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  • Alternate Character Interpretation: Just how much free will Mendieta has after selling his soul to the Devil? His lines somehow imply he is not voluntarily evil, only under some kind of influence that he had to struggle against in order to turn to good.
  • Anti-Climax Boss:
    • In Season 2, the Butcher and the Hostiles. They return menacingly from the shadows as Mendieta's trump card, only for them to be immediately countered by the Walkway reinforcements (and to add insult, one of those is Pollo, a non-fighter civilian) before they have time to do anything.
    • In Season 3, again, the Butcher. His introduction between the rebel agents is genuinely badass, but all of his participation in the finale amounts to trash-talking in a couple scenes before Márquez finishes him with a single shot, from out of cover and without any fight whatsoever put by the baddies.
  • Ass Pull:
    • Mendieta's last minute change of heart is seen as incoherent, especially given how solidly evil and twisted he had been established to be through the entire season.
    • Awesome as it could be, the return of the deceased Lola, Pollo and Arturo, who get turned inexplicably into The Cavalry to fight Mendieta's mooks comes completely out of nowhere and was not even supposed to be possible in the first place given the Walkway's weird rules about returning to life.
    • The series had made a big deal of the fact that returned people came with no knowledge of their new body's previous life, so they had to struggle to adapt to it. However, in the third season Laura returns in Verónica's body and suddely the Walkway can give her all of her experience and skills while retaining her own personality, clearly in a lazy effort to make her an Affirmative Action Girl.
    • All the deaths and failures in Season 3's finale becoming undone because Iago's and Susana's son is suddenly revealed to be a Goo-Goo-Godlike that somehow can use his Reality Warper powers specifically to save the day. This episode is the literally first time the baby is hinted to be anything other than a political tool for the human and alien races, it is never explained exactly why the offspring of a human and a Walkwayed person can turn out that way, and all the foreshadowing consists on the Chairwoman uttering an incredibly lame last minute prophecy about him in the last episode.
    • While it can chalked up to the Chairwoman now knowing her gender, it's at least surprising that the miraculous son (who was referred in unmistakingly male pronouns) turned out to be a girl the next season.
    • The fourth season plot being almost entirely solved in the last episode by Márquez, Iago, Sebas and Santos somehow acquiring incredibly convenient superpowers by touching Adriana while she was unconscious. Such thing had never been even remotely suggested to be a possibility, especially after all the focus put on how Adriana struggled to control her powers herself and how she was supposed to be unique at this. The finale also includes another last episode prophecy which sounds farfetched enough to summon the MST3K Mantra.
  • Badass Decay:
    • Iago. He started the series a superhuman agent who served as Márquez's Hypercompetent Sidekick, but just a few episodes were enough to turn him into a comedic Cloudcuckoolander who barely knows how to do his own job (and whose fighting skills are incredibly inconsistent). His increasingly troubled love life also removed points of badassery from him, particularly due to the dogged way he is treated by Susana.
    • The Butcher. From a Big Bad able to have all the Walkway on their toes to a cheap season finale act who even gets finished in a minute the second time.
  • Base-Breaking Character:
    • Iago. Some like the emphasis done on him as a constant source of comedy, while others think that it goes too far and that his comedic skits have wasted him as a character.
    • Susana. Is she a good example of a newcomer with personality, or is she an extreme jerkass who suffers too little for what she deserves? The latter camp increased its numbers with the second season, to the point some were calling Flanderization.
    • Post-Heel–Face Turn Carlota. Some like her for her goofiness and bits of development, especially next to Iago, while some dislike her as a wasted character whose interesting previous role was overwritten to make her another shallow Affirmative Action Girl for the hero team.
    • The Butcher, and in especial his tendency to reappear shockingly at the end of every season. While he is appreciated as a great villain, some think the writers are cheapening him by turning him into an "Instant Climax: Just Insert the Butcher" kind of plot device to raise the stakes that ultimately goes nowhere.
    • The three original Liaisons. You either find them hilarious or unsufferable.
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: There are speculations that Carlota's character was retooled mid-production, as her first appearances are so jarring for what she is later revealed to be that no amount of Early-Installment Weirdness or Red Herring can explain it. The biggest offender might be her introduction to Iago, as she claims smugly that they actually know each other very well, only that she has "changed her appearance a lot"... which later goes nowhere when she is revealed to be just an unrelated Walkway agent in a cover mission, who doesn't know Iago at all nor ever claims such thing again, and whose "change" amounts explicitly to switching her uniform for street clothes. This, along with scenes where she wears a hood and proclaims her work will be a "butcher's work", has led people to believe that she was originally meant to be a returned Butcher before the scriptwriters changed their mind in midst of the season.
