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This was always my impression of the Endless Eight portion of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya S2. S1 was, IMHO, an absolute masterpiece, and one of the reasons for this was the intentional non-chronological episode order, which made the pacing of the season very good while telling essentially one long story with a bunch of episodic events that take place after that initial one long story but are interspersed in between (this is why I find later releases where they reordered the episode into chronological order to be misguided and worse for it). I haven't seen any other work use non-chronological ordering like this - maybe Hidamari Sketch S1 and the Kara no Kyoukai films do something kinda similar, but not quite the same - and they pulled it off brilliantly. So to follow it up, KyoAni might have felt that they had to do something else clever with chronology and timing, and they ended up doing what they did with Endless Eight.
Which ended up just not working at all. I'd read the light novel before the season was even produced, and I only watched the season long after it had come out, so I both knew what would happen going in and I didn't have to deal with the genuine fan experience of waiting for each "new" episode week by week for 2 months, and even so I found the whole thing pretty painful to watch. A completely pointless exercise and a waste of a lot of talented animators and voice actors.
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