{"id":484,"date":"2006-05-09T23:51:33","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T13:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=484"},"modified":"2006-05-09T23:54:42","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T13:54:42","slug":"time-travellin-space-potato-episode-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Time Travellin&#8217; Space Potato &#8211; episode 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi 3&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh05-01.JPG\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"338\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve laid low on writing about this episode of this top secret show because I needed time for my non-existent evil plans to come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, this is really good stuff right here that even justifies the existence of Mikuru and her godawful voice, and for that I am grateful. It&#8217;s just a pity that the real world so significantly dampened my enthusiasm for this adventure.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, folks: she&#8217;s not the messiah, she&#8217;s a very naughty girl.<\/p>\n<p><B>The concept of Suzumiya Haruhi revealed at last!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Our good friend Haruhi finds a mysterious transfer student and begins a quest to discover aliens, espers and time travellers. Then everyone comes out to Kyon and reveals that they are in fact:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an alien;\n<li>an esper;\n<li>a time traveler.<\/ul>\n<p>Too bad for Kyon that he&#8217;s a normal person. Anyway, our friend Suzumiya Haruhi has the power to shape the world to her wishes. She does not know this, which is probably a good thing: can you imagine such a woman wielding such an ability with full understanding of its existence? Not a good idea, I&#8217;m afraid.<\/p>\n<p>The key is three years ago, the timequake that alerted all of the mysteries of the universe to Suzumiya. This is a great relief to me, as now I can consider Mikuru in a different light: that of a time traveller. Many people don&#8217;t seem to mind Suzumiya Haruhi&#8217;s casual cruelty, molestation, and general torture of our friend Mikuru, but a select few of us have had thoughts along the lines of &#8220;what the eff is going on here?&#8221;<br \/>\nThe scenes that show Mikuru actually, you know, smiling and laughing, suggests that she might be an actual character rather than a horrible <i>moe<\/i> ball of shrieks. I think that she puts on her &#8220;tortured&#8221; persona for the benefit of Haruhi because she seems at least semi well-adjusted. One might say that &#8220;well-adjusted&#8221; is a term not suitable for application to a girl convinced she&#8217;s a time traveller but hey, she <i>is<\/i> a time traveller.<\/p>\n<p>The reason that I say that this is all an act is because <i>The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi<\/i> frequently, disgustingly and consciously panders to the modern anime fanbase. Haruhi wants to live a life that would entertain someone looking in, for whatever reason, so she ups the <i>moe<\/i> factor at every point through her wild molestations. It&#8217;s the delicate balancing point of many satirical anime: when does making fun of exploitation become exploitation itself? There&#8217;s no real answer, and because the genuine intrigue has arrived in waves it&#8217;s not really going to be further touched on; we can take some comfort in the fact that Mikuru seems to be deliberately exploiting herself, but people are going to derive perverse pleasure of her trials regardless of how they&#8217;re portrayed. Subverting the industry does not mean anything if too many people take the subversion at face value and just accept this as another inexplicable titillation.<\/p>\n<p>So, we learn from all of this <i>Asahina Mikuru no Bouken<\/i> should have been subtitled &#8220;based on a true story&#8221;. The only problem with the film is that it was like making <i>Walk the Line<\/i> with Johnny Cash playing himself. He&#8217;s dead, Jim. If I&#8217;m reading the previews right, this excellently strung along first book will not be picked up again until episode nine; I look forward to it.<br \/>\n<i>The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi<\/i> is strong because it provokes a lot of theorising and &#8220;serious discussion&#8221;. Don&#8217;t try to stifle that; for better or for worse, this is the zeitgeist.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh05-02.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh05-03.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh05-04.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh05-05.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh05-06.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh05-07.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh05-08.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh05-09.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve laid low on writing about this episode of this top secret show because I needed time for my non-existent evil plans to come to fruition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suzumiya-haruhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}