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Serial Experiments Lain, Ep. 13- Ego (FINAL) · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle maybe. And I'm running really late,
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: not with this podcast, just with my life. Like I
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: think I have like an hour between when I start
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: this and when it ends before like my dad gets here,
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: because he's just gonna be here for like a day.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: And it's just been like the craziest week. I mean,
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: not like because it's Monday, so not today and yesterday week,
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: but like week since I last recorded week. So many
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: bad things, so many bad things, not terrible. Everything's going
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: to be okay. Gigs's leg is fine, even though she
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: got stuck in a plastic bag and freaked herself out
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: and then was limping and crying at me. My washing
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: machine doesn't smell like burning anymore. And the tree that
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: fell in the backyard is gonna be cleaned up and
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: I get to split the costs with my neighbor. Yay, awesome.
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: So everything's gonna be okay, I guess. But man, I
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: haven't had a lot of time to do things, so
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if I'm gonna have to split this recording
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: into two parts, because I have a little bit of
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: time tomorrow that I could probably finish this if I
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  Speaker 1: have to, So I'm gonna try to get through all
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  Speaker 1: of it and make it coherent, but if it's not,
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  Speaker 1: I am eternally sorry and thank you for listening, even
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: though I am a mess. And this is gonna be
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: a hard episode anyway because it's the last episode of Lane,
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: and I don't know how I feel about it. So
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: we'll discuss that but first, and not more importantly, but
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: more importantly to me for some reason. I don't know
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: if you've heard about all the stuff that's been going
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: on with Banana Fish. Yeah, I know that thing again.
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  Speaker 1: So a couple of weeks ago, or maybe a week ago,
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  Speaker 1: it feels like forever now, it was taken off of
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  Speaker 1: Amazon Prime in the US, and I and other people
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  Speaker 1: who really like Banana Fish knew about this for a
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  Speaker 1: while because it was saying like being taken off Amazon
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  Speaker 1: in like twelve days, like on it Amazon and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and basically it like really really hurt me because that
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  Speaker 1: meant that there was no legal streaming in the US,
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: which is terrible for something you like. You know, So
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: I was really really upset about it, and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: say anything about it on the podcast because I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea why not, But I didn't oh, and before
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  Speaker 1: I go on, I guess they had like an eight
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  Speaker 1: year contract because it was taken off like the exact
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  Speaker 1: day that it premiered eight years ago, So I get that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it happens, But anyway, maybe about a week ago,
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: or a week and a half ago, or two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: who knows. At this point, there started being rumbles that
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  Speaker 1: like Netflix was gonna take Banana Fish, and by rumbles,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that literally Netflix and like an email or
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it was from, had put like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Banana Fish is gonna come to certain regions in the world,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't say what regions. So it's like it
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  Speaker 1: would just be everyone's luck if it was like it's
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  Speaker 1: coming to Japan. I actually don't know what Bananafish is
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  Speaker 1: on in Japan, but that would be funny because I
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: know that you can stream Bananafish legally in Japan anyway,
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  Speaker 1: So it was just like that. So then like a
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  Speaker 1: week ago, there started being rumblings that there was going
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  Speaker 1: to be a dub, which I assume you remember, but
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: in case you do not, because I did talk about
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  Speaker 1: it on the podcast. Bananafish has never had an English dub,
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  Speaker 1: which is weird, except for like two weeks or a
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  Speaker 1: week and a half last year where it had an
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  Speaker 1: AI dub that Amazon made because I guess they thought
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  Speaker 1: that they could get away with it with Banana Fish
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  Speaker 1: because maybe nobody cared enough and would actually say anything.
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: But everybody said something and they ended up having to
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  Speaker 1: take it down. I actually wonder if that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the reasons that they decided not to keep it, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But anyway, so it's never had a dub,
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  Speaker 1: so the idea that it would suddenly have a dub
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  Speaker 1: is a little weird. But it was like reported on
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  Speaker 1: by like a kind of dub news source on Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know how reliable that shit is, but
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  Speaker 1: people started getting really excited and I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: guess it's possible, but like it'd be weird. And then
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  Speaker 1: as of I guess yesterday or the day before. No,
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  Speaker 1: it was yesterday, because it's exactly a month ahead of it,
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  Speaker 1: Netflix like officially announced that they are taking Banana Fish.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be coming to the US, Canada, I think,
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  Speaker 1: like England, France, and I don't know, somewhere else, and
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  Speaker 1: it's getting an English dub and a French dub, and
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  Speaker 1: they even announced like who the some of the cast is.
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  Speaker 1: Ash is gonna be played by Brandon mckinnis and Ag
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be played by Jonathan Kanagaki. I don't really
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  Speaker 1: know that much about current voice actors. I really haven't
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  Speaker 1: watched dubs since I was like fourteen, and that's all
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  Speaker 1: I could find. And it's definitely not my preferred way
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  Speaker 1: to watch any sort of media that's not English. I
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  Speaker 1: like to hear what the original audio is like. But
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  Speaker 1: having a dub for any show does open it to
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  Speaker 1: a wider audience because there are definitely folks who watch anime,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe you are one of them. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: because I have no idea who you are that prefer
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  Speaker 1: to watch it in their main language and not read subtitles.
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  Speaker 1: And I will pretend to get that for you. So
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  Speaker 1: the idea that this thing, after eight years is actually
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  Speaker 1: gonna have a dub is kind of fucking amazing and awesome,
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  Speaker 1: not that that doesn't mean the same thing as amazing.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm actually really excited. And I originally said right
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: over here that I didn't know if I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: watch it, but I'm popping back in a couple days later,
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: because I recorded this early enough for me to do
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  Speaker 1: that to say, I'm probably going to watch it at
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  Speaker 1: least for a bid to get the feel of it.
