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[lazyfatbum]

Like I said, agree to disagree, I really cant continue the discussion on the level that I want to take it to.

Freud is one of the major pillars in psychotherapy history, but his theories have very little application today... he was guessing, and now we know he was wrong about a lot of things.

I've never heard anyone call the scientific method 'guessing'. I also dont understand how anyone could be proven wrong when all they deal in is applying working educated theories to the unknown that cannot be proven or disproven except for major particulars or happy accidents. The one instance off th top of my head was where Catholic religion had views of being against God to ejaculate outside of a woman's vagina which was 'proven' by Freud to be a big mistake on the Catholic's part. He basically 'discovered' and then proved nocturnal emmisions or 'wet dreams'. Which meant the Catholic church had to reform its beliefs in light of the new data, and prior to this knowledge it was considered a joke to think that anyone could ejaculate or reach orgasm while in a subconscious state. I'd love for you to show me all the things he was "wrong" about, i'm sure that would be a very interesting read.

Lain has absolutely nothing to do with DBZ (which is a truly horrible show)... why do you think there are any grounds for comparison?

Read my post again. I only compared the ratio, not the content.

For every Batman Begins or Revenge of the Sith there's a Stealth or Dukes of Hazard or Undiscovered or Fantastic Four. I can name off a long list of VERY good anime series, yes I had to dig through Dragon Ball Z and Inuyasha and a ton of generic harem animes, but good series and movies are there, waiting to be found.

For every Lain, there is a thousand Dragon Ball Z's. For every Azumanga Daioh there is a thousand borderline anime pornos, so while I haven't seen these particular movies it only makes sense as they're in a sea of krap and have to be discovered.

Thank you for repeating what I said. :D

A good example would be in Haibane Renmei. It has one flashback around the middle of the series and was very important to what was happening in the series, providing insight into motives that weren't yet fully understood.

ergo "Bad story telling". as a writer if you have to use a flashback to explain something, you're not doing your job. Though in his defense, the director could have chosen a flashback sequence to speed the film up and add a sense of intrigue on purpose. I dunno, but I know that the last thing you want to do is confuse your audience by introducing motives with no... motives and then try to fix it all with a plot hole band-aid (Aka 'flashback')