I always struggled to care about the characters, which to me is the most important part of the shows! And being mostly focused on one character also didn’t help, as you don’t learn a lot about everyone else. In SNW I think it only took 3-4 episodes before I liked every main character.

I think Trek has almost always had an issue writing good romantic relationships, and I’ve never figured out why. A lot of the friendships often feel pretty natural, so it just never made sense why the romances were usually awkward.