Anonymous
03/28/2022 12:31
Subject: Re:Bridgerton, Season 2
I think Kate AND Edwina are stunning. They are the two most attractive women in this season. Penelopes mother must have been a knockout 20 years ago.
Anonymous
03/28/2022 12:23
Subject: Bridgerton, Season 2
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think they are intentionally making Eloise unappealing so she will be the Wallflower who blossoms sort of plot. Her season will be as a strong, feminist and beautiful.
Eloise is not a wallflower, what show are you watching?
Eloise is a reluctant debutante who deliberately tries to keep herself away from potential suitors. Spoilers for her book but she ends up running away after Penelope’s marriage (but still hasn’t learned her secret) because Pen & Collin are her “best friends” and now they have each other so she feels left out, and she runs to a widower with children and ends up “reforming” his family.
Plus her story (and Pen & Collins) happen about 8 years after the first book… so they’re going to have to do something different with the timeline here.
Yes to the bolded, no to wallflower. She doesn't want to do any of that shit but she isn't hiding in the shadows because she is shy and/or unpopular.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/wallflower#:~:text=noun,year's%20bidding%20for%20government%20contracts.
a person who, because of shyness, unpopularity, or lack of a partner, remains at the side at a party or dance.
Anonymous
03/28/2022 12:23
Subject: Bridgerton, Season 2
It does feel like they decided to go with a “taming of the shrew” theme plot rather than the existing still silly but makes some sense (in that Edwina would feel that she needs to marry well to save her mother and sister, because she’s described as “the most beautiful woman ever” in the book). Don’t really understand why they changed it so much and yet left out the subject of colonialism entirely.
Anonymous
03/28/2022 12:20
Subject: Bridgerton, Season 2
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Okay so I think Simone Ashley is absolutely gorgeous, but now I can see why some people might have a different opinion (unrelated to race).
And maybe that’s kind of the point? Maybe those in charge of casting *wanted* actresses who weren’t classically beautiful. That is sort of a theme in many romance novels. Maybe it’s just nice to sometimes see women who are amazing inside but not gifted with the most gorgeous features get the hot guy.
But I still don’t think Daphne and Kate are as unattractive or plain as others think. I think Daphne was pretty in a renaissance painting kind of way.
Define classically beautiful?
white, blonde, and tall- speaking on behalf of the many racists on dcum who are threatened by the foreign, dark skinned woman
Seriously the people on here complaining about Kate’s features act like she looks completely alien and strange, when the only thing that really stands out to them negatively is her skin color.
Especially since this are the same women who drone on and on and on about Kate Middleton being beautiful and wanting to look like her etc.
This woman is leaps and bounds ...
...over this woman (I purposely found a pic of Kate around the same age -- she is 25 here -- so people couldn't say "well of course, Simone is 26!, youth blahblahblah)
Anonymous
03/28/2022 12:14
Subject: Bridgerton, Season 2
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think they are intentionally making Eloise unappealing so she will be the Wallflower who blossoms sort of plot. Her season will be as a strong, feminist and beautiful.
Eloise is not a wallflower, what show are you watching?
Eloise is a reluctant debutante who deliberately tries to keep herself away from potential suitors. Spoilers for her book but she ends up running away after Penelope’s marriage (but still hasn’t learned her secret) because Pen & Collin are her “best friends” and now they have each other so she feels left out, and she runs to a widower with children and ends up “reforming” his family.
Plus her story (and Pen & Collins) happen about 8 years after the first book… so they’re going to have to do something different with the timeline here.
Anonymous
03/28/2022 12:08
Subject: Bridgerton, Season 2
Anonymous wrote:I think they are intentionally making Eloise unappealing so she will be the Wallflower who blossoms sort of plot. Her season will be as a strong, feminist and beautiful.
Eloise is not a wallflower, what show are you watching?
Anonymous
03/28/2022 11:35
Subject: Bridgerton, Season 2
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Okay so I think Simone Ashley is absolutely gorgeous, but now I can see why some people might have a different opinion (unrelated to race).
