YMMV / Hollidaysburg

• Adorkable: All the characters have their moments, but Tori and Scott especially — Tori is the more self-deprecating wallflower version of this trope, while Scott is a gregarious and extroverted goofball.
• Broken Base: While it's universally considered the better of the two movies that came out of The Chair, there's still differing opinions on whether or not it's a good film based on its own merits.
• Jerkass Woobie: YMMV very much on this, especially depending on how tired you are of the Psycho Lesbian trope, but a lot of Katie's abominable behavior reads differently when you realize she's deeply in denial about her own sexuality.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: For a long time, this movie was only known to much of the public because of The Chair, and publicly praising it would put you in the crosshairs of Shane Dawson's "army" of fans who thought Anna Martemucci and Zachary Quinto had colluded to shame and humiliate their idol on TV. As of 2020, it turns out it's this movie's fans and Shane Dawson's haters who've been Vindicated by History.
• Vanilla Protagonist: Many reviewers commented they didn't get to see as much of Scott and Heather's emotional crises as they would've liked, because of the time we spend with Tori as a viewpoint character, whose own dramatic arc is a lot less interesting because she's a much more straightforward and basically decent person. A bit meta given that Tori's own angst is about being seen as an uninteresting side character in other people's stories. Also contrasts wildly from the brash, sexy and acid-tongued Deadpan Snarker Daria Expy Tori was in the original screenplay, which is a major reason original screenwriter Dan Schoffer disavowed Hollidaysburg and put his support behind Shane Dawson's Not Cool as the superior rendering of his vision.
• Vindicated by History: It is now very, very difficult to find anyone who will still defend the idea that Not Cool deserved to win the $250,000 prize from The Chair over this film.
• The Woobie: Both Scott and Heather very much get moments of this, although the effect is stronger with Scott, since we see him desperately struggling almost constantly to hide his depression and anxiety beneath his familiar Big Man on Campus mask.

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