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Watching Haruhi for the first time and just finished this arc, I thought it was fantastic. I just got more and more hype for the concept as it went along. Your thoughts, everyone?
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Mar 11, 2019 02:44
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Endless eight owns and all the naysayers can get OUTTA HERE
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Mar 11, 2019 03:06
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i watched it while i was v comfy and drunk. i don't know how people do it otherwise.
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Mar 11, 2019 03:06
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littleorv posted:Endless eight owns and all the naysayers can get OUTTA HERE Make me.
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Mar 11, 2019 03:11
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They call it Endless Eight because eight to life is long the people at KyoAni should get in prison for making this travesty of animation.
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Mar 11, 2019 03:13
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Off the subject but are the Haruhi novels still going in Japan? I know there hasn't been much in the way of the anime version since the Disappearance movie a while back.
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Mar 11, 2019 03:14
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Endless Eight is a unique and vaguely surreal experience. I have no idea whether or not I would recommend it to anyone but I'm sort of glad I watched it for reasons that I can't explain.
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Mar 11, 2019 03:23
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I only made it to episode 3. You guys who tortured yourself with all eight confuse me greatly.
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Mar 11, 2019 03:29
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I thought Endless Eight was a FYAD thing? They have all those sigs with the characters from that Adam Sandler Christmas cartoon.
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Mar 11, 2019 03:32
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Ah yes, Endless Eight. How can I forget? "Kyon, your phone"  I... I'm fine. Really.
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Mar 11, 2019 07:42
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Super Jay Mann posted:I only made it to episode 3. I knew what was coming and was determined to watch the whole thing and I also only got to episode 3 before burning out on the whole show. Honestly the worst decision I've seen in television. I can only imagine what it was like when it was airing.
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Mar 11, 2019 08:25
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Nephthys posted:I knew what was coming and was determined to watch the whole thing and I also only got to episode 3 before burning out on the whole show. The slow realisation that,yes, they are doing it for eight episodes was excellent
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Mar 11, 2019 09:11
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Larryb posted:Off the subject but are the Haruhi novels still going in Japan? I know there hasn't been much in the way of the anime version since the Disappearance movie a while back. my take on endless eight: I don't think it's an especially good watch but I admire KyoAni for doing something so experimental.
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Mar 11, 2019 12:46
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Has anyone tried a Zaireeka-esque approach with Endless Eight?
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Mar 11, 2019 12:49
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The shot following the second hand of the clock for a full minute was awesome, IMO.
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Mar 11, 2019 12:57
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How long would it take, minimum, to watch all episodes of Endless Eight in all possible consecutive orders, such that some of these orders are allowed to overlap?
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Mar 11, 2019 14:10
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The math has been solved but I don't get why you'd do that they are clearly meant to be in the order they're in.
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Mar 11, 2019 14:25
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Kyon-kun, denwa
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Mar 11, 2019 14:36
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Last year I rewatched all of Haruhi, including all of the Endless Eight. Watching it the first time was a much different experience, since then I was watching it as it came out, so with each one you didn't know that this episode really was going to do it again. At least the first time through I really empathized with Yuki having to relive it all again and being aware of it each time. On the rewatch, only knowing that the movie was ahead of me, kept me going through the Endless Eight. I don't think I'll ever rewatch all of them again.
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Mar 11, 2019 15:29
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It's cool how Yuki's in a different spot in the pool scene each time. She's already seen it all but she's still going to observe to the best of her ability from every available perspective. Will admit I'm curious what they did those two times they didn't go to a Bon festival.
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Mar 11, 2019 16:06
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Watching Endless Eight for the first time was like running a marathon through a hot desert, but the payoff when Kyon fixes the poo poo was like diving into a pool of ice water and chugging ten cold beers after said marathon. It wouldn't have felt anywhere close to that good if it was just the finale of a single episode, if we had not suffered and strived to reach this one point, but was that glorious cathartic moment actually worth the agony of the journey? Was Endless Eight a triumph, or just audience torture? Were there any time loops where Nagato just loving kills everyone? We may never know the answers to these fundamental questions. In short, littleorv posted:Kyon-kun, denwa
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Mar 11, 2019 17:00
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littleorv posted:Kyon-kun, denwa
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Mar 11, 2019 17:08
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P-Mack posted:
Mentat Radnor posted:Were there any time loops where Nagato just loving kills everyone? I think we've cracked this one.
