YMMV / Fantasia Times

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Yen Sid is meant to be seen as The Good King, but his constant surveillance of his kingdom's subjects (as well as those outside of it) and his tendency towards Disproportionate Retribution make it far easier to interpret him as an iron-fisted, Big Brother Is Watching-style ruler.
  • Given Hans' canonical sociopathic and manipulative traits, one can interpret him as not having actually reformed, but instead only pretending that he did so in order to reap the benefits.
  • Was Finn framed somehow, either by Lila (already a known liar) or Sera (so she could hook up with Rob without remorse)? Or did he willingly join the villains because he realized that his girlfriend and her friends were just as terrible, and figured this was the best option?
• Anvilicious: Don't bully others, don’t stubbornly stick by tradition, everyone has the potential to be powerful, and choose your own fate. At least one of these anvils will be dropped at some point in each story, and they often turn into Broken Aesops anyway.
• Ass Pull: Nothing written prior to Finn's betrayal suggested that he would do something like that, feeling like it was written in so Sera would move on with someone else.
• Captain Obvious Reveal: If a twist isn't an Ass Pull, then it'll most likely be foreshadowed so much that it becomes obvious what the outcome is, and yet the characters are surprised by it.
• Designated Hero: Andi, and by extension anyone who sides with her, is clearly meant to be seen as the Team Mom who looks out for her friends and is a benevolent ruler to her subjects. Instead, she's a hypocritical Psychopathic Womanchild who flips her lid any time someone questions her decisions and will automatically assume that her friends are insulting her behind her back even after she's repeatedly told that they don't. She's also downright racist at some points and will relentlessly bully certain characters because of who their parents are before then making them apologize for being mean to her.
• Die for Our Ship:
  • Tonks gets off pretty easily, simply accepting that Sirius was Remus' true love all along and moving on, even becoming the godmother of their daughter. Characters like Sam and Astrid, on the other hand, get no such sympathy and are heavily bashed.
  • It's pretty apparent that Finn's Face–Heel Turn only happened because Sera's real-life counterpart no longer had a Celebrity Crush on him. This has become a recurring trend with Sera's love interests; every time she breaks up with one, it's because they suddenly become a jerk and dump her (often with a side of Love-Interest Traitor), and she promptly gets Ship Tease with someone new. One of her earliest love interests, Albus Potter, is even retconned into having been a jerk in later works.
• Fridge Brilliance: In UglyDolls, it's shown that the dolls tend to go with owners who match them (e.g. Moxy gets to go with a girl who shares her Childish Tooth Gap). Taking this into account, Lou ending up with Andi as an owner makes perfect sense, though it's completely unintentional: both are blonde-haired, blue-eyed leaders who rule over their domains with an iron fist and despise those "below" them (Lou and the Uglydolls, Andi and the Purebloods/Royals).
• Fridge Horror: So all of Andi's friends decide that they're going to stay in Fantasia with her for the rest of their lives. It seems heartwarming at first until the reader realizes that most of them have responsibilities (up to and including running kingdoms) that they're abandoning in favor of a single person.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In the series, it's stated that Elsa passed the title of queen on to Anna in order to stay with Andi. In Frozen II, Elsa does the same thing so she can stay in the Enchanted Forest, with many fans joking that this was because she'd fallen for Honeymaren.
• Informed Wrongness:
  • The Royals are often bullied by Andi and her friends for daring to object to some of Andi's decisions, yet they're the ones who have to apologize to Andi in order to befriend her.
  • In "Happy Birthday, Hans!", the Westergaards protest that Hans should get some form of punishment after his actions in Frozen. This is treated as yet another sign of how much his family hates and abuses him, but given how Hans seems to have gotten off scot-free for attempted murder (with the Garcias essentially rewarding him), they have a point.
  • Kim, Ben, Lilo, and Jake are meant to be seen in the wrong for belittling Andi and working with a villain. However, their dialogue indicates that they had no idea they were working for a villain in the first place, and (while their wording could have been better) they just wanted to make sure that Andi was safe while they dealt with something potentially dangerous. Not to mention that it's implied that Andi did have powers back when she was working with them that she refused to use for no explained reason (meaning she could have changed their perception of her at any time, but chose not to), and Andi's response to all of this is to curbstomp them and mock them for being weaker than her.
• Padding: The series has a tendency to repeatedly refer to characters by their full names and titles, as well as constantly recycle plot points and descriptions.
• Platonic Writing, Romantic Reading: Andi and Sera are meant to be as close as sisters, but they're written as having far more romantic chemistry with each other than they do with their love interests. Case in point, during their first meeting, Andi called Sera "pretty", causing the latter to blush.
• Squick: One of the girls crushing on Danny is Dani, his younger clone/cousin.
• Strangled by the Red String: Sera and Finn share one dance together and are suddenly destined to be soulmates. After Finn betrays Sera, she ends up moving on with Rob Manion, which gets little to no build-up.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Next to nothing is known about a number of original characters in the fic, despite several of them playing a (supposedly) important role in the main trio's lives.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Andi and Danny's old rebel team, which opens up a number of story opportunities (especially regarding Carly and Mya, who are apparently MIA in the present); however, they're mentioned sparingly in the series. Even when former members do pop up, they just end up serving as the villains in yet another display of Andi's greatness.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The Designated Heroes have an alarming tendency to act like Psychopathic Manchildren, enact Disproportionate Retribution on anyone who opposes them, whine every other paragraph, and generally act like idiots so that many of the plots can happen; and yet they always come out on top while the narrator shills them to hell and back (especially the Original Characters). The antagonists they face usually don't have a personality beyond "wants to take over Fantasia and/or do (insert awful thing here) to the heroes", and they always lose, usually with the tension being killed long beforehand. Between all of this and the repetitive writing style the series uses, the readers would be forgiven for not wanting to care about anything that happens.

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