i have so many thoughts when it comes to bridgerton that i want to scream to the void of tumblr where maybe someone will see it and hear me even for a moment.
1. I do not expect the series to be word for word what the books are. I understand Netflix is a business and they don't want to pander to just the books fans but what they've done is a great tragedy all together and shows little to no respect to the stories original enjoyers or general enjoyers of any historical romance!
2. If you want to change the VERY ESSENCE of a story you are developing from someone's else's work maybe just write your own. Looking at you Chris and Shonda!!! The shows portrayal of all characters involved in the Anthony / Kate story is WAY off. I have said it since the first season that they have no respect for who the first bridgerton brother is in the books, they changed him, and for the absolute worst !!
- Anthony would never have forced or even suggested that Daphne marry Nigel!! He tries very hard in the book to tell Nigel to leave Daphne alone, that it's not going to happen!!! He wants her to be happy.
- Taking away Anthony's fear of dying young takes away a huge part of his story and it glaringly obvious he is not a developed character when the SOURCE MATERIAL IS RIGHT THERE ! His fear that he will die young and cause pain to those he loves is so much of his book!!! He is a man who cannot fathom living to be older than his father was !!! And when that day comes and he becomes older than Edmund it is so hard for him because he outlived his HERO.
- Kates fear of storms is so glossed over and for what ? It's a unique part of her story and the library scene that comes from it is such a key moment in the Viscount who loved me!! Why can't you leave in the important things? Or even the small things?
- This brings me into something that also irks me. Why are they trying so hard to make bees a mascot? Bridgerton book lovers should hate bees!! Anthony hates bees. He's scared of them. They felled Violets great love and robbed the siblings of their wonderful father, seems weird you want us to adopt it so hard. Just pick literally a Hyacinth ? The name of one of your characters? A great symbol of love to the Bridgertons? Something sweet and sorrowful. READ THE SOURCE MATERIAL!
- It's kind of spelled out above by why adapt characters stories if you are going to change it to fit whatever narrative you want and robbing the authors original audience of every last shred of her work?
- Edwina is SMART and KIND. She never loves Anthony because she is the first person to see THE TWO SUPPOSED MAIN CHARACTERS ARE IN LOVE AND BELONG TOGETHER? You had the chance to give us a strong sister bond and show two different kinds of women lift each other up and instead chose to change the story and give us some cheap story I could watch anywhere else?
- Lady Danbury is strong willed and meddlesome but only to an extent. The version of her in the book would never push for Edwina to date Anthony because she also recognizes that KATE AND ANTHONY ARE IN LOVE. She is a "crazy" old lady !! It's her charm and why book readers love her so much.
- Circling back to Anthony. He would never pay to get Benedict into the academy. They are close and he would never want his brother to feel cheated out of finding and earning his way ?? I felt it was a cheap move for no reason because painting is an important part of Benedict and he discovers that by himself because he is good and not because his brother fucking paid for him.
3. QUIT ROBBING US OF ALL THE ORIGINAL MATERIAL. STARTING WITH PENELOPE / LADY WHISTLEDOWN.
- no one knows about lady whistledowns true identity !! it is essential to colin and penelopes story !!! colin falls in love with pen because he's trying to "protect" her from the whistledown drama and everything that follows that story. you've already altered the course for that epic romance for no fucking reason?? that drama is saved for later for a great love story with all its drama coming to a climax because of THE FUCKING SECRET YOUVE RUINED by having eloise find out???
- eloise is not PISSY when she finds out about lady whistledown being pen! she literally tells her that she's CLEVER and wants to know how her best friend kept it hidden so long !!! they laugh and talk about it? you've fucked that friendship and the best part about colin being the first to know??? READ THE SOURCE MATERIAL.
- PENELOPE WOULD NEVER BE SO OBVIOUS ABOUT HER SECRET IDENTITY. SHE GOES TO GREAT PAINS TO NOT BE DISCOVERED. you've made her stupid? when she's supposed to be one of the most clever characters? and for whatever reason gave her mother her intelligence but also added being evil to it? why? it's stupid.
- why are you introducing theo sharpe ( who is interesting and cute i will admit, but he's not Eloises love interest so it seems pointless, unless of course you're also robbing us of that story ). he seems nice enough but if you're going to give us new characters you probably shouldn't hint at a romance that isn't possible because she literally marries sir crane ??? put him with a side character and make him ELS FRIEND. because she never knows true love until her book! KIND OF LIKE COLIN? who loves no one truly until pen? but oh wait I forgot we had to make him more interesting by adding marina as his love interest for no reason. /:
but what do I know I've only loved and cherished the books for half my life !! its only the series that made me fall in love with historical romance and all its cheesiness. i only spent three years searching for all its first editions and collecting them whenever possible. it's only a series ive recommended and gifted to my friends!!!
truly I could go on and on and but what would be the point?
Book Bridgerton lovers deserve just a small morsel of it's true work but that seems to get further and further with every episode.
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