Quote:Well, you can count me in on the 'Haruhi fanfic OK!' side of things. After all, the idea that Fenspace as a whole was somehow Haruhi's fault belongs to me, I set up the SOS-dan as the driving plot engine for the beginning, etc.
I guess I'm in a clear minority in thinking that the fanfic route makes more sense and plays better as a story. Ah, well. Leaving it ambiguous might not be as much fun, but it can work, too, and anyway doesn't stop individual authors from viewing the setting as something that crystallized out of a supersaturated solution around the seed element of Haruhi's crack-brained worldview.
(I even managed to come up with a Haruhi-related "origin" for handwavium that owes a lot to John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, but I thought that might be going too far. Bug me later if you really wanna know.)
As for ambiguity... there's no reason not to play it as ambigious up until the final trump. From the point of view of the non-SOS characters it makes just as much sense to consider the SOS-dan a collection of tame lunatics as it does to believe that they're right about everything. Just the odd hint every now and then that maybe, just maybe there's something more to the SOS-dan than just another fanclub.
So Our Heroes don't have to accept all of Yuki's story blind, they can go along for the sake of going along (as well as rooting out the raiders going after the outer stations) and the truth will out... eventually.---
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