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Originally Posted by Vanish

I have no clue what that Endless Eight is supposed to be but looking at the comments doesn't even make me want to google it.

Anyway, can't wait for next episode, it can't come fast enough looking at the arguments here.

It's a shame that that is your impression, though you're not to blame for how that reference is being depicted.

I hold a minority opinion, but I think that much more than it being a simple gimmick, adapting a single chapter into a series arc that spanned 8 episodes

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in which the plot, being true and faithful to the original material being adapted as any, involves the core members of Haruhi Suzumiya's SOS Brigade repeating a period of the last two weeks of summer over and again exceeding 15,000+ instances, where we are taken through an experience of living just 8 of those instances as a helpless observer in order make the one character who maintains full awareness of all recurrences of the same period with some minor variations to certain events a sympathetic one with whom we can identify, this being significant character development towards what comes next,

was one heck of an intense ride!

It's as if these geeky nerds have never played the same games with limited variations to game play and other aspects over and over again, or watched a movie or series scores of times simply because they loved it that much. And yet with each of the 8 episodes KyoAni goes through loving care to give attention to details in the variances to each recurrence, with tension rising every week as we await the resolution to which yukata

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having patterns of hibiscus, goldfish, and geometric shapes

are the key indicators that we're there.

So you can see that even were you to agree with the majority that such an adaptation is a futile exercise, to suggest that the sense of dread, should you fall into that majority who felt that way, of watching these 8 episodes is to a great degree comparable to that of watching this episode which was very amusing is non-sense! Apples and oranges at least are both fruits.