History YMMV / TheApprenticeTheStudentAndTheCharlatan

* EvilIsSexy: While Envy before she went evil was far from a prude, her sultriness post-StartOfDarkness takes it up to eleven, especially in the original sequel where almost every single one of her lines in one chapter is a DoubleEntendre directed at Nova to throw him off. In the new sequel, she also rather explicitly says she acts this way to make Nova uncomfortable.

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** The early chapters' rewrites. On the whole, reception has been a lot better, though one commentor noted that he preferred the old ones, until he was finally won over.
** The earlier explanation for how magic worked, with waves, was so erroneous it got retconned into quantum physics.

* EvilIsSexy: While Envy before she went evil was far from a prude, her sultriness post-StartOfDarkness takes it up to eleven, especially in the sequel where almost every single one of her lines in one chapter is a DoubleEntendre directed at Nova to throw him off.

** Rytex, like many fanfic writers over the years, gave the Changelings a central hive in the story. Well, along came the Season 6 finale, in which Chrysalis captures and holds the Mane 6, Shining Armor, Flurry Heart, Cadance, Luna, and Celestia in a changeling hive...
** In Chapter 7, a young filly named Bright Gleam is introduced, and is described as being pink with a golden mane, who attends Celestia's school and who grows to idolize Nova Shine. Come the series finale, we meet Luster Dawn, a pink mare with a golden mane who is Twilight's top student at her school, and idolizes her. Not a terribly big deal, until Bright Gleam went on to become a main character in the second sequel as Nova's apprentice.

* RomanticPlotTumor: In the original versions, some people weren't thrilled about Nova and Twilight's romance taking precedence over saving Trixie and defeating Envy. This was mitigated when Envy decided to go after Nova in the middle of one such date.

%%* CreepyAwesome: Envy.

* EvilIsSexy: While Envy before she went evil was far from a prude, her sultriness post-StartOfDarkness takes it UpToEleven, especially in the sequel where almost every single one of her lines in one chapter is a DoubleEntendre directed at Nova to throw him off.

* AdaptationDistillation: There is no narrator in the audio drama, so we are left without the snarky observations he makes all over the fic about the goings-on of Nova's and Twilight's life and conversations.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The early chapters' rewrites. On the whole, reception has been a lot better, though one commentor noted that he preferred the old ones, until he was finally won over.

* CreepyAwesome: Envy.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The earlier explanation for how magic worked, with waves. So JustForFun/{{egregious}}, it got retconned into quantum physics.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The early chapters' rewrites. On the whole, reception has been a lot better, though one commentor noted that he preferred the old ones, until [[WinTheCrowd he was finally won over.]]

* AwesomeMusic: The audio drama's theme song, "Into the Tower." The two credits songs from Episodes 2 and 3 are also well-done.

* MagnificentBastard: Envy. Outplays Nova and Twilight almost every step of the way in the present day.

* PortmanteauCoupleName: [=NovaLight=].

* CriticalResearchFailure: The earlier explanation for how magic worked, with waves. So {{egregious}}, it got retconned into quantum physics.