{"id":29,"date":"2007-07-26T22:33:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T06:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomashahn.is-a-geek.com\/wordpress\/?p=29"},"modified":"2007-09-29T10:20:25","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T18:20:25","slug":"sos-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gauntletwizard.net\/wordpress\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"SOS Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I have no interest in ordinary humans.  If there are any aliens, time travelers, or espers here, come join me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple enough premise: Crazy girl does crazy things. She starts a club, looking for things straight out of anime.  And she gets them: Shortly, the club membership contains, predictably, an alien, a time traveler, and an esper. Only, poor Haruhi doesn&#8217;t necessarially realize it. Also, she herself is stranger than them all.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps what I like most about this series is it&#8217;s most controversial aspect: It&#8217;s very much anachronistic. It&#8217;s designed to be watched out of order. If you&#8217;re watching it in chronological order, it&#8217;s just not as good. Perhaps fun to do once you&#8217;ve seen it in it&#8217;s proper order, but not the way anyone should see it.<\/p>\n<p>It bugs me, therefore, that it&#8217;s being released in chronological order. Certainly, it makes more sense that way. The best art doesn&#8217;t make sense. I&#8217;m a fan of absurdism, and this show provides it in droves: But the effect is lessened if you follow Kyons journey and know the secrets before the bizarre episodes (Funnilly enough, even though I refer to it as Kyon&#8217;s journey, Kyon&#8217;s numbering at the end of the episodes is the anachronistic, and Haruhi&#8217;s is the chronological).<\/p>\n<p>If you get a chance, pick up the Limited Edition versions: The combination of the original-order episodes and the SOS-brigade armband you get in Vol 2 make it well worth it. And either way, try and watch it as it was intended by it&#8217;s creators. It&#8217;s better that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no interest in ordinary humans. If there are any aliens, time travelers, or espers here, come join me. It&#8217;s a simple enough premise: Crazy girl does crazy things. She starts a club, looking for things straight out of anime. And she gets them: Shortly, the club membership contains, predictably, an alien, a time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gauntletwizard.net\/wordpress\/?p=29\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SOS Brigade<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gauntletwizard.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gauntletwizard.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gauntletwizard.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gauntletwizard.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gauntletwizard.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gauntletwizard.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gauntletwizard.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gauntletwizard.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gauntletwizard.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}