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| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Tales of X vs. Zero Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 09/03/18 9:21:25 PM #451: | The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya I like how Haruhi nearly pulls a Metal Gear Solid with her "Kept you waiting, didn't I?" line. I like the progression of the opening credits from Haruhi and Kyon fighting over the heater to eventually Kyon desperately trying to get heat from the discharge from the computer. Poor guy. Haruhi writes so big that she can't even fit her SOS BRIGADE CHRISTMAS PARTY all in one line and has to put the last couple of characters on the next line. Kyon doesn't snark about that, for some reason, but he does snark about how Haruhi's "Merry X-Mas" writing on the window would look backward from the outside (fittingly enough, Nagato herself corrects this and writes it the other way when they have a Christmas party in the spinoff). Once again, Kyon shuts down a conversation that he doesn't want to have when Koizumi talks about how Haruhi's mental state has become more stable since she met him. The funny thing is that the girl Taniguchi has a date with in the movie ends up being an important character in the later books. Too bad anime viewers never get to meet her because she's...something else. It would certainly be interesting to see how they would animate her. I like the subversion of it looking like Kyon's about to nail a powerful kick on the soccer ball, only for him to miss entirely. They did the same gag during the baseball game in Boredom. Nagato's still wearing the Santa hat that Haruhi put on her head the day before. It's another instance of her enjoying to wear something different even though by default she wears her school uniform all the time, even when she's not at school. She keeps staring at that snowflake decoration, too. Kyon lampshades how long the prologue to Disappearance is, but the prologue to Intrigues (Book 7) is longer than that, and the prologue to Dissociation (Book 9) is even longer than that. In overwriting the timeline, Nagato gives an illness to everyone who went to middle school with Haruhi and would thus know who she is. Some people theorize that she tried to get everyone out of the way so that Kyon wouldn't be able to find Haruhi (out of love and jealousy and all that), but my theory is that Nagato didn't want Kyon to stumble into the solution by accident. If he really wanted the old world back (despite how much he complained about it), he was going to have to earn it. It's interesting that Nagato allows Asakura to exist in this timeline despite their differences. Kyon believes it could be a malfunction or a mistake, but perhaps there was a part of Nagato that wished they could get along and be friends. Her Tanabata wishes were for reformation and harmony/unity, after all. Man, Disappearance's OST is so good. The song when Kyon realizes Haruhi has disappeared is great. I love how the "Something only they could know" trope totally backfires on Kyon when it usually works everywhere else in fiction. I mean, it's totally understandable why it did, but it's still pretty brilliant. It's also interesting that we see a brief flash of Asahina getting angry and punching him in the face (albeit not very hard). It's the only time we ever see her truly get angry, perhaps because she doesn't have to keep up her appearances as a time traveler. "Actually, this is the first time I've ever spoken to you." She's totally correct here because she doesn't say they've never met. She simply says she hadn't spoken to him before now because he did all the talking in the library. It's kind of amazing how human Nagato is better at being moe than the supposed epitome of moe. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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