Review of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

I keep seeing the people who like it making reviews here. Now let me speak my side (the side that totally hates it) I'm not a person that can like a series just because of the main character looks/personality. Personally i don't care if Haruhi is this or is that. For me a good anime series needs to have a solid story where everything fits and good character interaction. This series are a set of events pointing to haruhi's ability to fulfill her wishes without noticing, each episode gives a hint of the story but thats it, only a hint nothing else. Mostly is like saying: "this ishow our story is supposed to be, now watch all this side-story eps somehow related to it"
Now to make things worst eps are not even in the correct order? Man you just lost 50% of your audience right here no matter how popular it is.

I dont know about the 2nd season but for me 1st season was a major disaster and a colossal disappointment. I just watched because it read nothing but good reviews about it. I really was expecting a great series that keep me wanting to see next episode, i watched it all trying to see where the greatness were but believe me, my mind dropped it in the very first eps.

There goes another anime for merchandising purposes only...how many haruhi dolls/t-shirts are they selling? :)

Honestly, i compare this to Clannad, just that in Clannad they didnt play dumb and made it "normal" :)
Haruhi sure has a great potential but please in the future make it less surrealist XD