{"id":3486,"date":"2009-09-14T21:35:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T04:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/?p=3486"},"modified":"2009-09-14T21:35:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T04:35:29","slug":"the-maybe-finale-of-haruhi-suzumiya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/the-maybe-finale-of-haruhi-suzumiya\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maybe-Finale of Haruhi Suzumiya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/snapshot20090914011646.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3485\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/snapshot20090914011646.jpg?resize=500%2C284\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In two words, this episode was:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Awesome<\/li>\n<li>Awesome<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/snapshot20090914004952.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3489\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/snapshot20090914004952.jpg?resize=500%2C284\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Quite possibly the best opening line to an anime episode ever<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/snapshot20090914010019.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3490\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/snapshot20090914010019.jpg?resize=500%2C284\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>+ Epic Yuki scene<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/snapshot20090914005246.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3488\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/snapshot20090914005246.jpg?resize=500%2C284\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>+ Talking Philosopher Cat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/snapshot20090914010455.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3491\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/snapshot20090914010455.jpg?resize=500%2C284\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>+ Not-shounen-ai Koizumi scene<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/snapshot20090914011032.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3493\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/snapshot20090914011032.jpg?resize=500%2C284\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>+ Opportunity strikes, but Kyon is too cool for Haruhi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/snapshot20090914011631.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3495\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/snapshot20090914011631.jpg?resize=500%2C284\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>+ Facepalm ending shot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>= Epic episode.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I last saw an episode that could blend comedy, drama, massive amounts of information and plot, and talking cats without crashing and failing horribly somewhere along the line. \u00a0The ending felt natural &#8211; not forced at all, despite how much potential that the dialogues with Mikuru, Yuki, and Koizumi released. \u00a0Though I do feel like I&#8217;m hanging on a bit of a cliff here.<\/p>\n<p>If Disappearance airs this year, praise the gods of the crystal crescent!<\/p>\n<p>If it comes in 2012,<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none;\" href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/snapshot20090914011552.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3496\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/snapshot20090914011552.jpg?resize=500%2C284\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two words, this episode was: Awesome Awesome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2zM4X-Ue","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}