Today I heard that the Haruhi "Endless Eight" series of episodes is, er, ending.
Let me explain. It turns out that Kyoto Animation, having gone mad with power, decided to broadcast eight almost identical episodes, looping the same events with only minor changes. This in a normal, once-a-week first-run TV series. Incredible.
And yet, somehow marvelous. From where I sit, it looks like Kyoto Animation realized they were in a position where they could do whatever they wanted, and they decided to produce something that would ordinarily be impossible -- a thing that has no right to exist. It's cost them huge amounts of goodwill, as far as I can tell, but I can't help but salute them for doing something so arbitrary and perverse on the grand scale.
As to the work itself, I have a sneaking suspicion that I'll actually enjoy it tremendously. It seems like just the thing to appeal to me -- a fixation on tiny episode-to-episode details, a sense of the elaborately ridiculous, and the massive audacity to have a chance at pulling it off. I'm going to watch it over the next week, no more than one a day, and see if I enjoy it as much as I hope.
words from chris, 2009-08-07 02:01:28, los angeles