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  Speaker 1: It Basically yesterday, Brandon mckinnis, who I told you was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be the voice of Ash just a couple of
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  Speaker 1: minutes ago, posted a little video on Twitter about his role,
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  Speaker 1: and it made me think, oh, maybe this will be
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  Speaker 1: okay because it sounds like he's really fucking into it.
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: It was only like a minute long, but he said
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  Speaker 1: stuff like this is the first time ever that he's
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  Speaker 1: used every acting technique that he knows of because it's
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  Speaker 1: just that important to him, and also like he's been
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  Speaker 1: journaling as Ash, and then he thanks yuma Uchiitah for
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  Speaker 1: doing such a good job with the you know, original
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  Speaker 1: Japanese version of Ash. So like, okay, let's see what
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  Speaker 1: you can do, dude. It would be you know, pretty
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  Speaker 1: awesome if this was good, So we'll see. I would
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  Speaker 1: also just like love it so much if we could
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  Speaker 1: do like actual accurate voices here. And I mean most
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: of the casts should have New York accents. They just
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: should probably shouldn't. He should probably sound like he's from Massachusetts,
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: but a little bit in New York. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that's really gonna happen, but if that happened, I would
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  Speaker 1: be so excited. You don't even know how excited I
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  Speaker 1: would be. But anyway, regardless of how much I care
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  Speaker 1: and the quality of the dub, I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: good thing. So I'm really excited. And the one thing
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  Speaker 1: that I didn't mention is this all happens coming to
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  Speaker 1: Netflix on August twelfth. Now, either that means something to
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: you or it doesn't. Right, if it does, I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: that we both were like yay, But August twelfth is
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: Ash's birthday. Like, I don't know if it's just a
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  Speaker 1: really weird coincidence or someone in Netflix really cares, But
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  Speaker 1: either way, it's gonna be an exciting It's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: an exciting Ash birthday. This year. I won't be on
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  Speaker 1: the air because I am gonna take the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the summer season off because I'm so overwhelmed with everything
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: and I'm not even sure what I'm doing next. So
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  Speaker 1: I will see you back in the fall after this episode.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I just wanted to put that out there
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  Speaker 1: and explain what's going on with banana fos in case
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  Speaker 1: you ge or if you don't care, good for you.
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: But I talked way way too much about this. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Also with new shows this season summer season, I told
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  Speaker 1: you that I watched the first two episodes of Ja Dugar.
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  Speaker 1: I think last week I watched the third episode and
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  Speaker 1: it was also really good. I'm really excited about it. Also,
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to catch up on things that are actually
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: coming out that i'd forgotten about. The Ghost and the
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: Shell anime has started, which you might be like, Oh,
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: they're doing an anime like a series of the movie
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: anime sort of, this one is actually gonna be like
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: the manga because the movie was not I mean in
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  Speaker 1: the sense that the movie was very serious and the
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: manga is not serious all the time. And also it
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: seems to be holding closer to the manga character designs.
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  Speaker 1: So seeing the first episode of that, I really liked
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: it and I'm really hoping I will continue to like it. Yeah,
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: and then, because everybody was like, really really excited about
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: it for some reason, I watched the first episode of
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: Chainsmoker Cat And if you like that, more power to you.
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  Speaker 1: But fuck, yeah, I don't need to watch someone just
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  Speaker 1: destroy their life and be totally unlikable. But if you
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: like comedy about people smoking and throwing up and shitting
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: and like, I don't know, other things and just like
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  Speaker 1: being no good pieces of shit and not holding down
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  Speaker 1: a job and living in a really shitty apartment that's
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: like covered in ash because they don't clean, this is
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: your show. I guess. Like the art and the animation
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  Speaker 1: quality was pretty good, but I know that's okay, but
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with it. It's just not my taste. Okay, Now,
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: God damn it, let's just talk about serial experiments Lane. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Episode thirteen is called Ego, which I guess is fine
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: as a title. If you remember from last week, everything
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  Speaker 1: was a disaster. God got squished by lots and lots
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  Speaker 1: of computer things, and Lane and Alice were there, and
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: Alice was freaking out because yeah, I mean, this is
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: a big deal. So we kind of start there, but
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: we got to do other things first. Now, the new
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: version that I was watching that I found had this
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: beginning in a different order than the original version that
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: I was watching, so I don't actually know which way
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  Speaker 1: it's supposed to be, So I'm just gonna give you
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: the order from the original version that I was watching,
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: so it's consistent, but I don't really know. This was weird. Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: We start with you know, normal stuff and present day,
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: present time. There you go. That's probably as good as
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: I can do, I hope so at least, And then
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: I go to the opening theme. Yeah, anyway, from there,
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: we don't do the normal stuff. We go to a
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: blue staticky screen and Lane's face like really close up
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: kind of tunes in and she closes her eyes and
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: then looks away and says something that we can't hear,
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: and then maybe size and then we hear her say,
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: I'm confused again? Am I here or am I there
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: over there? I'm everywhere? I know that I'm connected there
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: after all right, but where's the real me? Oh right,
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: she looks down. There is no real me. I only
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: exist inside of those people who are aware of my existence.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: But this meat that's talking right now, it's me, isn't it?