And maybe that’s kind of the point? Maybe those in charge of casting *wanted* actresses who weren’t classically beautiful. That is sort of a theme in many romance novels. Maybe it’s just nice to sometimes see women who are amazing inside but not gifted with the most gorgeous features get the hot guy.
But I still don’t think Daphne and Kate are as unattractive or plain as others think. I think Daphne was pretty in a renaissance painting kind of way.
Define classically beautiful?
white, blonde, and tall- speaking on behalf of the many racists on dcum who are threatened by the foreign, dark skinned woman
Seriously the people on here complaining about Kate’s features act like she looks completely alien and strange, when the only thing that really stands out to them negatively is her skin color.
Anonymous
03/28/2022 11:09
Subject: Re:Bridgerton, Season 2
Anonymous wrote:In the books Kate wasn’t supposed to be beautiful. She becomes more beautiful to Anthony as he falls for her. Ashley seemed to become more attractive as the show went on because of more flattering lighting and hair. I think this was purposeful.
Okay that definitely sounds like a romance novel! I love that trope. What about Daphne?
Anonymous
03/28/2022 10:56
Subject: Re:Bridgerton, Season 2
In the books Kate wasn’t supposed to be beautiful. She becomes more beautiful to Anthony as he falls for her. Ashley seemed to become more attractive as the show went on because of more flattering lighting and hair. I think this was purposeful.
Anonymous
03/28/2022 10:56
Subject: Bridgerton, Season 2
What is that piece of advice that Lady Danbury gave to Kate? “When frustrated, you would do well to focus on your own needs rather than trying to change others, which is a fruitless endeavor?” I need that cross-stitched to something and hung in my wall.
Anonymous
03/28/2022 10:44
Subject: Bridgerton, Season 2
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why do the characters need to be perfectly beautiful?
The whole premise of this part of the discussion is just odd and not cool.
I’m the comment prior to yours and I don’t know if you’re responding to me, but that’s my whole point. The actresses don’t have to be super beautiful and maybe the fact that Daphne (or Kate if you don’t think she is) doesn’t look like a sex kitten is the whole point.
I wasn't responding specifically to you, but yes, we are on the same page!
I don't think I really appreciated the mandate for beauty on screen until I started watching more British TV, where the actresses reflect a more normal spectrum of attractiveness.
Oh gotcha! And that’s such a good point about British TV. Like somebody here said that Simone Ashley needs a nose job, but in the UK nobody seems to care about yellow crooked teeth! Go England!
Anonymous
03/28/2022 10:11
Subject: Bridgerton, Season 2
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why do the characters need to be perfectly beautiful?
The whole premise of this part of the discussion is just odd and not cool.
I’m the comment prior to yours and I don’t know if you’re responding to me, but that’s my whole point. The actresses don’t have to be super beautiful and maybe the fact that Daphne (or Kate if you don’t think she is) doesn’t look like a sex kitten is the whole point.
I wasn't responding specifically to you, but yes, we are on the same page!
I don't think I really appreciated the mandate for beauty on screen until I started watching more British TV, where the actresses reflect a more normal spectrum of attractiveness.
Anonymous
03/28/2022 10:02
Subject: Bridgerton, Season 2
Anonymous wrote:Why do the characters need to be perfectly beautiful?
The whole premise of this part of the discussion is just odd and not cool.
I’m the comment prior to yours and I don’t know if you’re responding to me, but that’s my whole point. The actresses don’t have to be super beautiful and maybe the fact that Daphne (or Kate if you don’t think she is) doesn’t look like a sex kitten is the whole point.
Anonymous
03/28/2022 10:00
Subject: Bridgerton, Season 2
I don't get this arguing. Not every actress has to be perfect. Just like not everyone is perfect in real life.
Anonymous
03/28/2022 09:53
Subject: Re:Bridgerton, Season 2
Daphne looked particular beautiful in season 2 I thought.