Bridgerton Rewatch Observations:
Despite how sheâs the main love interest of season 2, Kate doesnât really get the attention she deserves, (which is the point of her character development) but thereâs little moments that really deny her the Main Character Romance she deserves
No one ever fills out Kateâs dance card
Itâs not even clear if Dorset attends balls. Heâs only around for the occasional promenade
If Dorset did attend balls and didnât even talk to Kate
Kate is always watching everyone else be courted or dance with, but Kate is never asked to dance till the finale of the season (Edwina forcing Antony to dance with Kate doesnât count)
No one even really converses with Kate at balls let alone flirts or even fetches her a lemonade
Kateâs birth parentsâ names are never said. We only know her father as a clerk but not even Lady Mary calls him by name.
We also donât know how old Kate was when her father passed
Thereâs no flashbacks of Kateâs backstory, which may have been due to budgeting a landscape that looked like India but Antony got flashbacks for his character development in the same seaosn
When Dorset does pursue Kate, he actually says something inappropriate between the lines, âIf friends can visit her in Indiaâ and that casualness and unchaperoned in that society was not allowed. It almost sounded like he was asking if he can hook up with her whenever he was in India
BUT in front of Antony (the viscountïżŒ) and the ton Lord Dorset makes this sudden remark about trying to convince Kate to stay in England when he just flirted with her about visiting her in India
Itâs easy to forget that Kateâs early life was in the midst of the âWorking Classâ which were labors such as house maids and staff. She grew up needing to know skills from a very early age
Itâs never stated outright but implied why Kate took over her familyâs finances after her fatherâs death. Kateâs father was a clerk, he had skills in order to survive, and he pushed Kate to learn as much as possible. For example how she can hunt. Whereas Lady Mary who grew up in the early 1800s in the palace never had to learn a trade, let alone how to manage finances. So Kate took over because there was literally no adult left in her life who could even remotely balance a checkbook but her and that must have been so scary at such a young age
Though Lady Mary must have thrived in India because she seemed very confined in the palace, and got to know a part of her heritage that seemed erased (this an assumption from context)
Lady Maryâs mother doesnât seem to engage in Indian culture much (from the 3 scenes we saw of her) but Lady Mary practiced so many traditions with her daughters from language to wedding traditions, to even hair oiling
Itâs crazy that Eloise never told any of her family that the queen accused her. She was a teenage girl who was accused with treason from the head of state and one of the most powerful people in her country, AND SHE DIDNT TELL ONE PERSON IN HER FAMILY. CRAZY