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Originally Posted by Kaioshin_Sama

Anyway back to discussion, I can't help but feel each episode of the series is just too compressed down when converted from novel to anime. I got that feeling the most with episode 11 which led me to be disappointed with what I saw as Kyoto Animation taking the Fan Service route with Day of Sagitarius and showing the characters doing a whole bunch of parodies of classic sci-fi epics instead of focusing on the plot. There were a lot of aspects of the original chapter such as Yuki's dillema in not cheating and Haruhi's show of mercy towards the Computer club president that were barely glazed over in the anime.

Spoiler for maybe slight novel spoiler:

My only gripe of the series is that some side stories used in the show as "fillers" are not strong enough in novel. For example Mystic Sign, Lone Island Syndrome and The Day of Sagittarius. Instead of those, if they could have done for example Snow Mountain Syndrome or Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody I would be extremly happy. However, I am not saying that those episode are bad, KyoAni still did an excellent job on them to make them really interesting episodes. It's just those side story didn't move on the plot much in the novel so KyoAni can't do much with them.
So in essence, I think that it's not KyoAni's fault for not moving on the plot in those episodes. It's just those episode are side stories and don't move on the plot much compare to the ones left which hopefully will be animated in 2nd season. Let's just hope for the 2nd season.