History YMMV / AguilaRoja

* AuthorsSavingThrow: How many see the way Hernán gets his job back, as it is such a bizarre and unrealistic coincidence, especially after the King had specifically stated not to care about him (it is naturally implied that he changed his mind, but the fact that it happens off-screen makes it look like it came out of nowhere).

* AnticlimaxBoss: The Cossack from the movie is portrayed as a powerful antagonist, and while it's true that he is tough, he receives the classic Águila Roja treatment in the first half of the film (it doesn't help that [[NeverTrustATrailer the trailers built him as much more important to the film than he actually was]]). In comparison, his twin brother puts a much better fight later in the series.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Gonzalo a good-natured man with a desire to pursue justice and help people in need who makes human mistakes, or a sociopathic man who is so mentally damaged that he cannot live anymore without killing thousands of people as Águila Roja? The ordeal is pointed out by Sátur in some instances, but it is never fully brought up.

* HoYay: Some is featured between Gonzalo and Sátur, but considering that it's a Spanish series, it is not unusual.

* MagnumOpus: Even with productions like ''Cuéntame'' on board, some people in and outside of RTVE have gone as far as to call ''Águila Roja'' the greatest Spanish TV series to date. Many other people believe it is an exaggeration or untrue, but nonetheless consider ''Águila'' the fanciest thing Spanish TV has ever done.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Inevitable with the assorted characters who [[OneShotCharacter show up]] and [[PutOnABus get the bus]] in every episode, given the main MonsterOfTheWeek nature of the show. [[DarkActionGirl Sung-Yi]], [[ManipulativeBitch Eva de Almeida]], Sátur's Eviltwin, the [[DepravedDwarf midget jester]] and the Fake Águila are several of them.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Gonzalo a good-natured man with a desire to pursue justice and help people in need, or a sociopathic man who is so scarred by his old conflicts that he cannot live anymore without being Águila Roja? The ordeal is pointed by Sátur at some instances, but it is never fully brought up.

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: One of the biggest examples ever, period. Critics were sceptical at the best and mocking at the worst even before its release, citing its silly premise and shoddy production, and prophesied a dire first season cancellation. And they were right, the resultant show did suffer from those and more problems, but it was ''not'' cancelled. It worked so well with the audience that not only got an improbable second season, but his success skyrocketed shortly after and became RTVE's TV juggernaut, gaining six more seasons and a film among other things.

* ArcFatigue: One of the show's main issues, consistently pointed out and never really corrected, is the way in which the producers seem to forget everything about the previous season (to the one that is currently airing), without giving it a proper relevancy, thus dragging out the remaining open plots until the audience forgets them or gets tired. Some of the most important arcs, like the relationship between Hernán and Irene, or the love stories between Gonzalo and Margarita and Irene and Nuño, have not been resolved or even progressed at all for many seasons.

** In the same season, an old hag sneaks into the Santillana palace and curses Lucrecia, who later has an accident and almost dies. This comes literally from nowhere and has no explanation or relevancy more than for a pair of moments with Hernán. Who is the hag or why exactly she wanted to curse Lucrecia is not revealed.
** The hooded rider who attacks Águila and Sátur in the ruins and shoots an arrow towards them looked meant to be an important character and possibly an antagonist, but with the Emperor's son arc being thrown aside, he has been forgotten.

** Irene evolving from TheIngenue to another ManipulativeBitch more through the series is another question point. Some think it is interesting and justified considering the people she has to live with, while other think it has no sense and is just an attempt to get another FemmeFatale on board.
** The Christ's sucessor arc and the insertion of supernatural elements is divisive among fans, with a part seeing them as unoriginal, bizarre and unconclusive and other considering them interesting at the best. The spectacularly abrupt ending of the arc, on the other hand, was unanimously bad received.
** Was Sátur's supposed rape and murder of a girl very aptly and powerfully played, or it would have been better not to resolve it so fast?

** The eighth season finale managed to divide quite definitively the fandom [[ShipSinking with regard to the terrible resolution of Gonzalo and Margarita's wedding, and Lucrecia's decision to save Gonzalo's life over Hernán's,]] causing AbandonShipping reactions for both couples among many fans, and even FanDisillusionment for some.

