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View Poll Results: The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya - Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 236 | 64.31% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 95 | 25.89% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 25 | 6.81% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 7 | 1.91% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 3 | 0.82% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 1 | 0.27% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
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2010-04-14, 03:05 | Link #141 | |||||||||
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I can point to numerous screen caps that blatantly show Yuki being visibly depressed by the ordeal. There is also the fact that Kyon freaking mentions how "Nagato doesn't look right" and asks her "are you okay?" EVERY FREAKIN EPISODE of EE! Seriously, for a guy who can nitpick and whine about the most trivial and superficial of details about the disappearance movie, I am completely dumbfounded by your lack of attention to really basic plot points already established in the series. Quote:
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2010-04-14, 03:55 | Link #142 | |
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The Data Entity wouldn't have to cancel out her powers, it could press her into a controlled reality where it can induce her use of them. Why is this so hard to understand? I'm not saying it's definite that it would or should, but that since it could I don't understand why it has to send Nagato and Asakura and rope Kyon, Koizumi and Mikuru into this whole grand scheme. Do you see what I'm saying? It means there's little reason for this entire absurd SOS-Dan scenario to exist as it does except that I guess now Kyon wants it too. These are the problems you run into when you try to run a metaphysical influenced series and then simplify the heck out of the concept to fit what are pretty much just popular tropes and scenarios. You get a lot of what-ifs, woulds, coulds and questions that ought to be answered before you can start building any attachment to the scenario. It's not even that it's all that complex, it's just a case of mysterious character/plotting syndrome where the appeal/hook is supposed to be in denying the information the viewer would need to sort out the full extent of the series canon. However it's a style of writing and plotting that serves to frustrate more than build attachment when utilized as long as it has been with the franchise (the equivalent of about 35 episodes) while still failing to make any progress in defining why things are the way they are in this universe. It also makes me feel that they haven't really put too much thought into the metaphysical and concepts side of the series and are just using them to be trendy. All turnoffs.... Try and take it this way, a lot of people spend time going over how they are so attached to this series and how much the events and emotions mean to them, I'm basically doing the opposite and going over and trying to explain the reasons why I still haven't been able to build a complete attachment to Haruhi when I know the potential is there. There are still just too few moments of what I would call true breakthrough cleverness and dialogue amidst a lot of otaku pandering fair (what will Haruhi dress Mikuru up in next? Haruhi being brazen about undressing, look at Yuki blush etc.) and Kyonic sarcasm, self-commentary and moping that is just going to result in him doing whatever best helps the SOS-Dan and his friends there anyway. By the way, the Kyonic Sarcasm and moping I felt dominated the tone of this series far to much during it's near 2 and a 3/4 hours. There are entire stretches of this film that, now that I think of it, were just long rambling soliloquy's about how messed up everything is. I kind of like to see less present tense talking and coping and a little more doing and progression if the anime series is going to continue on from here lest the series concepts really start to become stale. |
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2010-04-14, 06:39 | Link #143 | |
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Yuki's role is essentially the translator; a being who is composed of both data and a physical body. To put this in spoiler context related to future books... Spoiler for future books:
Another example I can give is from the Discworld novel series. The major villains in that world, the Auditors, can see absolutely everything. But they can't read human minds, because all they could see is the individual electrons jumping around the brain cells. Seeing is different from understanding.
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2010-04-14, 10:07 | Link #146 |
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People, why talk about spoilers here when there is a spoiler thread? It hurts for people like me who have downloaded the subbed but vowed not to watch it :P
(then again, should i watch it because i cant understand japanese and still haven't read the novels and i might go to japan if my visa is approved?) i still can't believe i might spend $1600 for a three day stay in Tokyo... and i'm already spending $23 just for the visa application. -_- the things you do for your goddess. |
2010-04-14, 13:11 | Link #147 |
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Okay, as you can see, I completed the thread split, and this is now the "Impressions & Review" thread for the movie.
To the point above, everyone please read the opening post for important information about spoilers in this thread. I'll paste it below for the lazy: RULES ABOUT SPOILERS:
For more information, please consult our Spoiler Policy. Please report any violations using the "Report Post" button. (Note: I know that we just moved threads and I'm just clarifying this now, so I'm not going to go back and infract old posts right away. But the bit about no future event spoilers is a global AnimeSuki policy and applies everywhere, so everyone should already have known better on that point. Please be more mindful going forward.)
