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Can't stop thinking about the interaction I had with a cousin-in-law a month ago

She DID NOT believe me that potatoes originate from South America (Peru). Like, absolutely REFUSED. She didn't even look it up, she just couldn't comprehend that I could know something she didn't. Still smh so much

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Back to my regularly scheduled hating of JJ fucking Abrams

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I've been seeing this in a lot of fics and posts and stuff, but didn't Pen's article about Eloise specifically NOT mention Theo? Like, it was just about Eloise being seen attending politically radical meetings. Right??

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Like this, cause DAMN

The costuming and hairstyles were already far from period accurate. They should've let Luke Newton have full scruff

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The costuming and hairstyles were already far from period accurate. They should've let Luke Newton have full scruff

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bridgerton season 3 part 2 spoilers

I want to preface this with saying that I have loved Polin for two years. Two years, hundreds of thousands of words, and almost 50 stories. I have loved this couple through fan edits, through fics, through rereads, through songs. I have loved this couple so deeply and earnestly and endlessly

And so my disappointment in Part 2 stems, predominately, from the fact that I just wish it had been better.

I wish it hadn't been as cut through with plotlines that went, ultimately, nowhere. Will and Alice with the tension of 'I don't want to give up the club' 'Well, you should to suit the status quo' 'Oh, okay'. Benedict with his 'I love being free. Let's shag freely!' 'I may have feelings for you' 'I still just want to shag freely, but now I'm opening up more options' (tho, congrats on the bisexuality!) Violet and Marcus who are just being set up for the final season. Cressida, who's story tugged my heartstrings so much, and ended up in the dirt.

But more than anything, I wish Colin had gotten more. There were so many moments where he could have been expanded upon, where his character could have shined, and I truly want to commend Luke Newton, he did a phenomenal job with the crumbs he was given, but was ultimately shoved to the wayside for the Lady Whistledown plot.

In truth, this is a writing problem. The actors are phenomenal. They have chemistry, they have passion, and they are all believable, but the writing fell flat. They gave too much time to side plots and, frankly, to Debling, who was such a nothingburger and didn't even return that it was evident he only existed because the series was afraid to lean fully into Colin's complexities. You know what is more compelling and more worthwhile to explore than 'Oh, I could lose her to someone else?'

Losing her to herself.

Colin spent part 2 ultimately SAD. And he had every right to be. But instead of fully exploring that, he was relegated to the sidelines to support Penelope's storyline. And I understand completely that this season was for the Pen stans, but damn, I wish he got SOMETHING. Kanthony's advice to him was useless, Colin started the series knowing he couldn't open up to his brothers and still not doing so by the end. Colin saying that his ultimate purpose was to support and love Pen was a horrific cop out and a disservice of his character. It's a bad plotline when a woman says so for a man, and it's a bad plotline when a man says so for a woman.

I love these two so much, and I feel like they could have had so much better. Penelope now writing the same gossip, tying herself to Mayfair, but under her name now, thus ensuring that people are aware and being different around her for the sake of her publication is bad. To imply that her dreams are Lady Whistledown is lazy- Lady Whistledown is a plot device the writers are unable to let go, not Penelope's ultimate dreams.

You want me to believe that this woman's biggest dreams are to continue writing gossip? Not novels? Not stories? Not an autobiography? Not to travel? Not to make more friends? But to have a baby and write about parties? They tried giving legitimacy to gossip as if Penelope ever had any peer review, as if she is the be all end all of what is and is not true- she cannot possibly know fully.

I wanted more for her than to be a teenage mum tied to a gossip blog. I wanted more for Colin than to publish a book offscreen and take over an estate until his son comes of age. I wanted more for POLIN. Their beautiful moments were truly BEAUTIFUL. That first time scene was lovely- but how much lovelier would it be after he knew who she was in full and accepted all of it? Their reconciliation felt hollow because he was not truly given the time to process it. The pain of separation, sleeping on the couch as she took the bed, was hardly explored outside of a few quick scenes.

No montage of their letters, no Colin standing beside her, and that Lady Whistledown reveal where everyone clapped? I don't understand it. I wish so much that this show took a good story and made it better, and that's where my bitterness lies. Not because I'm a hater, but because I'm a lover. I wanted to love it so, so much.

And I know it could have been better. My couple is better than this. My couple is better than Penelope's ultimate goal being independence and Colin's ultimate goal being an accessory. My couple is a pair of equals. My couple is a pairing of two people who love one another so damn much they can't even stand it. Where is my Penelope who fights for him? Where is my Colin who announces to the world he loves her?

I guess that Polin ended up on the cutting room floor in the edits, because what we got wasn't enough for me

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Penelope was definitely lowering that bust line on purpose

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After the first impact and accepting I didn't have of the show what I wanted.