* CosmicDeadline: Many viewers have been fast in critize that some of the most long and anticipated arcs, like the Successor of Christ or Hernán's search to get his job back, were resolved very abruptly and/or in a vague and unsatisfactory way in order to leave space for the next arc.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: A common consequence of the emphasis on drama and DarkerAndEdgier is that many viewers sometimes watch the series more out of curiosity about how the producers are going to torment the characters that out of relation to the characters themselves.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Santiago Merino is esentially a walking moment of awesome. He has great lines and significance, is played by one of the greatest Spanish actors, and his conclusion at the end of the episode when he reveals his numbered days is possibly the single highest peak in the entire series.
* EarWorm: The fan-nicknamed "Águila Roja rescue theme", which used to play in every invariable BigDamnHeroes moment by Águila. Interestingly, it has got rarer and rarer to hear on screen after every season.
* EndingAversion: A worryingly increasing tend among viewers, given how many arcs have no ending or receive a vapid one.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Sátur is at least as popular as Gonzalo himself, if not more. Reasons for it range from Spanish audiences's love for comedic characters like him to the fact that the actor behind the character, Javier Gutiérrez, has blossomed out as a much better actor than any of the rest of the cast themselves.

* FanPreferredCouple: Gonzalo/Margarita, though the couple has lost fans over the years due to Margarita's popular opinion fluctuating over seasons.
* GeniusBonus: In one occasion, Sátur talks about a friend of his who mistook his wife for a hat. This is a reference to the Oliver Sacks's book ''The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat'', which is little known in Spain.

* HeReallyCanAct: The show was the launching platform for Javier Gutiérrez (Sátur), who got to show his acting talent more than with all of his previous career combinated. His casting in the film ''La Isla Mínima'', which gained him the Goya Award to the Best Male Performance, is widely believed to be thanks to his work in ''Águila Roja''.
** Ironically, at the beginnings of the series, all the main cast members ''but'' Gutiérrez were getting awards and prizes for Best Actor and such right and left, which made his posterior breakout more surprising.

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: There are so many examples of characters who end up in very credible imminent death situations that the whole concept is not believable anymore in the series, now that more or less every established character has a PlotArmor.

* MagnumOpus: Even with productions like ''Cuéntame'' on board, some people in and outside of RTVE have gone as far as to call ''Águila Roja'' the greatest Spanish TV series produced to date. Many other people believe it is an exaggeration or untrue, but nonetheless consider ''Águila'' the fanciest thing Spanish TV has ever done.

* RootingForTheEmpire: In recent times the series has taken delight in making Hernán and Lucrecia pay for their misdeeds with the people of the city, and this includes getting public humiliations for her and being beaten up in the street by a angry mob in two separate occasions for him, but it's hard for the spectator not to side with them after being repeteadly shown through the series what a bunch of horrible people is apparently the entire population of the city in first place. Even the very shows seems to have sided with them in some instances.

* ArcFatigue: A problem of the series, consistently pointed out and never really corrected, is the way in which the producers seem to forgot everything about the two seasons before the current without giving it a proper relevancy, thus elongating the remaining open plots until the very viewers forget them or get tired. Some of the most important arcs, like the relation between Hernán and Irene or the love story between Gonzalo and Margarita, have not been resolved or even advanced at all despite having passed many seasons. (Averted in the second case, however).

* AuthorsSavingThrow: How some see Hernán getting his job back in such a bizarre and unrealistic coincidence, especially after the King had especifically stated to not to care about him (it is naturally implied that he changed his mind, but the fact that it happens off-screen makes it look out from nowhere).
* BadassDecay: Hernán stopped from being portraited as a competent fighter quite a long time ago.

* CosmicDeadline: Many viewers have been fast in critize that some of the most long and anticipated arcs, like the Sucessor of Christ or Hernán's search to get his job back, were resolved very abruptly and/or in a vague and insatisfactory way in order to leave space for the next arc.

* HoYay: Some is featured between Gonzalo and Sátur, but this being a Spanish series, it is not weird.
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: There are so many examples of characters who end in very credible inminent death situations that the whole concept is not credible anymore in the series, now that more or less every established character has a PlotArmor.

