP:FICT was still in force.  I don't think it holds today.  Since when has WP:SIZE been depreciated from the manual of style?  --Malkinann (talk) 19:40, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: FICT wasn't even mentioned in that AfD, which is no wonder, seeing as it was not in force at the time. SIZE has been removed from the MoS on the 26th of May. Goodraise 20:24, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I also see no need to separate the short list of main characters into a separate article. This discussion is over one month old now, removing the template. john factorial (talk) 14:58, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split 

message: The Knights of Eastern Calculus are a reference to the Knights of the Lambda Calculus.
174.22.15.76 (talk) 11:17, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Knights of the Lambda Calculus 

message: This is obviously not a RS but—sourced, badly sourced, or unsourced—it certainly bears noting in the video game section that
:a, the game and guide book are exclusively in Japanese;
:b, the game has an entirely separate storyline from the anime; and
:c, that it ends with Lain's murder/suicide of herself and her unlucky-at-love female therapist.
Rather too much to gloss over in favor of vague quotes that the creatives hoped the player to "feel... understand... and... love" Lain. — LlywelynII 16:17, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Video game

message: I think this could be a very interesting subject to address. For example there are imageboards like arisuchan, lainchan and wirechan. If this is a topic that finds some interest here, I could give you more information.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:B5C0:5:4000:0:0:0:F7F (talk) 21:11, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that the Lain imageboards deserve at least a mention in the #Reception section, though if you do decide to add information on them, please be careful not to violate WP:NOR. Goszei (talk) 18:48, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Impact lain had on internet communites

message: Hi, there. I apologize if I come off as a genre warrior here, but I’ve been noticing that several websites have been calling this series as a horror series and was wondering if it was valid enough to be included in the show’s Infobox. I found two sources that could be considered valid:
https://otakuusamagazine.com/98-degrees-serial-experiments-lain/
https://www.slashfilm.com/570700/serial-experiments-lain/
There’s another source that calls the series horror via the Reception section of this article. Again, I do not mean to come off as a genre warrior, this is just something out of curiosity. The reason I’m bringing this up in the talkpage is because I thought it’d be best if I got other editors’ consensus on this before making any actual edits. Valddlac (talk) 01:27, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Although I haven't seen too many critics labeling it as a horror series, it definitely has horror elements. In the reception section there's one critic that called it a "psycho-horror anime about the psychic and spiritual influence of the Internet". I personally think that the label of techno-horror, used by Otaku USA, would be more accurate. Xexerss (talk) 02:27, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

text: I fact, on second thought, it would make sense to replace 'psychological' to the more specific 'psychological horror', since we have at least two reliable sources labeling as that, and add 'techno-horror' as a third genre as well. Xexerss (talk) 08:39, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I would be fine with that. Having just psychological as the genre feels vague compared to the more-specific Psychological Horror category. I have nothing against techno-horror , so that can be added as one of the genres too. Valddlac (talk) 12:19, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add horror genre? 

message: It seems like Akira Takemoto is credited for the incidental music. Should this be added? FunOBot (talk) 04:24, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Akira Takemoto