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People think Eloise is being "forced to marry" when it's her season and I find it weird that people believe Eloise would ever be forced into doing anything.

If Violet or Anthony ever tried to force her to marry anyone, Eloise would resist and resist until they eventually give up as we've seen in the past.

So this notion that Eloise will be "forced to conform to societal expectations" is frankly false and insulting to Eloise who is a woman who has been fighting to make her own decisions and if she ever decided to marry, it's HER choice.

That's going to be her season, proving that she has her own agency and is capable of making her own decisions and that she won't be put into a box. I don't know why people don't see that.

She doesn't have to stay single and unmarried to prove her beliefs are true. She doesn't need to shrink herself and be forced into marriage and subjection to prove that marriage is a trap for women. She is just going to do what she feels is right for her.

Her season is going to be a season of CHOICES and her inner turmoil between keeping her independence and freedoms vs. falling in love which is something she never thought would happen to her.

It's the first time I think a season where the female lead won't ever feel pressured to marry because it's "expected for her to do so" because of society. She's not going to have a story like her sisters who all met their husbands in the ton attending balls and such.

She won't be engaging in the marriage mart when she meets her husband. It'll be very unconventional and modern. She meets her husband in the Regency equivalent of Tinder.

Her season will be a MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE trope which means the reason she will get married will have benefits to HER.

She will find an advantage to marriage that won't necessarily begin with love and during the marriage she will find herself falling in love with her husband.

This season will be different than any other season because every season ends with a marriage but Eloise's season will essentially start with a marriage, or at least she will marry very early on in the season.

So she will make the CHOICE to marry. She won't be forced to marry by Anthony or Violet, but it's HER CHOICE.

And the man she marries would need to be super special for Eloise. Everyone wants Eloise to be happy and to still be herself and to not be changed. Nobody wants Eloise to end up with someone who won't respect her and support her opinions.

The show WANTS you to root for Eloise finding love and finding her forever person. They would never pair Eloise up with someone who the audience won't believe is right for Eloise so why are people so skeptical about Eloise's season being a romance and Eloise getting married?

Do you doubt that all the other couples were horrible for each other? Do you ever end the season thinking "man they really ended up with the wrong person". No!

So why do you think Eloise will end up with the wrong person if she marries her book endgame, Phillip? Make it make sense!

"Eloise is so different on the show!"

"Eloise would never marry Phillip because they don't make sense together on the show!"

"Phillip is not right for Eloise on the show!"

"They're two different people!"

"Eloise is nothing like the book so it wouldn't make sense for her to marry Phillip!""

"They changed Eloise so much for her to marry her endgame from the book!"

"It is uncharacteristic for Eloise to marry!"

If Eloise is so different from the books and the show has changed her so much, then what makes you think they won't change Phillip to suit the version of Eloise we know on the show?

It's not like they haven't done it before. They've done with all the characters.

Anthony isn't totally like he is in the books nor is Kate. Colin is different than he is in his book. Francesca isn't like Francesca in the books. Benedict isn't like he is in the books and the list goes on and on...

So, obviously Phillip will be different. He'll be familiar and similar to his book yes in terms of backstory and story beats and some character motivations but his characterization will obviously be different to suit Eloise on the show.

Jess Brownell even said that Eloise's season won't be 100% book accurate and we should expect changes but nothing MAJOR like changing her endgame to being single or a different love interest🙄.

The fact that Eloise's endgame is STILL a topic of great debate and discussion is frankly exhausting.

Granted, I'm not sure if Eloise's season will be good or whether the writers will execute her story well. I do have the same fears that they could butcher Eloise's season because the writers/showrunner hasn't given us anything really to be excited about or to trust them to tell her story well BUT... I'm trying to be open minded.

Just watch the damn show. Have fun! Enjoy the romance and whimsy. No one wants to have fun anymore! 😭 Be open minded. It's a romance show good God😭

People think Eloise is being "forced to marry" when it's her season and I find it weird that people believe Eloise would ever be forced into doing anything.

If Violet or Anthony ever tried to force her to marry anyone, Eloise would resist and resist until they eventually give up as we've seen in the past.

So this notion that Eloise will be "forced to conform to societal expectations" is frankly false and insulting to Eloise who is a woman who has been fighting to make her own decisions and if she ever decided to marry, it's HER choice.

That's going to be her season, proving that she has her own agency and is capable of making her own decisions and that she won't be put into a box. I don't know why people don't see that.

