History YMMV / Flatland

* TearJerker: ''Sphereland'' reveals that Arthur Square has died, likely from grief as his theories were once more rejected and ridiculed, with Hex having been ostracized for her unorthodox research. Near the end, as Hex travels the fourth dimension and sees many, many other versions of herself in different timelines rocketing through 4D in countless spaceships, she sees one whose version of her grandfather alive and well, and sadly ponders for a moment what went differently in that that parallel version of her had a happier outcome.

** Many people have accused Edwin A. Abbot of misogyny and sexism due to how the women are described by the narrator/main character A. Square. What some people don't realise is the book is a [[DeliberateValuesDissonance satire of Victorian values and that A. Square is supposed to be a strawman whose opinions the readers are SUPPOSED to disagree with]]. in fact, later editions were made to explain that A. Squares option's do not reflect that of the authors.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Despite being an animated film about geometric shapes, ''Flatland: The Film'' deals with incredibly mature themes and packs in a lot of gore and [[NightmareFuel horrifying imagery]]. Despite this, it often gets confused with the much more family-friendly ''Flatland: The Movie'' resulting in many kids having watched and been traumatized by the film.

* TheScrappy: The title cards in ''Flatland: The Film'' that constantly interrupt the story to deliver exposition, often doing so in an [[ViewersAreGoldFish annoyingly condescending manner]]. Quite a few critical reviews claim that the Narration single handedly ruined the entire film for them.

* ValuesDissonance:
** A 3-D sphere tells the hero, a 2-D square, that in his world, men and women are equals. [[StrawVulcan The square finds this unbelievable]]. The author might have been hinting that in a more advanced world, [[ValuesResonance the sexes would in fact be more equal than in his time]].
** The epilogue in later editions of the book would seem to indicate that people found it sexist at the time.
** As well, later editions rewrote it so that the square admits how bad women have it, noting that the only "consolation" is that they can't remember all the injustices they suffer.
** We might be dealing with an UnreliableNarrator as to how poor women's memories are. The square's wife comes across as sort of, well, ditzy, but she seems to remember things longer than he claims women do. (He does say she's smarter than most, but if women generally were as dumb as he claimed, they'd never remember where they lived or that they had families if they left the house. Or all the laws they have to follow).

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Despite being an animated film about geometric shapes, ''Flatland: The Film'' deals with incredibly mature themes and packs in a lot of gore and [[NightmareFuel horrifying imagery]]. Despite this, it often gets confused with the much more family-friendly ''Flatland: The Movie'' resulting in many kids having watched and been traumatizing by the film.

** We might be dealing with an UnreliableNarrator as to how poor women's memories are. The square's wife comes across as sort of, well, ditzy, but she seems to remember things longer than he claims women do. (He does say she's smarter than most, but if women generally were as dumb as he claimed, they'd never remember where they lived or that they had families if they left the house. Or all the laws they have to follow).

* TheScrappy: The constant title cards in ''Flatland: The Film'' that constantly interrupt the story to deliver exposition, often doing so in an [[ViewersAreGoldFish annoyingly condescending manner]]. Quite a few critical reviews claim that the Narration single handedly ruined the entire film for them.

* TheScrappy: The narrator in ''Flatland: The Film'' who constantly interrupts the story to deliver exposition, often doing so in an [[ViewersAreGoldFish annoyingly condescending manner]]. Quite a few critical reviews claim that the Narration single handedly ruined the entire film for them.

* MisaimedFandom: Satire of Victorian classism and sexism? Most come to it because of its depiction of geometric dimensions.

* TheScrappy: The narrator in ''Flatland: The Film'' who constantly interrupts the story to deliver exposition, often doing so in a [[ViewersAreGoldFish annoyingly condescending manner]]. Quite a few critical reviews claim that the Narration single handedly ruined the entire film for them.

* ValuesDissonance

** We might be dealing with an UnreliableNarrator as to how poor women's memories are. The square's wife comes across as sort of, well, ditzy, but she seems to remember things longer than he claims women do. (He does say she's smarter than most, but if women generally were as dumb as he claimed, they'd never remember where they lived or that they had families if they left the house. Or all the laws they have to follow.)

* FridgeBrilliance: The main character is named A. Square, because that's the shape that the character has. However, once one realizes that the author's name is Edwin Abbot Abbot, which for the mathmatical types can be represented as Abbot Squared, then it becomes a sly self-reference.

** A 3-D sphere tells the hero, a 2-D square, that in his world, men and women are equals. [[StrawVulcan The square finds this unbelievable]]. The author might have been hinting that in a more advanced world, [[ValueResonance the sexes would in fact be more equal than in his time]].

** A 3-D sphere tells the hero, a 2-D square, that in his world, men and women are equals. [[StrawVulcan The square finds this unbelievable]]. The author might have been hinting that in a more advanced world, the sexes would in fact be more equal than in his time.

** As well, later editions rewrote it so that the square admits how bad women have it, noting that the only "consolation" is that they can't remember all the injustices they suffer.