I can appreciate the beauty of what we had.

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Evan Kelmp coded lmao kms

Oh. Oh he just. He just wants to be useful to Pen. It's not about her being better, he knows she is better. He just doesn't think he is good enough. Not for her but as himself. He is a caretaker, and he doesn't know what to do if he can't take care of her. If she can take care of herself. Oh Colin.

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Lol

Yall truly do not know how to just have a conversation and elaborate on your opinions without getting your blood pressure up and your feelings hurt AND IT SHOWS.

Opinions.

Are not.

Facts.

It’s is completely okay to disagree with an opinion.

BREATHE.

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You know, it's not that Polin didn't have sex again after episode 5. I don't care they decided to go the angsty route. I DO care that the angst was sacrificed for the sake of other plotlines. It's supposed to be a sexy fun show, and if there is angst it better be about the main couple, and it better goddamn well be SEXY!

(And, yes, I know. There was the scene outside the modiste, but that was exactly ONE (1) scene and there should have been at least THREE (3) scenes like that PER EPISODE.)

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can netflix release the deleted sex scenes from s3

my horny ass needs to see that sex montage

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The books are NOT good enough for y'all homophobes to be takin em that serious

"Michael fell first Fran loved John they ruined the books waaa" and????????

Daphne was never the diamond of the season, she was on her second saison and had zero prospect and was perpetually friend zoned which is why she even made that deal with the Duke in the first place

Anthony never proposed to Edwina, he and Kate were caught in a compromising position and got married, the whole wedding drama Edwina figuring out their love during her own wedding thing wasn't in the book

Penelope was 28, officially a spinster, had made money and quite a reputation for so many years as Lady Whistledown, she was so much more mature by the time she and Colin fell in love and got married

Benedict was a fucking asshole, seriously I had to dnf the book he was so awful, Benedict in the show is a sweetheart, he's a little shit and has a wicked sense of humor, but he's a sweetheart. Book Benedict can fall off a cliff and die

All of these details fundamentally changed the dynamics between the characters yet no one was complaining then. The minute we get sapphic rep suddenly everyone is a book purist. Franny fell first, for a gorgeous black woman named Michaela, and we're going to see their whole love story unfold, and it's going to be different from the book, and it's going to be beautiful. Choke on it.

Happy pride fellow sapphic nerds 🌈

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Part 2 is growing on me. My theory was they were not gonna reveal Penelope as Lady Whistledown to the whole ton because it didn't make sense to me to reveal her if they were gonna have a connected storyline/consistent narrator for future seasons. But whatever, they went with what they went with. There was definitely a way for Penelope to have the same growth, and for the audience to have the same emotional catharsis, without the whole ton and the Queen knowing she's Lady Whistledown. I know she has Genevieve to feed her gossip, but how is it going to work practically? Will her paper turn from a revolutionary gossip column that often took political shots at the Crown into a fashion mag? Anyway...

My main problem with part two was not enough Polin! Which could've been solved by more episodes, or a rearranging of when the side plots resolved. Especially Benedict's side plot. Love him, but he took up way too much time in the 2nd part. His pansexuality/throuple plot should've resolved in the first part. They cut SO MANY Polin scenes and for what? And Colin should've apologized to Penelope before episode 8. We deserved to see Lord and Lady Whistledown actually working together. I know Colin's character growth was learning to let Pen take care of herself, but like, he can still be protective and angry he just needed to re-direct it.

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WHY in the Polin season are we getting a montage of Benedict fucking instead of them???? How dare Netflix make me get annoyed with the queer B-plot cause I wanna see more of the straight white couple? DURING PRIDE MONTH????? Fuck you

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What should have been

While we're on the topic of Colin finding out Pen is LW, I do hope we're going to get a little part where he's not angry at her for writing bad things about others but angry at her for writing bad things about herself .

He went to her garden in the middle of the night to check up on her after the LW column came out saying how she's basically never gonna find a husband and Colin said that was "beastly" of her to write...

So imagine him, future Colin 'My wife' Bridgerton, finding out that the person who wrote the most insulting and horrible things about his beloved is his beloved herself??? That's the angst I want, plus the part of him being protective of her

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My main gripe with part 2 is they took out the part of Book!Polin's relationship that I really appreciated. Book!Colin could still show love/affection towards Penelope WHILE angry. In fact, the anger highlighted their commitment to their love. But they took out their sexual tension in the last 3 eps to make room for side plots and an attempt at "angst" that completely fell flat while simultaneously doing a disservice to the actually really compelling side plots (i.e. Cressida's weird dad, the Mondrich's navigating the ton, BENEDICT, the Featheringtons repairing their relationships, and John/Francesca's love story).