#if colin has no haters then I'm dead

[blueysbookshelf]

2024: Book 15 - Romancing Mr. Bridgerton

Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn My rating: 3 of 5 stars Why is everyone swooning over this man? Can someone please explain? Colin Bridgerton is NOT my kind of book boyfriend and the show isn't helping him at all. I reread this because I knew the new season was coming out and I wanted a refresher and I swear it almost put me off the show…which wouldn't be hard because it's so camp I can't handle it…literally the only thing I enjoyed in the first half of the season was Franny's plot and Cressida…and I SHOULD NOT be liking Cressida Cowper…but I digress. I'd hoped that I'd forgotten more about Colin but alas…I was wrong. He was still just as much of an overbearing, jealous, absolute shitpile on the reread as he was when I read it the first time…only I think I hated him more this time. He does NOT deserve Penelope. FULL STOP. That being said…I do really love the characterization of Pen in the book and actually prefer Book!Pen to Show!Pen in so many ways. Show!Pen is angry…all the time. She's not sweet or gentle or kind the way Book!Pen is. Book!Pen is strong and determined but she has a gorgeous core of love and decency that Show!Pen is sorely missing. I'd almost prefer Show!Colin with Book!Pen. Anyway…I didn't like Colin…but I did like the rest of the book and it's not badly written. The moments between Pen and Lady Danbury were lovely and sweet and I'm very thankful that Pen and Eloise weren't estranged (again…WTF SHOW?!) in the book. And I guess I'll reread it when and if I decide to reread the whole series. But this is probably my least favorite of the entire series…and that's saying something. I use the CAWPILE Review method for my reviews (see explanation here), just to keep me honest and help me understand what exactly I liked/didn't like. My ratings are below. Characters: 7/10 Atmosphere/Setting: 8/10 Writing: 8/10 Plot: 7/10 Intrigue: 6/10 Logic/Relationships: 6/10 Enjoyment: 6/10 Total rating 49/70 divided by 7 = 7.0 ⭐⭐⭐ 🌶️ View all my reviews

[dollypopup]

once again, i am casting curses

may debling be a massive disappointment

may he interrupt everyone before they finish their sentence

may he be as fun to listen to as a swarm of mosquitos

may he forever have something gross on his chin

may his beard be patchy and his pantaloons uncreased

may he spill soup on his lap at any opportunity

may eloise throw things 'accidentally' into his eye and/or gullet every 15 minutes

may he be pursuing portia instead and this is a front

may he be preachy and unpleasant

may he be one of those 'i just don't. . .enjoy food' people

may his womb be dry

and his pussy flavorless

and similarly, I am casting blessings

may Colin be messy and fun

may he dance in the rain with Penelope, his future wife, to a tune he hums himself and may she be so enchanted by it that she stumbles and he catches her

may his laugh twinkle like bellchimes

may he have many shirtless scenes boxing with Will

may he be the dirtiest of dirty talkers

may his cravats go mysteriously missing

may he stuff his face with delicious snacks and be so engrossed in it that he's enjoying himself for several minutes until someone calls his name and his head pops up with cheeks full like a chipmunk with the cutest 'huh, me?'

may he crack dorky jokes and nerd out about his special interests, go 'oh, you don't want to hear it', and have Pen go, 'uh, I most certainly do!!!'

may he get all the hugs from his siblings

may he and Kate join forces

may he have so many flashbacks of his childhood as a wee lil thing where he gets called duck legs affectionately by his brothers and plays games with his sisters

may he bring his mum flowers

may Penelope properly romance him and make him swoon and blush

may we have many a scene of him voicing over a passage in his journal, only to stop, hear scribbling, start again, and then hear scribbling once more

may his womb be fruitful

and his pussy popping

amen

[thesweetnessofspring]

I’ve been shocked so far by how few Colin/Penelope scenes there are? Like in four hours they maybe had 30 minutes of screen time together, which is ridiculous. Hopefully this is fixed in the latter half 😞 I also didn’t love the plot of Colin and Penelope’s book so was expecting little from this seasons plot lol but hopefully the rumors are true and they do Benedict’s season next because I loooooooooove Cinderella retellings!! She leaves behind a glove with mysterious initials on it!! I can’t wait !!!

