We spent eight years getting a redemption arc teased for Nick, only to finally find out - definitively - that he's team Gilead all the way.
He could have turned around! He'd made such progress! That's what makes it so tragic.
I guess it just goes to show that the "nice guys" are capable of committing the greatest acts of evil. I both applaud and hate the writers for this because yes, they've played the long game with this character and it's devastating - especially so to have June standing right next to him when she finds out what he did - but they've also written themselves into a corner.
The only things Nick could do now to atone for his shit are get Hannah to safety (which we know he doesn't do because of The Testaments) or... die. And everyone and their cousin has guessed at that ending for years.
Getting barricade and then prolonged eye contact, a smile, and a thumbs up from our boy Andrew during “Too Sweet”? This experience almost sent me into cardiac arrest.
I’m not going to get on my knees and thank the Bridgerton writers for including sapphic representation just for the sake of representation, because that is what that felt like.
It’s poor form to introduce a queer plot literally in the last five minutes of the season, all the while ignoring (again) the one you’ve repeatedly used to lure in the actual sapphic viewers via PR and carefully worded teases.
They KNOW they’re presenting Eloise as queer-coded. They capitalized on it. And then they batted their lashes and went “I don’t know what you’re talking about” for a third consecutive season.
I am tired. I will just write my own sapphic regency romance, at this point. It’ll probably be published before season 4, at the rate they’re going. Ffs.
I finished with Bridgerton season 3 earlier today, and it left me feeling a little icky.
Spoilers ahead. Reader beware.
We've been given hints - some subtle, some less so - about sapphic Eloise for four years. Hell, we got more "Eloise might be a lesbian!" articles this season than ever before thanks to her closeness with Cressida. The groundwork has been laid for three seasons, the hints have been dropped, and with the Cressida "friendship" (which is giving "and they were roommates!") AND bisexual Benedict confirmed canon, it seemed like maybe now was the time to get her wlw storyline that the show has been teasing since the pilot on the road.
And instead of doing anything with that, which was out there on a silver platter for the writers to work with, they introduced a whole new, totally canon-divergent plotline with no warning, in the last five minutes of the season.
Let's be so for real; they're probably not going to make THREE of the siblings queer. Meaning it is highly unlikely that we'll ever get to see a sapphic Eloise. And if that's the case, why tease it? Why all the PR articles talking about it and interviews with Claudia Jessie where she's like "hmm, maybe" if they're not going to do anything with it? That feels a little queer-baity. They've been teasing for years, and this is the third season in a row where they've done nothing with it. If they continue to do nothing with it and don't make our girl El a little fruity, then that'll feel like a betrayal. Don't hint at stuff you don't intend to explore further.
Bi Benedict made total sense. All the signs were there. It tracked. Sapphic Eloise would make total sense. This??? I mean, yay for rainbow representation on the tea party dancing show, but shoehorning Michaela into the very last few minutes of the show while again doing nothing to act on any of the El queer hints feels... well, it feels like a bait and switch. With so much PR and so many articles and videos and speculation about Eloise being a lesbian this season, that was a big part of what lured me in. We kept getting "Eloise might be gay" and "looks like there's an LGBT character this season!!!" teasers back-to-back. They 100% knew what they were doing with that. So, to then be given Michaela is like "oh... umm, okay." It's great, but it's not what was teased at all and so that is disappointing.
But if I, a sapphic, claim it is disappointing, I am called homophobic. Can't win out here.
There was also no reason to introduce Michaela so early, unless the writers were setting that up to be THE wlw storyline among the Bridgertons.
And that is what is pissing me off. Like, we know that you were drawn in by our hints at an LGBT love story, and we know that a bunch of the teasers and PR we put in front of you made it seem like that would be Eloise. But we're not doing that, actually. Here's something we just pulled out of our asses with minimal to no foreshadowing instead. Happy pride. uWu🌸
Can you blame me for feeling a little led astray by that?
I want to be abundantly clear: I am not knocking the fact that we are getting representation in the first place. There is so little sapphic representation to begin with! That is not my issue. It's the implicit promises, made and broken, both in all three seasons and particularly in the promo for this specific season, where everything pointed to a queer Eloise and then it was all "haha, just kidding, but here's your consolation wlw".
so, so valid of anthony to barely be in this season because he canonically can’t stop fucking his wife long enough to be a functioning member of society
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
Absolutely hilarious to me that the ton is gonna be speculating on why and how Penelope and Colin ended up engaged and there’s definitely gonna be some entrapment/pity rumours going around but the actual truth of it is that Colin chased a carriage down, fell to his knees and went “please please please please please please please”
actually hilarious that colin bridgerton returned to london absolutely determined to be in his slut era. he said if there is one thing i am it is a whore. and then one (1) kiss with penelope later he was like neverMIND i am a MARRIED MAN i am MONOGAMOUS life is about LIFELONG PARTNERSHIP ACTUALLY
I'll never be able to say my commencement wasn't memorable
Received news halfway through that a family member had died, just a month after my dad passed
Passed out from heat exhaustion
Participated in a massive, 500-person protest
Got kicked out for said protest
Ended up in the fucking NYT for the protest
This degree may have been 11 years in the making. I may have fought, clawed, and broken my body and soul to get it. I may have lost a parent halfway through my senior year who, despite our differences, would have loved to see me graduate from Berkeley. This may have been the culmination of a particularly long journey for me and other students.
But let's get something straight: there are NO colleges left in Gaza. They do not exist. Much of their student bodies are also dead. They have all been bombed off the face of the map--using my country's tax dollars and funding from my university's investments in weapons manufacturing. Standing up for them and risking ejection for them is a small ask when I bear witness every day to the horrors the Palestinian people are being subjected to 24/7. Standing up and saying "no, I refuse to be complicit in this; NO business as usual" during my own graduation is nothing when weighed against the knowledge that there will be no class of 2024 in Gaza.
DISCLOSE. DIVEST. WE WILL NOT STOP, WE WILL NOT REST.
So, yeah. I may have gotten kicked out of my own graduation. But you'd best believe, I'd do it again.
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