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: This myth? It's talking this me. We're like pulling in
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: really tight on Lane's face, and the background static starts
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: to get like really really loud. Whuiz it. The screen
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  Speaker 1: blips out. Let me go to black. Now we go
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: to the title card and as it's like coming in
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: the way it always does. All the other episode titles
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: are kind of coming on the screen and like fading
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: out Ego Layer thirteen, but the guy says ego, which
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: I thought was funny. Now we kind of go back
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: a little bit to like a recap with some different animation,
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: and we see God's hand like materializing out of like
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: meat chunks as he screams. I would scream too, And
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: when we see him like coming together again and like
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: lifting them. But like the animation now doesn't look like
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: it's its tongue. Maybe it looks like an arm or something.
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: I really don't know. Kind of bothers me that it's inconsistent,
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: but hey, I'm gonna go with that it was the
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: tongue because that's what I saw last episode. And then
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: we see like all that stuff like crushing him and
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: Lane saying a body doesn't mean anything to you. Right
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: this time, there's significantly more focus on Alice screaming, but
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: like without actually animating it, just like with her mouth
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: open and she's like, uhh, you know how people scream,
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: And Laane is like sweating and she's like Alice. We
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: get a close up of Alice's eyes and they're like
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: really wide and bloodshot because this is not a fun day.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: And then that like silence after God's been crushed. Laine
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: is holding Alice by her wrists as Alice just stares
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: and for like a minute there, Alice is just kind
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: of silent, and then she starts like thrashing around, like
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: trying to get Lane off of her and like screaming.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: Lane obviously lets her go, and Alice like smacks her
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: across the face and I guess cuts her cheek with
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: her nail accidentally, and she's like no. She kind of
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: like cowers, and Laane looks like she's gonna cry, and
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: her cheek starts to bleed, and we get it close
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: up of Alice's really horrified expression as she screams some
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: more and breathes like really hard and this is like
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: too much. This goes on for too long. We see
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: Lane like really close up, just her eyes looking really worried,
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: and she says, I mess up everything I try to
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: do for you, huh, Alice, Honestly, I she just kind
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: of like hugs Alice, and Alice just kind of goes limp.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: She's just staring up at the ceiling. Looking horrified, Lane
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: just cries into Alice's chest and she's like, Alice, Alice.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Alice just stands there taking really shaky breaths, and it's
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: quiet for a little while. Lane says, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Alice,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. We fade to white. We get a blue
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: screen now and words kind of type out onto it
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  Speaker 1: in English, let's say all resets, and then below it
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: the word return appear. No no, no no no return
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: looks like it's being pressed. I mean, we don't see
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: like a curse or anything, but it changes color slightly.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: This is probably not good. And we see like a
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: bunch of images like still images from the show, and
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: they all kind of like turn to static, and then
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: it goes white. We cut to black wires humming on
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: a white sky, and we fade to white, and then
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: we see red blotchy shadows of telephone poles and wires
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: and like a tree on white like a super overexposed ground,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: I guess, And then we cut to lanes overexposed neighborhood
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: street wires on a white sky. Again. Panning down, we
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: see lanes overexposed front porch like we did in episode one,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: and the door opens, we cut to food on a table.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: There's like a setting with like apples, lettuce, two croissants,
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: and a sunny set of egg and then we pan
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: to a different place setting with tea like a legg
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  Speaker 1: and a bowl thing cucumbers or pickles, I don't know,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: and rice. We see a glass of milk get set
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: onto the table and we see who I'm pretty sure
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: is Mika stand. We're like only seeing her hands like
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: push off against the table and she says, I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't eat anything, by the way, and she's the
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: one who had like the croissants and shit, so that sucks.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: We go to a strip of seaweed that's like on
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: a bowl of rice, and we hear the dad say, hey,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: you didn't clean your plate. I mean she didn't need anything, dude.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Chopsticks come into the scene and pick up the seaweed
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: and some rice, and then we go to a bowl
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: of what I assume is miso soup. It's some sort
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: of soup. It like gets set down on the table
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: and we hear the mom say she says she's on
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: a diet. So just to clarify, we're not seeing any
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: of them, we're just seeing food because I think, you
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: know why we go to a bottle of soy sauce.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: I think that's what this is, but I could be wrong, honestly.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: And then we cut to the mom's mouth as she's
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: eating some rice. Let me go to a bowl of
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Nato yay being set down on the table, and the
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: dad says, oh, I might get a package today. It's
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: cash on delivery if it comes, pay for it. Okay,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: I don't really understand cash on delivery, but I guess
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: it was a different time. The mom says computer parts. Again.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: It's interesting how they're having a conversation, which is not
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: something we normally see. We finally get an actual shot
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: of the table. You know, it's their normal table. The
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: mom and dad are seated there alone. I mean, of
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: course next to them is Mika's plates, but Lane isn't there,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: and there's no place setting for Lane, which is what
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: I was afraid of when we were focusing on the
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: food so hard. Anyway, they eat quietly for a bit
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: and then Dad kind of I think, looks at the
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: empty chair and he says, hey. The mom looks up. Yeah.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Now we can see the dad is like clearly staring
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: at the empty chair, and he's quiet for a second
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: and then he's like, no, it's nothing. We go back
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: to the front porch with the door still hanging open.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: We see the street again with the humming power lines,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: and we're like panning up, and then we cut to
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: the train interior, like looking at the doors as it
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: all kind of like vibrates as the train moves. We
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: see the power cables passing by the window. We cut
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: to like an actual better shot of the interior of
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: the train. It's like the same one that we had
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: from episode one where Lane was standing at the doors
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and then she told everyone to be quiet, except there's
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: no Lane. We see the exterior of the train like
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: going by some power lines, and then the music comes in.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: And this is when I noticed that there actually hadn't
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: been any music until right now, which I thought was
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: like a really good decision. Anyway, things are going on
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: as normal. Kids are walking to school and walking through
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the school gate. We see legs of someone as they
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: stop walking, and it's Alice. She looks up and we
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: hear Judy say Alice. Alice looks behind her and Judy
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: and Raka walk up and Judy like puts her arms
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: around Alice's arm, and Raka says, Alice, we're going out tonight, right.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Judy like pulls on Alice's arm and she's like, Siberia, Siberia.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: You guys are in middle school. Stop going to clubs.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Alice is like, oh sure, why not. She takes out
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: her phone and she's like, I better mail her. Then
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Judy looks back at Raka and they both look kind
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: of confused, and Judy says, Alice mail who. Alice looks
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: up and she's like hmm. She looks back down in
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: her phone. She's on like the mail service screen that
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: says like MAILMANU receive send and it says to Alice
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: at the bottom, So, yes, her name is Alice Alice,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: not adi Su Alice. Anyway, she just stares at the
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: screen and Judy says, oh, don't tell me you want
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: her to come again? Layne Right, She's okay. Judy looks
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: over at Raka concerned. Alice is like what her Jeddy points.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Alice looks over and she sees a girl walking further ahead.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: It's not lame, It'schsa. What why aren't you dead, Chisa?
