[ SECRET POST #284 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #284 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

- First post is NAME THAT FANDOM, Semagic needs an option to post comments! >D

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 123 secrets from Secret Submission Post #041.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!fandom, 0 not!secret, 0 repeat
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 17th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[andy-longwood.livejournal.com]

36. For me, the wanderlust stopped when I grew up and left my parents' house. Dunno if that's the case for everyone, but in my experience, the wishing-I-was-somewhere-else-and-that-someone-would-come-and-take-me-away feeling stopped when I took myself away and started doing everything I had always wanted to do instead of just dreaming about doing it. I have a theory that the underlying cause of the childhood and teenage feeling of belonging somewhere else and the desire to be taken away is due to the fundamental lack of control minors have over much of their lives.

. . . in fact, if I make up a proposal by this summer, I bet I could get funding to independantly study this for credits in my major, and then I could use the money for the trip to Australia I'm planning. Double-score.

Words of encouragement, guys? Just because nobody's going to take you to Neverland or Narnia or Middle-earth doesn't mean you can't make your own in this world.

. . . also, is THAT why people like Haruhi? Because she understands the wanting-to-be-somewhere-else feeling? I've always wondered why a manipulative character who treated other people as inferiors had such a following, and for that to be the reason seems awfully ironic, from my point of view, since manipulative people who treated other people as their inferiors were a huge contributer to my teenage wanderlust. Anyone care to explain some more?

[friendshipbeam.livejournal.com]

People like Haruhi because it's intelligent behind the bishoujo exterior. Same goes for the characters. Sure, Haruhi's a selfish, hateful brat, but she has a heart and a lot of insecurities. Mikuru's a weak-willed fanservice tool, but that's because it's her duty to let Haruhi walk all over her. Yuki seems like your typical emotionless girl, but she learns to develop her own personality - not to mention she turns out completely awesome.

[missmorrichan.livejournal.com]

Personally, I always found Haruhi to be an interesting character due to her exuberant, spontaneous nature (that, and I love the hair ribbons). Plus, I never really saw her as someone who wants to be somewhere else. Rather, I got the impression she just wanted the world she was already in to be more interesting, which I can relate to. It's those traits I find that make her fun to watch.

However, and this might be just me, I don't think I'd find her nearly as entertaining if she were the principal narrator of the show instead of Kyon. With Kyon telling events from his perspective, it puts more distance between the viewer and Haruhi, and as a result her brash, manipulative actions don't feel as obnoxious as they might otherwise be. There's a bigger sense of unreality and detachment about it all.

I kind of like to think of it in the same vein as Sherlock Holmes. That is, Watson always acted as the narrator and gave a sort of human, down-to-earth feel to the stories, wheras Holmes' on his own would get too egocentric to be nearly as enjoyable as he is when Watson factors into the narrative.

So in short, it's Haruhi's strange personality that both draws me to her character and makes the show fun to watch, but I think she'd be less appealing if she were telling her own stories.