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| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Tales of X vs. Zero Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 08/22/18 2:05:19 AM #241: | Since I have a greater familiarity and I've never really talked about the series in-depth before (and also to celebrate its victory), I'm going to do some running commentary as I re-watch the series. I might watch the Nagato spinoff, too, while I'm at it. Episode 1 (Melancholy I) I also like the way the anime portrays Kyon's perspective in the opening scene here. The show is dull and colorless right up until he sees Haruhi for the first time, and then the show bursts into vivid color. There are a lot of hints just in this first episode that all of Kyon's protests about Haruhi and the S.O.S. Brigade are just for show. He claims not to be interested in her at all, but throughout the episode, he's very clearly watching everything she's doing. Kyon can't really figure out how he got Haruhi to open up to him, but the reason is really that he's just being himself. He basically treats everyone the same. It's part of the reason all the members of the S.O.S. Brigade feel comfortable around him. None of them are normal, but he treats them as normal people and they appreciate that about him, even Haruhi. As much as Haruhi says she wants to live a supernatural life (partly because deep down, she thinks she never will), she doesn't want to be treated like a weirdo or a freak. So when Kyon talks to her about her eccentricities like it's a totally normal thing (and that he makes an attempt to understand her rationale, even if her logic is absurd) and like he's actually interested in her as a person (as opposed to everyone else who feels too intimidated to approach her or talk to her normally), that's what gets her interested in him, too. Ironically, it's Kyon treating her as normal instead of "special" that kickstarts everything in the series. Kyon and Haruhi have this Mulder & Scully relationship, but it's not until later in the series that you discover that the person you think is Mulder is actually Scully, and vice-versa. Taniguchi's comment about Ryoko Asakura ("On top of being beautiful, I bet her personality is wonderful") is hilarious on so many levels. It's interesting that Kyon talks so much about how he hates being called "Kyon," but we still don't know what his real name is, implying that he doesn't hate it as much as he claims. Even in Disappearance when he meets alternate Haruhi, he clearly must have introduced himself to her as "Kyon" since she talks about what a dumb nickname it is, but she couldn't have known about it unless he told her. I've heard people speculate that Kyon's name is really John Smith since it would fit in the alphabetical order in which the class is introduced in the first episode (meaning his last name is close alphabetically to Haruhi Suzumiya and Taniguchi), but when Haruhi calls him "John Smith" in the movie, Nagato has no idea who she means, so that can't be it. I've heard people speculate that his name is Nagaru Tanigawa (the dude who wrote the books), but we may never know! It's also interesting that we never see Nagato talk about Kyon to somebody else because she'd use his full name instead of his nickname. He's always just "You" to her, even in the Nagato spinoff. As a side effect of reading all the books, I tend to call everyone here what Kyon calls them, which is why I call her "Nagato" instead of "Yuki" or whatever. The whole "dragging Kyon around by the tie" thing is exclusive to the anime. She doesn't do it in the books. Oh hey, I can understand what Nagato means when she describes Hyperion as "unique" now! --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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