* MagnumOpus: Even with productions like ''Cuéntame'' on board, some people in and outside of RTVE have went so far to call ''Águila Roja'' the greatest Spanish TV series produced until today. Many other people believe it is exaggerated or untrue, but nonetheless consider ''Águila'' the fanciest thing Spanish TV has ever done.
* {{Narm}}: In Season 7, Águila frees off-screen two men who were going to be unjustly executed. Only the outcome of the battle is shown, with Gonzalo and Sátur talking about how he managed to save two innocents. The moment could have been worthy and serious not had been at least twenty corpses of guards covering the soil around them. What about talking about those guys who probably had families to feed, Águila?
* NarmCharm: Let's admit it, the acting is not the best in the world and at times it's quite bad (with some notable exceptions, like above), the plot is predictable at certain points to the verge of reaching a ClicheStorm, there is a total lack of research in the historical aspect (although this could also be blamed on RuleOfCool and ArtisticLicense), and the attempts at a MultipleDemographicAppeal may at times seem to fail and make it look like the series doesn't fit in any of the genres that compose it... But even with all that, there are many, ''many'' people who genuinely enjoy this. The fact that it got multiple seasons, all with a high audience rate, as well as a movie demonstrate this.

* SoBadItsGood: The opinion of a big chunk of its fandom.

* FanPreferredCouple: Gonzalo/Margarita.

* ArcFatigue: A problem of the series, consistently pointed out and never really corrected, is the way in which the producers seem to forgot everything which happened two seasons before the current without giving it a proper relevancy, thus elongating the remanent open plots until the very viewers forget them or get tired. Some of the most important arcs, like the relation between Hernán and Irene or the love story between Gonzalo and Margarita, have not been resolved or even advanced at all despite having passed many seasons.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: How some see Hernán getting his job back in such a bizarre and unrealistic coincidence, especially after the King had especifically stated to not to care about him (it is naturally implied that he changed his mind, but the fact that it happens off-screen makes it all much more out from nowhere).

* EarWorm: The fan-nicknamed "Águila Roja rescue theme".

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Sátur is at least as popular as Gonzalo himself, if not more.
* EpilepticTrees: The series leaves completely unexplained who was the fake Águila and why he did everything, so fans have brought out their own theories about it.

* CreepyAwesome: Sebastián Ventura. There is simply something about him which brings memories of The Joker from ''Film/TheDarkKnight''.

* MagnificentBastard: There are really many in ''Águila Roja'', but Sebastián Ventura outwits everybody in the series after his debut, including Gonzalo, Hernán, the Cardinal and ''the King'', who are the biggest examples.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Gonzalo a good-natured man with a desire to pursue justice and help people in need, or a sociopathic man who is so scarred by his old conflicts that he cannot live anymore without being Águila Roja? The ordeal is pointed by Sátur in some instances, but it is not fully brought up.

* OneSceneWonder: Creator/PepeCarabias playing Sátur's father.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Gonzalo a good-natured man with a desire to pursue justice and help people in need, or a sociopathic man who is so scarred for his old conflicts that he cannot live anymore without being Águila Roja?

* ArcFatigue: A problem of the series, consistently pointed out and never really corrected, is the way in which the producers seem to forgot everything which happened two seasons before the current without giving it a proper resolution or relevancy, thus elongating the remanent open plots until the very viewers forget them or get tired. Some of the most important arcs, like the relation between Hernán and Irene or the love story between Gonzalo and Margarita, have not been resolved or even advanced at all despite having passed at least three seasons.

** In the same season, an old hag sneaks into the Santillana palace and curses Lucrecia, who later has an accident and almost dies. This comes literally from nowhere and has no explanation or relevancy more than for a pair of moments with Hernán. Who is the hag or why she wanted to curse Lucrecia is not revealed.

** Irene evolving from TheIngenue to another ManipulativeBitch more through the series is another question point. Some think it is interesting and justified considering the people she has to live with, whil other think it has no sense and is just an attempt to get another FemmeFatale on board.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Inevitable with the assorted characters who [[OneShotCharacter show up]] and [[PutOnABus get the bus]] in every episode, given the main MonsterOfTheWeek nature of the show. [[DarkActionGirl Sung-Yi]], [[ManipulativeBitch Eva de Almeida]] and the [[DepravedDwarf midget jester]] are several of them.

** The Christ's sucessor arc and the insertion of supernatural elements is divisive among fans, with a part seeing them as unoriginal, bizarre and unconclusive and other considering them interesting at the best. The spectacularly abrupt ending of the arc, on the other hand, feels rushed to everybody.
** Irene evolving from TheIngenue to another ManipulativeBitch more through the series is another question point.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Sátur is at least as popular as Gonzalo himself.

