YMMV / Saramandaia

• Alternate Character Interpretation: At the time the remake was running, a web series was released called Saramandices do corpo humano^note  Roughly: Saramandities of the human body, which created a few of these.
  • The most glaring suggestion is that Professor Aristóbulo isn't actually a werewolf, but instead a chronically and mentally ill man (afflicted with cutaneous porphyria, hypertrichosis and clinical lycanthropy) who, influenced by the townsfolk's superstitions, believes he turns into a beast.
• Angst? What Angst? : Stela believed her whole life that her mother died at birth, then finds out she's Risoleta's daughter, but by the time the next scene happens, she already has gotten over it.
  • Risoleta herself almost gets killed four times in the novela (plus one time before the novela began) and yet this doesn't faze her very much.
• Anvilicious: For the remake: bullying people for being different is wrong, y'all.
  • Also for the remake: new times are coming, and it's okay.
• Ass Pull: In the remake, João Gibão being able to fly back in time, Superman style, to save Marcina from being shot by Zico Rosado, who intended to shoot him. Even in a story full of magical stuff, this one was received negatively, because nothing indicated that was going to happen.
• Awesome Music: Pavão Mysteriozo by Ednardo, it is not only immediately associated with this telenovela (being a song about a free-spirited man, who dreams of flying), but also it's considered a great song in its own right.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Seu Encolheu and Bia mourning Dona Redonda? Not funny at all. Dona Redonda dying by self-explosion, leaving bits of her body all over the town? Terrifying, when you stop to think about it. Maestro Totó trying to pick out her leg from the church's bell, the prisoner recovering her foot after it kicks him and Encolheu saying his late wife would explode in joy after listening to Aristóbulo's speech about her? Funny as hell.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Professor Aristóbulo and Dona Risoleta, who became favorite characters to a good number of viewers, due to their strong individual plots and chemistry together.
• Iron Woobie: Risoleta. The woman was a prostitute, had her husband killed in front of her, had to give away her young daughter, didn't have any chances to see her grow up, fell in love again and saw her new love reject her due to her past, found out that her ex father-in-law wanted to kill her and almost died at least four times in the telenovela, but never lets those things get her down for too long. She earns her happy ending though, getting married to the man she loves and reuniting with her daughter.
• It Was His Sled: João Gibão has wings under his vest, which give the appearance of a hunchback. In the original version, it was considered a mystery, with his wings only being seen by the public on the last chapter. The remake shows us his wings in the first couple of chapters.
  • Professor Aristóbulo really is a werewolf.
  • Saramandaia wins the plebiscite.
• Jerkass Woobie: Helena Rosado in the remake, as she is still a bigoted character who insists on keeping the family war alive and hides the truth about her granddaughter's parents from her, but also had to deal with her mother-in-law openly disliking her, her husband cheating on her repeatedly (and the last time with a woman related to their main enemies), her son dying very young and her daughter coming back after ten years and being scorned by her father. But the worst blow was clearly finding out that her husband indirectly caused their son's death. That's what makes her finally divorce him.
• Moral Event Horizon: In the remake, Maria Aparadeira giving Marcina an abortifacient tea, just to avoid the possibility of her grandson being born with wings.
  • Zico Rosado crossed that line years ago, as he sent his employee to kill his son's wife. But the employee missed the shot and ended up killing his boss's son, Zé Mário, instead.
    • Also covering it up and pining it down on the Vilar/Tavares family, only confessing it eighteen years later.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: The couple name of Aristóbulo and Risoleta: Aristoleta.
  • Sometimes fans call Zico and Vitória by Zitória.
• Rainbow Lens : In the remake. Downplayed with João Gibão, in full effect with Professor Aristóbulo. Interestingly enough, the telenovela did have a gay character (in the last chapter).
• The Scrappy: Zélia Vilar is considered this in the remake, due to being too annoying.
• Signature Scene: Dona Redonda exploding.
  • João Gibão flying around the city and into the sky.
  • Professor Aristóbulo becoming a werewolf in front of Risoleta.
• Signature Song: Pavão Mysteriozo, sung by Ednardo, to the point where there was backlash due to the remake not using the song in the opening credits.
• Special Effects Failure: Present in the original version, although to a way lesser extent than other productions of the time.
  • Aristóbulo's transformation had to happen onscreen pretty slowly, with only makeup being applied.
  • Dona Redonda had to be exploded via giant balloon.
  • João Gibão's wings are clearly just glued on.
  • Some of the effects of the remake have also aged badly, with people considering the CGI too unrealistic.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks! : A lot of the people who watched the original have these feelings about the remake; the consensus seems to be that it isn't horrible, but is not as remarkable as the original.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot :
  • Much of the original storylines were dropped, but one in special was the death of Zelia and Lua's first child. It would certainly be an interesting approach, considering the death occurs due to religious influence on Lua. In the remake, Zélia and the baby have a few health scares, but end up ok.
  • What happened to Aristóbulo's seven sisters? They never appeared in the soap opera in person, only being mentioned when we needed to know why he is a werewolf and in a particularly embittered mention by their brother in episode 29. The only "appearance" they make is through a picture◊.
  • Stela spent most of her life thinking her mother was dead and that it was the Vilar family's fault. Then, at the day she comes back (after running away from her family) and Risoleta, her birth mother, is getting married, Helena and Laura tell her the truth. Offscreen. Risoleta and Stela make up and that's it.