Haruhi 11/13 – I Heart Yuki
I started reading the blogs on the RAW’s of this episode a while back; I was really looking forward to it because the star of this one was apparently Yuki. Many (read: a bunch of bastards) have chastised her for being a “Rei clone.” Well, I don’t see that as a bad thing, because Rei is my favorite character of all freak’in time!
I’ve heard all the theories about why otaku love –or are drawn–to characters like Rei and Yuki, most of the time there is always a negative connotation about them. But, I’ve also read some interesting opinions on the role that Rei plays in Evangelion. In particular–the link–notes that if Rei is changed, the series would be much different. I agree with that view point.
I don’t see why people down play a character (a lead character mind-you) simply because they don’t speak much. Animation, in particular, is a visual art. The simple fact that Yuki is there in the scene means something. Just as much as if she was not in scene. The fact that she doesn’t have dialog doesn’t mean she doesn’t play a role in the overall plot. Possibly even a pivotal role? I don’t know I haven’t read the manga. You might say, “sometimes a cigar is a cigar” to which I would reply “exactly.” To clarify, sometimes a cigar is superfluous imagery and other times it’s an oral fetish. Still other times it means, maybe, the dreamer likes to take it in the arse. Who really knows? Moving on.
- Let’s start with the hair. Rei has blue hair and Yuki has purple hair.
- Rei’s eyes are red and Yuki’s are brown.
- Yuki reads all the time. Rei pilots a eva.
- Rei is taller than Yuki, I think.
- Yuki wears her school uniform ALL THE TIME. Rei has a plug suit.
- Yuki is a computer “superhacker.” Rei doesn’t even use her school notebook, much.
Now that I’m done fooling around with the absurd idea that Yuki was not modeled after Ayanami Rei; honestly, it is foolish to think that she wasn’t. My point, Yuki may be modeled after Rei but that’s not a negative for the show. Imagine The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya without our lovable enigmatic Yuki. I can’t.
The computer club president shows up with his “possy.” Why do they line up in symmetrical order?Look: from left to right
no glasses / glasses
all open jackets
all looking forward (oddly, not at Mikuru)
By height
Anyway, he wants to challenge the SOS Brigade to a LAN game. The CC had created a space battle sim for the cultural festival. He is even willing to supply them with the hardware. I can admire their guile here, but really did they actually think they could win. Haruhi had so masterfully owned them with the Mikuru molestation incident.
I like how Haruhi just attacks the computer club president because he said the word “contest.” Every president EVERYWHERE needs to have an aid that will open a “can” whenever they get they get their collective heads up their asses.
Then that quote there, “some secret organization or whatever…” (NSA!!!) She really doesn’t care who they are, a challenge is a challenge. Very Klingon of her. I’m not exactly sure what that facial expression is, but I like it.
This is Nagato getting geared up for the game. I particularly enjoyed the scene on the first day of practice when she was trying to use the optical mouse by moving in around in the air. I didn’t post the picture because it doesn’t make sense outside of context as a static image.
The reason this is funny for me is because I work at a help desk to pay for school. A coworker relayed a story to me about a client he spoke to that was unable do anything on the computer that he asked of him. Simple stuff, like click on the “my computer” icon, or go to the start menu. It turned out my friend had asked the client to locate his mouse and “put it on the computer.” What he ment was that he wanted the client to find the mouse cursor on the screen and put it over “my computer.” However, the client took him literally and placed the mouse on the keyboard, this killed twenty odd minutes of troubleshooting.
Yuki shines from the start, but the SOS brigade is still getting beat down like a red-headed-stepchild. Since Yuki is more than human, she can take advantage of some of the games advanced features. Like, the ability to split her fleet into 20 groups and control them simultaneously (normal people can’t do it). She looks cute in the uniform, by the by, I wouldn’t mind if they had gone with the military uniform for the main character designs. Salute Commander Nagato! I really wish they would would have kept the glasses, I AM a glasses man (meganekko-moe).
Let us continue, It turns out that the computer club is cheating **shocker**. So to elevate the situation Nagato put down her groove and uses her mad coding skills to create a hack that will be injected into the already running game simulation and even the playing field by restoring the CC’s “fog of war.” That’s the part of the game that limits the oponnents ability to find enemies on the map. Since, I myself have some experience coding. I decided to examine the flashes of code.
For the most part. It appears to be the the same code spinning in all of the windows. This could be either super fast debugging or a cheap ass animation studio. I don’t know, but I leaning toward the ladder. There were some even more glaring mishaps that just chafed my ass hair. If you can say that “framing” through a 2 second sequence of frames to find them, “glaring mishaps.”
First off, if you look close on the first image we have a bunch of windows open and a command that is compiling a program “bcc32 -W SimInject.cc”. She appears to be using Borland C/C++. Clearly, a bunch of code flashing across the screen doesn’t mean much in the context of programming. I can only assume she is using some backward-ass text interfacing text editor. She then executes the program. The output is apparently some more lines of code, which doesn’t make any kind of sense. At least the syntax appears to be correct C/C++.
Now the next image. The previous execution of some program was cancelled using the classic Ctrl+Break combination. (^C). Then the SimInject.cc file is compiled again and then executed. Now, we–people that slowed down and stepped through the coding windows scene frame by frame–saw that the SimInject.exe program had already been executed. I mean, like, what the freak man. What do they think we are idiots?
Anyway, Yuki evens the playing field and with her superior playing ability she is able to scout the positions of the computer club fleets. This lets the SOS team decimate the computer club with almost no effort. Yuki locks onto the computer club president and wipes him out. The CC president admits his defeat to a “superhacker” and determines that the only one it could be was Yuki, not a hard sell there. The CC president invites Yuki to come over to the groups room anytime for some 5 on 1 action to participate in CC activates. Game over.
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