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Alice says Chisa. Rake is like yeah, yourmota Chisa. Jerdy says,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: you talked us into taking her to Siberia once. She
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: puts her hand on Alice's shoulder, but it's like she
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: didn't even care, Raca says, inviting hers pointless. Alice looks
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: at her phone. Oh, I get it. Judy and Rake
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: are both together side huh, Alice smiles, It's nothing. I
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: just thought of something weird. Rake is like something weird.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Alice continues, If you don't remember something, it never happened. No,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: actually that's not how things work. But sure, Jerdy's like,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: don't remember. Alice says, if you aren't remembered, you never existed.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I don't think so, Alice. But okay. Judy and Raka
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: look at each other like concerned again mm hmm, and
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Raka says, who are you talking about? Alice is like,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: like I said, no one. She starts to walk off
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: with like a little bit of a bounce in her stuff,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: like she's kinna happy, and then says, come on, we
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: better get to it. Juddy's like, hey, Alice. She and
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Raka start to walk off to catch up with her.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: We cut two wires in front of an out of
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: focused background. The focus shifts and we see buildings and
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure like the school, and then we see
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: three hands doing rock paper scissors, and everybody goes go
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and there are two paper hands and one rock and
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: we see that it as Toto and friends. They're outside somewhere,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: which is not where we've seen them before. We usually
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: see them in the club, and Masayuki's like, man, I
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: gotta do it again. Mew mute waves and Tato starts
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to walk away, and Masayuki's like, come on one more time.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Miumu's like, hurry up. They are crossing a street at
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: a crosswalk in like an area that has like a
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: lot of graffiti. Like normally we've seen either Lane's neighborhood,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: which is just kind of stark and suburban, or we've
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: seen like downtown Tokyo. I don't know where this is.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: This is a different area, so like it's a city,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: but there's not a lot of people around or cars,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: so they're like really casually walking across the street in
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the crosswalk. Mumu's like, you're such a sucker. Tato's phone
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: starts to ring or make notification sound or something, and
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: he stops in the crosswalk and he gets it out
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: of his pockets, and Numu was kind of looking back
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: at Masayuki, so she just kind of bumps into him. Anyway,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Tato pulls out that thing that's like kind of looks
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: like a gun, but it's like a little screen computery
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: phone thing and super cool and kind of a shame
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: that it wasn't in the show before, but anyway, it's
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: got like a gun handle, and he pulls the trigger
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: and the screen pops out, which is really fucking cool.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: And anyway, we see the screen, it says kids technology
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: on it and also like mail. Tato says, mail. Mumu's like,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: what is it? She looks over his shoulder and on
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the screen a staticy lane appears and then fades out
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: really quickly. Hmmm, and was like, who's that girl? Toto says,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Masuki finally catches up. He's like carrying
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: a backpack that I guess is heavy, and I guess
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: that's what they rock paper scissored for. I'm not sure. Anyway,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Crossing their path going in the other direction is a
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: man being pulled by a very small girl. The man
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: stops and is like, hey, nice machine, looking at Tato's computer,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: and Toto says, huh. He looks up. It is the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: guy who killed himself at Siberia. Okay, he says, mine's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: pretty tricked out too. The little girl is like, ohnee John,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: hurry and like tugs on his arm. Come on, come on.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Mom's waiting. The guy's like okay, okay, bye, and they
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: walk away. Mimo starts to run and is like, let's go.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Masuki starts to follow and is like, wait, let's shoot
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: for it again. Toto looks down at his phone or
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, and then slowly starts to follow them.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: A guy wearing like a purplesh suit with a briefcase
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: passes him. They're kind of like walking up an incline
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: and the guy we get a close upon him and
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: it's totally ady. Masami, Oh what he looks like a
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: normal person, but I know what his eyes look like.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: That's gotta be him. He's looking down and his fist
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: is clenched and he's like mumbling to himself, and he's like,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I'll quit, I'll quit that dump the shit they make
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: me do, they all under reestimate me. He's a piece
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: of shit. But hey, Tata watches him pass and then
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: closes his phone and is like, oh well, he puts
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: it in his pocket and he runs to catch up
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: with his friends. Back to eighty, he continues, I'm gonna quit.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna quit. He stops and looks up at a
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: cherry picker, you know those things that help you get
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: up to utility polls and do work on them. And
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: there's two guys in it, and they're working on some
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: power lines, and one guy is a lot smaller than
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the other guy. And then I was like, oh my god,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I think I know who this is, but I'm not
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: sure because they have hats, like hard hats and sunglasses on.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: But it's gotta be them. Eighty stares at them, and yeah,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: we get a closer shot, and I definitely see Carl
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and the short guy that I still don't have a
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: name for. I'm happy they're alive, but that doesn't make
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: any sense. Eighty starts to walk again and continues, I'm
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: gonna quit. I'm gonna quit today for sure. We now
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: see lots of shots of power lines, and eventually we
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: fade out on the power lines to black, but the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: hum continues. Characters type in on the black screen. They
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: say what isn't remembered, never happened. Memory is merely a record.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: You just have to rewrite the record. I don't think
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: that's how that works. We hear Lane say, is that true? Yeah? Question?