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2010-04-14, 19:13 | Link #148 | ||
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Alright, I assume you're done thinking. Scientifically speaking, a controlled experiment alone is useless. You need a set of experiments. Yes, that extra "s" makes a world of difference. Experiments are used to test out hypotheses, and thus must be reasonably repeatable, and should best be performed on a closed system. Now, if you look at the series, which set of episodes best fit this description? That's right, Endless Eight. That was the closest thing the DITE had to an experiment, and best of all, the subject had unknowingly imposed it upon herself (another key element of behavioral experiments -- subjects should not know the full methodology/details of the experiment and the expected results). This is the reason why they didn't interfere in E8. On to my next point. The DITE is not a hivemind. There are factions within the DITE that have differing views on how they should tackle the Haruhi phenomenon. Just for example, Asakura's faction is one of the radicals, who think like you and want to meddle and actively experiment on Haruhi. The current ruling faction of the DITE, of which Yuki is part of, prefers to observe (we all know what happens to those who go against the rules, yes?). And there are good reasons for this:
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2010-04-15, 13:08 | Link #150 |
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I rated it a 10 because over the last year I though up probably everything they could do wrong with the novel, and other sort of weirdness that came up during July of 2009. None went wrong. They hit every plot point perfectly. They even made some of the plot points better than the novel. They even kept the questions in place for future material like the novel did.
Then they made it absolutely gorgeous.
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2010-04-15, 14:27 | Link #151 | |||||
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Thus it doesn't look like the Data Entity learned anything, which doesn't bode well for the whole concept of the Data Entity looking for answers to Haruhi and makes that whole aspect of the story look like it'll be nothing more than a complete waste of time and like it will ultimately go nowhere....kind of like the way the franchise itself seems to be looking lately. Also to bad that I still think the span of episodes sucks irredeemably and could have just been dealt with via the explanation by Nagato that they had been in a recurring time loop for some time and then have been done with it.....kind of like how it was done in the novels. Figures though, the one time Kyoani decides not to follow the novels to the letter it ends in disaster. That said there is and always will still be the novel version for reference. Quote:
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Also I don't mind Words Words Words franchises at all. I've watched 3 times as much overall LOGH content as I have Haruhi content and some of the episodes are almost entirely dialogue driven and reflective from start to end. However those episodes serve to develop (actually develop) more than one character and aren't just 75% one character complaining about their situation the way we've heard Kyon do many times before. If I wanted to hear 30+ straight minutes of that I'd listen to my mother when she talks more often. Plus with shows like LOGH that do the WWW thing each episode brings something new to the table to ponder and is ultimately part of a means to an end within a given arc and even overall since things that change tend to change permanently. Haruhi has a habit of ending with a reset to the status quo at the end of each arc without much being learned by the characters or much changing about the characters and their personalities. Then again maybe I'm just too much like Asakura. Not willing to accept all of the cards that the franchise deals me just because the majority has decided it's perfect just the way it is and should keep to the status quo. |
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2010-04-16, 01:10 | Link #153 | ||||||
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A group mind or group ego in science fiction is a single consciousness occupying many bodies. Its use in literature goes back at least as far as Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men, a 1930 science fiction novel. A group mind might be formed by telepathy, by adding brain-to-brain communication to ordinary individuals, or by some unspecified means. This term may be used interchangeably with "hive mind". A hive mind is a group mind with almost complete loss (or lack) of individual identity; most fictional group minds are hives.Yuki is not representative of the whole DITE. She is an interface, with her own individual (though temporary) identity, created by and answering to the current ruling faction of the DITE (which happens to be passive). What Yuki observes isn't automatically uploaded to the DITE. She stores them, sorts them, and only uploads important/significant data. The point is, either she 1) held back some information from the DITE due to influence from her accumulated errors, or 2) the DITE didn't consider the ability to proxy her powers to be useful (they need to be able to at least develop it themselves). Quote:
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This is what people who don't pay attention think. Look at the book Kyon took the bookmark from in the movie. He immediately noticed it since it's the same one that Yuki gave to Kyon in Ep02 (2009), which contained the bookmark that told him to meet up at the park. The escape program was supposed to be as discrete as possible in order for Yuki to be able to set it up in the first place. Remember, anything remotely indiscreet that she left behind would end up being reverted. This also applies to the world as a whole. Taniguchi's cold, Koizumi and Haruhi in Kyouyen. Everything was set up by Yuki to make triggering the program possible yet still incredibly hard. Quote:
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2010-04-16, 08:16 | Link #154 |
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Not to mention Code Geass' 52, which Kaioshin seemed to enjoy the whole time. I can understand him getting weary of Haruhi when that 32 episodes worth of animation is spread across four years, but 32 episodes in itself isn't very much at all. I personally enjoy long series and sometimes get tired of this "Let's make every show ever a brief one-cour affair" shit that seems to be the dominant trend in anime these days.
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2010-04-16, 14:20 | Link #155 |
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It's not really length in itself. It is perhaps that one finds that when something isn't progressing over a certain amount of episodes, that it can become unbearable. So a 52 episode series which keeps moving may just be more watchable than a series that a series that doesn't seem to be going anywhere in 32. Perhaps one can feel that the "content per episode" is just too low for it to go along so much. This is of course subjective, but it's understandable.