Ok so full disclosure, I've never read a single Bridgerton book and at this point, I'm a full-on hater. Plus I'm an Obnoxious Janeite who can't even stomach the inaccuracies in 2005 P&P so this type of stuff has NO chance of escaping my pretentious criticism.

I've never liked Polin in the show--my friend's favorite Bridgerton book is the Polin one so I'd hoped for better this season, but honestly, if I were Penelope I would marry Lord Debling in a moment over idiot Colin Bridgerton and let him die of blue balls idgaf. I would be so dried up over any man who claimed to be my friend and then knowing my lack of prospects in marriage in a world where marriage is essential for my survival (doubly so given my family's troubles), still found it necessary to protect his pride by bashing me to other people. That showed his utter lack of consideration or respect for me, and then adding onto that, the fact that he left to whore it up across the continent while I had to suffer through my awful sisters getting married and my mother's emotional and verbal abuse. He'd be dead to me, and if I was a bolder person I probably would get him to fall for me only to turn him down and walk away with a man who did respect me and could offer me a full life where I was in control of an entire estate. Especially because as I've mentioned before COLIN BRIDGERTON DID NOTHING TO HELP PENELOPE GET A HUSBAND!!!! SHE DID IT ALL HERSELF!!!!

But this show isn't about me and is instead giving a pathetic excuse for a man with no backbone or integrity the hero treatment because....????

And add to all of these issues with the characterization and relationships and pacing thus far, the fact that like you've said we've barely seen Polin interact this season or the last two, and I'm confused over the excitement for this season.

Jane raised me better than to swoon at such behavior or such writing.

I'm excited for you to be looking forward to next season but to me this show has run whatever flimsy escapist entertainment it brought and I am not watching S4.

[yonderlad]

If Colin Bridgerton has million haters, then I'm one of them.

If Colin Bridgerton has one hater, then I'm THAT ONE.

If Colin Bridgerton has no haters, that means I'm dead.

[dollypopup]

y'all can all cancel me (again) for this, but if there's even a SHRED of 'who should I pick?' from Penelope in season 3, I am tuning out SO fast because like. . .sorry not sorry, there IS no choice. Debling is some crusty OC suitor she barely even knows and Colin is a man who she has been so supposedly in love with to the point where she'd ruin her entire family's reputation to have a potential love story with him. Penelope and Colin have background, years of knowing each other, intimacy that few people in the Ton can boast of having (letters, conversations about purpose, fights and arguments and makeups) and her and Debling have. . .a dance or two at a ball because he's a rebound for Penelope's broken heart. he means nothing. he has no nuance, he has no weight to the story, he is such an afterthought to me. either I wanna see Penelope going 'you know what? I don't even LIKE this dude. he's. . .fine, but I don't care about him even a shred as much as I care about Colin' or the INSTANT Colin's like 'you know what? we should get married' if it's not an immediate 'say less, you're already my husband, try returning me without the receipt, Debling whomst?' then I don't want it!

like. . .it's just so frustrating to see all the 'I hope Debling sweeps her off her feet and she rejects Colin's proposal and she makes him work for it and and and-' nonsense from the fandom and it's always tagged and no matter how many times I block it, it just keeps popping up. I go into the Polin tag for POLIN. I don't give a SHIT about a male love interest other than Colin. Not one. Not a shred. Not an iota.

and also. . .Debling has the 'benefit' of not having depth, or character traits, or HISTORY, so peeps can project onto him however they want, but I'm calling it now, there is NOTHING he could do or be that would make me like him more than Colin. Colin will always hit different, and I will always love him more. and if Pen's not on that same page? lol bye

you want me to believe Penelope and Colin are soulmates and it's romance for her to hem and haw about how difficult a decision it is for her to marry a stranger who knows barely anything about her. . .

when Marina was out here dropping banger lines like 'You were the only man with which I could see myself being happy' and 'I do not care about any of these men, where is Colin?'? like hello??? and she wasn't even fully in love with him!!!! but we'll demonize her until the cows come home in our fandom and make her the villain in Polin's love story for DARING to get in between Polin, yet Debling, a white man, is a darling dear perfect prince for getting in between Polin? existing in our fandom solely so Penelope can be like 'lol, Colin ain't shit, let me entertain any and everyone else'?

if that's the direction it goes then, ten toes down and on my mama, she doesn't deserve Colin and she can move because I'm on my way to court him my damn self

and that's that on that