* RootingForTheEmpire: In recent times the series has taken delight in making Hernán and Lucrecia pay for their misdeeds with the people of the city, and this includes getting public humiliations for her and being beaten up in the street by a angry mob in two separate occasions for him, but it's hard for the spectator not to side with them after being repeteadly shown through the series what a bunch of horrible people is apparently the entire population of the city in first place.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Inevitable with the assorted characters who [[OneShotCharacter show up]] and [[PutOnABus get the bus]] in every episode, given the main MonsterOfTheWeek nature of the show. [[DarkActionGirl Sung-Yi]], [[ManipulativeBitch Eva de Almeida]] and the [[DepravedDwarf midget jester]] are several of them.

** The Christ's sucessor arc and the insertion of supernatural elements is divisive among fans, with a part seeing them as unoriginal, bizarre and unconclusive and other considering them interesting at the best. The abrupt ending of the arc, on the other hand, feels rushed to everybody.
** Irene evolving from TheIngenue to another ManipulativeBitch through the series is another question point.

* HeReallyCanAct: The show was the launching platform for Javier Gutiérrez (Sátur), who got to show his acting talent more than with all his previous career combinated. His casting in the film ''La Isla Mínima'', which gained him Goya Award to the Best Male Performance, is widely believed to be thanks to his work in ''Águila Roja''.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The seventh season features an episode which opens with Sátur accidentally discovering popcorn by putting corn into a fire. This oddity has no discernible relevance to the episode's plot and is never mentioned again.

* SoBadItsGood: The opinion of a big chunk of its audiences.

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: One of the biggest examples ever in Spanish media. Critics were sceptical at the best and mocking at the worst even before its release, citing its silly premise and shoddy production, and prophesied a dire first season cancellation. And they were right, the show suffered those and more problems, but it wasn't cancelled. It worked so well with the audience that not only got an improbable second season, but his success skyrocketed shortly after and become RTVE's TV series juggernaut, gaining six more seasons and a film among other things.

* NarmCharm: Let's admit it, the acting is not the best in the world, and in fact, at times it's quite bad (with some notable exceptions, like above), the plot is predictable at certain points to the verge of reaching a ClicheStorm, there is a total lack of research in the historical aspect (although this could also be blamed on RuleOfCool and ArtisticLicense), and the attempts at a MultipleDemographicAppeal may at times seem to fail and make it look like the series doesn't fit in any of the genres that compose it... But even with all that, there are many, ''many'' people who genuinely enjoy this. The fact that it got multiple seasons, all with a high audience rate, as well as a movie demonstrate this.

* AnticlimaxBoss: The Cossack from the movie is portrayed as a powerful antagonist, and while it's true that he is tough, he receives the classic Águila Roja treatment in the first half of the film (it doesn't help that [[NeverTrustATrailer the trailers built him as much more important to the film than it actually was]]). In comparison, his twin brother puts a much better fight later in the series.
* NarmCharm: Let's admit it, the acting is not the best in the world, and in fact, at times it's quite bad (with some notable exceptions), the plot is predictable at certain points to the verge of reaching a ClicheStorm, there is a total lack of research in the historical aspect (although this could also be blamed on RuleOfCool and ArtisticLicense), and the attempts at a MultipleDemographicAppeal may at times seem to fail and make it look like the series doesn't fit in any of the genres that compose it... But even with all that, there are many, ''many'' people who genuinely enjoy this. The fact that it got multiple seasons, all with a high audience rate, as well as a movie demonstrate this.

* AnticlimaxBoss: The Cossack from the movie is portrayed as a powerful antagonist, and while it's true that he is tough, he receives the classic Águila Roja treatment in the first half of the film (t doesn't help that [[NeverTrustATrailer the trailers built him as much important to the film than it actually was]]). In comparison, his twin brother puts a much better fight later in the series.

