False Advertising Is Bad UNLESS Its Netflix Overhyping Debling To Pull In All The Casuals And Then Paying

False advertising is bad UNLESS it’s Netflix overhyping Debling to pull in all the casuals and then paying him dust in the actual series, moving on quickly and not even taking him seriously for a second. Like I actually need some of these fans to be disappointed this season not gonna lie. I don’t care if y’all like the season, I care if EYE like the season and I have no use for Debling in my Polin season at all. If the season ends with most of the audience screeching because Colin didn’t grovel enough, or they didn’t get to see him act jealous enough, or Debling wasn’t the good guy they jumped on the bandwagon for, I’ll literally be over here:

Seeing people call book Colin abusive and being like "he had no reason to be so mad about Whistledown )):" and like...yeah he kinda did?

Whistledown may notbe as bad in the books but she is in everyones business still, shes spreading gossip, and people do have a desire to find her. Hes afraid of what happens when they do. Because hes right, Cressida, to most people is the more pleasing option because shes popular but not liked and conventionally attractive and people will more easily shrug it off. They'll still be mad but they'll consider it par for the course with her and move on. Some may not even believe her, like Lady Danbury but if no one else comes forward they've no reason to think otherwise.

Penelope, short, chubby, unimportant to most everyone Penelope? That will piss them off. She doesn't have the social capital to keep herself from being ostracized, people will be pissed this person they look down on, a spinster, someone who never even talks, had such control over their lives.

Colins worried, he says it himself, about this, about he risks shes been taking for over a decade. Hes jealous she's found something thats her and he feels like he hasn't done the sames. Hes mad hes been lied to, feels like hes been made fun of with his Eloise theory, but most of all hes in love and hes frightened by the prospect of what could have happened to her. By what still could happen to her if she was found out.

The other scene also often quoted as Colin being abusive is him grabbing her arm at their engagement ball.

Do you remember what happened in that scene?

An issue of Whistledown is distributed midball, the one that ends up giving Cressida enough to blackmail her mind you, the one Colin had asked her not to publish and thought she had agreed not to. Penelopes inner dialog tells us this wasn't planned. She'd planned it for a different ball, so she can enjoy hers, she knows Colins going to be mad, and I bet you she doesn't want to argue on their happy day. Colin grabbing her, while done in anger, has always read to me less as some rage fueled behavior with no thought, but as a way to keep her from trying to sip away. He knows she doesn’t wana have this argument again. He likely doesn't even want to have this argument, but he knows they have to.

People often view this scenes as Colin being physically aggressive and this unbelievabley abusive person. They look at this, and have been yowling about how he treats her so unfairly. This fandon is horrible about not looking at the entire scene. The carriage scene has them arguing, Penelope bites back at him just as much as he snaps at her. Their engament ball fight leads to their first night together. This is them seeing each other at their worst. And in the end they still choose wach other

His anger isn't entirely jealous like some try to paint it. Theres genuine worry, hes afraid for her he says so himself. People keep saying how Penelope is afraid of him but shes not thats made clear several times. She's more afraid of them arguing because she thinks that it'll be enough to make him not choose her.

These arguments are necessary. They help Colin see her as a whole person, it helps him solidify that his feelings are as deep as he thinks. It helps Penelope see him as a whole person as well not just the man shes been crushing on her whole life, which she mentions in the book. It shows that they can get through the big issues in their relationship without falling apart.

And remember Cressida blackmails Penelope. Very much one of the things Colin was afraid of. The only reason he can do the big reveal is because its after they're married, and he tells Anthony and Simon whats happening beforehand. She has far more social capital as a Bridgerton wife than she ever did as a Featherington daughter

Should Colin have grabbed her? Maybe not, but I don't think thats enough to label him as an abusive asshole unworthy of love. You don’t always make the best decision, but one slip, especially one so minor as grabbing your partner so they can't slip away before you get to talk to them about a issue you know they won't like talking about, does not make you horribly abusive like some of you suggest.

And another related side note, a huge thing i see ALL the time, is how Colin's anger comes out of nowhere.

"ooooh in the other books colin doesn't have an angry bone in his body, hes so nice and relaxed, how could Quinn write him as such an ass in his own."

A temper not often showing is not the same as it not existing. When he says he wouldn't marry Penelope in the books? Very much an angry scene. Hes being teased after having her pushed on him by his mother, and hes tired of it and snaps aggressively to make it stop. Colin has always had a temper, it just wasn't nearly as important to the other books thus not explored. I know he says in the book how he doesn't think he has one, but we also tend to push away traits we view as negative when thinking on ourselves.

Anyway, please remember that Show Colin is going to have the worst reaction to the Whistledown reveal, as said by the cast themselves, and I'm kinda living for it.

Time apart will be good for Penelope and Eloise, I love both girls and I love the Cressida plot.

I think the problem here is assuming Eloise is befriending Cressida out of spite for Penelope, and then working back with assumption that EVERYTHING Eloise does this season will be out of spite for Penelope.

But Eloise has motivations beyond that to hang out with her. Eloise is deeply unhappy being out in society, it gives her anxiety and makes her uncomfortable, but she has never had to face it alone. Penelope was out a year before she debuted, she always had someone to be a misfit with her. Now she’s dealing with it alone, and Cressida is the last person she remembers extending friendship. Loneliness and wanting to feel accepted is a strong motivator to settle for any person that will have you, even if it’s not a great fit. Look at Penelope and Debling!

Being Cressida’s friend is a great opportunity for Eloise to learn about what she truly values and who she is. Is she brave enough to really be a misfit? Or did she only feel comfortable as an misfit when Penelope was there to lean on?

This is especially interesting to me as a fan of Eloise’s book, where Eloise seamed so comfortable with the idea of becoming a spinster as long as Penelope would be a spinster with her, but the reality of being truly lonely was a huge motivator for her, and it sent her reeling once Pen got married. That drive is to end the loneliness ASAP is what jump starts her story in To Sir Phillip With Love with a knee jerk decision.

As much of a rebel Eloise tends to come across, she’s always been insecure and vulnerable, and needs to be validated and feel heard. If Cressida is the only person validating her…that’s a friendship. Ultimately I want Peneloise and for Pen and Eloise to be friends again, and I don’t necessarily care about diving in to Cowper family lore, but I don’t hate this plot for Eloise. She’s allowed some bad decisions too!

Actual image of me realizing that in one/two months I'll see with my own eyes Polin fucking after shipping them since 2020

Seeing big long think pieces about how Debling is the better man for Pen. You don’t even KNOW him.

Y’all literally heard this man say one line. I don’t understand how you can possibly think he’s the better man.

Just say you hate Colin & leave bc NO WAY yall are folding for the blandest least interesting stock love interest I’ve ever seen

dear lord, colin. penelope, girl, i get it (i always got it, but still). I GET IT.

also, someone save my babygirl benny struggling in the back.