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Look at the way heβs just melting at her touch!! I donβt like shipping real people but like damnβ¦ Nic and Newts are just NOT working with us on that one at allllllll rn
sorry to be the downer here, but from a writing/character development/narrative perspective, i'm pretty sure my personal expectations for polin will not be met.
i think show polin will be really fun and romantic and the general audience and fandom will absolutely adore them. so if you're looking forward to girlboss/himbo and possessive/angry jealousy and colin not finding out about LW until the very last possible minute from someone other than penelope for max drama - then i hope you enjoy s3 and have an amazing time!
i just think personally they aren't gonna have any of the big aspects that made me love them in the books (they've already erased a major one, which is two characters maturing individually before being in the right time and space to fall in love with each other), so they're just gonna be another ship to me that had a lot of potential but wasn't executed well. (it doesn't help that while i do adore show penelope for all her mistakes and flaws and terrible decisions, the show just doesn't know how to write colin bridgerton, at all. and for me to love a ship wholeheartedly, i need to love and adore BOTH characters to the ends of the earth.)
Let me just say so much of what they said leans into exactly how I pictured it.
β Some words to describe the season: Shonda-"intimate" / Jess B-"confidence" / Luke Newts-"unexpected" / Nicola-"romantic" / Luke Thom-"zoom in"
β They talk about Colin's words last season and say it was a good place to start in the story/journey; confirm apology will come
β Pen has 1 main suitor besides Colin who takes a real interest in her (Spoiler: it's Lord Debling)
β Julia Quinn said it is a good friends to lovers story. She sounded so excited!
β Someone (either Shonda, Julia or Jess) said they have some good awkward banter.
β Julia Quinn really confirmed the Colin-Pen hand scene (1st real emotional and physically intimate scene for them)
β How Jess B talks about Colin (again) gives me hope for his personal journey-mentioned about the 3rd son "not knowing his place in the world" & more
β Protective El of Colin confirmed (we get El and Colin scenes), but she still loves Pen; Luke N. called it a non-romantic love triangle between the 3
β Benedict takes roles of Anthony; he can fall into different roles very well, but who is he and what does he want?
β Will and Alice acquire a new title this season; Martins talked about how they are "drawn out of the shadows"
β Adjoa talked about how Lord Ledger affected her; called that romance "life-changing"; QCABS enriched Lady Danbury story coming into season 3
β Lady D. personal journey-she's "shook" at an arrival that happens π
β Golda-How do you do private intimacy in the view of the public (George and QC)? / she loves the Brimsley relationship
β When talking about QC picking the diamond of the season said she's bored of what's going on and is "searching for something different"
β [Other tidbit-they're hosting a Bridgerton wedding for a lucky real-life couple.]
β Shonda quote about Bridgerton always "finding a way to give female characters agency" and Pen has a good way of coming into this in this season
β Nicola-"so much happens" in their story
β They talked about how the show has changed their lives-Claudia said she always walks away proud of what she's done and essentially there's not one part of the job she's unsatisfied with. aww; Adjoa said "a space for everyone"
β Season 3 is "for the wallflowers"- Adjoa [they mentioned this a lot; the interaction on this between Adjoa and Nicola just made it seem like there is Lady Danbury-Pen relationship]
β Nic and Newts recreated the pic in the mirror with candle stick!! what?! / They also watch fan edits and send them to each other
β Easter egg in almost every episode according to Jess B. and they are "raising the bar on visuals"- "even brighter and more spectacular than ever"
β Superlatives: most like character-Luke Newton; least-Golda; most bloopers-Johnny Bailey or Claudia (and I think she was offended at first, lol)
β Chaos in Featherington fam because Pen steps out (Portia doesn't like when Pen changes from her citrus dresses)
β Nicola "didn't expect to be as emotional as it was" from the first 2 episode screening
β Adjoa said things will make you laugh then quickly after cry
β Claudia said people make mistakes and people fall..., etc.
β Theme: "Find your light." -Jess B.
β The line in QCABS "We are untold stories" is what this season is about
Someone PLEAAASEEEE write me a longer version of this π¦ Polin π mini fic that I wrote because I have been hallucinating about this since the trailer dropped ππΌ
(expand to read the mini fic!)
"Mr. Colin Bridgerton, the completely unhinged and oblivious man that he is, casually reaches out π€πΌ and adjusts one Ms. Penelope Featheringtonβs necklace, to shift the teardrop π§ pearl pendant that is askew.
