we all wanted penelope to finally become a bridgerton so she’d have a true family. but this story showed us her gaining a family within the bridgertons, restoring a family within the featheringtons and creating a family with colin and baby eliott.
bridgerton season 3 is for the people that never got chosen and never thought they would. for the people that thought love wasn’t in the cards for them. for the people that love without conditions. for the people that live through books, cinema and songs. for the wallflowers.
penelope made her longtime crush & best friend her first kiss, first i love you, first time, HUSBAND AND BABY DADDY. that’s why yall are pissed cause she did all that in one season.
this is the FIRST time penelope has said “i love you” to colin. in the church she says “i LOVED you in secret” & “i have always LOVED you” that is not the same as saying “i love you”. colin heard those words for the first time directed at him and he was consumed by her love”
colin is so fucking adorable cause he’s like “i can be mad at you and sulk BUT DONT BE CRAZY AND ACCEPT IT??????” her saying separate carriages was a wake up call cause colin and penelope do a lot of things but RIDING CARRIAGES SEPARATELY? NEVER.
“when penelope becomes lady debling will she bring us gifts when she visits with lord debling? she’s practically our sister-“
“LADY DEBLING?? sister she is not going to marry him she barley knows him-“
“well she knows you very well why don’t you marry her then brother?”
the letters.THE LETTERS???? colin rereading her letters smiling to himself realising that the woman he had fallen in love with without even knowing was not just penelope but whistledown…that the part he wanted to separate her from was actually the part he fell in love with.
“then what good am i to you?”
“colin i love you”
his whole body recoils back,he’s in shock, he has always been the one to fix things. offering a joke to lighten the mood. putting everyone first. for the first time ever he will be loved for simply being.
“just being you is enough,colin.”
it’s the words he’s been wanting to hear his whole life. that he is ENOUGH as he his. he doesn’t have to do anything but be. but at the same time he feels burdened that he is not fully ready to accept HER for being who SHE IS. my lover boy💔
their baby was made during a moment of complete and pure love. during a moment where colin and penelope were the only two people in the world but made the a third, a piece of their love, their son.
people do realize that one of the reasons colin immediately had his & penelope’s house sorted out,her ring set so fast and started to work on a manuscript was because he had to prove to himself that he was a good enough match for her? debling was a LORD,colin wanted to be worthy.
it took eloise years to figure out penelope’s secret. it took colin only a WEEK from when they got together. it’s sad because penelope was used to no one noticing her absence that she didn’t expect colin to notice it either. but to him she became his every thought.
i’m just crying over the fact that hyacinth never got to meet edmund but she’s always glued to colin’s side and he’s the one that’s the most like his father😭
featherington house has held bad memories for pen but colin has replaced them all. broke her heart in the garden? fell in love by kissing her in the garden. was belittled in the drawing room? was protected by him there. baby pen was sad? their baby will grow up happy there.
“SISTER! you must tell me who that lady in silver was at the masquerade last night i’m going mad”
“you’ve always been mad so that won’t be an issue and how am i to know?”
“colin is rubbing of on you i see. and haven’t you built an empire by knowing everything & everyone?”
i don’t think we talk about how charmed colin is by penelope. when she goes “not even the women in paris” his eyes lit up knowing there’s never going to be a quiet moment ever with her. their whole life together she’s going to keep him on his toes.
knowing pen doesn’t get approached after changing her wardrobe is so sad but so important. it’s never been her clothes, hair or makeup. her hiding her true self was the issue. the moment she is fully herself the suitors line up not because of a pretty dress but because of HER.
instead of being with pen physically just because he wanted to,colin choose to spend every night as close to her possible while not being intimate not until he completely accepted her. him preferring sleep because there is where he finds her, on the settee they made love.
“whistledown was all i had.”
“YOU HAD ME. you had me penelope.
i saw you-”
“you saw what you wanted to see. never truly ME.”
“how dare you?”
“how dare i? who do you think you ar-“
“THE MAN THAT LOVES YOU. there it is. you impossible woman. i see all of you.
i. love. you.”
colin was feeling something for penelope at the end of season two. it’s so obvious. when he starts having feelings and the men of the ton tease him he shuts it down because he is scared of it. he was excited to write to penelope during his travels to develop +
agatha: how does a lady come to be with child?
eliott: have you ever seen a mirror-
penelope: ELIOTT BRIDGERTON
colin: or a carriage
penelope: COLIN BRIDGERTON
i can just see hyacinth spying for penelope trying to get all the gossip because she wants to be part of the column “SISTER YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT I HEARD”
“remember after father died you and eloise befriended penelope?”
“of course how could i ever forget that?”
“she made you laugh during the time of your life that was supposed to be the darkest. she’s the light my dearest. don’t let yourself be trapped in the dark. go, tell her.”
so colin gave penelope an engagement ring that is a daisy with a yellow gem in the middle & in england daises represent the SUN and he says “and soak up even a little bit of your LIGHT” PENELOPE IS HIS SUN? and then they kiss in the window enveloped in sunlight? IM GONNA CRY
colin not being ready to be with her body and soul even if it’s the only thing he has had on his mind just shows what kind of man he is. he loves HER and he can’t give her false hope and assurance just because he wants to, he needs to feel it and mean it.
romancing mr. bridgerton has a lot of inner dialogue that we can physically read. as an actor having to portray all that inner torment without a single use of words is the hardest thing to do. luke newton your eyes told us all of colins hidden truths.
THE ACTOR YOU ARE.
penelope having both her rings just in my mind is such symbolism. one ring is for the friendship they had, the first form of relationship they experienced together. the second is for their love. two rings also shows penelope having two sides to her that now live as one.
a man can’t have a sexy mullet, the sluttiest of waists, ocean blue eyes, long legs, impeccable skin and a good heart.
do you see luke newton? HE DOES.
this is the true colin. the armour is completely off he is who he has always been. sensitive, reassuring, KIND, softhearted, sweet and so loving. welcome back colin bridgerton we missed you.
this was the night before their wedding. he wants her & during the wedding he reassures her he wants this marriage. but he isn’t ready to completely be with her physically after because he knows she loves him fully and he is still accepting her, fully.
penelope fell for colin because of his kindness as a little boy. he broke her heart the moment he was unkind because she couldn’t recognise him. she fell back in love with him when he put down all his armour & was the good man he is. “you’re a very good man mr bridgerton” indeed.
i love this moment with kate and colin SO MUCH but i just keep thinking about if penelope did that to benedict next season colin would actually fling himself out of a moving carriage
colin is trying to give penelope the advice he’s taken on himself. be like everyone else and you’ll fit right in.that’s why debling listening to her talk about books is genius.because there are men out there that can get to see the real penelope like he has and that’s what hurts.