#anti edwina sharma

[astridthevalkyrie]

Bridgerton messed up with kate and edwina too

ya. they did.

i haven't read the book HOWEVER from what i've heard edwina is fairly supportive of kanthony and never wanted to marry anthony in the first place. i think. and maybe this is an unpopular opinion. i think it's fine that they changed that.

i know everyone hates love triangles, but i don't think having one is where bridgerton fucked up. if they had stuck to the book and had kate and anthony be forced to marry after being caught it would've been a rehash of season 1 and i didn't want that.

i think their problem with writing the love triangle and the sharma family in general is that it doesn't really feel like kate's family loves her. there is light persuasion throughout the entire season with them telling her she shouldn't go back to india but like. that's the problem. it's so light. kate's plan is to let her sister and mother live happy and wealthy and then go back to india and be a governess, and the sharmas mostly just. accept that????

kate has been taking care of the family since her dad died, after she already lost her mom. her only goal is for her stepmother and half sister to live happily, and she doesn't care about herself, and no one finds this concerning. lady danbury is kinda mean to her, anthony doesn't really bring it up aside from how it pertains to him, and her own family doesn't seem to give a shit.

and then post wedding. the half sister line. the "go, anywhere else, kate!" line. it's fucked up for mary to send her eldest away like that when she's obviously upset, and if edwina had said the half sister line right after finding out about everything and when she was panicked it would be one thing, but she has her freakout, thinks on it, and then says it.

a lot of people who defend marina defend edwina too, but. it's just different for me. and i have my older sibling bias mind you, but i think edwina's treatment of kate is unfair both before and after the wedding. for someone who cares so much about kate's opinion, why does she keep pursuing anthony, who outright disrespects her sister? why would she charge kate with being the one to make sure anthony proposes? what is mary even doing in this season? and then my complaints about what edwina says post wedding.

[thedisdainfullysilentvisitor]

Seeing the breakdown of Edwina's relationship with Kate shows how much the dynamic was changed in the series. If Eddie and Kate had been the way they are in the books, think of how much you'd like her. How much you could celebrate the bond of sisterhood, and motherhood. How classy the show would be. And of course I only saw S1 in snippets but S1 seemed to be more jane austen than S2. If S2 had kept that in, we wouldn't have so much angst and fighting.

But maybe that's what SL wants.

I mean, the further Bridgerton has been going, the more nonsensical the writing is, the bonds are frayed and then glued back together with silly string. Oh no but look at the PrEtTy DrEsEsEsEsEs…and these ones are Fwum Inja! LOOK YOU CAN SEE THE SPICES IN THE DETAIL

[ladydeath-vanserra]

Edwina frustrates the living hell out of me. like I completely understand where she's coming from but thr fact that Kate sacrificed every single fucking thing for her sister and their mom LIKEEEEEREEE *shakes my screen* Kate getting unrecognized for her Eldest Daughter Trauma and Sacrificed MY GIRL DESERVES BETTER 😩

[benedettos]

Edwina stans and people that defend her honor will say the ugliest shit about Kate and then wonder why people don't like her.

[jennifersminds]

Edwina did have expectations on her. Her entire life after her dad died was to marry a rich lord for a deal Kate brokered and didn’t tell her about it may have been for her good but Kate trained her with the single goal of being someone’s wife and then she thought she had that with Anthony only to find out they’d had an emotional affair behind her back. Edwina didn’t drag Kate enough

But those are not expectations limited to Edwina are they? Literally every women had to find a wife to support their family that was just how it worked.

Edwina had more freedom than most women in her position, her anger of Kate and Anthony was justified. Kate should have told Edwina what was happening after the dinner debacle but literally every other thing she said was certifiably insane.

There is not a moment of season two where Kate puts expectations on Edwina beyond those already placed there by society. “I’m giving up your dream” and calling Kate her half sister was absurd and her entire speech at the wedding was deluluing beyond comprehension. But i’m a random on the internet anon so do you 🤍

[waitingforeddyneddy]

Edwina Sharma stans hate boner for Anthony Bridgerton is still going strong after a year and more. Just accept he never wanted her and move on. It’s getting pathetic. 

[steelrosewrites]

I saw your post about Edwina being a spoiled brat how do you think she should have reacted on the wedding day? how would you have improved the scene?

I did delete it for a reason. When I wrote that post it was a small rant that I didn’t expect to show up in the Edwina tags because I didn’t explicitly tag Edwina - that was my mistake. But I wrote it as a rant because I was sick of seeing things painting Kate as this big manipulator. However, when I said that Edwina was a spoiled brat, I was generalising because I was ranting, and not because I planned to have a comprehensive conversation about it. So this is the only time I’m going to discuss this topic again because I don’t generally engage in character arguments etc, so I won’t be mentioning it again. 

