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Originally Posted by ultimatemegax

It's the ability of animation/live action to visually show it to you (enhanced as well) instead of you having to picture in your mind. While reading you, and I did the same as well, likely said "oh Kyon's getting stabbed by Asakura, where did that come from?" instead of thinking "Wow! He just got stabbed!" Visually it is an impressive scene and likely one that they focused on to get correctly adapted.

Yup, have to agree there. I believe watching/reading it for the first time, everyone's reaction was "WTF?! Where the hell did that come from?"
Have to say... that girl is SCAAAAARY.

Originally Posted by ultimatemegax

The beauty of that explanation is that any plot holes that could come up are solved simply by that person.

There's one big question if we continue down that line of thinking:

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Which Yuki is it now that went to see Kyon and went to the rest of the activities between the events of December 18th-January 2nd? Could we be seeing the Yuki from the future while the other takes her punishment?

I would assume:

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It was the newly reverted Nagato who visited Kyon at the hospital (he even said so in vol.7) and went through Lover; Snow Mountain Syndrome; Where did the cat go?; etc and all the events up to January 2nd, when she went back with Kyon and Mikuru-chan. Only then did future Nagato come out in the open again, AFTER the three have gone. A few minutes later, only Kyon and Mikuru-chan come back. This "future" Nagato who just stepped in IS the one that just disappeared (just with an extra 2 weeks on top of her age), therefore she replaces her, gets back on track and and carries on her life with the gang. Its still the 'same' Kyon and Mikuru-chan she's reuniting with, she just took the long way to get back, whereas them two time-travelled to come back. The Nagato that just disappeared will basically go through all that 'hiding behind the scenes' phase as well and eventually "become" the future Nagato who just stepped in, thus creating a loop.
This just means that she'll age an extra 2 weeks. Thats only a little more than Mikuru-chan aging an extra one week in vol.7, and its NOTHING compared to what she went through in Endless Eight.

EDIT: I just read that part of vol.7 again and I realised it CAN be interpreted that Nagato did just go back with them. If this is the case, then it means that its the newly reverted Nagato who applied the changes like 'Kyon fell down the stairs' and everything else. But the theory that she stayed behind seems to make more sense for me.

Originally Posted by ultimatemegax

They left out my favorite Koizumi/Kyon dialogue!
"So am I just paying for Suzumiya-san only?"

If you're paying for me as well, I'll tell you even more.

"Then, I'm all ears,"

Haha, that reminds me. They also left out the part where:

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they get out of the taxi, Koizumi pays the fare and Kyon says "I get it, in this world this guy is basically Haruhi's walking wallet"

Dammit, I actually found this comment really funny as well.

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

Besides, Intrigues is considerably less... cinematic, shall we say?

Thats true. Besides the car chase, I don't think there is much to add in the cinematics/effects sense. But then this is KyoAni, they're pretty good at bringing out surprises when you don't expect it.

Originally Posted by Skane

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I don't recall her tormenting Kyon with that hilt-bash though. Was that in the novel too?

I don't recall that extra detail in the novel either, but man... that extra smack had me cringing, I felt a shiver go down my back in fact.