She doesn't have to stay single and unmarried to prove her beliefs are true. She doesn't need to shrink herself and be forced into marriage and subjection to prove that marriage is a trap for women. She is just going to do what she feels is right for her.

Her season is going to be a season of CHOICES and her inner turmoil between keeping her independence and freedoms vs. falling in love which is something she never thought would happen to her.

It's the first time I think a season where the female lead won't ever feel pressured to marry because it's "expected for her to do so" because of society. She's not going to have a story like her sisters who all met their husbands in the ton attending balls and such.

She won't be engaging in the marriage mart when she meets her husband. It'll be very unconventional and modern. She meets her husband in the Regency equivalent of Tinder.

Her season will be a MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE trope which means the reason she will get married will have benefits to HER.

She will find an advantage to marriage that won't necessarily begin with love and during the marriage she will find herself falling in love with her husband.

This season will be different than any other season because every season ends with a marriage but Eloise's season will essentially start with a marriage, or at least she will marry very early on in the season.

So she will make the CHOICE to marry. She won't be forced to marry by Anthony or Violet, but it's HER CHOICE.

And the man she marries would need to be super special for Eloise. Everyone wants Eloise to be happy and to still be herself and to not be changed. Nobody wants Eloise to end up with someone who won't respect her and support her opinions.

The show WANTS you to root for Eloise finding love and finding her forever person. They would never pair Eloise up with someone who the audience won't believe is right for Eloise so why are people so skeptical about Eloise's season being a romance and Eloise getting married?

Do you doubt that all the other couples were horrible for each other? Do you ever end the season thinking "man they really ended up with the wrong person". No!

So why do you think Eloise will end up with the wrong person if she marries her book endgame, Phillip? Make it make sense!

"Eloise is so different on the show!"

"Eloise would never marry Phillip because they don't make sense together on the show!"

"Phillip is not right for Eloise on the show!"

"They're two different people!"

"Eloise is nothing like the book so it wouldn't make sense for her to marry Phillip!""

"They changed Eloise so much for her to marry her endgame from the book!"

"It is uncharacteristic for Eloise to marry!"

If Eloise is so different from the books and the show has changed her so much, then what makes you think they won't change Phillip to suit the version of Eloise we know on the show?

It's not like they haven't done it before. They've done with all the characters.

Anthony isn't totally like he is in the books nor is Kate. Colin is different than he is in his book. Francesca isn't like Francesca in the books. Benedict isn't like he is in the books and the list goes on and on...

So, obviously Phillip will be different. He'll be familiar and similar to his book yes in terms of backstory and story beats and some character motivations but his characterization will obviously be different to suit Eloise on the show.

Jess Brownell even said that Eloise's season won't be 100% book accurate and we should expect changes but nothing MAJOR like changing her endgame to being single or a different love interest🙄.

The fact that Eloise's endgame is STILL a topic of great debate and discussion is frankly exhausting.

Granted, I'm not sure if Eloise's season will be good or whether the writers will execute her story well. I do have the same fears that they could butcher Eloise's season because the writers/showrunner hasn't given us anything really to be excited about or to trust them to tell her story well BUT... I'm trying to be open minded.

Just watch the damn show. Have fun! Enjoy the romance and whimsy. No one wants to have fun anymore! 😭 Be open minded. It's a romance show good God😭

I'm sure most of us, if not all, have seen #that rumor being spread of a possible recast for Phillip Crane that has been bubbling for weeks, maybe even months, now.

Deuxmoi recently posted a blind item that alluded to the possibility of a Phillip recast because Chris Fulton is now booked for another show.

How convenient right???

The timing is very suspect because it comes right on the heels of a fan who spread that viral rumor on Twitter that Phillip is going to be recast and played by a Latino actor (which made absolutely no sense to begin with) just to spite Philoise fans and stir up drama —of which she admitted to being their intention all along with spreading that rumor.

I want to appease and tell those Philoise fans who are experiencing doubts or are panicking over this rumor to remain calm.

Obviously we don't know what the future will hold for Phillip's character or whether Chris will 100% return or not. We don't have official confirmation (thanks a lot, Shondaland @ Jess Brownell).

