Editing Talk:Suzumiya Haruhi:Volume9 Prologue (section)

== Parody? ==

 The screen continued playing the images, calling it an imitation is a nicer way to put it, in fact it is just going back to the same places and putting everyone in this time round. 

I believe it should go more like this:

 The screen continued playing the images, but calling it a parody is a nicer way to put it as it is simply going back to the same places and putting everyone in this time round. 

For the description that follows is clearly talking about scenes from Star Wars and Superman.  I believe parody would be the more appropriate term.  Also, I think the last part of this sentence needs to be looked at again by a translator.  I'm not sure if Kyon is talking about the places from the last movie, or if he is talking about places from the parodied films.

--[[User:Haruhi's loyal subordinate|Haruhi&#39;s loyal subordinate]] 10:57, 20 April 2007 (PDT)

Good word suggestion. Go with it.

--[[User:Deskoh91|Deskoh91]] 03:07, 21 April 2007 (PDT)

Will do!

--[[User:Haruhi's loyal subordinate|Haruhi&#39;s loyal subordinate]] 17:57, 20 April 2007 (PDT)

Although I understand the structure of this, I don't tell the meaning of this. I think there is some idioms.
:it is simply going back to the same places and putting everyone in this time round.
I translated the part from the original.
:there are tons of scenes from (famous) titles in it.
"famous" is a free translation, because usually, famous titles are referred in parody, for example Star Wars :)

--[[User:Akiha|Akiha]] 06:47, 21 April 2007 (PDT)

I figured that that was what this sentence was trying to get at.  That is why the last part about going to the same places didn't make sense to me.  So how about

:The screen continued to play the images, but calling it a parody is a better way to phrase it as there are tons of scenes from famous titles with the original actors replaced by characters from Haruhi's previous movie.

That's my suggestion.  I replaced "nicer" with "better" since "nicer" seems to give the connotation that Kyon is trying to defend or support the trailer, when that is clearly the last thing he would ever do.  Also, "better" just seems to fit the sentence here anyway.  I also rephrased the last part to make it clear according to what akiha said.  I'll wait for approval from Deskoh91 or another translator before making this change in the actual prologue.

--[[User:Haruhi's loyal subordinate|Haruhi&#39;s loyal subordinate]] 07:56, 21 April 2007 (PDT)