History YMMV / Poldark

* CaptainObviousReveal: After having already unsubtly hinted at Valentine's real parentage numerous times, Aunt Agatha's big reveal to George that [[spoiler:he might not be the father]] isn't all that shocking anymore.

* CompleteMonster: [[DomesticAbuser Reverend "Ossie" Osborne Whitworth]] is secretly a [[DirtyOldMonk lecherous creature]] who will stop at nothing to satisfy his urgings. Teaming up with George Warleggan to [[ScarpiaUltimatum coerce Morwenna Chenowyth into marrying him]] to spite Drake in lieu of hanging him, he wastes no time [[MaritalRapeLicense getting it on with her in brutal fashion]]. Eventually, they have a child, John Conan, but he [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil continues to rape her]] despite Dr. Enys warning him it could kill her eventually, proving to be a hypocrite when the next season he claims to be concerned about John Conan's life. Deprived for a while of satisfaction from Morwenna, Reverend Whitworth bides his time by pursuing an adulterous affair with her sister, Rowella, and helping George bankrupt Pascoe, one of the few remaining moral bankers in Cornwall, by extracting a confession of embezzlement from Pascoe's dying partner, Nathaniel Pearce, and casually cursing both Rowella and Nat the instant their usefulness ends, and is all too ready to resume his abuse of Morwenna at full force.

* CompleteMonster: [[DomesticAbuser Reverend "Ossie" Osborne Whitworth]] is secretly a [[DirtyOldMonk lecherous creature]] who will stop at nothing to satisfy his urgings. Teaming up with [[BigBad George Warleggan]] to [[ScarpiaUltimatum coerce Morwenna Chenowyth into marrying him]] to spite Drake in lieu of hanging him, he wastes no time [[MaritalRapeLicense getting it on with her in brutal fashion]]. Eventually, they have a child, John Conan, but he [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil continues to rape her]] despite Dr. Enys warning him it could kill her eventually, proving to be a hypocrite when the next season he claims to be concerned about John Conan's life. Deprived for a while of satisfaction from Morwenna, Reverend Whitworth bides his time by pursuing an adulterous affair with her sister, Rowella, and helping George bankrupt Pascoe, one of the few remaining moral bankers in Cornwall, by extracting a confession of embezzlement from Pascoe's dying partner, Nathaniel Pearce, and casually cursing both Rowella and Nat the instant [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness their usefulness ends]], and is all too ready to resume his abuse of Morwenna at full force.

* TheWoobie: Morwenna. She's just a teenager and [[spoiler: she's forced into marriage with a much-older man who repeatedly rapes her.]] [[TraumaCongaLine Her life seems to get steadily worse from the moment she first appears on screen.]]

** [[spoiler:When George has Harry blow up Drake's workshop over Whitworth's grisly death against Elizabeth's clear wishes, it's clear they're both over the MEH and that George is the only major character to survive Series 4 who ''won't'' get a happy ending at the end of the season.]]

** Demelza, Elizabeth and Morwenna's maternity gowns are all laced quite bizarrely, and it's painfully obvious that their pregnancies are fake since a) no one seemed to take into account that pregnancy often causes women's breasts to increase in size and b) the fake stomachs are positioned ''far'' too low down on their abdomens. The result is that it seems as their stays are actually trying to squeeze their babies out of them, like a tube of toothpaste!

** Demelza, Elizabeth and Morwenna's maternity gowns are all laced quite bizarrely, and it's painfully obvious that their pregnancies are fake since a) no one seemed to take into account that pregnancy often makes women's breasts increase in size and b) the fake stomachs are positioned ''far'' too low down on their abdomens, making it appear as if their stays are actually trying to squeeze their babies out of them, like a tube of toothpaste!

** Demelza, Elizabeth and Morwenna's maternity gowns are all laced quite bizarrely, and it's painfully obvious that their pregnancies are fake since a) no one seemed to take into account that pregnancy often makes women's breasts increase in size and b) the pregnancy bumps are positioned ''far'' too low down on their abdomens, making it appear as if their stays are actually trying to squeeze their babies out of them, like a tube of toothpaste!

** Demelza, Elizabeth and Morwenna's maternity gowns are laced quite bizarrely; it's painfully obvious that their pregnancy bumps are fake since they're positioned far too low down on their abdomens, as if the stays are trying to squeeze the babies out of them!

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** Demelza and Elizabeth's maternity gowns are laced quite bizarrely, and it's painfully obvious that their pregnancy bumps are fake since they're positioned very low down on their abdomens, as if the stays are trying to squeeze the babies out of them!

** Most gowns featured in the show are hopelessly old-fashioned for the 1790s until everyone starts wearing Regency costumes from one moment to the next, ''without'' showing the transition in fashion that took place during the time.
** Demelza's maternity gowns are laced quite bizarrely, and it's evident that her pregnancy bump is a fake since it's positioned very low down on her abdomen, as if the stays are trying to squeeze the baby out of her!

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Reverend Whitworth, already a despicable pig, crosses it by raping Morwenna almost immediately after his child is born, if earlier piggish moments towards her hadn't already done it.]]

* WhatTheHellCostumingDepartment: Most gowns featured in the show are hopelessly old-fashioned for the 1790s until everyone starts wearing Regency costumes from one moment to the next without showing the transition in fashion that took place during the time.

** Dwight's imprisonment and seperation from Caroline could have been milked for drama but ended up taking the backseat to other plots.

* WHTCostumesDepartment: Most gowns featured in the show are hopelessly old-fashioned for the 1790s until everyone starts wearing Regency costumes from one moment to the next without showing the transition in fashion that took place during the time.

* WHTCostumesDepartment: Most gowns featured in the show are hopelessly old-fashioned for the 1790s until everyone starts wearing Regency costumes from one moment to the next without showing the transition in fashion that took place during the time.

* AngstWhatAngst: One would expect that Dwight's [[spoiler:PTSD]] would be a major challenge for him and Caroline, but after one conversation with Hugh Armitage appears to cure him, the show acts as if this plot never happened.

* RomanticPlotTumor: Drake and Morwenna pine for each other for two seasons straight.

* RomanticPlotTumor: Dwight/Caroline. When they get together onscreen expect all the other interlocking plots to grind to a halt while they swap snarky quips.
* TheScrappy: Caroline is not popular thanks to the aforementioned RomanticPlotTumor and her scornful, spoiled attitude.

* BaseBreaker: Francis. He's either the series's biggest [[TheWoobie woobie]] or an annoying whiner who drags everyone around him down with his continued stupid decisions.

* DesignatedHero: Ross became this for some viewers after his night with Elizabeth in series two. Fans differed on whether the [[MoralEventHorizon unforgivable thing]] was [[YourCheatingHeart being unfaithful to Demelza]] or [[QuestionableConsent what he did]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil to Elizabeth.]]

* BaseBreaker: Francis. He's either the series' biggest [[TheWoobie woobie]] or an annoying whiner who drags everyone around him down with his continued stupid decisions.

* TheScrappy: Caroline is not popular thanks to the aforementioned RomanticPlotTumor and her scornful, spoilt attitude.