The Hypocrisy On Fandom's Reaction Of "fell Too Soon" For Friends To Lovers

The hypocrisy on fandom's reaction of "fell too soon" for friends to lovers

I find it very RICH on the fandoms reaction to S3 and the he "fell too soon" for Penelope. I mean honestly it is a bit spit in your face fantastic the way certain parts of the fandom are wretching on themselves to make that point.

"He didn't like her in season 1." I'm sorry, Can't hear you over "I'm to escort Miss Featherington to the floor" in EPISODE 1. That's what a friend does when a bitch spills her drink on a girl you were having a polite conversation with. Or how about hanging out with her laughing and gossiping like silly goofballs on the side of the dance floor, didn't see him doing that with other people either. Because they were FRIENDS.

"There was no build up previously to show there was a level of friendship there where he saw her any differently than a sister." Ok children...lets move to Season 2. We can talk about the race track and how they spoke about his travels which was very comfortable and very much NOT like a sister. They had an ease, like people who, oh I don't know, had been communicating personally all summer long via letters. And then lets go to Edwina's night where he shares with her that her letters allowed him to get in touch more with HIMSELF. something also so very personal he would not just share that with anyone. (I'll get to this in another point)

"He just suddenly likes her after he kisses her." Big ball of monkey shit here. Colin Sensitive Bridgerton was getting to know himself back in Season 2. He told Pen as much when he gave her the "You are Pen" line. And yes we all gasped and grabbed our pearls at the You are not a woman line, but it was not meant as an insult. Colin inserts his foot so many times throughout the seasons, you would think he could run a mile with his head. He simply means that she is such a dear friend to him he could not forswear her from his life. He has put her in a different category all together in his life. He makes this point when talking to her about Cousin Jack. He calls her constant and loyal and makes mention that their relationship has been so natural to him. He also just soooooo easily makes mention to HER MOTHER that he's been talking to her about things that would make other women blush. Like he doesn't even see it himself that she's just a totally different place for him. He didn't have to kiss her to like her. He already did.

"It all just felt too rushed." I could go on about how they had conversations about their purpose or lack there of, in season 2, more than once might I add, conversations that you would not normally have with members of the opposite sex. The fact that he has told her and proved that he would look after her, he has called her special to him. He has had feelings for her for seasons. Don't get started about the longing stares, they have been there since season 1. You have to actually open your eyes and look at them. Yes there was the whole infatuation of the Marina thing. Of course there was. But if you look at his mannerisms during the entire thing, it screams at you the difference.

But dare I say the biggest and most annoying hypocrisy of them all is that this build up of 2 seasons of them growing friendship, talking and learning about each other, developing feelings for each other regardless if they know what they mean... suddenly is rushed. BUT when compared to other seasons where a brand new face appears and we are to believe that in a weeks time our beloved character is now madly, deeply in love with this person and YOU BUY THAT WITH ALL THE SUGAR IT COMES WITH! Burning for you and Bane of my existence and all????

At the end of the day...live in your trope. I sat through those seasons. I cried through their HEA, I was happy for them. You can dislike the characters for other reasons. Dislike how they wrote parts of the season, don't like the plot points but don't make the excuses above that don't add up.

If you don't enjoy my trope, fine. But please, in the nicest possible way, shut the fuck up.

We can all agree we want to see more of Lord Remington, King of Sass, in season 3 right?

Colin's very hot head tilt.

#pen’s silly little rabbit 🥰

I don’t understand defending either member of the Polin ship by throwing the other under the bus.

This goes for the characters or whatever, but mainly the actors. Their friendship has been such a joy to watch over the promo cycle, it seems so negative to defend Nicola from body-shaming hate by saying Luke isn’t attractive (especially since he’s also being viciously appearance-shamed in a way that very few people are taking seriously) or defend Luke by saying Nicola won’t let him talk and takes over interviews for attention. They obviously work really well as a team and support each other, and look good doing it! Their dynamic works on screen with chemistry off the charts, and their off-screen promo has been non-stop fanservice from BOTH of them.

This pairing and these actors have been the punching bag of the Bridgerton fandom for too long for people to start using them to punch each other.

I am SO happy to see everyone is defending Nicola Coughlan after that terrible fatphobic article came out, but I also can’t help but feel sad that this same level of support is not extended to Luke Newton.

Some people on Twitter were insulting Luke in order to defend Nicola. The article kept saying how Nicola “wasn’t hot enough” for Luke (obviously untrue and blatantly fatphobic), and people saw that as a green light to start calling Luke too ugly/boring for Nicola instead. Luke didn’t write the damn article, why the hell are you attacking him?!

This same lady claims she promotes body positivity btw:

The botox thing has been disproven multiple times. That’s just what his face looks like (and even if he did get botox, this level of cruel bullying would still be unwarranted).

Tweets and tiktoks go viral EVERY DAY making fun of Luke’s face, and yet nobody is rushing to his defense or pointing out how messed up that is. Just today I came across a tiktok posted 1 day ago that had 700,000+ likes comparing him to a character I won’t even say because it was just very mean. And the comments in the video were SO dehumanizing, talking about him like he’s not a real person with feelings, it genuinely left me in shock (“i knew he reminded me of something” “this explains why im scared of him”). Some people in the replies to the video were saying that it made their day/made them laugh super hard, and some were even tagging Nicola and asking her to show Luke as if the video wasn’t literally making fun of his appearance.

I know literally every actor/celebrity gets made fun of and bullied, especially on Tiktok and Twitter, but this all feels like too much. Luke Newton seems like such a kind person, so it’s hurting my heart to see this level of bullying directed toward him. If you can understand that bodyshaming Nicola is wrong, you can understand that bodyshaming Luke (and anyone else) is wrong too.

And yknow I wish positive videos got as much attention as negative ones, because I’ve seen plenty of tiktoks and tweets praising Luke, but of course those don’t blow up nearly as much as the bad ones.