History YMMV / CarnivalRow

* StrangledByTheRedString: Imogen and Agreus go from utterly despising everything the other stands for to having sex within just one day (after knowing each other for a week). And it's not even a SlapSlapKiss kind of relationship - we're supposed to buy that Imogen, who was barely considering Pucks to be anything more than animals, suddenly fell genuinely and tenderly in love and became irresistibly sexually attracted to Agreus, who had been outright hostile to her up to that point, just because he made her laugh a couple of times during an otherwise teeth-clenched and very awkward date at the auction. And she's apparently so hot for him that the Victorian rules of sexuality that normally apply to well-born unmarried young ladies in the Steampunk genre (i.e., sex before marriage means complete ruin and no marriage chances, which had not been established as not applying in this series) don't even merit a second of consideration. {{Subverted}} in Season 2 when it's revealed that Imogen had driven off many previous suitors (as well as some of her brother) with her acrid personality and was on the fast track of becoming a spinster before meeting Agreus - meaning that was ''desperate'' enough to start an rushed affair with him.

* HollywoodHomely: Imogen, played by Creator/TamzinMerchant,[[note]]Perhaps best known for playing the legendarily beautiful "rose without a thorn" Katherine Howard in ''Series/TheTudors''[[/note]] describes herself as plain in the first episode. Given her status as an upper-class young woman with no romantic prospects, it's likely that she's not supposed to be terribly attractive.

** The way the faeries' wings behave like floppy pieces of cloth when not in use (as opposed to being stiff, like real insects' wings) makes it hard to forget that they ''are'' in fact floppy pieces of cloth rather than real body parts.

* {{Anvilicious}}: So, are we clear that racism, sexism, classism and homophobia are bad yet? Or do we need to hear some more [[StrawCharacter clueless assholes]] spewing mindless hatred? Fortunately, it gets [[GrowingTheBeard a lot beardier]] in Season 2.

* {{Anvilicious}}: So, are we clear that racism, sexism, classism and homophobia are bad yet? Or do we need to hear some more [[StrawCharacter clueless assholes]] spewing mindless hatred?

* StrangledByTheRedString: Imogen and Agreus go from utterly despising everything the other stands for to having sex within just one day (after knowing each other for a week). And it's not even a SlapSlapKiss kind of relationship - we're supposed to buy that Imogen, who was barely considering Pucks to be anything more than animals, suddenly fell genuinely and tenderly in love and became irresistibly sexually attracted to Agreus, who had been outright hostile to her up to that point, just because he made her laugh a couple of times during an otherwise teeth-clenched and very awkward date at the auction. And she's apparently so hot for him that the Victorian rules of sexuality that normally apply to well-born unmarried young ladies in the Steampunk genre (i.e., sex before marriage means complete ruin and no marriage chances, which had not been established as not applying in this series) don't even merit a second of consideration. {{Subverted}} in Season 2 when it's revealed that Imogen had driven off many previous suitors (as well as some of her brother) with her acrid personality and was on the fast track of becoming a spinster before meeting Agreus - meaning that was ''desperate'' enough to start an affair with him.

* StrangledByTheRedString: Imogen and Agreus go from utterly despising everything the other stands for to having sex within just one day (after knowing each other for a week). And it's not even a SlapSlapKiss kind of relationship - we're supposed to buy that Imogen, who was barely considering Pucks to be anything more than animals, suddenly fell genuinely and tenderly in love and became irresistibly sexually attracted to Agreus, who had been outright hostile to her up to that point, just because he made her laugh a couple of times during an otherwise teeth-clenched and very awkward date at the auction. And she's apparently so hot for him that the Victorian rules of sexuality that normally apply to well-born unmarried young ladies in the Steampunk genre (i.e., sex before marriage means complete ruin and no marriage chances, which had not been established as not applying in this series) don't even merit a second of consideration.

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: After Vignette is arrested, Tourmaline has a vision of her being muscled onto a guillotine while trying to scry her fate. But, come on, it's episode five of eight for the season, no way are they killing off one half of the OfficialCouple, right? [[spoiler:Right. Instead they kill off Sophie Longerbane on the guillotine and Jonah Breakspear by monster, while Vignette's execution is interrupted by the monster and she vanishes.]]

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: It's due to world-building rather than copyright-dodging, but the ''Soldiers of the Burgue'' song that Philo and Darius sing sounds ''very'' like the classic war song ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Long_Way_to_Tipperary It's a Long Way to Tipperary]]''.

* HollywoodHomely: Imogen, played by Tamzin Merchant,[[note]]Perhaps best known for playing the legendarily beautiful "rose without a thorn" Katherine Howard in ''Series/TheTudors''[[/note]] describes herself as plain in the first episode. Given her status as an upper-class young woman with no romantic prospects, it's likely that she's not supposed to be terribly attractive.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Most of the time the special effects are pretty good, but there are a few scenes where a puck's hooves are visible that it's painfully obvious that they're nothing more than boots in which the actors are standing on the balls of their feet while wearing. Which is probably why shots that show a puck's feet are so rare.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: It's due to world-building rather than copyright-dodging, but the ''Soldiers of the Burgue'' song that Philo and Darius sing sounds ''very'' like the classic war song ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Long_Way_to_Tipperary It's a Long Way to Tipperary]]''.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** In the Season 1 finale, Philo somehow completely forgets that a Darkasher can only be killed by the death of the person who created it.
** In the backstory, [[spoiler: Piety Breakspear married Absalom in order to be the mother of his son, who would be greater than him -- while ''also'' carrying on an affair with his greatest rival. Surprise surprise, the latter turns out to be the biological father of her son, which makes her exceptionally paranoid and eventually willing to carry out multiple murders.]]

* FandomRivalry: Ultimately {{Downplayed}} since there wasn't actually any sniping between the two camps. This series and ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance'' were released on the very same day, and both clearly trying to be [[FollowTheLeader the next big fantasy series]] after ''Series/GameOfThrones'' ended.