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Things cuts a blue static present day, present time what
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: we start to get the normal beginning shit, like the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: blue screen with Lane, and then like the normal opening
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: stuff where there's like the green crosswalk and the red
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: crossing light. What's happening and like the lights of cars
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and Lake City and people walking and the taxi and everything.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: This is kind of concerning. And then we cut to
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: two street lights an empty city street that's kind of
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: like dull colors, like mostly black and gray, and there's
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: just a person all alone, kind of far up the street,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: so we can't exactly tell who they are, but it's Lane.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: We get a close up on her face and she
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: looks like she's gonna cry. She looks up and we
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: can see that she is just wearing her nightgown and
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: not any shoes. She suddenly falls to the ground, hugs
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: her knees and cries. We hear a voice say, why
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: are you crying because you deleted yourself from everyone's memory.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Isn't that what you wanted. We see the lower half
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: of a person wearing a teal dress, kind of like
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: fade into the scene. Lane's like yeah, but we pan
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: up and see that the other person is also Laye
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: who I'll call I guess Other Lane. Sure. Other Lane says,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: no one is dying, no one's being hurt, and no
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: one hates you. Fuck. Lane looks up, still crying. Yeah,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: but other Lane says, dead people's information isn't leaking out
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: of the wired anymore. Lane stares at her, kind of distraught.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Other Lane continues, so Lane doesn't need to be anywhere anymore. Fuck.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Her face glitches slightly. This is what you want it right?
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Lane's like, you sound just like him. Other Lane says
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: him that man never existed. Now even if he does,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: he's not gonna get any ideas about being a god.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Lane's like, I'm nowhere now. If I'm nowhere, who am I?
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: We're seeing like buildings around and stuff, and Lane continues,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: where am I? We get a really kind of far
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: shot and we can see that there are a bunch
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: of buildings, but they're kind of under a dome, and
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: then there's just black around them, like the world doesn't exist.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Except for this one chunk of buildings. Other lane says,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: you said it yourself. Lane's like, huh. Other lane continues,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the wired is in the upper layer of the real world.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: That's what that man was mistaken about. A network is
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: a fuel to pass along information. Information doesn't stand still there.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Information functions by always being in motion. Lane's like, really,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: he's kind of looking up. The place kind of has
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: more color. Now, another lane says, people's memories aren't just
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: personal or just one part of the history of humanity.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: We see the connection of a train car to some
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: power cables. Other lane is standing in the train now,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: and she continues, no, not even the shared unconscious Lane
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: is also there, standing across from the other lane. The
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: car is full with people. Other lane continues, do you
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: think that humans could create something that could store memory
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: that fast? I don't know. Lane looks out of the
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: window in the door and says, the wired was just
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: connected to something else. But where was it connected to?
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Other lane smiles. We see her walking down the stairwell
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: in Siberia. Now she stops and looks up. I assume
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: a lane, but we don't see Lane and says, do
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: people really need to know that Uh yeah, Lane is
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: standing I'm like the landing above, looking over the railing.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: She says. What. Other Lane continues, Look how far they've
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: come without knowing. They're now standing by the wall in Siberia.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Another Lane says, the human world creates in praise to
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: various gods, and humans just convinced themselves that this is
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: how the world is. We see JJ briefly, and then
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: that woman who is probably like a server from episode two,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: putting money in her bra. Lane is just kind of
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: looking at the ground. She says, I don't like how
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: you're saying this. I mean me too. They're now in
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Lane's classroom. I suppose it's filled with kids at desks,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: all doing their work. Another Lane says, either way, it's
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Lane that's saying it me. You get that, right? Wayne
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: is just st out the window. Other Lane continues, Oh right,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Lane was never a person, was she? She chuckles. What.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Lane continues to just stare out the window. Oh my god.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Other Lane is standing like at the front of the classroom.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: The teacher's behind her writing on the board, and she
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: says Lane is omnipresent, existing everywhere. Lane watches quietly. Right,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Lane is God, Lane closes her eyes. No. She turns
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: to look at Other Lane. They're now in a crowded
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: alley at night. You're wrong. Other Lane's like, it'd be
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: so much easier if you became a god. I think
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: it'd be a lot easier than becoming a human. We
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: focus in on some woman in the alley laughing, and
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: now we're on the street in front of Lane's house.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Other Lane says, you wouldn't have to do anything, just
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: stand there and watch. No one would look down on Lane.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Lane looks terribly sad. Other Lane continues, no one would
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: hate Lane. Lane's like that's it's quiet for a second.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Other Lanes like, hey, Lane, let's start everything over again
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: from the beginning. I mean, you did go and reset
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: everything after all. Lane whips her head around and is
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: like stop it. There's silence. Other Lane looks shocked, and
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: then she starts to like stutter and vibrates. We cut
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: to Lane's concerned face as the sky starts to get dark,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I think, And then we hear water drop and we
