{"id":3430,"date":"2009-08-07T05:28:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T09:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2014-10-25T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T18:25:17","slug":"final-thoughts-on-endless-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/08\/07\/final-thoughts-on-endless-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Thoughts on &#8220;Endless Eight&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story finally ends, in a suitably anticlimactic manner. It feels like the folks at Kyoto Animation are as sick of it as we are.<\/p>\n<p>So why did they do it this way? I suspect that the real reason, regardless of the rationalizations they may have come up with, is that the production company ordered N episodes and they only had enough source material for N&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;7. KyoAni has a lot of talent, including some of the world&#8217;s best animators, but coming up with new story ideas is not their forte.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the ending provides the strongest evidence so far for what I called &#8220;Theory 4&#8221; in my <a href=\"\/fun\/notes-on-anime\/spoiler-notes-for-haruhi-suzumiya\/\">Spoiler Notes for Haruhi Suzumiya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href='javascript:void(null);' onclick=\"s_toggleDisplay(document.getElementById('SID1576517162'), this, 'Show &#9660;', 'Hide &#9650;');\">Show &#9660;<\/a><\/p>\n<div id='SID1576517162' style='display:none;'>\n<p>Think about it. Haruhi had no real motivation to create a time loop. She had done everything she had set out to do. It was Kyon who didn&#8217;t feel ready to go on because he had left something unfinished. So it was Kyon who was keeping them in the loop, and as always Haruhi took the blame.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story finally ends, in a suitably anticlimactic manner. It feels like the folks at Kyoto Animation are as sick of it as we are. So why did they do&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/08\/07\/final-thoughts-on-endless-eight\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[624,82],"class_list":["post-3430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-endless-eight","tag-haruhi-suzumiya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3434,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}