i know you said you havenât read the booksâ have you seen the post julia quinn made about michaela?
(spoilers for the books below, disregard if you dont want it spoiled but its relevant to your complaint)
michael stirling was always francescaâs end game love interest in the books, michaela is just genderbent in bridgerton.
the reason she has instant chemistry with francesca is purely to signal future events to people who dont read the books and mitigate the amount of people who would claim their romance âcame out of nowhereâ when it was always planned.
in julia quinns post, she talks about how important it is to her that john and francescas love is real and feels real to the viewers, because it was an important part of francesca and michaels dynamic in the book.
finding someone attractive doesnt negate an honest love connection with someone, and neither does (eventually) moving on. does violets budding romance with marcus cheapen the love she had for her late husband? sometimes sweet things dont last forever, that doesnt make them less sweet.
I don't mind spoilers at all which is why I'm responding.
Yes, I understand that Michael was always going to be Francesca's endgame. I'd say as someone who was introduced to Bridgerton and any content related to such through the show, social media makes it almost inevitable that you would find out about certain book details without needing to read the actual series (such as endgame couples, differences in the books vs show etc.).
The existence of Michael as a character, I have no problem with, I'm not out here petitioning to make John her endgame. I think it follows the pattern seen in Bridgerton (the show, not sure about the books) of how each sibling almost has to have one romantic interest before they end up with their endgame. My post was more centred on why the show couldn't focus on Francesca and John's relationship first in this season before moving on in Francesca's actual season or maybe the season beforehand.
I've seen it said that the audience needs visual cues as a suggestion of what's to come, but was that done with the other Bridgertons? Colin and Penelope aside with their friends to lovers arc, I don't think we needed much reassuring (in the form of that character popping up beforehand) to know that Kate was coming in as Anthony's love interest despite his spending the whole of season one with the opera singer romantically. Despite all the hookups and situations Benedict has found himself in over the seasons, I'd say most people still expect him to end up with Sophie? or someone that'll be his endgame?
I think it was just how it looked overall. That in regards to John and Francesca, they spend season 3 building up this narrative of how a quiet and easy love can be just as meaningful as any other type of love or at least equal to the one Violet has always had in mind for her children. Then fast forward to them getting married and after the kiss Francesca looks either confused or disappointed. When she's introduced to Michaela later on she has that moment of forgetting her words completely and that instant attraction you mentioned.
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