There’s no way I’m going to waste any more time and energy posting about the inconsistencies/bad “writing”/shameless cuteness in this show. Unless I can be creative and interesting with it (which I doubt I have been so far) then it’s just pointless. K-On!! is K-On!!. It’s a show about moe girls doing nothing. It’s popular because it’s a show about moe girls doing nothing. It doesn’t require any real effort or understanding to watch, and that’s its greatest appeal.
There are always times when you just want some mindless entertainment, be it with television in general or anime. Once I decided I wasn’t going to blog it anymore, there was no pressure to pay attention, so I booted up the 4th episode and switched my brain off. As a result, I was able to enjoy the show just that little bit better. But I think there’s also the fact that it was actually a good episode. The jokes and comedic timing were well done – giving the writers a fresh setting and something else to play off other than school, club, school, house, school helped here as well. It was definitely the most I’ve laughed at the show since day 1 (of the first series even).
The sleeping scene is the point where something clicked for me. It’s the first time I’ve seen a legitimate connection to my childhood (as with others as well, it seems) in the series. It’s true that I didn’t enjoy the show much until this point because I saw barely anything I could relate to, but I think that’s a perfectly good reason. I’m old enough now that the times the girls are experiencing I can see as nostalgic, and as this is seinen, you’d think it should try to evoke some of these feelings in any of its demographic. It’s a real shame that moments like these don’t occur more often in the series, they’d make it infinitely more enjoyable. The more you can connect points in any series with your own memories and experiences, the more you can get out of watching it.
I’ll keep watching K-On!! through to the end because I’ve decided to stop focusing on how it’s bad and just accept that it is. And it’s probably for the best.
Grand Punk Railroad 
K-On didn’t really impress me when it first came out at all. Of course, once I lowered my expectations and accepted that the plot would always be mindless moe, it did get funner to watch. It’s not exceptional, but it’s still enjoyable 😀
Last sentence should be how everyone approaches the show, and how I should’ve in the first place.
I have to disagree with you here. I’d be willing to bet that your conclusion that K-ON!! might be enjoyable as such is a result of long hours of anime-viewing and a certain level of immersion in the associated culture. You’re demonstrating tremendous understanding of certain things in your charity toward a show that you seem inclined not to like. I imagine that a non-fan (one who literally has no understanding of the contexts applicable to the show) wouldn’t be able to make much sense of a show like K-ON!! — and, generally speaking, it’s probably the case that all stories require both effort and understanding to be of any use.
Is any of this important? Well, I don’t know, but I think you do yourself a disservice when you say that your approach to K-ON!! is mindless.
TOLD!
WTF Omisyth I expected better of you?!! LOLOLOLOL
http://twitpic.com/1ji6qd (for good measure)
Maybe I should have added “for me” to those sentences…
THE PONTIFUS HAS SPOKEN
No, my point is that you aren’t just a dumb consumer. I’m not criticizing you; I’m…criticizing your criticism of yourself, I guess, which is something I see a lot of people do. I don’t know. Sometimes I just get these inclinations.
K-ON like Card Captor Sakura without the pretense of a plot.