But all the evidence we've gotten over the years points to Chris Fulton still being our Sir Phillip Crane:

• He has spoken about wanting to return for at least 2 years now.
• During his last Outlander Land Con event, he told fans who asked him whether he would return in S5 that he "doesn't know but he is hopeful"
• He also said to fans to "keep asking him" about his return to Bridgerton and hopefully he will have a "good answer" next year (meaning 2027 when S6 is likely to be announced).
• He was the first one to ever mention S5 in April 2025 before we got the double renewal announcement a month later in May 2025 so that suggests he was told he was going to be the lead for S6 with Claudia by then.
• He has been taking photos with fans holding the book, signing autographs with Phillip Crane's insignia, graciously spreading all the love back to Philoise fans and giving them some glimmer of hope and reassurance when the production remain quiet.
• He participates in Bridgerton related events. Just last month he attended a Highlander 9 convention panel with other Bridgerton alums Rupert Young and Sam Phillips.
• There's been many articles and posts approved by Chris' team I imagine, that have left subtle clues of his eventual return to Bridgerton. Just recently after the announcement of his new show, articles from outlets talked about the show being his project before he goes back to Bridgerton to film his season.

There's many other instances and signs that point to Chris Fultons return as Phillip in S6. Just because he is filming a new show as a main character doesn't mean he has left Bridgerton or that he won't return.

He's an actor. He can't just sit around and wait for the S6 call to begin filming his season which won't begin filming until late summer at the earliest next year.

He has to WORK during this wait.

I think all this mass hysteria could've been avoided if the damn production actually confirmed Chris Fulton will return but they want to keep the "surprise" factor I suppose 🙄. I'm so sick of this.

Sir Phillip is the title of Eloises book. Eloise's endgame is literally on the title of her book and her book has been out for 20 years! If that won't spoil her endgame then confirming that Chris will return as Phillip won't be that much of a spoiler.

But I digress...

The reason we are getting all these rumors is likely because of bitter anti-Phillip, anti-Philoise and Chris haters wanting to make a funny and cause discourse and drama within the fandom by spreading these rumors.

The rumor of Phillip being recast originated on a viral Twitter post by a fan who wanted to stir up drama and now it's spread and apparently reached Deuxmoi who I almost guarantee was given a fake tip by a different fan who wanted to stir up drama.

Right now there is no evidence Phillip is being recast. There's more evidence of him returning than him being replaced.

I think it's particularly very nasty that fans would spread a recast rumor for a couple or character they don't even care about. What will they gain from this?

Anyway, Chris Fulton IS Phillip Crane.

UPDATE: The original source of the rumor of Chris being recast just debunked ​it as a FAKE rumor that was told to them.

Anybody find this incredibly strange? They've been posting about Eloise so many times during this hiatus period and I find that so weird.

Are they using Eloise for likes or something? I'm trying to understand the strategy because they treat Eloise like S5 is HER season when it's supposed to be Franchaela.

They haven't posted a single thing about Franchaela since the S5 announcement. Not even a throwback still or clip from one of Franchaelas scenes.

But this is like the 4th or 5th Eloise post in the past few weeks.

Give the Franchaela fans content they need for their season​ and stop trying to bait Philoise fans with posts about Eloise when we know they don't really care about her.

I just think since it's a Sapphic season we should be getting more content for the actual Sapphic couple on the show that the season is based on.

They've been filming S5 for almost 6 months now. They're about to approach the final month of filming. They can spare at least one still image or BTS video of Franchaela surely?

Even if it's not new content, at least give us throwbacks since Franchaela at least interacted.

If they can't do that then post about Benophie as the previous couple or something. Just all around weird.

I'm not moved by any of this Eloise stuff. I've been played by them too many times before with Eloise.

I've seen a growing misplaced desire for Eloise to end up alone just because she's said in the past that she wants to be a spinster, that she's "on the shelf" but as we've seen in last season, she hates being alone. She is lonely.

Eloise is the type of character who wishes to have a choice in life. She wants to be a able to choose whether she should marry or not, not for it to be an expectation. She wants to be able to choose the person who she wants to be with, someone who will accept her for who she is and all her eccentricies.

But she currently doesn't believe that there is a person out there who is for her and who would respect and support her in her dreams and opinions. She doesn't believe there is someone who would relate and understand to her yet.

But for the past 4 seasons, we have seen how absolutely miserable Eloise has been without someone to talk to. She yearns for human interaction, she yearns for companionship.

People deeply misunderstand Eloise's stance against the traditional expectations of high society. She isn't rebelling against society because she "hates love" or that "she doesn't believe in marriage". She doesn't believe in the EXPECTATIONS on women to have those aspirations. She believes women are more than just wives and mothers, not that she doesn't believe in love or marriage.

She has seen 5 of her siblings fall in love and marry the loves of their lives. She has witnessed the love her mother and father shared. She knows love exists out there.

And she never said she doesn't want it.

She just currently isn't swept up with the romance and whimsy of finding love. Love will surprise her. She won't seek it out.

