Serial Experiments Lain/Fridge

• When I was watching Serial Experiments Lain I thought that the only reason that Lain and Eiri could rewrite reality 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 Eiri's Wired persona was named Deus. He told Lain that they are both gods in the Wired, 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 "Who made you God?" / "You mean there already was a God to begin with?" exchange. Eiri's power comes from the amalgamation of his personality with the Deus Est Machina Trope itself!. Very meta.
• Lain is the first in a series of "Serial Experiments". What if Elaine from Lucifer, who also achieves godhood, and who, like Lain is forgotten by the world, is simply E-Lain or the E-model of the Lain 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?