Sighs IV
Mini-Summary:
Filming continues at the abandoned mini-lake and Tsuraya's house. Kyon loses his cool and is about to give Haruhi a lesson with his fists but is stopped by Itsuki and Mikuru. Later he makes up with Haruhi after being pissed off at Taniguchi's dissing of Haruhi's project.
Reactions:
Much LOL when Yuki broke the fence. And for her All Hat And No Yuki trick when she rushed Mikuru Beam R.
Kyon vs Haruhi confrontation during the bedroom scene was suitably tense; Haruhi's directorial violence and Kyon's raised fist working together in a mutually reinforcing downward spiral. Haruhi setting up the whole thing, pushing Itsuki and Mikuru together in a fictional world from which Kyon is cut off, her increasingly humiliating and absurd demands on Mikuru meant to demonstrate her higher status, rooted in her jealousy, only serving to raise Kyon's irritation several notches up to waifu-beating mode. In the end, both tsunderes end up looking bad and feeling awful.
And it's negativity that is the trigger for the recovery. Taniguchi's whining and bitching causes Kyon to reflect on how he has been behaving similarly and to see a positive side to Haruhi's machinations, all rooted in her desire to hold his attention.
The benefits of positive thinking are not entirely clear; 'I can do better in my work/studies', 'I can achieve better physical fitness', 'I can control my over-eating/drinking/whoring' - how difficult it is to hold on to the resolution, to keep the faith. But how much fiercer the determination burns becomes when 'so I'll show that bastard what I'm made of, what I'm capable of, what he/she/it is missing out on!' is appended forthwith and then, after the afterburners have done their work, arriving at the destination and forgetting why we were even bothered by whatstheirface in the first place. 'We'll definitely make this movie a success!' Indeed.
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September 5th, 2009 - 13:52
Even if Haruhi was demonstrating her superiority in a disagreeable fashion Kyon was complicit all along not to mention enjoying it as well, only when he was cut off and denied the chance to embrace a drunk Mikuru did he suddenly decide to have some “moral” objection to it. I believe my view on the matter is rather skewed since boot camp is pretty much about humiliation it serves to breakdown those with too much ego, and to instill the understanding in those who lack self esteem that the only way out is to attain perfection as the drill sergeant demands. That or quit.
Mikuru is a woman with a mission certainly by the end of it she will have endured the rather light (by my standards any way) abuse and become better for it. I have my doubts that All Woman Mikuru would have been brought about without Haruhi. After all if you have endured that much you can take pretty much anything, if it utterly breaks you then your life must have been sheltered and even then the revenge of reality would have come about sooner or later. Granted that Mikuru has a mission I hope she takes the view that what doesn’t kill her makes her stronger. There is a saying we sailors love to use “pain is weakness leaving the body, sharp pain is your body calling fo rhe corpsman.”
Still it was nice to see Yuki at the top her game in mitigating the Mikuru beam.
I did very much enjoy how my patron goddess Tsuruya was all for tossing Mikuru into the lake so that she could take her home and give her a bath. I suspect that St. Tsuruya agreeing to get Mikuru drunk was part of an elaborate ploy to keep Mikuru for a sleep over. I do believe that as a result that a night of Tsuruya and Mikuru that went on forever and ever is a distinct possibility.
September 7th, 2009 - 23:03
Interesting how all of Haruhi’s megalomania in Sighs actually puts into perspective her slow change of attitude, a glimpse of which we see in Live A Live (the last scene of which bookends the Sighs novel).