YMMV / Motherland: Fort Salem

• Catharsis Factor: The awesomeness of watching President Wade Bitch Slap Silver after all his deeds (use his own daughter to spread Witchplague through Fort Salem, conspire to assassinate the President, and frame the Bellweather unit for the former two events).
• Diagnosed by the Audience: Raelle starts out with a death wish over her mother dying, indicating depression and also possibly PTSD. She also has a fairly flat affect initially, showing little emotion. However, later she gets over this and it turns out she's a naturally reserved, quiet person outside situations that stir strong feelings.
• Draco in Leather Pants:
  • Scylla often gets this treatment from fans. While her character is intended to be sympathetic, many fans overlook and viciously defend the fact that Scylla knowingly committed mass murder, which almost certainly included children.
  • The Spree as a whole also have this going on. Some fans state that the Spree are completely right in their cause and that the entire military is evil despite the fact that at the end of the day, many of the witches are just soldiers doing their job. Even when the Spree's mass murders come into question, the excuse is usually that "the ends justify the means" or more disturbingly that the victims deserve their fate due to the loss of witch life now and from the persecution 300 years ago. The showrunner and several of the actors on the show have stated that while the Spree's cause of ending conscription is just, it in no way justifies their murders.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: The Grand Finale involves a world-spanning WHOOSH that apparently turns all humans into witches and (permanently?) covers the sky with weird glowing lights. This does not serve as an obvious resolution to any of the ongoing plot issues and seems like it would more likely cause worldwide panic and mass casualties as frightened people lashed out with powers they did not know how to control. Even if we assume that being made witches somehow causes all the Camarilla members to accept their new status peacefully and stop persecuting witches for being witches, witch-on-witch violence has been extremely common in the setting from the beginning. More magic could easily just mean wars escalating.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Tally Craven ultimately ends the series with Gregorio Shellbark and has a relationship with Gerit Buttonwood in Season 1, but most fans prefer to pair her with Sarah Alder. This mainly started when Season 2 had Tally become temporarily infatuated with Alder after being psychically linked to her. Though this went nowhere in the show, fans took and ran with it. This is not helped by many fans feeling that Tally had better chemistry with Alder than either of her male love interests. For example, on Archive of Our Own, Tally/Alder has over 1000 fanfics while both Tally/Gerit and Tally/Gregorio aren't even close to cracking 100. Also not helped by the actresses playing it up, calling each other wives, posting kiss photos, etc.
• Foe Yay Shipping: Abigail and Libba may hate each other with a vengeance, but this has not stopped some fans from shipping them together. Abigail herself is heartbroken when Libba is killed towards the end of season 1.
• Les Yay: In the first episode, Raelle teases the virginal Tally that she'll show Tally her witch's mark once they get to know each other better. This is after mentioning that her witch's mark happens to be an inch away from her vagina. The very next episode, Tally is very excited to find out that Raelle is a lesbian. Later in the season, "Hail Beltane" ends with Tally nuzzling Abigail, and "Up is Down" sees Tally cradling a weakened Raelle in her arms and kissing her forehead and cheek. The season 2 episode "My 3 Dads" adds fuel to the fire, with Raelle bringing Tally home with her to meet her dad, and later singing a song to her.
• LGBT Fanbase: Due to having two queer female leading characters, and their relationship being a continuing arc, the show is quite popular in the LGBT+ community. Creator/showrunner Eliot Laurence being openly gay may also help (he's of course behind it being so queer-themed).
• Like You Would Really Do It: The season 1 finale leaves Abigail and Raelle stranded in China having nearly died, Tally as one of Alder's biddies, and Raelle and Scylla's relationship in tatters. Most of this was swiftly resolved in season 2..
• Portmanteau Couple Name:
  • Raelle and Scylla are often called "Raella" or "Raylla" among fans.
  • Tally Craven and Sarah Alder are usually referred to as "Talder" by shippers.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The reason Tally's mother was able to get her a legal exemption from conscription (which Tally refused to take advantage of) is that so many of their family had been killed in battle that their matriline could die out if Tally was killed. But these family members are only briefly mentioned in the pilot episode; we could have been shown Tally and her mother remembering and mourning them at various points in the series and the deaths of family could have served as a personal reason for Tally to want to fight the Spree.