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: see like ripples on a dark, purplish screen. Lane and
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Other Lane are in just like a dark place now,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: and Lane too just stutters and vibrates, just kind of frozen,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: and then she fades out, but we still hear this
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: like weird glitchy computer sound that she was making. Lane
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: is just standing in I guess some water like alone.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: You have a really big wide shot, and we hear
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: someone who I think of the other Lane, say then
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: what are you Lane? Lane falls to her knees and
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: puts her head in her hands and she says, I
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I we fade to black? Where am I? Someone says,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: come Lane. Laine looks up and there's a patch of
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: light on her face and it starts to get like
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: very bright. There's like this beam of light and we
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: pan up it and at the top is her dad
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: like looking down on her from like I guess a
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: hole in this world that's been created, and he's like giant,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: it looks like, and he's smiling down at her. This
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: is very odd, and she says, Dad, you go to black.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: We see something being lifted up and Lane pulls down
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the hood from her bear onesie that was on her head.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: She's sitting at a table like a sunset sky background.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Her dad is sitting across from her, and he says,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: you don't need to wear that anymore? Lane, I really
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: like it. Why not? Lane gasps and sort of smiles,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: and we see that they're just sitting at this table
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: that's like hovering in the sunset sky. And she says, dad,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: do you know? Her dad's like what. Lane says, I
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: everyone I Her dad says, you love them? Oh, Lane gasps.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Her dad smiles kindly. Isn't that right? Oh okay, Now
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I'm upset. Lane shakes her head and like just starts
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: to sub like and a massive amount of tears are
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: just running down her face and she's like trying to
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: wipe them away. Her dad's like, I'll make us some
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: tea next time. We're kind of pulling back now, he continues,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Hey with some adelines. Definitely, they're great. We start to
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: normal beginning shit again, what except the colors are different.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: So we have that crosswalk with the people that's green usually,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: but now it's like blurry and blue. And then the
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: crosswalk red light is now a green light. And then
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: we see like car lights, but they're yellowish green instead
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: of white city shots but instead of purple, they're in blue.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: And we hear Lane say, so, memories aren't only of
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: the past, are they? They can be of right now
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: or even of Tomorrow feel like that's a suicidal tendency song.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: We now see people walking down a street past like
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: a clothing store window, and there's a couple like we
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: can just kind of see like their bodies but not
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: their heads, and the guys like unbelievable. The girl's like, right,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: but hold on a second. The guys like what we
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: see that? The girl is Alice. She has long hair now,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: and she's like, fucking she's an adult. Oh great, awesome,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: she says. I listened to what you had to say
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: very patiently, I might add, she smiles. I get to
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: pick the curtains for the bedroom, right, The guy smiles. Sure.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Before we go any further, I should probably say that
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this guy is the teacher that Alice
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: had that crush on. Yeah, I was pretty sure when
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I watched the episode, and then I just tried to
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: research it to make sure that I was right before
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I said this, And yeah, I'm pretty sure it's him.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: That's weird. I don't like that at all. I really
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: don't like that, guys, But okay, fine, she's with that
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: teacher now. Fine. Anyway, we see hands on a railing
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: and we kind of are looking down at Alice and
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: the teacher guy like walking from above, and the teacher
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: guy says, anything you say, Alice is like, okay, then
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: that's a good student. They both laughed because no, no, oh,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I don't like that at all. Getting back to it,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Alice suddenly stops and looks up at the pedestrian overpass
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: and someone is standing there at the railing, but it's
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: like really far away, so we don't really know who
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: it is exactly. I mean, I have an idea, but
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: still the guy is like, something wrong. Alice says no,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: and we now see, of course that it's Lane staring
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: down at her. Looks like normal Lane, and Alice stares
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: at her for a bit and she says, sorry, can
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: you wait here for a second, and she just like
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: bolts off. The guy's like, hey, what are you. Alice
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: runs up the stairs and then stops at the top
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: and looks at Lane. Lane stares back at her. I
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: don't know what the expression is. It's like kind of
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: content a little. Alice smiles and walks over to her
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: and kind of leans down because Lane is much shorter
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: because she's a child, and says hello means like hello.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Alice says have we met before? We have? Right? Oh,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Laine just smiles. Alice is like, oh, did you go
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: to the school. I was a student teacher at Oh
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: she's a teacher now too. No, that can't be it.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Let me think. Blaine's like, please to meet you. Alice
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: says huh. Laane again says please to meet you. We
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: haven't met before. Alice is like, oh, well, please to
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: meet you then too. I'm Alice strange name. Huh. I'm
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: kind of embarrassed about it. What's yours? Lene is silent
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: for a second, and then she says Laane. Alice stands
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: up Lane. She looks up and then kind of over
