No One Will Beat This

“No one will beat this…”

Why is Bridgerton of all shows a freaking ship competition? I don’t know if you know this, but all of the ships can coexist. In fact, they all do coexist because they are a family.

This idea that going into season three that Polin has to somehow top the previous love confessions is the most ridiculous notion I’ve ever seen. The entire idea of this show is to show different tropes. Every love story is going to be different and they are going to experiment with different types of romantic love.

I personally think this insecurity comes from the fact that they’re terrified that the casuals will love Polin. People have spent the past two years since the hiatus convincing everyone who will listen that season three will fail and somehow it hasn’t. Everyone is super excited to see what’s in store for Penelope and Colin. Now all of a sudden I’ve seen so many post on so many different platforms, making this love confession competition.

I have complete faith that Luke & Nicola will deliver but I really wish this fandom could just enjoy all the ships and stop shitting on things people are excited about just to prop their faves.

Since I feel like the only thing I’ve done so far in regards to Bridgerton is rant about it and I do genuinely love it and I am excited for season three so I want to talk about some of my favorite scenes.

The first scene I want to talk about is the one in which I personally fell in love with Colin Bridgerton. In the very first episode, we very quickly see that Penelope is in love with Colin, but the love is unrequited. I feel like unrequited love is such a sticky trope and it’s so easy to mess up and make the object of desire pretty horrible. I actually think the choice to make Colin unaware of Penelope’s feelings is what makes him so endearing. It never feels like he’s taking advantage of her feelings or trying to use them.

You learn very quickly in this scene that Colin is quite fond of Penelope. He lights up when he sees her, even though he’s actually looking for Marina. They are interrupted by Cressida who tries to steal Colin away while also spilling a drink on Penelope.

Colin witnesses this and asks Penelope to dance with him instead. Colin is very sweet in this moment and you can understand why Penelope feels the way she does about him. when I watch the scene for the first time, I was completely unaware of the books and it very much told me that they were end game. While this is very much a moment where Colin is helping Penelope, the thing that is most striking to me is that he is genuinely enjoying himself.

I think this scene sets up their dynamic so well. Yes Colin does not have romantic feelings for Penelope, but it’s very clear that he genuinely cares for her and just enjoys her as a person.  that scene does not come across as him doing her a favor, or an obligation of any sort. It feels very organic and like they are just having fun together like they’ve done so many other times. obviously a lot of this is because of the chemistry between Nicola and Luke, which I can write entire essay about but it’s such a wonderful starting point, and I was completely invested in the relationship from the very first episode

Tired: Colin knew how to unclasp Cressida’s necklace because he’s been raking it up across the continent on his trips.

Wired: Colin knew how to unclasp Cressida’s necklace because he’s a mama’s boy and always helps Violet with her tricky jewelry when she’s tipsy.

One conversation I would love to see in season 3 is Colin trying to speed up the wedding by suggesting he and Penelope were already intimate. I just want to see Violet and Portia's face when our guy, sweet Colin with the baby boy face, goes 'ya so I have ruined her, you have no idea, just couldn't keep my hands off her, I mean have you seen her?' and just jaws on the floor, Violet scandalized and Portia kind of impressed

Colin being able to have a normal conversation with a woman and see women as people is why he’s my fave.

He might be an ABC brother but he grew up with sisters since he’s way younger than B and closer to DE, and it shows.

rip colin bridgerton your modern iteration would have loved being the husband that gets invited to stick around when it’s pen’s turn to host girls nights.

i just know your “grew up in theatre/drama and had primarily female friends vibes” ass would have been a slut for gossip, face masks, and triple strength homemade strawberry daiquiris.

Fingers crossed for a day we can freak out about Polin without ✨discourse✨