I liked it at the time it came out, I like it less now.
It was a pivotal anime for a few reasons. One of them was that there was a technological change from producing anime with cels that get photographed on a multiplane camera to drawing the "cels" in a computer and compositing them digitally. Haruhi Suzumiya was not the first to be done with CG compositing but it figured out how anime would look with the new technology. So it looks far ahead of older stuff like Sailor Moon but looks behind something like Accel World or Bleach.
Story-wise it was an advance in postmodernization which was already well developed
https://www.amazon.com/Otaku-Database-Animals-Hiroki-Azuma/d...
but it used devices such as telling the story out of order and building systematically on tropes that seemed fresh at the time but now seem cynical to me.
It was a pivotal anime for a few reasons. One of them was that there was a technological change from producing anime with cels that get photographed on a multiplane camera to drawing the "cels" in a computer and compositing them digitally. Haruhi Suzumiya was not the first to be done with CG compositing but it figured out how anime would look with the new technology. So it looks far ahead of older stuff like Sailor Moon but looks behind something like Accel World or Bleach.
Story-wise it was an advance in postmodernization which was already well developed
https://www.amazon.com/Otaku-Database-Animals-Hiroki-Azuma/d...
but it used devices such as telling the story out of order and building systematically on tropes that seemed fresh at the time but now seem cynical to me.