Back when Haruhi did it, it was cool. But now the epidemic of the preview episodes and special openers is so widespread that animebloggers started adapting officially. Major Arcana runs a season-start summary on the basis of the second episodes (BTW, I find very little with which to disagree in it). Now, what do blog readers do about it? Have many people started habitually ignore the 1st episodes? Commentary suggests — not yet.