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Lapses of logic that bug me.

HaruhiToy wrote:

The whole point of Wile E. Coyote is how illogical he is. Has there ever been a kid anywhere who didn't say "if he can order all that stuff to be delivered to the desert couldn't he just order take-out just as easily instead of starve?"

Well all he ever had was an account with Acme, and the only type of food that they have is birdseed made specifically for traps.

Speaking of Misato and the apparent disparity between her personal economic resources and her influence... I think people fail to understand that bureaucracies (and NERV is a bureaucracy, like any other monolithic organisation) always underpay their middle- and low-level staff. I can easily imagine an officer like Misato with sufficient organisational clout to mobilise immense material resources -- yet still being paid a pittance.

- abunai

1) When Kyon and Haruhi spoiler[are in the extra dimension created by Haruhi, she suddenly becomes aware of her abilities for no apparent reason. Not to worry though, she's oblivious again by the end of the episode. Can't let logic get in the way of a good mystery.]

2) A little more subtle isspoiler[ Kyon's fear of Haruhi's plan to remake the universe. It's not like it was the end of the world. She even said she would keep Mikuru and the rest of the SOS Brigade, so what was Kyon so worried about?]

Oh yeah and Gundam Seed Destiny that whole show pretty much counts as a lapse of logic that bugs me.

This potentially comic thread is being crushed with wave upon wave of logic

When the head writer is suffering from brain cancer and holds petty grudges against some of the VAs, that's bound to happen

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When the head writer is suffering from brain cancer and holds petty grudges against some of the VAs, that's bound to happen

That I did not know. Seems pretty harsh that he was made to do that whole unnecessary show with a terminal disease. They should have left it at Seed and sent the guy of to the red light district with all of his savings like decent human beings!

If you are into a story you tend to rationalize goofs into virtuous ad-libs or "extra subtle" plot points. Let me give you an example.

Everyone is sold on Haruhi being the "deity." However the evidence points to her NOT being the deity, spoiler[it is actually Kyon. Harhui is his ideal of a girl companion; he is not hers. Or perhaps this -- when they find the mysterious SOS logo on the web page is as actually some digital/mystic impossibility, you forget it way Kyon that edited it and uploaded it to the server, not Haruhi. Haruhi never touched it after she drew the original oversized version.]

She was spoiler[in the process of becoming aware. And after the whole kiss, both were thrust back into the real world where they woke up in their own beds. Haruhi even flat out says to Kyon "I had a weird dream last night." Remember that Kyon got the info-dump from Koizume, Haruhi didn't, so that whole ordeal was merely a dream to her;] it makes perfect sense.

I really don't understand this one since spoiler[Kyon specifically objects with the fact that Haruhi's new world wouldn't be 'his' world. Whoever appeared in this new world wouldn't be the real people who were left behind*. Plus, it would mark the end of the world he knew according to Koizumi's theory. Plus, look at what was happening in that world, that looks pretty dangerous and terrifying to me.]

I don't remember the scenes concerning your 3rd point, but isn't Haruhi lacking common sense and rationality one of the quirks of her character from the get-go?

* and in case you might argue that spoiler[the others would eventually be brought over from the abandoned world, remember that Koizumi and Nagato also pointed out that the link between the two worlds was just about faded out and would completely disappear very soon, so there would be no way for them to be brought over unless Haruhi started to miss the old world and reopen it (which is not going to happen).]