24 January 2008, 2:34 PM
spinkle Wrote:You're right, DT, the baseball ep is awesome. I love watching Nagato during fielding practice, just stopping the balls about to actually hit her without even reacting or responding to any of the ones whizzing by her head XDSomeday in the Rain is probably my favorite ep. Nice change from the others but yeah like you said its not the greatest finale which is why the eps are meant to be watched in airing order. Don't get why they didn't just release them that way in the first place.
Although I didn't like it very much on my first pass (even less on my first *chronological* pass, where it feels like 100% anticlimax), I absolutely love Episode 13 now. ("Someday In The Rain")
It's awesome after having seen the eps anachronically to watch the relationship between Haruhi and Kyon build chronologically, and their comfortable familiarity in the "last" episode is a nice juxtaposition to all the playground antics and childish huffiness that run throughout most of the other eps. I do prefer it more as a breather episode during an anachronic run than as the concluding ep chronologically, tho.