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A Bridgerton Rant
This isn’t a post about YSBLF but rather Bridgerton and I have a lot to say in regards to this solely based on the fact that everyone seems to be all for Kate and Antony’s relationship while the whole time I was watching season 2 I was so pissed at this pairing because for one: Kate KNEW how she felt, or at least that she had an attraction to Antony and not once made this known to her sister or attempted to add space between her and Antony instead she constantly got in the way of the relationship. Especially since the weekend at their country estate it became a lot more apparent to her and she didn’t even try to tell her sister that she had some sort of confusing feelings for him afterwards(don’t say that Kate was just and only trying to help her sister and it was in her nature to “protect” her, especially since her sister straight up called her out and said that Kate was trying to make her live the life she wanted, not the one that she(I forgot her sisters name) wanted)
The PLAY UP they could have done with her sister being mad, having every right to feel angry, resentful, and hurt over Kate’s actions, Antony’s, and basically everyone who suspected of them, but she was told to just pretend like it wasn’t there for the sake of their reputation(You cannot argue that this was for historic accuracy when this show isn’t even historically accurate) and fix it all just because Kate had a concussion. Her sister was honestly so graceful about it all and the fact that the ending is of Kate and Antony together is so annoying. Don’t even get me started on Daphne’s intervention on the matter. Her whole advice was really just “If you feel lust for her than she’s the one” like Antony wasn’t sticking it and feeling lust for a bunch of women before Kate. Anyway the whole Kate and Antony relationship was a waste of potential and while I like Kate’s character, separate from the whole romance plot, I HATE that they couldn’t keep her single, like she had originally wanted to be, because she was feeling the heat of the moment with Antony. Also they missed the whole opportunity to pair Antony with someone who was sweet, innocent, and funny, you know the whole trope of “The Enemies to Lovers but one of them is actually really likeable, sweet, and the other is a cold hearted person who doesn’t believe in love”? THE POTENTIAL! INSTEAD THEY JUST MADE ANTONY’S EGOCENTIRC PERSONALITY INTO A WOMAN LIKE WHAT THE HELL? WHO IS WRITING THIS? Eloise is a perfect example of this, someone who didn’t want to marry and all of a sudden they pair her with the printer’s guy? Make it more interesting! The dude who was driving her there seemed less boring!
The only reason I watched season 2 was for Eloise and Penelope and even then the scene in which they fight and argue wasn’t even all that satisfying and quite cold hearted from Eloise. Season 1 was already not the best but it had some redeeming qualities but season 2 had only very few redeeming qualities. The best part of Season 2 was the ending, in which they actually left a really good cliff hanger with that of Eloise, Penelope, and that dude Penelope likes who if we’re being honest they really had to pair one of the main characters, who happens to be plus size, with such a unseasoned one dimensional character? Like come on! THEY DO THIS WITH EVERY PLUS SIZE CHARACTER ON TV EVER!
I know the show is based on a book or whatever but what the hell? I cannot wait for season 3 so I can either hate it and never watch it again or choke on my words!
Netflix on a serious note where the hell do I apply to be a show writer because I’M SICK OF YOUR CRAP SCRIPT WRITERS! (Noah Fence to them)

I don’t know when you posted this, so I apologize if it was 1 million years ago. I’m just going to comment on a few things that you pointed out in your rant.

One of the most important things that you mentioned was that they should’ve left Kate single because “that’s what she wanted”. Kate did not want to be single. Kate didn’t believe that people could love her for her. She thought even her mother only loved her for what services she could offer her. She is a romantic, she romanticized her parents relationship and she loved romance stories just as much as edwina (she’s the one that used to read them to her).

You can tell she still wants love, because in the scene with the horse race when Mr. Dorset says he wants to talk to her (and not her sister) she lights up. she gets kind of excited about the idea that this man might want to court her which is why she gets so upset when she finds out that the man wasn’t really interested in her.

Yes she should’ve told her sister what was happening with Anthony. I think the number one reason she did not is because she didn’t want to ruin her sisters chances of being with him. She thought that Anthony wanted her physically but that he could not want her for anything else and to tell her sister about her feelings would just lead to neither of them getting him. Because she did not feel that there was any chance that Anthony would want to be with her, especially after he proposed to edwina.

In regards to you being upset that Anthony didn’t fall in love with this happy kind sweet person. That’s not the story they wanted to tell, they wanted to portray Anthony as a person who wanted to be with someone who could be his equal and that he could respect. I’m not saying that he wouldn’t have respected someone who was like happy ray of sunshine. It’s just not the story they wanted to tell.

In regards to Eloise’s love interest- I do agree the footman is more interesting.

I’ll refrain from giving my opinion on Penelope and Collin, because I find both their characters unbearable.