(How the hell did he find her house if he didn’t know her name… babes were you wondering around Mayfair going to every house like “hey can I talk to your daughter? Oops not her byeeee”)
I’m trying to figure out what was missing from the first 4 episodes of Bridgerton season 3 (spoilers ahead!). I’ve already seen a lot of commentary that I agree with, but one thing I think would have fleshed out the story a bit would have been for the writers to give us a front row seat in Colin’s brain. I think we needed to see more romantic dreams about Pen that he couldn’t shake. We needed to watch him going over his memories of their past time spent together, re-contextualizing everything in light of this new attraction he feels, and realizing that the one he wants has been in front of him this whole time. Maybe we could have even seen/heard him writing in his diary about her, either processing these feelings deliberately or just finding himself writing about her even when he’s not trying to, surprised to find that she is his ultimate inspiration, not his travels or the mindless companionship he’d found abroad.
While we did get some of Colin’s interiority, I think we needed a whole lot more— it felt like the script just told the actor to communicate that Colin was wrestling with his new feelings by serving pensive looks, and to be sure, pensive looks were served!! But if Colin couldn’t have an actual, explicit conversation with someone about his growing feelings for Pen to spell it out for us, then the writers should have found other ways for us to fully experience the contours and textures of this internal development that weren’t just *Colin looks at Pen at the ball* and *Colin is distracted from his daily life* and *Colin has a very vague conversation with his mom* Especially since there weren’t that many Polin scenes in the first 4 episodes, we needed to see Pen being on Colin’s mind, not just deduce it by implication.
It was still a lot of fun to watch, I took to calling Lord Debling Debby and that made it a whole lot better. Honestly Pen should be with Colin, Cressida should be with Eloise, and I should be with Debby. Can’t wait for part 2!!
imagine mourning the idea that your crush could ever like you back and then one night at a ball he crashes the marriage proposal you're about to receive, chases down your carriage, climbs in and gets on his knees talking about "PLEASEI I NEED HYOU SO BAD I CANNOT STOP TJIMKING OF YOU IT PLAGUES MY DREAMS I ONKY THINK OF YOU PLEASE PLEASE PELSSE PLEASE" then makes out with you, finger bangs you, and asks you to marry him
all within like half an hour . colin bridgerton needs to be in jail
Colin and Pen BARELY touched lips for their first kiss and it had Colin spiraling to the point where he was entering the drawing room and going “I DIDN’T KISS PENELOPE FEATHERINGTON QUIT ASKING ME” before anyone had even said one word to him that morning