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leham-n-daavocado · 2 days

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Just finished the third season of Bridgerton (it was an incredibly frustrating watch)...People have said that Penelope is named as such because of her nickname Pen and her being a writer... but has anyone thought of the reference to the Odyssey and Penelope being the wife of Odysseus? You know, she had to be loyal for 20 years while Odysseus gallivanted across the globe and was distracted/cheating on her Circe? I feel like it goes with the whole Polin narrative too. She's the one who had to wait for him to get a clue. And if you've read the Penguin version of the Odyssey, you know everyone is like omg! Odysseus, so amazing, the sacker of cities etc. Which parallels Colin's "glow up". Totally think it's more of a literary reference since the two of them are writers...

#bridgerton #bridgerton season 3 #colin bridgerton #penelope featherington #polin #don't know how much this works for the book #didn't read the books #I ranted at my sister for an hour straight about this season (behated)#wtf was the character arcs for any of the characters this season? a whole lot of nothing..#the writers literally set everything up and then did everything in their power to make the arcs pointless #soooo many crimes of telling instead of showing #bridgerton was never high art but season 1 and 2 landed character and the audience buying into the relationships and cheering for the coupl #disappointed #literally feel like I hated polin in what was supposed to be their season #colin vascilates wildly... and there are like two scenes where i recognize the character he was is season 1 and 2 #literally hated him for soooo much #really hate how the season wasn't about the couple but whistledown #and yet they couldn't show us WHY Penelope wants to keep being Whistledown besides telling us why so I just don't get why #they could not decide if whistledown is good or bad and settled on girlboss power!#but here i am like girl... you're ruining lives... you've ruined lives... it's just gossip #they literally screwed over all their characters for nothing #their scenes of intimacy don't land because they feel incredibly paint by numbers and often occur after intense confrontations #confrontations that do not logically make sense for sexy times #the mirror scene exists purely as plot so colin can later accuse Penelope of trapping him in marriage #like that's suuuuper ick #they made colin so incredibly ick i don't recognize him or want him with Penelope #even Penelope making the choice to be whistledown over her new family was insane and illogical based on how the plot developed #i watched the seaon twice to really pin down how I feel and ended up rewatching season 1 and 2 because season 3 part 2 pissed me off so muc #and it's sooo night and day #i just feel sad because i wanted to root for this couple too... but they made it unrootable

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