Serial Experiments Lain/Fridge


 * When I was watching Serial Experiments Lain I thought that the only reason that  was only to up the Mind Screw factor or because the writers couldn't come up with a good solution to a problem. But then I realized that   was named Deus. He told   ergo, they are both literal Deus Ex Machina's.--chloeraven
 * Ooh! The "literal"-ness of that suddenly makes a whole lot of sense of the  exchange.   power comes from   the Deus Est Machina Trope itself!. Very meta.
 * . What if  from Lucifer,   and who, like Lain   is simply   experiments?
 * A meta-example: An article in a 1999/2000 issue of Animerica indicated (roughly) that writer Chiaki J. Konaka's goal was to create a series that wouldn't be received the same way outside of Japan that it was within it. Hindsight now tells us he failed in that regard-- most everyone goes "well, what the hell was that all about?!". That's not the Fridge Logic. What is, however, is the fact that he wanted to divide people's opinions about a series revolving around the concept of everyone being, on some subconscious level, connected. Self-defeating, don't you think?