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Message: [QUOTE="Mago, post: 96392, member: 34253"] So me and a friend of mine decided to watch this series together after the incident on Twitter (If you arent in the know, some kid said he didn't know the series, got backlash, and a lot of people went on about how its this all time classic that's very influential and how everyone should know it blah blah blah). Tbc i've known about the series for a long time, I knew that it was popular, especially the movie, but I also knew about a certain controversial arc. However I figure for the series to still be super beloved in spite of that arc must mean the rest is pretty good right? We made it 8 episodes in so far. Tbc we are watching it in Chronological order because we read broadcast order was rendered obsolete with the second season. Either way so far I gotta be honest.. this show just feels like a lot of nothing? I'm not making this thread to be inflammatory or bait people. I just don't see anything of value. I don't see how the characters are supposed to be likable, they seem very one dimensional and cliche even for the time. I get that theres a meta reasoning for that but I don't think that changes the fact that they arent the least bit interesting. Haruhi is the most interesting character but I still wouldn't call her good. Shes also kind of a shitty person, which is fine but I don't feel the show does anything interesting to explore her shitty characteristics at least so far. The plot so far feels underdeveloped and not well fleshed out. First arc kind of felt rushed. A lot of the plot was delivered through exposition dumps, in fact episode 3 and 5 were largely just exposition dump episodes. I'm not someone who needs all action and only watches battle shounen tbc. My second favorite anime ever is LOTGH, and I love Tarkovsky and Bergman films. I'm not trying to brag about how I watch smart shows I just don't want to accused of only watching stuff like Dragon Ball (Though I do love the OG Dragonball), and not being able to handle more cerebral media. If anything Haruhi feels like brain rot at points. The baseball episode especially felt like a complete waste of time, it wasnt smart and it wasnt fun either. It was just brainrot. We still plan on finishing the show (Im dying to see his reaction to THAT arc) and tbc i didn't go in expecting this to be trash, though I didn't expect it to live up to the hype either. Also for the first couple of episodes I was legitimately interested in seeing how the show would progress but episode three with the really jarring exposition dumps killed most of my engagement, and most importantly the characters just are not at all interesting or endearing to me. Again not trying to ragebait, if it came across that way its because I just don't know how else to word this. I wanted to make this so I could hear other perspectives and discuss the show as we continue watching it. [/QUOTE]

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