  • Broken Base:
    • The revelation of Iago being actually a deceased doctor named Santiago Figueroa. Some preferred his previous characterization as an angelic being without a past, while others like it because it fleshes him out, and a third part sees it as interesting but believes it could have been played better. The fact that this background is rarely mentioned in the next seasons makes one think it might be divisive among the writers too.
    • Season 2 was essentially Iago's show, as many important characters from Season 1 were Demoted to Extra and Márquez himself was pushed to the side almost permanently. Although the season was by no means panned for this, whether this was a good thing or not in relation to other characters and the series's overarching plot is hotly debated.
    • In line to the point above, the second season downplaying supernatural gimmicks like Márquez's immortality and magic gun (the viewer could be pardoned for forgetting totally about them, given that the former is barely demonstrated and the latter is not used at all aside from a callback) and having regular, defeatable men as villains instead of superhuman demons/spirits/whatever (although those make a cameo at the end). As with the rest, some approve it and some do not.
    • Season 3 recasting the entire Vargas family by giving Laura, Susana and Bea new bodies after a Wham Episode, and that's only for starters.
    • Is Season 3 an even bigger improvement than Season 2, with greater drama action and surprisingly good performances by the new actors? Or is it a complete mess, with a plot that seems to have been heavily rewritten on the fly at least twice, and whose intriguing character action is ultimately incidental?
    • Generally, everything about Season 4. Are Adriana and Uribe interesting new characters, or the cheapest Younger and Hipper cast addition possible? Is the new Lighter and Softer tone fit for the COVID-19 times as the producers claimed, or have they gone completely overboard with it, leaving the series feeling without any stakes or excitement?
  • Captain Obvious Reveal: In Season 4, the revelation that the three Inexplicably Awesome old ladies are supernatural beings is so crystal clear from the start that the viewer might wonder whether it was meant to be a reveal to begin with, and why did they wait for so long before unveiling it in that case. The only factor that made it look less probable was the absolutely bizarre way their first appearance was written, as no character seemed to find anything strange about them and it was never explained how did they get their military-grade weapons, nor what happened to them after being busted.
  • Cliché Storm: The series had never been terribly original, but Season 4 took it up to eleven, as it added a barrage of classical plot points related to The Chosen One (namely, a younger character endowed with stock superpowers she cannot control and who is at one point forced to choose between staying or leaving her family behind) and made the Chairwoman's babble turn more and more trite, to the point Márquez himself lampshaded it in the last episode.
  • Fight Scene Failure:
    • In Season 1, there was the painfully visible fact that Alejo Sauras (Iago) had probably not hit a heavy bag in his life, as every time he threw a fancy superman punch, he just flailed his hand around, in a way that would have surely broken his wrist had it connected. He fared better with grappling moves, but those are not used as often in the series.
    • The fight against the Chinese shopkeepers in Season 3 had some strangely unconvincing choreography, probably because the action was so close that they could not use stunt doubles for the leads. For this reason, the point where Sebas uses some nice Improv Fu against his opponent is the only point where it does not look like they are just trading light taps.
  • Growing the Beard: Despite the mentioned complaints, the second season is considered by many as a step up from the previous, as it drops its rather lame Monster of the Week format for a more complex plot, banishes the goofiest elements in favor of real drama, and is Darker and Edgier.
  • Informed Wrongness: The three original Liaisons call derisively Uribe an "alpha male" in a point about toxic masculinity. This claim, however, couldn't be more strange: at that point, Uribe was basically the cast's official Butt-Monkey due to lacking any above-average skill, being previously a Muggle, and having a rather squeamish personality, to the point his only reason to be there was his persistent romantic relationship with Adriana - in general, a role typically associated to female characters. Compared to the rest of male characters in the scene, which included rugged heroes like Márquez, Sebas and Santos, one could rather make the point that Uribe is the least manly out of all of them. If anything, Uribe would be just the most conventionally handsome of all, which makes the complaint sound instead like just disguised body-shaming.
  • Narm: Enough for its own article.
  • The Scrappy:
    • The Walkway chairwoman and her staff drew the audience's ire due to their perceived ill treatment of Vargas. It's shown that not only they forgot to brief him properly about the past life of his new body, but also allowed him to enter the Walkway in Season 2 to complain pointlessly to them without reminding him that the time lapse would vanish him from Earth for a year (causing serious problems to his new life there), all with a cheerful smile and some generic mumbo jumbo about fate and missions. Her help at Season 2 finale did not exactly fix things, as it proved that, for all her Vagueness Is Coming quotes, she was actually as ignorant of Mendieta's plot as the main characters were (if not actually more), and her nonsensical role in Season 3 didn't exactly help things.
