toonlink
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- Jan 16, 2012
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- Los Angeles
As the title implies, I wanna know what media--whether book, game, or show--you thought was pretentious and overrated. Alternatively, I'd love to hear about works that others find pretentious that you find great! Did you think that it wasn't that deep? Maybe you think that it's underrated? Whatever the case, I wanna hear about it!
I'll start off with one that has been on my mind for a bit.
Serial Experiments Lain
This anime is often said to be really confusing, directionless, and meaningless. That the loose themes of technology and interconnectedness aren't enough to back up a confusing sub par ending for a story. I think that the story of the show is a fine medium to convey its themes, and trying to understand literally (in lore? dunno how to write this bit) why or how certain things happen is just being ignorant of the themes that the story is trying to convey. Trying to interpret this anime through its own world is more or less pointless, as its trying to tell you something about potential technology and how we would interact with it when fiction was inevitably removed from science fiction. I believe that the meaninglessness that people sometimes associate this show with stems from the fact that much of its technology seems too retro futuristic, like cheesy Y2K-style versions of things we have now. While the cheesiness is a product of its time, it does distract from the message of the work itself.
I'll start off with one that has been on my mind for a bit.
Serial Experiments Lain
This anime is often said to be really confusing, directionless, and meaningless. That the loose themes of technology and interconnectedness aren't enough to back up a confusing sub par ending for a story. I think that the story of the show is a fine medium to convey its themes, and trying to understand literally (in lore? dunno how to write this bit) why or how certain things happen is just being ignorant of the themes that the story is trying to convey. Trying to interpret this anime through its own world is more or less pointless, as its trying to tell you something about potential technology and how we would interact with it when fiction was inevitably removed from science fiction. I believe that the meaninglessness that people sometimes associate this show with stems from the fact that much of its technology seems too retro futuristic, like cheesy Y2K-style versions of things we have now. While the cheesiness is a product of its time, it does distract from the message of the work itself.