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>I can only imagine going through all eight of them as they aired, once a week
I'm old and actually did watch when it aired. Everyone defending it from today's vantage point completely misses how awful it was at the time.

The first loop, I thought I accidentally downloaded the previous week's episode. When I realized what happened, I thought it was pretty clever, and expected KyoAni to end the arc the following week. When it looped again, I was disappointed and started to lose interest. Then it kept happening, and I started jumping to the end of each episode, rather than watching the same story every week.

Some of you might jump immediately to >filtered
However, that wasn't the problem at the time. The issue was the loss of most of season 2. You have to remember that Haruhi was still an enormous cultural force then. Everyone was so excited to finally get more Haruhi, only for it to be snatched away by E8. With where KyoAni is today after the fire, I don't think any real fan can honestly say he'd rather have E8 as eight episodes over seeing more Haruhi content animated using that production time.

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Watched this for the first time without knowing what the fuck was going on.Not gonna lie, I skipped through 6 7 and 8.Who the fuck thought…

Watched this for the first time without knowing what the fuck was going on.
Not gonna lie, I skipped through 6 7 and 8.
Who the fuck thought…