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I'm rewatching Bridgerton, and I'm noticing a few subtle details more than I did the first time. Mainly Luke Newton's acting.

I think many people were disappointed by how show!Colin was compared to book!Colin. I initially was too, but they obviously wrote Colin as younger, more innocent, and more gullible than he was in the book, and i think it works to start building Colin's future story.

Luke honestly did such a wonderful job with Colin. The true earnestness of Colin comes through, his compassion and care for others. And Luke isn't an in your face type actor, he doesn't need to overdo it to get across Colin's charming personality.

It's his subtle delivery of lines, but then its the look in his eyes and his body language. You can see the twinkle in his eye when he's flirting with Pen, or teasing a sibling. It's the laughing tone in his voice when he's teasing his mother about being drunk.

But also, later in the season when Colin is confronting Marina about her attempting to trap him into marriage, when Marina confirms that she is indeed pregnant, his body flinches like she had just slapped him. The literal pain on his face as he realized he had been manipulated and lied to.

My God, he's a fantastic actor.

I really, really can't wait for when he gets a chance to really get his teeth into some meatier material when the Colin/Pen story really starts. It's going to be fantastic.

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Anyone else notice how many times the characters say Colin believed himself in love? Anthony said it, Colin said it, Penelope said it...

The writers really doing their best to tell the audience that Colin did not really love Marina, and that it was just an infatuation, a crush.

This will still lead in nicely to his confusion over whether he loves Penelope, and realizing that, yes, what he feels for Penelope is 100% true and real and nothing like what he felt for Marina. It's a deep love with Penelope as opposed to the shallow feelings he felt for Marina.

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Penelope realizing that Colin is not the idealized man she thought:

"Why why why had she been so foolish as to think that he was the perfect man? She’d spent half her life worshiping someone who wasn’t even real. Because the Colin she knew— no, the Colin she’d thought she’d known—clearly didn’t exist.

And whoever this man was, she wasn’t even sure she liked him. The man she’d loved so faithfully over the years never would have behaved like this.

(...)

“I hoped that you would forgive me,” she whispered. “Or at least that you would understand. I always thought you were the sort of man who…”

“What sort of man?” he asked, this time after the barest hint of a pause.

“It’s my fault, really,” she said, sounding tired and sad.

“I’ve put you on a pedestal. You’ve been so nice all these years. I suppose I thought you were incapable of anything else.”

(...)

She tried not to feel so disappointed. She tried to tell herself that she had no right to expect Colin to live up to her dreams, that her vision of him had been unfairly idealized, but…

But she still wanted him to be the man she’d dreamed of.

This was Colin! Colin, for heaven’s sake. Colin, who was as close to perfect as any human being could ever hope to be. She had no right to find fault with him, and yet…

And she felt so guilty for every pang of disappointment.

And yet she did.

(...)

“No one is perfect,” he said quietly.

“I know.” She leaned over and planted an impulsive kiss on his cheek. “You’re the imperfect man of my heart, and that’s even better. I’d always thought you infallible, that your life was charmed, that you had no worries or fears or unfulfilled dreams. But that wasn’t really fair of me.”

Can't wait to see this in the series.

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"No one should tell themselves that they can't wear a certain thing, because that's just silly. If you want to dress a certain way, or express yourself, you should do it, because it will give you so much more confidence. It'll make you feel so much more yourself. And life is short, so you might as well have fun." 

○ Nicola Couglan

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