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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV).

The show started off with a great and pretty mysterious premise, but now it seems to be turning into a cliched spoiler["normal kid dissatisfied with life has his world turned upsidedown due to strange and paranormal events" science fiction series. If more unbelievable revalations are made, this show might lose a lot of its charm for me ]. But even now after reading some of the thoughts posted here, I'm thinking even THAT prediction could be wrong. Is there a different plot underneath the underneath?

By the time that Koizumi spoiler[had revelead the "truth" about himself, I caught myself thinking "yeah, I get it, Haruhi is special and there's more to the world than meets the eye. Yadda yadda yadda." I also felt the same way about the second half of the events of chapter 5 of the first novel.] I really hope there's something else to all this that will truly win me over.

Episode 5 was a huge disappointment. A staff member must have sat on the fast forward button or something.

Personally, from what I've seen (1-5) and read (ch 1-5), I think, at this point, spoiler[if it's anybody's dream world, it's Kyon's.] But that's only one possiblity I can think of.

I can see how you might feel that way, and it does seem that they wanted to get the "intro" episodes out of the way, so they could get to the meat of the first volume's story.

But look at how they did it: every one of the three "special characters" being presented had a different set of storytelling effects, to highlight that person's individual angle. This wasn't just "fast-forward" -- somebody at KyoAni must have spent many sleepless nights getting the storyboard for this episode just right.

Or maybe Kyon and Haruhi are two aspects of the same phenomenon? Can't have shadow without light, and all that.

Samurai CDZ wrote:

Episode 5 was a huge disappointment. A staff member must have sat on the fast forward button or something.

But look at how they did it: every one of the three "special characters" being presented had a different set of storytelling effects, to highlight that person's individual angle. This wasn't just "fast-forward" -- somebody at KyoAni must have spent many sleepless nights getting the storyboard for this episode just right.

This probably doesn't mean anything at all, but what does that orange arm band Haruhi has on in the intro and the credits say?

The word I'd conjure up to describe it is "Rashomonesque". After all, we do have three characters describing the significance and relevance of a single event from their perspective.

Or maybe Kyon and Haruhi are two aspects of the same phenomenon? Can't have shadow without light, and all that.

I'm really not sure what to make of this show anymore. It's making my head spin to the point where I'm almost sick of watching it. I guess in that aspect, it's succeeding, since I can definitely relate to Kyon 100%.

I'm still not buying the ANN ratings, but it's clear this show is working on a level I'm not picking up on yet. It'll take multiple times to really get this one. I only hope the anime can add a good closure, since I don't believe the novels are finished, right?

I just watched episode 5 and I was almost wondering if Hideaki Anno directed this episode. But I really do wonder if the author of the novels and/or the director of the TV series was/were influenced by him.

HitokiriShadow wrote:

I just watched episode 5 and I was almost wondering if Hideaki Anno directed this episode. But I really do wonder if the author of the novels and/or the director of the TV series was/were influenced by him.

You know, I felt the same way watching it. I just get a lot of Evangelion feels with this (in a good way of course).

No purple robots, however....

Maybe I'm crazy, but, spoiler[Perhaps the first episode was a sort of allegory or metaphor for each of the characters. Kyon and Haruhi almost seem to take on a sort of "god" status, at least IMO.]

the beginning of episode 5 was so NGE 2.0 D;/