2011-01-09, 08:44 | Link #3081 |
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I was watching on Retro-TV this weekend a once uber-popular TV show that gave me an idea of one sneaky way how Haruhi's writer could wrap up the series without contradicting any physical laws or skewed time-lines or flawed story logic laced throughout the show. This top-rated iconic TV show managed to literally and credibly wipe out an ENTIRE season like all the intrigue and drama in it never happened without losing fans! Does anyone here recall "Dallas"?? For me, the real teaser that the writer could use to keep us watching after cleverly hinting such for a few chapters would be the question, is it Kyon or Haruhi??
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2011-01-09, 09:36 | Link #3082 | |
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2011-01-09, 19:28 | Link #3083 | |
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2011-01-10, 00:05 | Link #3086 | |
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2011-01-10, 03:40 | Link #3087 |
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I knew someone was bound to pick my joke apart lol
I just wanted to make a jestful parallel between the end cover-up stories for both Melancholy and Disappearance with typical "it was all a dream" type scenario's, where everything conviently reverts back to their original status quo or where ground-breaking events are rendered rather moot. In Melancholy: What? You saw the world in the process of being recreated? Nah man, it was all just a dream. I mean we still here ain't we? In Disappearance: What? You saw and lived in a different world to ours for a few days? Nah man, you just bumped your head and fell down some stairs, you were probably dreaming it all up in your coma.
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2011-01-17, 12:20 | Link #3088 | |
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But I get your joke. Shit, Kyon dreaming within his dreams? Reminds me of a certain movie out there... |
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2011-01-17, 13:46 | Link #3089 |
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I can't rattle them off, but there are animes that falter and fall under the weight of their own contradictions and Swiss cheese logic and cascade of detached events which really continue on under the momentum of more zealot fans, as I believe is occuring with Haruhi, even long before "Endless Eight". I think when writers leave it up to their readers to tie up loose ends and make rational sense of a sly unthought-out potboiler, it's time to review just where this roller coaster is going. Hit writers DO get lazy and take nondiscriminating readers for granted to swallow whatever thoughtless crap they shovel them to milk all from a cash cow as they could. I'm sure we all know favorite TV shows that just should've wrapped up and ended with their heads and drama high ("Babylon 5)" than continue into a pathetic senseless lame shadow of their former selves (orig Star Trek and Galactica). Long ago I doubted Haruhi was any "God" since she presented notions that contradicted her own existance and then this crowd of hyper-beings marching in and bewildering "reasonings" to excuse senseless situations and truely non-functional characters. To me, it's the sign of writers running out of credible (not necessarily plausible) story ideas throwing nonsense against the wall and hoping it sticks. I think one satisfying ending to the series' present bemusing confusion state is a "dream-bridge" scenario where all this action is actually occuring in a shared dream of Haruhi and Kyon. I believe Kyon is at very least the "generator" (or the clueless God) of such a dream because to my knowledge there's never been a scene where Haruhi or other characters are operating without his presence or observation. It would be a clever romance gimmick if this gimmick were a way for Kyon to eventually meet an unmet Haruhi "in the flesh" and still be as familiar with another asthough they were always together when it's all over (hope I'm stating this right). Of course all IMHO.
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2011-01-17, 20:10 | Link #3090 | |
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And Haruhi isn't technically a God; even Yuki and Mikuru have different views on what she is. Haruhi is just a being with reality changing powers, its up to you what you want to call her. Furthermore, this is science fiction, its as un-grounded from reality as it gets. I like that extremely cheesy ending of yours, but unless Kyoani decides to throw a curveball I can't see that happening |
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2011-01-17, 21:56 | Link #3091 | |
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2011-01-18, 08:06 | Link #3094 |
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I imagine you'd get things like Anti-SOS Brigades. Or maybe he'd try to get away with using the same story twice in the same book, only with slightly altered plots?
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2011-01-18, 10:38 | Link #3096 | |
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2011-01-19, 01:02 | Link #3100 |
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Well, we've got an alien, an esper, a time traveler, and a girl who some think is God who generates closed space. Their opposition? Surely it's something brilliant and original?
Oh. It's an alien, an esper, a time traveler, and a girl who some think is God who generates closed space. Wonderful. Good to see he's keeping it fresh. As for the other one, I would say it's pretty obvious that you're running out of ideas if the only way you can fill up a book is by using a single story twice. "Sure, but this is a new way of doing things! It's innovative!" you say. Perhaps I'd buy that if it didn't take the author FOUR YEARS to write a conclusion. 2003 - 3 books 2004 - 2 books 2005 - 2 books 2006 - 1 book 2007 - 1 book 2008 - 0 books 2009 - 0 books 2010 - 0 books See a pattern?
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