Tired of all the constant takes that Eloise "should end up alone" "Eloise cannot marry, she should stay a spinster" "Eloise's season should not have any romance".

This is a romance show! The entire theme is literally romance, smut and a happily ever after being marriage! Having an entire season without any romance for a character is going against the kind of show this is.

This is not Downton Abbey. This is a spicy historical romance show based on spicy historical romance books. Sex is literally woven to the entire story.

The audience come to expect romance, sex, angst, yearning and love.

Claudia Jessie has said MANY times that Eloise is not "anti-love" and yet people REFUSE to listen to her. I'm starting to think people just view Eloise as a canvas to project onto but they don't actually care about the character.

They want every other character to find their person and find love but Eloise MUST be alone? Like why?

1. Daphne finds love = YAY! 🤗🤗🤗
2. Anthony finds love = Woohoo! 🤩
3. Colin finds love = Hell yeah!🥰🥰🤩
4. Benedict finds love = FINALLY! 🤘❤️💖
5. Francesca finds love TWICE = GO GIRL?! 👏
6. Hyacinth will find love = Cannot wait! 🥳
7. Gregory will find love = BRING IT ON! 😎
8. But Eloise? = SHE SHOULD DIE OLD AND ALONE AND UNTOUCHED AND UNLOVED😠😠😠

I'M so tired😭​

If you want a loveless, romanceless story about a spinster there's many historical romance shows and books for your enjoyment.

But you're not getting it from Bridgerton.

I cannot wait for Eloise to unexpectedly fall in love, to be surprised by love, to experience new emotions she cannot explain, to get butterflies over someone, to choose to marry the man who respects, supports and loves all of her. I cannot wait for her to find her forever partner. ​

It's what she deserves. ​

I've seen a growing misplaced desire for Eloise to end up alone just because she's said in the past that she wants to be a spinster, that she's "on the shelf" but as we've seen in last season, she hates being alone. She is lonely.

Eloise is the type of character who wishes to have a choice in life. She wants to be a able to choose whether she should marry or not, not for it to be an expectation. She wants to be able to choose the person who she wants to be with, someone who will accept her for who she is and all her eccentricies.

But she currently doesn't believe that there is a person out there who is for her and who would respect and support her in her dreams and opinions. She doesn't believe there is someone who would relate and understand to her yet.

But for the past 4 seasons, we have seen how absolutely miserable Eloise has been without someone to talk to. She yearns for human interaction, she yearns for companionship.

People deeply misunderstand Eloise's stance against the traditional expectations of high society. She isn't rebelling against society because she "hates love" or that "she doesn't believe in marriage". She doesn't believe in the EXPECTATIONS on women to have those aspirations. She believes women are more than just wives and mothers, not that she doesn't believe in love or marriage.

She has seen 5 of her siblings fall in love and marry the loves of their lives. She has witnessed the love her mother and father shared. She knows love exists out there.

And she never said she doesn't want it.

She just currently isn't swept up with the romance and whimsy of finding love. Love will surprise her. She won't seek it out.

Tired of all the constant takes that Eloise "should end up alone" "Eloise cannot marry, she should stay a spinster" "Eloise's season should not have any romance".

This is a romance show! The entire theme is literally romance, smut and a happily ever after being marriage! Having an entire season without any romance for a character is going against the kind of show this is.

This is not Downton Abbey. This is a spicy historical romance show based on spicy historical romance books. Sex is literally woven to the entire story.

The audience come to expect romance, sex, angst, yearning and love.

Claudia Jessie has said MANY times that Eloise is not "anti-love" and yet people REFUSE to listen to her. I'm so tired😭​

If you want a loveless, romanceless story about a spinster there's many historical romance shows and books for your enjoyment.

But you're not getting it from Bridgerton.

Yesterday I made a post comparing the different aesthetics of the Bridgerton siblings in the books and show and noting the differences and similarities.

Today, I'm doing one for the Bridgerton spouses. The Bridgerton spouses are all the most different from their book counterparts.

1. Kate - Kate is very different from the book vs. show. In the book, Kate is described as having dark brown eyes and dark brown hair. In the show, Kate has brown eyes and dark brown/black hair but also dark rich beautiful skin as she's an Indian and her name has changed from Katharine Sheffield to Kathani Sharma. She is the daughter of a baron's third son but on the show she's the daughter of a royal secretary in India. She has a pet corgi named Newton in both but they introduced her love for riding and shooting in the show. She's also older in the show at 26 whereas in the books she's 21.

