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Endless Eight...seems to be designed to fulfill a contractual obligation to fill a 14 episode slot to balance out the existing 14 when the show was reaired in 2009. They had I suppose originally plans to run Disappearance as part of that 14 episode segment, but as the project continued they realized they needed more space for it, and a larger budget, and probably figured out they could do the most anticipated part of Haruhi better as a movie than anything they could do on TV.
But they still need to fill out the rest of the 14 episodes without going beyond Disappearance, since it is the real game changing story. Thus Endless Eight repeated...as it is the only story that can logically be repeated.
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