He aligns the pearl with her cleavage, like this is a perfectly normal thing for him to do π€·π»ββοΈ
In a daze of suddenly thinking about her other pearl ππ»ββοΈππ, his index finger slowly traces down ππΌ from the adjusted pendant and over the beautiful line of her deep cleavage ( . Y . ) until suddenly his brain catches up π³ because her breasts are now covered in goosebumps and rising and falling rapidly π from all her heavy breathing π«’
Actually, he suddenly realizes that he never wants to stop touching her like this π€―"
And then BAM π₯ they are both just staring at each otherβs eyes ποΈ ποΈ and lips 𫦠being insanely horny π₯΅ and feralβ’οΈ on main π«£
I think that pen and colin are gonna be going from:
pen being in love with colin - colin being oblivious/ clinging to how he can reconstruct their friendship
to
pen still in love with colin, but doing her best to get over him and trying to connect with debling (which doesn't work, obv, heart wants what it wants girl) - colin fully realising he's in love with her and falling deeper in love with the truest version of her
to
pen having to let go of the idea of a safe but ultimately loveless marriage to debling in favour of staying true to her true romantic heart - colin finding out about LW and becoming angry/questioning the authenticity of his love for her/her safety
to
pen having to fight for him to see that the version of her that he fell in love with is real and she truly loves him back - colin having to learn to trust her and trust in her friendship and the newly acknowledged romance between them
I think that's how their "wavelengths never really aligning" that nic and newts mentioned might work out (and where the ross and rachel parallel comes in; people are realising thing at just the most inconvenient times for the other)
See now this makes a lot of sense compared to the article and supposed spoilers weβve gotten! I can see this type of Ross and Rachel dynamic over people saying itβs similar to their βwe were on a breakβ phase. I hope itβs more aligned with that type of tension you mentioned versus the mess they got into bc of Ross ππ
This is a great idea and Iβm all for it panning out this way anon great job π«‘π«Ά
Not Nicola and Newts geeking out about the traitors when all I've been thinking about for weeks is a Traitor!Penelope/Faithful!Colin AU Γ‘ la Phaedra and CT.
Thoughts of the S3 Polin? I love them and I'm so excited
i'm clearing out this inbox of mine... and i haven't properly ranted about this in a while, so... yeah. So if you're excited about S3 and don't want to hear anything negative, this may not be the post for you. (I'd classify it as bittersweet, maybe.)
I still HATE the idea of Polin being S3. I hated it when it was rumored, I hated it when it was announced, and even if I've now accepted that it's happening, I still think it was a TERRIBLE decision and actively ruins some of the elements of Polin I love the most (Namely: two characters growing up individually until they're in the right time and space to fall in love and grow together; the spinster and the bachelor; Penelope being successful for a DECADE at LW before being ready to move on; Colin enjoying his travels but being ready to settle down.)
But here we are.
Ignoring the past two weeks, I've been pretty pessimistic about S3. For me, in order to LOVE a romance I need to LOVE both individual characters. I can still like and enjoy a romance if that isn't the case, but with Polin - a book ship that is one of my all time favorites - I had high expectations in S1. My expectations post-S2 were pretty much on the floor because Show!Pen and Show!Colin - while not terrible characters in any way - are not MY characters, or at least not the ones I would die on a hill defending. In addition, while I do not care about plot in the slightest (and therefore do not care about the - frankly, sparse - RMB plot being done away with) I DO care about vibes and keeping characters in character. I love fic, obviously, but I love IN CHARACTER fic... and the show is wildly OOC fic right now. Not my cup of tea. So... really, in the end, I'm just here to support Nicola and Newts. I have always believed that S3 would be wildly popular, eaten up by the casual audience, and generally well-loved... I just felt that S3 wouldn't be my all time favorite season with my all time favorite couple as Show!Polin had the potential to be (especially if it had been S4 and had gone through with the actual slowburn, individual character development route).
Now, ever since TUDUM and some of the interviews that have come out... I wouldn't say I'm cautiously optimistic, but I am choosing to have more of an open mind and be open to the possibility that I might enjoy the main romance without having to turn my brain off. I know there are probably going to be things I dislike/despise (jealous/possessive Colin, Pen not apologizing to Marina, Marina dying, an overemphasis on the sex and not enough on the friendship, Colin's costuming, etc. who knows what else) but I know I will enjoy watching Nicola and Newts play these characters on my screen (the stills had me giddy!)
More importantly, while I try not to read TOO much into interviews, everything Nicola and Newts have said about the season so far does give me hope about Penelope and Colin as individuals. Again, I don't care about the plot. The quotes? Are fun! I'm definitely really happy about "you're my mess" and any other book quotes/scenes were get. But hearing Nicola talk about how Penelope needs to grow up, how she's terrible with men, how she's made mistakes.... hearing Newts talk about how S3 is basically a different Colin... THAT is what gives me hope. Because for me, I am always drawn to character-driven romances but it's hard to be invested in that romance if you're not invested in the characters. And again while Show!Pen and Show!Colin are fine, I really miss their book characters and hearing that they both might be GROWING into their book selves (especially Colin, imo, bc Show!Pen just needs to grow in general and I'll be happy whereas I really didn't like the writing for S2 Colin) does, actually, get me a little excited.
But yeah, I'm still here. I'll watch. I'll keep an open mind because Nicola and Newts clearly care about these characters and the romance and I do appreciate that and at the end of the day, it's an adaptation of the show and if I hate it (wouldn't be the first time!), I'll always have the book.