Gotta go with classicDrogn here. The great part about it is the reverse cerebrus effect, as Haruhi's motivation for generating enormous monsters goes from "the world is boring and I want to end it" to "giant robot battles are awesome, and someone needs to show up to be the villain" and the enemies start to rotate from "grim and threatening" to "wacky and awesome".
For Dartz - this seems to be a reasonably well-written version of what it is. Additionally, I personally found myself not so much int he mood for philosophical pondering, and it felt to me like it dragged on a bit. I suspect that that's more a matter of me not being target audience than there being anything really wrong with it. It was still readable, and I wouldn't say it was overwrought.
For Dartz - this seems to be a reasonably well-written version of what it is. Additionally, I personally found myself not so much int he mood for philosophical pondering, and it felt to me like it dragged on a bit. I suspect that that's more a matter of me not being target audience than there being anything really wrong with it. It was still readable, and I wouldn't say it was overwrought.