I don’t hate Edwina, I’ll say that for starters. Some of the things that she’s says do upset me, but I’ll touch on that in a moment. Her characterisation compared to the books was disappointing, since book!edwina was definitely more switched on. But I get that in the TV show they wanted to up the stakes by having the failed wedding, rather than it being a mutual decision based off their lack of compatibility. 

When Edwina first flees the wedding, I think her reaction is justified and it’s sad to watch it all unfold. I really pity her in that moment because her world has definitely just been flipped on it’s head. So up until the point when Mary tells Kate to leave the room, I have no problem with how things happen. In the grand scheme of things I wish it didn’t have to happen at all, but that’s because I would’ve preferred them to follow the original book plot - but again, it is what it is. 

It’s these specific lines which I dislike from Edwina, and where I find her to be out of order and spoiled. 

“Half-sister” This was spiteful and cruel to say, and it triggers me every single time that I hear it. I have a very similar family dynamic and it would break my heart if my brother said that to me, so I know how that must have hurt Kate.

“Today you have lost your power, while I have made up my own mind." While Kate is in many ways considered the family's leader, due to Mary taking a step back after Miles death, beyond protecting her family and ensuring they didn't drown in debt...what power was she wielding exactly? I mean up until this point Edwina was very eager to have Kate's assistance, and Kate was bending over backwards to make things happen for her sister.

“..at least I know I’m kinder-hearted than you.” When Edwina says this, I think it feels quite hollow. What evidence is she basing this on? Kate has made mistakes, yes, but it has only ever come from a place of love. She was willing to break her own heart to ensure that Edwina's didn't. Edwina is saying words which she knows will hurt Kate, which is the opposite of being kind-hearted.

Edwina argues that she never asked for any of it, but she did! I've seen many compilation videos proving how she contradicts herself here, as well as watching the show more times than I can count. So I find her arguments to be weak on that front. She had the privilege of being the younger sister and never having to face the burdens that Kate has. Of course, Edwina doesn’t know of all the sacrifices that Kate is made, and she can’t be blamed for her ignorance completely. I also don’t think she can be blamed for falling for the charming Viscount that Anthony was putting on (Although I do believe that if Kate wasn't in the picture at all, he wouldn't have tried half as hard at that. He was only really trying to prove Kate wrong in the beginning.) However, Edwina is so focused on her own life and how everyone shifts around her to make her dreams come true, that she doesn’t consider doing something for others.

I’m glad that they did make attempts to redeem Edwina in the last episode. But I’m sad that they damaged the sisterhood in this way. I knew they would though, from that first episode when Kate says, “This place may feel different, but it will never change the way you and I see each other .” It definitely felt like a dark sense of foreboding. 

I do want to reiterate that I don't hate Edwina, but I do hate the way that she treated Kate after the fact (up until the accident). She was entitled to be upset by what had happened, and I'm not saying that she should've just merrily gone on her way after Kate and Anthony were making eyes at one another, but she was cruel to Kate afterwards and I do stand by that belief.

[granolybary]

i know that apparently the change of edwina’s personality and her relationship with kate was because the showrunners thought she just acted like a tool in the book for kanthony’s romance. that sounds like complete bullshit because now she’s still just a tool in the show for their romance — except now she just an opposition to their love instead of a supporter. what would’ve have actually expanded her character was just having a side-plot where she meets bagwell and they fall in love but she feels compelled to marry a man with a title. that would have kept her observant and mature nature in the books while expanding on her story without making her completely annoying and bratty.

JUSTICE FOR BOOK EDWINA

[myriadnarratives]

Poor book!Edwina, they really did her dirty

I don’t like show!Edwina at all. Someone who claims to be grown and ready for marriage yet who can’t even notice the feelings of her fiancé and her sister, a man she claims to love and a woman she’s known since birth. Someone who says it was Kate who wanted the love match yet turned down the viscount because he’ll never love her, then had the audacity to act all high and mighty when lady Danbury, lady Bridgerton, Kate, and Anthony tried to do damage control

[astridthevalkyrie]

I would fully be on edwina’s side if she was angry with kate and anthony for, yknow, having feelings for each other and not telling her and almost letting her enter a marriage where her husband would be in love with her sister. that’s terrible. but why does bridgerton make her say…so many things that have nothing to do with what kate and anthony actually did? what is all this about “I’m leaving your dreams behind and not mine” “you’ve lost your power” “at least I know I am kinder-hearted than you” babe what are you talking about why are you acting like you’re getting out of a marriage kate forced you into 😭