#anti edwina sharma

[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 😭

[imnotoverlyobsessive]

Still mad about so many things regarding seasons two and three of Bridgerton, I’ll never forgive them for what they did to my faves

[jennifersminds]

yeah no i’m with the edwina anti’s girl what are you talking about?

[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. 

[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 😩

[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]

NO BUT LITERALLY SAME AKHSSJSJSVJSGSHSH

okay but the way that kate is sooo nesta coded and it pisses me off that edwina is so fucking ungrateful she literally reminds me of elain💀

[sukibenders]

Bridgerton states from season one, through Simon and Lady Danbury, to season two, with the Sharmas, to Queen Charlotte, from the beginning episode to the end spelled out clear as day, that racism exists in this world and many of the characters of colors have been impacted by it in some way. And, supposedly, I'm supposed to believe that Marina, that Kate and Edwina, that they all had more privilege and power than Penelope? No, I don't think so, a lot of things aren't right with that statement.

[soldierandawar]

It is so interesting to me how people say Edwina was a spoiled brat and don’t fault Kanthony for playing with her life like that but people want Colin to suffer for simply not being romantically interested in Penelope. (That he knew of.)

[shewhotellsstories]

For whatever it’s worth with regard to the idea that Penelope mocking King George’s illness wasn’t horrible because of the time period, Edwina is the same age and living in the same time and she showed George and Charlotte compassion. Penelope would never.

[mariailoveyou-guerin]

Colin was always an Edwina stan, ofc he knows as little bro to a trash big sibling of course he didn’t get devil Kate anything 🤭 why would he the girl that betrayed backstabbed her own sister for a man! And that’s why Colin will always be so real and the only Bridgerton boy

Colin always had best taste and was always sucker for smart direct outspoken pretty smiley girl in pink dress

the fact that Anthony gave Edwina a horse and they bare knew each other only because she said she liked animals and he would’ve gotten something for Edwina too and pen when it’s not normal to give gifts to non family members but it’s cutee Edwina is so loved by all

The Bridgerton family loves Edwina so much like same!Oh she’s my favorite Bridgerton sister love her down🥹

[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.

[maomao92]

So I just found out that there are people who blame Edwina for what happened to her saying that "Kate tried to warn her and Anthony told her he wasn't going to Marry for love" when firstly, Kate never actually said anything she just basically kept indirectly giving hints but never just being upfront about it and secondly Anthony may have told her he wasn't trying to marry for love but at the end of the day barely anybody was at that time it was mostly about marrying for money and power and honestly Anthony was a very good choice for both of those, so to say that Edwina was in blind would mean that mostly all the women in that setting were blind

[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 🤍

[shrinkthisviolet]

“Edwina got jilted because she was stubborn and refused to take Kate’s word that Anthony didn’t love her!”

No, Edwina got jilted because Anthony was a wishy-washy moron who proposed to her knowing he loved Kate and only changed his mind at the altar! Blaming someone for getting jilted is gross, idk why people are apparently still doing it. I thought we all agreed Anthony was in the wrong there??

Also, people fail to consider that Edwina likely hoped Anthony would either fall in love with her while courting her, or after they married. A fantasy, considering her own sister clearly believed otherwise? Perhaps. But not unrealistic for someone who’s only just made her debut—she’s fairly young still.

[mychildhoodtraumamademeapathetic]

I feel bad for Edwina because she genuinely got ruined in the court of public opinion by Kate and Anthony. They straight up murdered her reputation by everything they did. She was left for her sister by her fiance, in a time period were not only was that not okay or in any time period but it also made it seem like something was wrong with her, not only that but her sister and fiance had been having an affair behind her back and had sex at her sham of a wedding, and then she was going to have to see them all the time and expected to regularly interact with them and their kids. She says she's okay with it because of how well matched they are but in the actual time period Mary and Lady Danbury would have been furious with Kate. Lady Danbury because Kate had been having an affair and could effect her reputation because it was unseemly for lady Danbury to host a women who is doing such things but also because she was ruining Edwina's standing and her actions could have lead Edwina a girl who desperately wants to marry and have children to the life of a spinster because the men of the ton could find her having made it all the way to the altar and left at it for her older sister by a Viscount to be spoiled or some such nonsense. Kate carried on an affair with the man courting her sister, even sleeping with him and getting mad at him for proposing to Edwina, visibly being upset with Anthony for proposing and basically throwing a fit in those times about the man her sister is being courted by proposing the entire point of courting him and her for accepting the proposal. Yes Edwina was a little blind to their interactions but they were also going out of their way to hide it and Kate had seemingly kept Edwina a little naive and hoping for a storybook romance and life. Everyone seemingly went out of their way to keep Edwina in the dark of Anthony and Kate's affair even when it was mostly them basically courting each other in a strange by that times standards way, nobody telling Edwina that she could do better or that the man she thought herself in love with was not the man she was actually courting or that her sister was in love with the womanizing Rake she was constantly disparaging. Edwina deserved better than everything that happened during her first season.