You know… I’d really have prefered it if this anime was shown in the normal typical sequence, instead of jumping around here and there.

Surprisingly. ep 9 was a total let down. It was absoutely boring, and even included a scene of nagato reading a book. Imagine, for 3 min, it was simply a scene of nagato flipping a book. I had this urge to fast forward, yet I was still hopping that something interesting will come out of it. But nothing did.
It did redeem itself at the final scene though. Where you get to see haruhi’s softer side. It was really sweet, exuding lots of feelings.

ep 10 was a total opposite though, very brilliant. ANyway, ep 10 continues from i think ep 3 or was it 4. Remember the class rep from the earlier eps, who was so concerned about haruhi. Seems like she’s nagato’s back up. Data collection of haruhi has been slow, and in order to speed things up, she decides to try to kill Kyon. This results in a very well animated battle scene, and you get to see the top notch animation kyoto animation is famous for.

Then you have a future mikuru appearing to drop hints to kyon about things to happen in the future. Makes the future episodes sound real exciting

In this episode, you have hints of subtle undercurrents between kyon and all 3 girls. heh. very cute.