We watched two episodes of the late 90's anime series Lain today. The words "strange" and bizarre come to mind when describing what i saw. It seemed like quite a complex series which would require you to watch every episode in a linear order to have any chance of understanding what was going on. From what I saw and have later read on Wikipedia, the series seems to deal with philisophical ideas about perceptions of "reality" and what is truely real. It also examines the way that in which the emergance of the internet as a tool for living could make the human body obsolete. The first layer (episode 1), Navi, was weird but understandable. The next episode we watched was layer 11, Inforngraphy. I found this episode impossible to fathom what was going on at all. This was probably half down to the fact that we had just skipped 10 episodes of what seems like an incredibly complex series and partly down to the fact that I was watching it at 11 o'clock on a Monday morning when I was still half asleep. The best bit of that episode was the 10 minute jazz-rock fusion bananza played over the baffeling montage of I can't remember what. Anyway, I would like to watch the this series in it's entirety if I can get hold of it cheaply off ebay or somewhere.
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