* NarmCharm: Let's admit it, the acting is not the best in the world, and in fact, at times it's quite bad, the plot is predictable at certain points to the verge of reaching a ClicheStorm, there is a total lack of research in the historical aspect (although this could also be blamed on RuleOfCool and ArtisticLicense), and the attempts at a MultipleDemographicAppeal may at times seem to fail and make it look like the series doesn't fit in any of the genres that compose it... But even with all that, there are many people who genuinely enjoy this. The fact that it got multiple seasons, all with a high audience rate, as well as a movie demonstrate this.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Inevitable with the assorted characters who [[OneShotCharacter show up]] and [[PutOnABus get the bus]] in every episode, given the main MonsterOfTheWeek nature of the show. The [[DarkActionGirl oriental warrior]], [[ManipulativeBitch Eva de Almeida]] and the [[DepravedDwarf midget jester]] are several of them.

* CompleteMonster: Blanca, the EnfantTerrible from Season 6. This ten year old girl killed ''her own mother'', poisoned a room of about twenty noblemen and tried to throw Lucrecia off a window, and it's implied she did everything [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. She is HighOctaneNightmareFuel at its maximum.

* NarmCharm: Let's admit it, the acting is not the best in the world, and in fact, at times it's quite bad, the plot is predictable at certain points to the verge of reaching a ClicheStorm, there is a total lack of research in the historical aspect (Although this could also be blamed on RuleOfCool and ArtisticLicense), and the attempts at a MultipleDemographicAppeal may at times seem to fail and make it look like the series doesn't fit in any of the genres that compose it... But even with all that, there are many people who genuinely enjoy this. The fact that it got multiple seasons, all with a high audience rate, as well as a movie demonstrate this.

* SoBadItsGood: Let's admit it, the acting is not the best in the world, and in fact, at times it's quite bad, the plot is predictable at certain points to the verge of reaching a ClicheStorm, there is a total lack of research in the historical aspect (Although this could also be blamed on RuleOfCool and ArtisticLicense), and the attempts at a MultipleDemographicAppeal may at times seem to fail and make it look like the series doesn't fit in any of the genres that compose it... But even with all that, there are many people who genuinely enjoy this. The fact that it got multiple seasons, all with a high audience rate, as well as a movie demonstrate this.

* SoBadItsGood: Let's admit it, the acting is not the best in the world, and in fact, at times it's quite bad, the plot is predictable at certain points to the verge of reaching a ClicheStorm, There is a total lack of research in the historical aspect (Although this could also be blamed on RuleOfCool and ArtisticLicense), and the attempts at a MultipleDemographicAppeal may at times seem to fail and make it look like the series doesn't fit in any of the genres that compose it... But even with all that, there are many people who genuinely enjoy this. The fact that it got multiple seasons, all with a high audience rate, as well as a movie demonstrate this.

* SoBadItsGood: Let's recognize it, the acting is not the best in the world, and in fact, at times it's quite bad, the plot is predictable at certain points to the verge of reaching a ClicheStorm, There is a total lack of research in the historical aspect (Although this could also be blamed on RuleOfCool and ArtisticLicense), and the attempts at a MultipleDemographicAppeal may at times seem to fail and make it look like the series doesn't fit in any of the genres that compose it... But even with all that, there are many people who genuinely enjoy this. The fact that it got multiple seasons, all with a high audience rate, as well as a movie demonstrate this.

* SoBadItsGood: Let's recognize it, the acting is not the best in the world, and in fact, at times it's quite bad, the plot is predictable at certain points to the verge of reaching a ClicheStorm, There is a total lack of research in the historical aspect (Although this could also be blamed on RuleOfCool and ArtisticLicense), and the attempts at a MultipleDemographicAppeal may at times seem to fail and make it look like the series doesn't fit in any of the genres that compose it... But even with all that, there are many people who genuinely enjoy this. The fact that it got a fourth season AND a movie recently demonstrate this.

* CompleteMonster: Both Hernán and Lucrecia have few, if any, redeeming qualities.

* SoBadItsGood: Let's recognize it, the acting is not the best in the world, and in fact, at times it's quite bad, the plot is predictable at certain points to the verge of reaching a ClicheStorm, There is [[DidNotDoTheResearch a total lack of research in the historical aspect]] (Although this could also be blamed on RuleOfCool and ArtisticLicense), and the attempts at a MultipleDemographicAppeal may at times seem to fail and make it look like the series doesn't fit in any of the genres that compose it... But even with all that, there are many people who genuinely enjoy this. The fact that it got a fourth season AND a movie recently demonstrate this.