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Originally Posted by Triple_R

I agree. It's getting noticeable. Last I checked (which was only a few hours ago), the Episode 10 thread had fewer views than all other Haruhi 2009 threads, and had fewer posts than all but two of them. And, Episode 10 was way behind most of the other 2009 episodes in both views and posts.

To me, the most logical answer is that EE has driven some fans away. Mostly, it's driven EE critics away - a lot of the people that were critiquing EE on the older episode threads are gone now. About the only critics left, really, are you, Takamura, Akka, and myself (apologies if I'm missing anybody). Well, Kaisos was very critical of EE at times, in full credit to him, but he's been less so since it ended.

My only caveat would be that EE didn't really start to hurt until episode 4 or 5. In fact, IIRC, episode 5 was the peak point for Haruhi interest so far this year. Right now, it looks like that's when a lot of people dropped off, and many haven't bothered to come back.



Anyway, I'll be watching the sub at some point tomorrow, and writing up a blog review for the episode.

Really?

I just think that E8 was an easy target for trolls. Now that its over, they all just went back under their respective bridges.

Anyway, this was just another set-up episode. The crazy stuff should start happening next episode.