Much Ado About Everything

Ah, this is more like it! This episode was way better than the last one, and I actually laughed a few times. I don’t know the reason for shuffling the episodes around – I really can’t see a good one – except that perhaps they are trying to mix bad episodes (like last) with good ones (like this one) in order to keep the ratings consistently up. No clue.

But the story actually makes sense. You can think of many possible explanations for Kyon / Haruhi situation, and it’s not all that novel, though it is uncommon. One thing that strikes me as common in all scenarios I can think of is that the only person she doesn’t have a power over and cannot control is Kyon – and therefore she’s falling for him. As to why is he in her “alternate universe” or dream or whatever it is, it could be a simple thing such as that she might have fallen for Kyon 3 years ago which was, say, unrequitted and caused her power to manifest itself through creation of an alternate universe, or a dream, where everything is her imagination except Kyon who she pulled in. Of course, this created a big disturbance in the original universe, yada yada. And of course unless there’s a “happy resolution”, it’s going to crash and burn. In this scenario even the show’s title “Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya” fits, because the whole dream world is exactly that.

Kyon is really funny though, not a boilerplate character at all. Really boring people have no funny lines, but his reaction to stuff happening to him is golden.