All in all I found this to be a pretty balanced review that praised the latter half of season one, Aprils feature pack, while complimenting the quality of season twos writing; that being said most of us forum dwellers would agree with the criticisms as well.
http://www.tentonhammer.com/editorial/guild-wars-2-year-review
Perhaps ANet should give us a teaser of the big things happening in the back ground.