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Mar 11, 2019 17:22
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P-Mack posted:The math has been solved but I don't get why you'd do that they are clearly meant to be in the order they're in. Because why not?
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Mar 11, 2019 17:37
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Xelkelvos posted:Because why not? The Hui people of Gansu have an annual ceremony where they commemorate the attempted genocide of their community under the Qing. They gather at the mosque and read every single chapter of the Quran- simultaneously.
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Mar 11, 2019 17:47
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littleorv posted:Kyon-kun, denwa
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Mar 11, 2019 19:12
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I'm down with the EE
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Mar 11, 2019 19:14
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Endless Eight is one of those ideas that is genius to read about others experiencing but is actually garbage as an actual work. I don't know anyone who didn't quit around halfway through the 3rd loop once they realized what was happening.
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Mar 11, 2019 19:19
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Goon walks into a cathedral, stares up at the stained glass windows: "The Crucifixion? I've already seen that story two or three times already. Pass."
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Mar 11, 2019 19:30
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I call it the Epic eight.
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Mar 11, 2019 19:35
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It's amazingly that it exists but in retrospect I wouldn't mind them animating the rest of the series instead of stopping on the biggest troll ever created.
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Mar 11, 2019 20:24
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Speaking of which, has there been anything from the light novels that still hasn't appeared in animated form yet? As for EE, I appreciate what they were trying to do but I also think they could have accomplished the same result without wasting 8 whole episodes on it. Also, was that particular arc even from the novels?
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Mar 11, 2019 20:35
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Endless Eight was amazing and I appreciated the amazing troll that it was. That said, I was super excited for 14 new episodes of Haruhi, and got essentially 7. Once they did it past 4 episodes, I started wanting them to go all the way to 8 endless eight just because the meltdowns on 4chan were so amazing.
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Mar 11, 2019 20:45
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Larryb posted:Speaking of which, has there been anything from the light novels that still hasn't appeared in animated form yet? The story is in the books but we only ever see the final loop. It's just, "Hey Kyon stop summer vacation from repeating", "okay", the end.
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Mar 11, 2019 20:45
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Count me in the 'got bored after 3 episodes' camp
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Mar 11, 2019 20:52
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I was nervous after the plot of the second episode diverged from the first, then extremely hyped when the third was identical to the second. What if we'd gotten eight episodes of Kyon exchanging a heater?
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Mar 11, 2019 20:55
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galagazombie posted:The story is in the books but we only ever see the final loop. It's just, "Hey Kyon stop summer vacation from repeating", "okay", the end. All the more reason why we didn't need a full 8 episodes, just do maybe two or three episodes to establish they're stuck in a time loop and then jump straight to the final one after that. Also considering they only had 14 episodes to work with wasting over half that amount on an elaborate troll seems kind of stupid to me. Off topic, it's been a while since I saw it but how well did the movie work as a series finale?
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Mar 11, 2019 21:47
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It’s a fantastic movie but it doesn’t wrap everything up since it leaves some plot threads hanging
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Mar 11, 2019 22:14
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I didn't mind watching through Endless Eight live, because it was kind of interesting and the payoff at the end was worth it at the time. Looking back now, I kind of wish they hadn't done it that way since I think it played a major role in killing the whole franchise.
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Mar 11, 2019 22:41
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Regardless I'd still like to see more Haruhi one day but as mentioned a few posts above, the original author hasn't really done anything with it since 2011 so it's probably not likely at this point (then again, the Slayers novels started back up again recently so I suppose anything's possible). Also, they never told us what Kyon's real name was did they?
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Mar 11, 2019 22:47
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