He Also Has A More Wry Sense Of Humor Vs Goofy. Colin Has A Snarkier Sense Of Humor Than Anyone Else

He also has a more wry sense of humor vs goofy. Colin has a snarkier sense of humor than anyone else in his family, in both seasons. “Perhaps he is still waiting at the altar for Miss Edwina” is just dry humor. Probably why he can appreciate Penelope’s “barbs” so much, they share the same taste in jokes.

Book Polin fans… coming from someone who started the show without reading any of the books and only read them during this long wait for S3… I kinda think people are taking the complaints that the show gave Benedict Colin’s personality as an excuse to say Colin has no personality, when the two things are NOT the same.

Colin has a personality. In fact he has his same personality FROM THE BOOK. The problem is that Benedict has some (and I mean only SOME) of it too when they should’ve either kept Benedict the same as his book counterpart OR given him a fresh personality that fit a niche in the show that wasn’t filled yet.

And some of the stuff that’s given to Benedict in the Colin/Benedict personality tug of war we gotta gatekeep for Colin, I’m sorry. The amount of times I see people credit the “have you ever been to a farm” scene to Benedict is wild.

Polin being the most kissable Bridgerton couple, but not yet kissing each other???? Bridgerton season 3 come home!!!

When I say Colin is the favorite brother I also mean this 😘

one thing that REALLY bothers me about people shitting on penelope's character is that people are consistently asking for nuanced and interesting women characters, more depth, more complexity. and here she is! penelope is at once sweet, innocent, shy but also can be selfish, impulsive, judging. she is literally just a girl, growing up and trying to find her place and somehow people hate her for it.

Since I feel like the only thing I’ve done so far in regards to Bridgerton is rant about it and I do genuinely love it and I am excited for season three so I want to talk about some of my favorite scenes.

The first scene I want to talk about is the one in which I personally fell in love with Colin Bridgerton. In the very first episode, we very quickly see that Penelope is in love with Colin, but the love is unrequited. I feel like unrequited love is such a sticky trope and it’s so easy to mess up and make the object of desire pretty horrible. I actually think the choice to make Colin unaware of Penelope’s feelings is what makes him so endearing. It never feels like he’s taking advantage of her feelings or trying to use them.

You learn very quickly in this scene that Colin is quite fond of Penelope. He lights up when he sees her, even though he’s actually looking for Marina. They are interrupted by Cressida who tries to steal Colin away while also spilling a drink on Penelope.

Colin witnesses this and asks Penelope to dance with him instead. Colin is very sweet in this moment and you can understand why Penelope feels the way she does about him. when I watch the scene for the first time, I was completely unaware of the books and it very much told me that they were end game. While this is very much a moment where Colin is helping Penelope, the thing that is most striking to me is that he is genuinely enjoying himself.

I think this scene sets up their dynamic so well. Yes Colin does not have romantic feelings for Penelope, but it’s very clear that he genuinely cares for her and just enjoys her as a person.  that scene does not come across as him doing her a favor, or an obligation of any sort. It feels very organic and like they are just having fun together like they’ve done so many other times. obviously a lot of this is because of the chemistry between Nicola and Luke, which I can write entire essay about but it’s such a wonderful starting point, and I was completely invested in the relationship from the very first episode

tired: colin is jealous of penelope's suitors and has to work for her and is possessive and that's why he realizes he likes her bc he suddenly can't have her (aka "a lack of interest")

wired: (demi) colin sees penelope in a new light once she starts acting like her real self around him bc now they're both equals (who've grown up independently and then grow together) (they are soulmates!)

inspired: THE POLIN BITCH OFF IS COMING HOME!

One of the tiny details I love about Bridgerton S2 is how they made very subtly made a point about how Penelope 'a plant pun if you were wondering' Featherington and Colin 'that was an olive joke' Bridgerton have the same dumb sense of humour. Like those lines were in completely different episodes, neither of them was present when the other one said it but the parallel is so intentional.