    • DH72 is considered the series's weakest villain due to how bland and uninteresting she was, especially next to more colourful characters like the Butcher and Mendieta. Even her revelation as Season 3's Big Bad didn't strike as a particularly shocking moment, precisely because she had always been so unremarkable that many people in the audience actually struggled to remember her.
  • Seasonal Rot: While Season 3 was already step down compared to the previous two, Season 4 became officially the lowest point of the series, with TV ratings basically plummetting in its course. Fans and critics disliked especially the failure at a Lighter and Softer tone, the embroiled and poorly explained plot, and the decision to push beloved characters out of the spotlight in order to focus on new cast additions who failed utterly at drawing a response from the viewers. It came to the point that talks about cancellation started going on before the season had even ended, and this seems to be the course of the series right now.
  • Spiritual Adaptation:
    • The series goes about a gruff but good-natured male main character is killed while trying to do good, meets a burocratic afterlife where he is informed his death was not meant to happen, and is sent back as a special detective in order to kill demons, some of which possess people. He wields a supernatural pistol-shaped weapon that shoots a blue laser, and is personally accompanied by a bubbly and cute afterlife officer who often intrudes in his troubled family life. One of his allies is a grumpy guy from his previous life, while one of the villains wants to open a tunnel to the demon world. By this point, it's out of the question that the scriptwriters of Estoy Vivo weren't familiar with YuYu Hakusho.
    • In Season 3, we have a plot where an organization composed by stern guys in nice suits fights for the peace between human and vaguely supernatural nonhuman races, with the conception of a hybrid child (the son of one of the main characters) threatening the balance due to the ill views of some nonhuman extremists who wish to kill it. Among the good guys there is a secret elite agent initially disguised as an unpleasant nutcase, the villains are foiled by the amazing power generated by the hybrid, and it is revealed that the organization always planned for the couple to get together. Estoy Vivo or Wicked City?
  • Squick:
    • While nobody says there's something wrong in the interracial relationship between Bea and Jon, the fact that he looks at least twice her age (and not without reason, as in real life, his actor was substantially older than hers) can evoke some grimaces in the audience every time they are shown making out. Tellingly, said scenes are always shot from the back in order not to show the actors aren't actually kissing, and Jon himself was Put on a Bus in the next season, meaning that even the producers themselves probably had enough of this.
    • Carlota handing Adriana the hologram of her parents so she can know them. All fine until one remembers the item is implied to be the equivalent to a sex tape.
  • Strangled by the Red String: The moment in Season 4 where Iago admits to reciprocate Carlota's feelings, being just too scared to love again after losing Susana, comes basically from nowhere. While Carlota had been shown to be attracted to him since her introductory season, Iago hadn't, and he goes basically from showing zero romantic attraction to Carlota to suddenly putting her at the same level as Susana in his eyes. To call this jarring is an understatement.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
    • Iago can be seen as this, especially because Early-Installment Weirdness had him introduced as worldly badass, very competent and helpful yet also smug and skeptical towards humanity, who acted as Márquez's much needed Foil after his resurrection. Instead, the final version of him we got was a naive, sensitive goofball with inconsistent abilities, constantly victimized for comic relief, who ironically came across as a much flatter character than before despite the development brought by his exploration of human feelings. This also meant that the Red Oni, Blue Oni relationship who was being teased between him and Márquez was set to be abandoned, being reshaped more like a Buddy Picture show.
    • The Butcher was an interesting villain who could be very scary and who clearly had a complex background, particularly after the show dropped clues that it was related to time travel and other dimensions. However, most of his appearances through Season 1 had him just behaving ominously and doing generic evil things while other baddies took most of the action, and his background was made such a mess of in the final episode that we never learned what exactly happened to his world and what was his motivation. His posterior reappearances in the next seasons as a hired gun to Mendieta and DH72 only worsened it.
    • The unseen, unexplained "Devil" Mendieta sold his soul to. Did it exist? Was it just a metaphor? A metaphor for what, in that case? Season 2 reveals so little about him that it's hard not to think he should have received at least some exposition.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
    • The most common complaint in the series so far is that the show uses many interesting ideas only to bury them under awkward character drama and comic relief. This was a complaint already present on the director's previous series, Águila Roja.
    • The Fireflies subplot in Season 3 ultimately has little connection to the main plot, and seems to have been tacked in in order to give the heroes something to do while DH72's revolt was preparing to explode. Barring an instance where some of them help Carlota by distracting the baddies while she guns them down, it could be excised from the season without affecting the finale at all. It's easy to think that they should have been given a better use, especially given that the last time the heroes did a side quest job like that was in Season 1.

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