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: and says, hmmm. Now her boyfriend, teacher guy is behind her,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: and he's like a friend of yours. Alice turns to him. No,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: I thought she was someone else. She turns back to
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Lane and bends down again. Well, goodbye, Lane, Maybe we'll
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: run into each other again someday. Laine smiles. Alice waves bye,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: teach your boyfriend guys like by Lane. They walk away.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Lane waves as well, and then looks over the railing
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: again at them and says, you're right. We can see
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: each other anytime. We pull back on the overpass for
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: like a long time, and then we go to blue
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: static and Lane fades in. She says, I'm here, so
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: I'll be with you forever. The screen cuts out like
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: an old TVA and I don't know why it didn't
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: end here, but it doesn't. We go to a shot
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: from kind of the normal beginning shit, kind of looking
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: up at that building with the dark clouds in the background.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of pin in on it. We fade black,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: and then we go to the ending theme and that's it. Yay.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: So closing thoughts, I think this is one of those
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: times where I have to just go like, I'm not
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: smart enough to understand what this is trying to convey. Sorry, guys,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: that's it wrapped up. Have a good life, like give up. No,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: but really a super weird of Alice end up with
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: the teacher B I fucking hate this for Lane, you know.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Fuck So. I have a lot of things to say
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: about this actually. First of all, like I was just
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: about to say before I cut myself off, she never
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: asked to be born like this. She never asked to
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: have consciousness. She was just the Internet or the wired
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: or whatever. And it sucks that it was given to her,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: and then she has to spend the rest of eternity
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: not interacting with people and only watching them as the Internet.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: It sucks, I mean, super like righteous of her to
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: realize that she can't be in the world and she's
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: kind of fucking things up if she is interacting outside
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: of the Internet. It's too much. It's going to destroy
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: the world, I suppose. But it fucking sucks. It like sucks,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: And it sucks that Alice forgot her because I assume
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: this was a time skip from the life fast time
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: we saw Alice when she was at school. I'm sure
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Alice only kind of remembered her after the reset anyway,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: so after a while she just kind of forgot her.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, there was a little bit left in there,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: but it would never be the same, you know, especially
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: since Laine doesn't grow like humans grow because she's the Internet.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: But it sucks. It really sucks. Also, Like I'm sure
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: there's been a lot of really interesting takes on the
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: message of Lane and all that bullshit, but honestly, I
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: have not read them. I decided not to, and I'm
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: just gonna tell you what I think and it will
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: absolutely be wrong, But that's the benefit of saying that
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: my show is me explaining anime poorly. I guess I'm
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: really really supposed to be wrong. But anyway, I was
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: just thinking after I finished watching this the day before,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: yesterday or whenever, that was like, does this mean that
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: we should be kind to the Internet? Because the Internet
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: is like our friend, always watching us, but can't ever
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: really interact, Like we can interact with information on the
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Internet and people on the Internet, but actual Internet. How
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: you ever asked how are you doing today? Internet? Because
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I'll talk to my computer and
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: be like, hey, you know, good job starting up because
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: it looked scary for a second. But I never say, hey, Internet,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: how are you feeling today? Thanks for loading so quickly.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: So maybe we need to treat the Internet with more respect.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: I guess that's a weird No, I mean, that can't
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: be the takeaway. I don't know. I mean, I think
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: part of what I'm getting from from this is, yeah,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: the Internet is an extension of the real world. It's
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: not something greater than the real world. It's just a
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: part of it. It's not supposed to be on the
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: same level, really, and it's definitely not better than it.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: And it's definitely not our god, and I'm pretty sure
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: there isn't a god according to this, which is fine
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: because Lane's not a god, but also if we want
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: to get more into it, one of my least favorite
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: tropes is resetting the timeline. I hate it terribly, especially
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: if it hasn't been established in earlier episodes that that's possible.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: And while this kind of has sort of except that
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: it doesn't make any sense because there was at one
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: time where she made everybody forget things, but then they
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: remembered her, but then it wasn't really her, but then
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: in later episodes it was like that really hadn't happened,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: but maybe it wasn't in order, but I'm confused, but
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: at least we mentioned it. I think my problem here
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: is with that first reset, like all that happened is
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: like everybody just forgot you know, that there were rumors
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: about Alice, which makes perfect sense, I mean as much
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: sense as this could make because since the wired was
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: so connected with the real world because of the Worth
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: residence frequency and like whatever, Lane was able to manipulate
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: memories to make everybody just forget that happened, which to
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: me seems within the realm of possibility. The next reset
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: where she just flipped herself out of existence makes a
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: lot lessense because yeah, everybody forgot her and sure, but okay,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: but then what about everything else that happened, Like how
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: did Aidie Masami just come back to life? What about Sheisa?
