It's always been disconcerting how amazing they are at presenting an overall story and utterly terrible at how they treat the characters during that story. Whether it's throwing away Mary Sues, reducing heroes to idiots, or gods to mortals as cliche, they have exemplified terrible character development regularly.
I understand we are just forum jockeys, but moments of excellence tend to be few and far between. Thankfully the overarching story isn't as bad.