looking like i'm finally gonna finish Serial Experiments Lain tonight! about to start episode Layer:10 and I have to say I did not expect the Roswell curveball in the previous episode, but then again I shouldn't be expecting anything. I think I kept dropping it the past few times I tried to watch through because it's genuinely distressing on some level. While I don't fully grasp everything it's trying to say with some of the more surreal elements, there's something frighteningly relatable about the socially isolated child paying attention to the internet for the first time in their life and quickly being consumed by it until it starts to take precedent over their real life.

All I'm saying is it's hard to watch this show with headphones sitting at my desk with my computer humming away next to me and not feel self-conscious and directly attacked.