2. Sophie - Sophie is also significantly quite different to the book version in appearance and also in nature as well. In the book, she has moss green eyes and wavy dirty blonde hair. In the show, she has brown eyes and jet black straight hair and of East Asian (Korean) descent. Her backstory is very accurate to the book beyond the fact that she's Asian and her last name has been changed from Beckett to Baek. Her father in the book is the sixteenth or so Earl of Penwood but on the show he is the 3rd generation Earl of Penwood I believe. She's got the same feisty, witty, sarcastic humor that Book!Sophie had.

3. Penelope - Penelope unlike the rest of the Spouses isn't that different from the book, there's only some slight differences but nothing major. In the book, she has brown eyes and red hair with a brown tint to it, almost auburn hair. In the show, she has ocean blue eyes and bright red hair. In the book, she's a renowned published author of several novels but she also wrote Lady Whistledown papers for a decade but on the show it was only for 2 or 3 years before she retired the column to write novels.

4. Simon - Simon, like Kate, is also physically different from his book counterpart description. In the book, he has light blue eyes and dark brown hair. In the show, he has brown eyes and short black hair. But he has a somewhat book accurate backstory except for that fact that he is a 2nd generation Duke of Hastings on the show whereas he's a 10-16th Duke of Hastings in the book. Temperamentally, they are both very similar though and in terms of physique, they nailed the casting as Simon is described as having an athletic build which Rege has.

5. Phillip - Surprisingly, Phillip on the show is also very different from his book counterpart. We don't know much about Phillip yet on the show but of the little we did see of him so far, we can deduce a few things. In the book, he has dark brown eyes and thick dark almost black hair. In the show, he has cornflower blue eyes and light brown hair. He's described as being really muscular and beefy, almost built like a "bear" and although Phillip on the show in S1 and S2 isn't "burly" or" stocky", he is quite lean and also incredibly ripped in real life and I imagine he'll get bigger when we see Phillip again (he's just not a "bear" but still muscular regardless). The reason Phillip is so big is because when works a lot with his hands in his garden. In both versions he is an educated Botanist and in the book he wanted to become a scholar/professor before his brother died and he become baronet. The show added his love of traveling though.

6. Michael/Michaela - Michaela is visually, genderly and temperamentally different from the books. Obviously the biggest difference is that she is a woman on the show and in the book she is a man (and there's no point in STILL complaining about it because it won't change anything so I hope people don't try it in comments). In the book, Michael has silvery-blue eyes and midnight-black hair. In the show, Michaela has dark brown eyes and long raven black hair. She has a similar charming personality to Michael on the show and is quite the flirt but we have still got to see more of her in S5 to gauge how similar she is in personality and activities IYKYK 👀. They are both incredibly close to John and also feel the guilt of coveting their cousin's wife (I didn't include John on this post because this is for the endgame spouses but all love to John). She's a spinster on the show and I think she's older than John like she was in the book. They might be different in terms of gender but their biggest similarity is that they're both into women.

7. Gareth - We haven't met Hyacinth's love interest yet on the show but I thought it would be nice to just imagine for a moment what they might look like compared to the book. In the book, he has dark blond hair (almost dirty) and translucent blue eyes. My face cast is Danny Griffin from The Forsytes (this isn't a fancast). In the show, he's going to likely be black or at least mixed race so I'm expecting someone with brown or hazel eyes and dark/black hair. That's all I'm going to say on Gareth to avoid potential spoilers.

8. Lucinda - We still are yet to meet Lucinda on the show as well and it also makes no sense to imagine how she'd look like on the show as we don't know what type of person they'll cast but I still think it'll be nice to mention how she is described in the book. In the book, she has ​ash blonde hair and grayish-blue eyes.

This was fun to create and I hope you all enjoyed it. I hope I didn't make any mistakes because I made all of these upon memory from reading the books but Julia Quinn isn't really diverse in the way she describes her characters haha. I was surprised how many of the Spouses were blonde in the books.

Shondaland really said "NO BLONDES ALLOWED" for the Bridgertons 😂🤭 since there's not gonna be any blondes in the family. The only blondes are side characters.

I'm happy the show ​has chosen to diversify the characters. It gives each character a unique look and variation instead of everyone just looking like the same genetic pool.

What do you think?

I thought I'd make a fun post comparing the different aesthetics of the Bridgerton siblings in the books and show and noting the differences and similarities.

1. Anthony - Anthony is the most similar to his book counterpart. In the book, Anthony is described as having brown eyes and dark chestnut hair. In the show, Anthony has brown eyes and dark brown hair. He also has the trauma of bees and keeps a pocketwatch.

