YMMV / SpacePOP

• Awesome Art: The books' art is drawn in a very detailed manga-esque style that fixes most of the art issues.
• Awesome Music: SpacePOP's music catalog is quite catchy, and every song can stick in your head. The Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese SpacePOP songs are equally catchy.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Episodes 99-101 have the tour bus being swallowed by a giant space slug, which comes out of nowhere, doesn't impact the plot, and is never brought up afterward.
• Funny Moments:
  • On seeing how big the Ring of Grock is, Chamberlin explains that Grock had really big fingers.
  • A couple moments lampshade tropes like the Self-Destruct Button or Contrived Coincidence, with the girls needing to find the statue of Grock without directions only to see a sign with a picture of said statue and a left arrow.
  • Geela's singing is so bad Tibbitt uses it as a torture device.
• Growing the Beard: Around episode 19 a proper story arc begins, with the girls going on missions, trying to find their parents, and then trying to find the jewel on the ring of Grock. More continuity nods appear afterwards as well.
• Heartwarming Moments: The episode where Hera helps at an animal shelter has her cuddling with all the pets, vowing to give all the animals a home since she found a home with SpacePOP, and she'll fight to save everyone else's homes too.
• Informed Wrongness: Captain Hansome's Stay in the Kitchen attitude is semi-justified, since the girls disobeyed his orders on their first mission and wouldn't have succeeded in their first or second missions if not for Chamberlin.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: The episodes' short length (about 3 minutes) doesn't give much time for things to happen, when things do happen they're often resolved extremely quickly, and in a serialized, weekly story it's easy to forget what happened last time. The collected episodes and books tell a much more cohesive story, which makes the flaws more apparent in some respects as things jump from one plot point to the next.
• Narm:
  • While the protagonists take Geela seriously and call her a monster, it's hard for the viewers to take her seriously when she's so Laughably Evil, has such an over-the-top design, and does little onscreen villainy.
  • The show goes out of its way to hide what the girls' parents look like for a majority of the first season. This leads to things like the robots picking the parents up and carrying them just offscreen, and first-person point of view shots of Athena looking through the cell bars as her mother's voice tells her to run.
  • While the girls missing out on rescuing their parents is affecting in the book, where they cry for two illustrated pages and talk themselves out of giving up afterward, in the show it's condensed to the girls looking angry, Athena saying "This is a sad day for us and all the planets of the Pentangle" in a sad tone, a shot of them crying that's so wide they can't be seen, and quickly moving on as they're interrupted by Bradbury.
• So Bad, It's Good: The animation quirks, cheesy characters and dialogue, and other factors make the series ironically enjoyable.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley:
  • The Space Pets are a huge example of this trope, having similar bodies, humanlike hair, eyes, and lips, and black outlines when the princesses have smooth, colored outlines.
  • Some minor characters are drawn with black outlines as opposed to the colorful outlines important characters have, making scenes where the two styles mesh look very off. The fact that the princesses have more detailed, intricate designs than the rest of the cast doesn't help.
  • Background aliens tend to be recycled or given a Palette Swap, and ones with nonhuman faces clash with the rest of the cast, especially since the rest of their bodies are humanoid.
  • The giant space slug has a humanoid head on a snakelike body.
  • Tibbitt is a dragon with a head that the junior novelizations describe as "disturbingly humanlike."