The core of my interpretation is that Haruhi at 23 is not Haruhi at 16. In high school she embraced the cliches; in college she started subverting them. In the beginning she knew what people thought of her and didn't give a flying fuck; by the 'present' she knows what people think and is quite willing to use it to demonstrate Barnum's famous dictum about birthrates. Which last was the tone I was writing her 'Peons' post in - a joke in bad taste, perhaps, but mostly at her own expense.
a) Haruhi really hates to lose, and considers 'fair' to be something that applies to others in this respect, if at all. I think it'd be just like her to take every loss personally.
b) I'll admit that I still haven't finished watching the full series, but IIUC, the universe actually does end up doing the 'collapse and remake' thing at one point... and all that changes is her hairstyle. This doesn't strike me as the action of someone who's unaware of consequences and repercussions.
c) Fen, particularly the Big Name variety, are almost by definition interesting and different from their predecessors. Which, for Haruhi, is the entire point.
d) She's got a confident expectation of a High Space Opera setting kicking in in ten to twenty-five years. OGJ is just the prologue for that, and hence subject to different dramatic rules.
e) Being postive in one's assessment of fictional characters, in my experience, creates a much more pleasant and entertaining reading experience than being negative.
Ja, -n
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"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."
a) Haruhi really hates to lose, and considers 'fair' to be something that applies to others in this respect, if at all. I think it'd be just like her to take every loss personally.
b) I'll admit that I still haven't finished watching the full series, but IIUC, the universe actually does end up doing the 'collapse and remake' thing at one point... and all that changes is her hairstyle. This doesn't strike me as the action of someone who's unaware of consequences and repercussions.
c) Fen, particularly the Big Name variety, are almost by definition interesting and different from their predecessors. Which, for Haruhi, is the entire point.
d) She's got a confident expectation of a High Space Opera setting kicking in in ten to twenty-five years. OGJ is just the prologue for that, and hence subject to different dramatic rules.
e) Being postive in one's assessment of fictional characters, in my experience, creates a much more pleasant and entertaining reading experience than being negative.
Ja, -n
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"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."