2. Benedict - Benedict is also quite similar to the book barring a few differences. In the book, he has dark brown eyes and dark wavy chestnut hair. In the show, he has green eyes and dark brown hair. In the book he becomes a world famous artist with portraits in the National Gallery but we are ​waiting to see if the same will happen to Benedict on the show.

3. Colin - Colin is different from the book in appearance slightly. In the book he has bright emerald green eyes and thick chestnut hair. In the show, he has dark blue eyes and wavy dark brown hair. In the book he is a renowned traveler who has traveled around Europe for over a decade and written several books on his travels. A similar thing is happening to him now on the show.

4. Daphne - Daphne's appear8 is also quite different from her book counterpart description. In the show, she has light blue eyes and reddish-brown hair. In the book, she has brown eyes and long chestnut wavy hair. She's also not a diamond of the season in the book but she is on the show.

5. Eloise - Eloise is probably the most similar to her book counterpart after Anthony. In the book, she has striking blue-gray eyes and long dark chestnut hair. In the show, she has icy blue eyes and mid length brown hair. She's an avid reader in both versions and we are yet to see if she will enjoy writing letter on the show as well👀.

6. Francesca - Francesca is visually and temperamentally different from the books. In the book, she has sapphire blue eyes and long dark chestnut wavy hair. In the show, she has hazel greenish eyes and long reddish-brown hair. She is a talented pianist in both and they are both reserved but on the show she's much more extreme in her introversion as in the book she was a lot more outgoing and forthcoming.

7. Gregory - Gregory is quite similar to his book counterpart in appearance at least. In the book, Gregory had dark brown eyes and dark chestnut brown hair. In the show, Gregory has dark brown eyes and dark brown hair as well. ​They both like climbing up things.

8. Hyacinth - Hyacinth ​​shares some similarities to Hyacinth in the book but we are still watching her character develop. In the book, she has ocean blue eyes and long light chestnut hair. In the show, she has green eyes and long brown hair.

What do you think?

I'll be making one of the spouses next. ​

I really miss seeing Rege Jean Page on my TV screens every season of Bridgerton. He was so pretty to look at 😭.

Obviously I respect his choice to leave the show when he did after the disgusting hate he got but still... I miss seeing that face!

I loved him in his recent romcom and that just made the desire to see Simon back even more. I just wanna admire how handsome he is in Regency garb!

When they announced that the gorgeous Tega Alexander joined the cast of S5 as Christopher Anderson, I knew he would be an important character in Franchaelas love story.

As we know from the character description, Christopher Anderson is Lord Anderson's son who has returned into the ton to shake things up and become the most eligible bachelor in the ton and give the other men a run for their money. He's a charming Casanova who is here to achieve something, although he's hiding a deep dark secret and is putting up a facade for the public.

There were many theories that spawned from this announcement.

People thought he would be one of Francesca's suitors from the books who try to court and wed her. In the book, there were a few Lords who ​approached Michael to ask his blessing to marry and arrange dowry plans which only annoyed him and made him jealous. This could've been the role Christopher would play in Franchaelas story.

There were theories that he could be one of Eloise's suitors who she rejects before meeting Phillip. In her book, Eloise rejects 6 proposals from suitors because she is holding out hope for a proper love match. Christopher could be one of the suitors she courts throughout the season or maybe the only one who she rejects.

But I don't think any of that is gonna happen.

I think he's going to be Michaela's suitor actually.

Because Michaela will now become the countess, she'll now be forced to be on the marriage mart because society dictates she needs to produce the next heir. That's where I think her mother will come in.

I think the reason Michaela will return 2 years after leaving is because ​Helena is pressuring her to handle the ​Kilmartin estate and to also seriously consider finding a husband even though she allowed her to be a spinster all those years because John was still alive.

I don't think Helena knows Michaela is a lesbian. Michaela and Masali implied that it was only John who knew she was queer and that's why he was so defensive over respecting her desire to be a spinster to Francesca.

So, Helena will probably push Michaela to find a husband and to take the matter seriously so that's where we get the book plot where both Michael and Francesca are actively engaging in the marriage mart.

Christopher ​then comes in when Michaela is described as being the catch of the season (being the only inherited unmarried countess in the ton) so he sees that as an opportunity to find a wife.

Christopher possibly faces the same pressure to settle down by his father Marcus as he realizes he's not getting any younger.

I don't know if Christopher is Marcus' eldest so​n or not but I'm going to assume he's the second son. We know Marcus has 2 children.

