(Endless Eight, Part fucking Seven)
So yeah, I had initially hoped during the first couple episodes that there'd be some kind of build up, something like Kyon becoming more and more aware of the loop he's in, that maybe he slowly regains memories from past loops and that he eventually overcomes the memory resetting. While maybe that's KIND OF the case, it still really isn't. It has really just been a re-skin of the same episode, 6 or 7 times (first one is the most unique in that it DOESN'T have the scene of them all discussing and realizing they're in a loop after Mikuru calls Kyon). I had hoped that there'd be a little more rhyme or reason to making us watch a remake of the same episode over and over, rather than "yeah let's just fuck with our audience for 8 episodes". Maybe there truly was a purpose to it all- maybe that will be seen with the last episode. Or maybe I just wasted nearly 3 hours of my time. Well at least the effectiveness of the feeling of being RELEASED from this will certainly be strong.
Not angry, just mildly upset- I was actually surprised at how much I was enjoying the arc I thought I'd hate. But sometime during the last episode, part 6, I finally started getting the sense of "wtf am I doing". And now here after episode 7, I am falling in line with most everyone else with agreeing how stupid this has been getting. I mean it's already a stupid (or IS IT??) concept, but after this episode I realized that if this had gone on for ONE MORE EPISODE, I'd have no qualms of dropping my final score all the way down to a 1/10. And I probably wouldn't change my mind no matter how impressive the effort KyotoAni put into re-animated every scene numerous times. Enough negativity though, I do have some praise, like how I love how they make that pivotal moment of Haruhi leaving the restaurant at the end of each episode feel more harrowing and gut-wrenching than the last. Although the best one still is the one where they add the ticking clock with the synced rotating shot at the end. #5, was it?
Anyway, these are all preliminary thoughts. Maybe the next and FINAL episode of the endless eight will change my thoughts; maybe what it will deliver will have made this all worth it. Otherwise, I'm awarding myself for getting through this shit. I'll probably become one of those who puts "I ACTUALLY WATCHED AND CONQUERED THE ENTIRE ENDLESS EIGHT" on their profile. But again, if the final episode somehow delivers and makes this all worth it, giving myself credit would be undeserved. Fingers crossed that we didn't come all this way for nothing. Now onto the last of the endless eight.
I'll tell you what though. Each of the remaining episodes of this series after this is gonna feel FUCKING AMAZING, PARDON MY FUCKING FRENCH
edit: I love how it seems most here in these threads have been watching in the broadcast order (since that's how MAL lists it out on each of the season entries, makes sense, even though most streaming sites again, organize it chronologically), and are already losing their minds even though this for them would just be the THIRD endless eight episode. Dudes already skipping through the episodes. Which is, entirely understandable, but also... WEAK!!!! And I have the right to say that because I made it through it all. Not even gonna count the last one because, that doesn't really count as a repeat does it? Things actually HAPPEN in the last one.... RIGHT??? Anyway, also noticed there's one dude above stating he's watching in the chronological order, but also that this is the 3rd endless eight episode. No buddy, you're watching in the broadcast order. If you were watching chronologically, you'd have put 4 of the episodes from "season 1" to the end of "season 2", which would make this the 7th endless eight episode, not the 3rd. Or..... maybe he/she/they/it is actually going through the effort of aligning each episode they're watching with the respective title thread here on MAL. In that case, yeah I probably should've done that as well. I wonder if this would count as spoilers since I'm discussing an episode that's 4 episodes away. Heh, imagine getting spoiled for what is the same episode. Ok sorry I'll go now, and get some much needed sleep, and will award myself with the final episode of the endless eight tomorrow.
Also yeah sorry for the confusion, but ever since MAL added the feature that brings you directly to the episode discussion thread after you add another completed episode to a series, it's just been way easier to do that than to manually go to the list, find the right title respective to the episode that I watched, and then post on the thread. My bad. Maybe this confusing mess that is haruhi suzumiya is starting to rub off on me. |