#if ur a fan of Bridgerton imma be real ignore everything I say lol

[mejomonster]

This is gonna be my love/hate situation with Bridgerton lol

Well I just finished ep 5, and so far? Well I’m sold on daphne and Simon. I could happily end their story here and not get disappointed. They realize their dumbasses were both pining in love and not in love w someone who hated them/whos dreams they were ruining. Delicious. Superb. Sexy. And very sweet when they finally talked. Because like. Yeah the crux is there they have best friend potential and when they do talk and become honest they really really click and really could be happy forever with.

Which sidetrack? I am so curious about what the queen said about loving a best friend. I love her now that I saw her with the king. It was so sad, it makes me think they were best friends and in love once. Then they lost a child, her husband got so sick he loses his memories, and now she has these glimpses where he’s back - her best friend is with her. Then he falls apart again, and it hurts her so much each time to re-lose even these small pieces she gets of him, but she’s so used to losing it she’s hardened herself to bear it. And like now her coldness makes more sense. She’s trying to soldier through it and be strong, be a strong leader and presence as someone needs to be - and her even more because she has no best friend anymore to confide in and support her. She’s doing it all alone. And grieving someone constantly who she has to re-lose.

Also I would. Just watch Lady Dansburrys origin story.

I really like Marinas story and I saw spoilers and I’m sad in advance. I want her and Colin to work out - like logically it is a reasonable happy ending for both, if she can just get him to speed up marriage to within a week or two because “they’re really in love and wanna speed it up.” They definitely seem capable of falling in love, and while marinas gotta bring what she’s trying to fix and handle into the situation, overall they’re pretty solid. Like in our modern era? I guess it depends on the person but if I was Penelope I’d let my friend marry Colin and move on. Especially since now Colin hasn’t been pressured to do something before marriage, so if the marriage is sped along yeah there’s one white lie of a kid that’ll be his but like adopted (which in the modern era we’d just be honest about but apparently in this story setting she’d be unable to marry if she has a kid first?). Like if Colin didn’t like Marina - yeah say something. But Colin does like her. Even if he likes Penelope too - presently he keeps consciously choosing to pursue Marina, that’s his choice, and his choice to not pursue clear single on the market Penelope. If it were me I’d be like well I don’t want him if he doesn’t want me. (Also that storyline is interesting in general I like Marina and Penelope quite a lot).

I also unfortunately heard spoilers of an upcoming scene I will dislike. And I’ve just been bracing since I don’t know when it is. So anyway, future me, good news, if you Do like this show you can just pretend it ended with ep 5 if you get too pissed off later.

Only tangentially related: I plan to watch Black Sails after that cause I love that show and wanna finish, and it’s way more MY kind of period drama. With action and less rich people and struggles for freedom in society etc. However I suppose I have my one unliked scene in that one too. While I think it was a fine writing choice, and as brutal as anything else in the show so not unexpected, the scene where Max is attacked I cannot watch and wish I’d known to avoid ahead of time. I can’t handle it on rewatches. I appreciate how the fallout is handled after, particularly Max’s arc etc. But that scene was so horrific I cannot handle seeing it. While... I know the rest of black sails continues to be brutal, as the violence from ep 1 has always been visceral and present, I think that’s the only scene of that nature though. So I don’t think I need to check for anything else to prepare for. If you have never watched black sails and happen to want to, I do completely recommend looking up the warnings ahead of time and Specifically episode specific warnings because it is very present when it does various heavy things and if there is anything you can’t handle then it is entirely possible to skip those scenes. Like ep 1 I believe flint breaks his nose, it’s on screen, as is the murder of the other guy visibly in the fight, later i think a man is crushed or nearly crushed and the scene doesn’t cut away I think, fights in general don’t tend to cut away from the gore or injury, sex is full on, etc. While it got recced a lot right after supernaturals lackluster finale, and it’s phenomenal story/characters and representation, it very much IS a heavy show and not for everyone. It’s at minimum as heavy in content as Game of Thrones (though I’d argue black sails is much more gory on screen) and eons better written.

Anyway back to Bridgerton, Simon is my favorite character, I do love him, I realize despite how much I hope he’s on screen that the cut aways and him avoiding daphne (and therefore being in scene very long) are the only thing that keep me from just starting to say I love you aloud and get invested too excited for the scene lol. His actor is doing a phenomenal job. Him and Lady Dansburry I think are my favorite actors in the entire show, I’d watch other things they’re in. And I have, perhaps, found the pdfs of the Bridgerton books in the bizarre chance I get too sucked into this and need more Simon scenes ToT

Also I find it. So funny. I follow a misc of people, and when Bridgerton dropped it was on my dash a TON but also I know very Clearly that period dramas about rich people and marriage are so FAR from what I’m into lol. They were like “enemies to lovers! It’s phenomenal” and I was like “yeah perhaps... but could I even stand the genre. I’m not u guys...” and like. I did eventually give it a chance, quit halfway thru ep 1 cause it’s Reallt NOT my genre, then finished and Simon showed up. Then in ep 2 Simon got fleshed out more and I became invested. I can get into most things if the characters are well done. And this show does have a well done cast of multifaceted characters, once they have time to reveal more of who they are - like I hated Siena and Anthony in ep 1. Then quickly loved Siena once I saw her more, and I still hate Anthony but now find him interesting at least the same way Cersei Lannister I found interesting (he’s a sabotaging mess clearly half conscious half unconscious and very Busy lol). And now I am decently into the story, at least characters wise, and yet I think most ppl following me LIKE me probably could run from this genre if presented with it lol. And if like me, this genre isn’t ur usual cup of tea, ur probably right. Truly I got into this cause a gif of Simon looked hot and I was promised a well written enemies to lovers. Well I certainly have gotten those things by ep 5. Especially Simon, who turned out immediately to be a very good character which is even more compelling to me than the prior things. But yeah like? If I was gonna tell anyone Following me a period drama I Did recommend? It would be one of the cdramas I got into - Goodbye My Princess perhaps, is a great one - or Black Sails (again heavily minding warnings particularly i think it’s ep 8 where Max is attacked, or any scene you see has a warning of something you want to skip). Black Sails has some great fucking characters and arcs, themes, power struggles, overarching plot, and a ton of fucking action if you like me Need good action. Like... period cdramas the ones I Do watch, win me over Bridgerton setting, because it’s usually warring nations marrying and war and internal politics Affectint any marriage bullshit I have to endure. It’s societal corruption, loyalty and conflicting interests, choices affecting much more than just a relationship or family on a small scale (tho I could do small scale romance i just mean I care 0 for marriage related plots on their own). Also I tend to like the characters that Don’t belong in the Royal setting - in Bridgerton it’s the seamstress, Marina who is used to the country and not these stuck up norms, Simons best friend and his wife, Siena. In The Untamed it’s Wei Wuxian, Meng Yao, xur Yang a-qing Xiao Xingchen. In Love and Redemption all of Lize sect are Demons and demons who totally overthrow their usual mold in other xianxia! It’s demon as the main lover! Bi demon in canon even! It’s Xuanji being our lead, being a devil turned into a puppet and in the “god” world as god of war, as much an outsider as Wei wuxian.