Okay, I know I've complained about this series enough, but for a show that's supposedly about a NEET loli detective computer nerd... this show is not nearly nerdy and computery enough!! I don't think any code has even appeared in a single episode!
I'm still enjoying it enough to keep watching it, and Alice is still the only thing that makes it worth watching at all, but from the episodes thus far, she could just as easily be a regular — though ridiculously moe — hikikomori with some basic Googling skills, à la Nakahara Misaki, and I have no hope of it getting any more geeky.
C'mon, in Lain, we had C, LISP, Copland OS, a 21st Century Macintosh, allusions to The Instrumentality of Mankind, singularity, the Newton, FORTRAN, Smalltalk, etc., etc. all in the first few minutes. I know I'm comparing regular shounen shit to the best of seinen ever, but I was hoping for a little more geekiness from a show whose main character is supposedly a NEET detective cracking genius blah blah blah... yeah, and I'm Donald Knuth.
ETA: Sorry, sorry... I really shouldn't have even ever considered such potential for typical shounen crap, but... I really, really want to see another character like Lain and Nakamura Ryutaro is too damn sickly, so I'm losing hope of Despera ever getting made, and my ABe craving ever to be satisfied. GAHHH.