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: How did she come back to life? Like I didn't
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: get the impression that she could like rewind time and
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: save people, but apparently she could, Like it doesn't quite
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: make sense. I would have totally bought it if it
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: was just like everything's the same, except like no one
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: remembers laying except that I guess that would be hard
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: because a bunch of people had died, like Carl died
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: and stuff, and that was sad and the world was
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: like destroyed. So maybe it wouldn't have been possible to
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: do a reset like that. But I just don't. I
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: don't think you can just kind of go back and
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: fix things and be like, cause it's like it was
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: all different points. It's like if Ady Musmy was like
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: still alive, had he even created Lane yet, Like how
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: would she exist? Like, I just don't. I don't think
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: this makes sense honestly, And maybe it's not supposed to
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: make full sense. But I like when things make sense
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: and I can go like, Okay, I understand how that
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: was set up and why that would work within the
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: parameters of this show in this world. And unfortunately, in
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: this case, this whole episode didn't make sense to me
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: because it was like the entire timeline was just totally
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: altered instead of just people's memories being changed. So that's
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: a little unfortunate. I thought the ending was good. I
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: really liked the part with her dad and just kind
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: of her coming to terms with the fact that she's
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: not a person and that she can't live like a person,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: but also that she's not God and she doesn't want
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: to be God and she isn't gonna just constantly toy
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: with this timeline. I think she really managed to grow
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: up and become a really good wired that really wants
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: to protect people and just watch them and not try
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: to integrate with them and fuck everything up. Yeah, I
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: don't know. So after finishing watching this again, to be fair,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: like it didn't really make me feel the things that
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: made me feel last time I watched it. The last
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: time I watched and the other time before this I
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: watched the last episode, I cried when she saw Alice
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: and then Alice left and she's like, you know, yeah,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: we can see each other anytime. I didn't cry this time.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: I didn't even get close to crying. Just feel bad overall,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: but not in a way that I could cry about it.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: It's just it sucks to be lame. But I guess
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: at least the world isn't like destroyed, and that's good.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I have a big issue where it's like
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: things got really bad, so why don't we just make
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: it so it wasn't bad. That's how I feel about
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Chainsaw Man. And I'm not as upset about this as
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: I am about Chainsawman by any means, because some of
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: this stuff was established. Sorry, I'm like really upset about
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: chainsaw Man still anyway. Yeah, I like when problems can
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: be solved when we go like, okay, these things happen,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: like how do we fix them in a real way
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: that is appropriate for this world. So I don't like
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: when things are just kind of like we just fixed
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: it from magic that wasn't established that we could do
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: that before. And I mean, I'm sure you're listening to
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: this and you're going, Michelle, there are so many deep
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: ideas and thoughts from Lane, and you're not even touching
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: on all of these things. But the truth is, I
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: don't know what those things are actually, you know what,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna cut back in because I do have some
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: other thoughts, because I've been thinking about this for a
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: couple of days now, and there are a lot of
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: like plot threads that didn't get resolved or really go anywhere,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: and I just kind of wanted to mention them, Like
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: we never learned who the hell brought Lane to live
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: with the iwakaas, we never did anything more with a
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: sella that drug that I still don't know how that
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: would work, the whole Kid's experiment thing, and sky Lane
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: was only one episode and that could have been cool
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: if Lane was just in the sky a lot sometimes.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: And like we still don't know who actually wanted to
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: hurt Lane and why, because I mean, Carl and other
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: guy blamed it on the Knights, but weren't the Knights
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: like God's like devoted followers. And I don't think God
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: wanted to destroy Lane. But we don't really know that
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: much about the Knights. All we know is that they
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: got killed and they were doing stuff, but we don't
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: really know what stuff, and also are there aliens or
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: are they not aliens? I was also wondering if some
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: of this was metaphors for like growing up, which doesn't
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: seem like that works to me. But at the same time,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: when she was like with her dad in the sky
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: and he was like, you don't have to wear that anymore,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: I was like, what are we what are we talking
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: about here? I also thought that Laine as a character
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: was like pretty cool. I like that she pretty much
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: questioned everything that she was told, you know, by God
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: and you know, just in general. It was like anything
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: that was presented that sounded like it was supposed to
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: be a fact wasn't really a fact. And I really
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: liked that. I remember I said in the beginning, I
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: wasn't sure if what we were being told was like real,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: like supposed to be like the reality of things, or
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: just someone's take on the reality. And it would be
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: resolved later in the show. And I really do think
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: most of the things that she was told that we heard,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: you know, from God and throughout the episode from people,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: are more just subjective opinions than anything. And I actually
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: really like that about this. However, I really think this
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: show wants to be deep. It does, and I think
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: that there's probably a lot that you can glean from it.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know how much is really accurate to what
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: the creator wanted that you can glean from it, that is,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: But this kind of falls to me in a category
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: of this was really trying very hard to be something,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: and I'm not sure it delivered totally. But it's still good.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: It's just I think I'm a little disappointed, and I
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: don't know if I was expecting that. So I don't know, man,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's wrong with you listening to me
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: suck like this, But thanks for sticking in there, and
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: I hope that you got a lot out of this
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: and that you feel like you learn something about this
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: world that is helpful and mean something to you, because
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: I wish that I had, I think. But I think
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: that's really all I have to say. At least this
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: ended in a place. Sure, it's a place where Lane
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: will just always watch the real world from the Internet
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: or wired or whatever, and that is as close as
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: she can be. But it's good for everybody else, right, Yay, awesome? Great?
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's really all I have to say. So,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: like I said earlier, I'm gonna take the rest of
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: the summer season off so I can kind of collect
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: myself and figure out what I'm even going to cover
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: next season. There are a couple of ideas I have.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: I'll just throw them at you right now, and I'll
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: decide during this break and i'll let you guys know.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: But any way, I could do the new Vegiant Ray
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Earth because I'm insane. I could do number six because
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: I've been thinking about it a lot. But if I did,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: it would be like the first series that I'm going into,
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: going like, I have serious problems with it, but I
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: need to talk through my serious problems, So I could
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: do that. I could do Go and Login. I could
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: do I don't know. Those are probably the top three
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: right now. If you have an idea, or if you
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: were like, please do this one and don't do those
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: other two, please let me know. But that's really gonna
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: be it for me. I managed to finish this before
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: my dad got here. I'm so happy, so this will
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: be on time and I don't have to be super
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: stressed anymore sort of or whatever. And the trees getting
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: cut down tomorrow so I don't have to record this
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: with the chainsaws in the background. So yeah, anyway, I'm
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: gonna go finish cleaning up. And I hope you have
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: like a really good whatever and that includes summer and shit,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: and I will see it soon. I will pop in
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: at least to tell you when I am starting, like
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: what week I'm starting the next anime and what it's
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: gonna be. But I also might just have a couple
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: of shows on random Thursdays during the next like two
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: months or so, because I might want to talk about
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: the Banana Fish Dub and I might also want to
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: talk about something else too, so be on the lookout
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: for that or don't whatever you want. Yeah, I hope
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: you don't hate me and you don't really hate this,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: but if you do, I get it. You know, sometimes
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: I just suck, you know. Anyway, I am going to
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: go later. Weeps.