Christopher probably feels a lot of pressure to settle down from his father who constantly puts him down for being reckless and unserious and not like his older brother (who I'm going to assume is already married). Christopher is likely a notorious rake as well.

Helena pushes Michaela to consider Christopher as an option since he's the most eligible bachelor and at a ball she forces her to dance with him when Christopher approaches her.

So Christopher starts to woo Michaela but Michaela is not interested and makes it pretty clear to him while they dance with each other but Christopher is a charmer so he continues trying to win her over and he eventually does but not as a romantic prospect but as a friend.

Over time they start to open up with one another and Michaela subtly tells her that she doesn't want to marry because her type of person is not what the society would accept. Christopher could read between the context clues of her words and tells her he understands her more than she would ever know.

At some point, when Michaela is attending one of those underground queer hideouts that Benedict attends and is shocked to see Christopher there, making out with a man.

They spot each other and then Michaela confronts him about it. He tells her that she and him are a lot alike as their preference isn't accepted in the ton. They then come to an agreement where they will publicly court each other to get their parents off their backs while they still got to enjoy their fun for a while so almost like a "lavender relationship" for the ton's eyes only.

But Francesca sees them together and gets incredibly jealous which ignites the passionate ​attraction she develops for Michaela.

And Michaela also gets jealous at all the suitors sending flowers to Francesca at Kilmartin house and they both have heated spats with one another about the whole thing.

Perhaps, Francesca tries to flirt with Christopher to get back at Michaela (mind you she doesn't know Michaela is in love with her and/or lesbian so she just assumes she really likes Christopher and she doesn't like that).

But I don't want this plot to be centered around this man though. Don't get it twisted. Christopher is just a prop in this case. A plot device for Michaela and Francesca's jealousy for each other.

Francesca is jealous Michaela is with a man. Michaela is jealous Francesca wants "her" man and not her. It's so GOOD!!!

Obviously, Michaela and Christopher's arrangement won't last long. I only imagine this plot being a Part 1 kind of thing because I think Part 2 will take place primarily in Scotland where they'll have their romance.

So Christopher could basically just be a Lord Debling or a Prince Friederich and not an Edwina. I don't want it to drag too long and take away from the romance of Franchaela.

Now I don't know if I imagine Christopher as a gay man or bisexual but I definitely do believe he's on the queer spectrum.

What do you think?

Eloise is one of those complex characters who everyone projects their own beliefs onto.

She's honestly the most misunderstood character in my opinion because people have a different view of her than the next person.

There are people who view Eloise as a feminist, there are people who view her as a "fake feminist" who doesn't really hold real feminist values.

There are people who think Eloise is a selfish, self-centered, obnoxious, privileged, ungrateful, rude woman who judges all the women in her life and isn't a girls girl but rather is an unfair critic to the decisions of women and only sees the world the way she does without considering that others might not see it the way she does. There are those who think Eloise is actually ahead of her time and agree with her beliefs about women in society and see her as modern, forward thinking woman who genuinely cares for the rights of women and is 100% correct in her assessment of other women.

There are those who think Eloise is "all talk and no action" whenever she talks about her ambitions in life and she is too much of a coward to actually do something instead of judging others. There are those who sympathize with Eloise's situation as they understand because she's a woman she doesn't have many options in life and she doesn't have a vehicle to achieve her ambitions as she's not allowed to see beyond her station.

There are those who think she would never find love or get married. There are those who want her to fall in love and get married.

There are those who think she would never have children. There are those who want her to have multiple children.

There are those who think she should have a political season where she's actively fighting against society and doing activism with little to no romance. There are those who want her to have a romantic season filled with whimsy and fun with not political subplot at all.

There are people who want her to be queer and a lesbian and should have a queer love story. There are people who don't think she is queer or lesbian and is straight.

There are those who want Eloise to end up with a working class man because they can't imagine Eloise ending up with a titled man of nobility. There are those who actually think Eloise wouldn't care about whether a man is titled or not and should end up with whoever.

There are those who think Eloise should end up alone and NEVER find love or marry and just have a whole spinster season where she is alone because they think that's what she wants. There are those who would like her to experience all that the other Bridgertons got to experience meeting their person who is exactly right for them and want all the drama, the circumstance, the romance and angst that a Eloise led romance story would bring.

I could go on and on...

There are so many different versions of what people expect Eloise's season to be and so many endings people have for Eloise.

It's all "I WANT... I WANT... I WANT..."

But nobody considers what Eloise wants.

