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| LeonhartFour 08/22/18 2:39:15 AM #242: | Episode 2 (Melancholy II) My personal theory about Asahina (I doubt I'm the first to come up with it, but I haven't really discussed the series with many people or visited fansites or whatever): She's actually much younger than she claims to be. Nobody believes she's a senior when they meet her. She also gets along especially well with Kyon's little sister, far better than anyone else in the S.O.S. Brigade, even Kyon himself (although he shows evidence of doting on her quite a bit despite what he verbalizes about her). That would suggest that Asahina might have been given implants to make her look older (and more attractive, obviously). The stuff Asahina has to endure throughout the series is often played up for laughs, but honestly, she gets treated like crap by Haruhi and by her superiors, including her future self. The one time it gets played seriously is in book 7 (Intrigues), and they pull it off really well, to boot. Book 7 is one of the big reasons I want a season 3. Episode 2 is probably my least favorite one in the show because this whole bit about Haruhi blackmailing the Computer Club President with fake sexual harassment pictures is just so bad. In the book, it's even worse because Haruhi informs Kyon about the plan before they even go over to the Computer Club (instead of him being just as shocked as everyone else) and he just goes along with it. He's even the one who takes the pictures instead of Haruhi. Kyon blindly and apathetically goes along with everything she says early in the series and never does anything to stop her (despite his complaints and even a promise to protect Asahina, he just lets Haruhi drag her along in the bunny girl outfit later on in the episode), but I guess it makes his growth later on more pronounced as a result or something. It's still bad though. It's also unfortunate something like this happens so early in the show because I'm always afraid it'll turn people off to it due to how bad it is. I have to try to convince them that this is the worst the show gets and it only gets better from here, but I'm not always successful. Ed Bellis, for instance, couldn't handle the show beyond this point. The show is generally pretty faithful to the books, but they do make some minor deviations. In the books, Koizumi isn't introduced until after Nagato and Asahina have revealed their true natures to him. In the show, Koizumi is introduced between Nagato's and Asahina's reveals, presumably just so they can have all the reveals happen in a single episode in succession to make things smoother. I love the gag here at the end where Nagato keeps filling up Kyon's cup with tea every time he finishes it off, but he's too polite to tell her to stop or just not drink it. It's a good introduction to the fact that Nagato doesn't really understand human behavior all that well at the moment (as well as the fact that her apartment is practically empty with bare minimum furnishings). It's weird that the English dub refers to Nagato's creators as the "Data Integration Thought Entity." Not sure what the sub calls it, but it's just the "Data Overmind" in the books. There's a lot of really good potential with this thing. The books beyond the anime have explored it a bit more, but the whole concept and what they've revealed of it is pretty interesting. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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