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2010-04-16, 14:35 | Link #156 |
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The hard part about progression in Haruhi is that the first season jumped all over the place in 2006. You miss the progression at first because you aren't sure what is happening. In 2009 you can see the progression with everying in order and a few blanks filled in. By the time the movie ends...there has been progression. It might not be earth shattering (though again it might be), but it is there.
While Haruhi is the title character....Kyon is the main character. And while it might seem like he's not progressed, he has. He went from someone who was sort of depressed that the things he believe in as a child weren't real and he had to give them up to grow up, to being interested in this weird girl that believed in the things he use to like, to being pulled around by said girl and subject to her will, to finding out those things he use to believe in are, in some ways real, to denial, cynical, and snarky about the whole thing. To why me, to anger over the situation, to general acceptance of his fate, to "Do you want to be normal?" to "Hell no, I like things to be weird and crazy"...which is where he stands now. Also his view of Haruhi has changed...but then his view on all the club members has changed. It is telling how he treats Haruhi's punishment at the end compared to at the beginning of the film. Also his view of Yuki. That's a harder one to pin down. You can see more or less what he's thinking...but yet...there are a lot of images that suggest regret or perhaps dual meaning. That relationship...such as it is...also seems to progress. Mikuru seems to be a constant however. At least for now.
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2010-04-16, 14:43 | Link #157 | |
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For some it is. But for those that don't nearly appreciate the characters as much and would like answers on the actual plot and setting it might not be; for a non fan the movie is gonna fall out of their area of expectations. Each to their own. I found Kaioshin Sama's review to be pretty amusing, even if I don't agree with some of it. It was more thoughtful and honest and actually tried to explain itself. Heck, my reviews contain more sarcasm, though I guess it's the playful kind. Everyone seems to be enjoying the movie to some degree or another, and I'll watch it in a theater in a month. I will enjoy it regardless. So all is well.
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2010-04-17, 02:36 | Link #158 |
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Other stories this reminds me of...
The main themes here remind me of a few other stories, which I'll mention/recommend as "related reading" . Full spoilers ahead:
Asimov's short story "All the Problems of the World", in the collection Nine Tomorrows Spoiler for All the Problems spoiler:
Asimov's Foundation series Spoiler for last chronological Foundation book:
Old (pseudo?)-anime Mighty Orbots Spoiler for episode "The Wish World":
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2010-04-17, 04:24 | Link #159 | |
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Also, Endless 8's relevance to Yuki: Kyon did refer to the thousands of repeats over summer during this movie, and again to the long amount of time Ice Block mentioned. In E8 itself, Kyon notices Nagato looking bored/out of sorts, which is the first mention in the series I believe of Nagato expressing any real sort of 'mood'. During E8 it's made known that Nagato is the only character who's aware of the length of time that has passed, and is conscious of every iteration. The rest, I think, is somewhat implied. Kyon believes that E8, other events in the story, and "other work" Nagato is probably doing behind the scenes (Koizumi also mentions a lot of stuff happeing behind the scenes) not only created stress for Nagato, but also led to her developing emotions as a way of responding to and dealing with her circumstances and her new friends, which she didn't fully understand how to deal with. In the end of the movie Kyon asks why Nagato wasn't made to be more sociable and upbeat since Asakura was, as if maybe Asakura was more emotionally developed. It seems to me that Asakura was about the same as Nagato in that regard, just with a different focus. She was happy and cheerful -not to mention devoted- all the time, rather than 'gloomy' like Nagato, to the point where she made stabbing Kyon repeatedly kind of cute and... tender? This movie/book was definitely a turning point for both Kyon and Nagato. It's the third long narrative in the series, so as for the pace of the character development we're not doing to badly. I agree it's just the non-linear timeline and long production delays of the series that have slowed the pace. Back to my original point, the Haruhi fanbase seems willing to work with these delays and eccentricities (E8) and have stayed very loyal. Noizi Ito's panel was well received at Sakura con (she's absolutely adorable by the way) and there was a lot of support for Haruhi there. Anyway, one of my favourite aspects of this series is that it makes the fans ask a lot of questions. It's a smart show, and Tanigawa leaves a lot to interpretation and deduction. Ardee, I really need to read more Asimov. Another comparison that stood out for me was with Star Trek TNG. Nagato's evolution as a character and desire to be human reminds me a lot of Data's progression as a character, especially in how his friends come to appreciate him as a person. Last edited by Airman8; 2010-04-17 at 04:27. Reason: more blabbing |
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2010-04-18, 03:09 | Link #160 |
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THIS MOVIE WAS ABSOLUTELY PERFECT!!
I've read the fourth novel over a dozen of times... I can tell. This movie had absolutely no flaws! And it managed to impress and amuse me to no end, despite already knowing how it would... ... I... have no words for this... Only... I'm so happy for having seen it... so happy... |
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