And I fall into the trap as well of projecting what I think Eloise's ending should be, we all do. We all suffer from this.

But Eloise has yet to have her season.

Why can't we just be open minded to what her season will become? Even though you might hate it because in the same way, you might end up loving it.

We all know Eloise is going to end up with someone. This is a romance show first and foremost and anyone who thinks Eloise is gonna have an entire season without any romance and that she will choose to end up alone as a spinster is only setting themselves up for disappointment.

But I do understand the hesitancy people have towards Eloise possibly marrying because people think Eloise is "anti-love" and they would see it as the show would be forcing her to conform if she ends up married to a man but that's not true at all.

Eloise is not "anti-love" or doesn't believe in love. She's against the notion that being a wife and a mother is the only worth a woman can bring into the world and she pushes back on that. She doesn't believe all women should dream about being wives and mothers, not that she doesn't believe women should be wives and mothers.

Her sisters and sisters in laws are wives and mothers. She has seen all her siblings find their person and fall in love. She knows love is possible for her.

She just isn't quite ready to accept that as her future yet because she has fears that love can change her into someone she's not but deep down she wants it to (she just won't admit it to herself).

All of season 4 we've seen Eloise being lonely and put out to pasture. She likes the idea of being "on the shelf" and being a spinster but the realities of being a spinster in society isn't what she expected and she hate it.

She hates being lonely. She hates not relating to her sisters or friends. She hates that she is being left behind. She hates that she is now being forced to babysit and chaperone her younger brother and sister who are being groomed and prepared to enter the marriage mart and repeat the same cycle she finds tedious and boring.

When she pushed back at Hyacinth being so enthusiastic about the prospect marriage and being a wife and lady of the house, it wasn't her being "selfish" as the show and some fans want you to believe. Put yourself in Eloise's shoes, all your life you've seen and heard that all a woman is good for is being a wife and a mother and a lady in society who lunches and attends balls. She watched every debutante talk about finding a husband, what wedding they'd like to have, how many children they'd like to have, what type of dresses they'd wear to balls, what they embroidered that day etc. Hearing the same conversations every 3 minutes can be exhausting and she needs a break from such conversations.

Where I think Eloise stumbled is equating Hyacinth's enthusiasm about the marriage mart as being a product of society's pressures on women and not an actual dream that Hyacinth has for herself. Eloise had to learn that her dreams aren't gonna be the same as other women who genuinely do want to become wives and mothers and attend balls and debut.

But I think people like to project so much of themselves onto Eloise as a character that they're gonna set themselves up for disappointment when she doesn't end up doing the very thing you expect her to do.

I'm preparing to be disappointed because I've not been particularly fond of the way Eloise is written but I'm open minded to the possibility of a very wonderful season for Eloise regardless.

I would love to have seen Benedict's reaction to being named "Diamond of the Season" and being the first man as the season's incomparable on the show.

I imagine he'd be very indifferent about it and would roll his eyes at the notion but ultimately won't care haha.

I would love to have seen Benedict's reaction to being named "Diamond of the Season" and being the first man as the season's incomparable on the show.

I imagine he'd be very indifferent about it and would roll his eyes at the notion but ultimately won't care haha.

What couple do you think has this dymanic? Which husband would wear this shirt in his marriage? 😂😉👀

Which Bridgerton lady has the potential of killing for their man? (figuratively and literally).

My immediate thought was Philoise/Eloise. She's totally capable of killing someone haha (especially if you read her book. She said the infamous literary "WHO DID THIS TO YOU?" line).

I also thought of Kate/Kanthony but I honestly think Kate wouldn't go that far.

But do you know who would genuinely get away with murder for her man? HYACINTH BRIDGERTON! If you haven't read her book, lemme just say she can get away with murder.

I don't know what happened to this show but withe each passing season, the Bridgerton family feel less and less like a family and more like a "workplace environment with colleagues who happen to be related by blood".

It feels so corporate now.

And the best way to show the decline, is how they've used previous leads in the following seasons.

Daphne returned to Bridgerton in S2 as a support to the new lead, not a "glorified cameo". Narratively, Daphne took a back seat but she still had a significant role as Anthony's push to his eventual love with Kate. She was an advisor and that's exactly how the previous lead of a season is supposed to be, an advisor to the new lead.

Daphne was in 5 episodes but used sparingly for scenes directly linked to Anthony.

I wished Colin had that kind of connection with either Kate or Anthony for his season and not just "one scene" where they give him advice.

I wish they used Colin better in Benedict's season. How awesome would it have been if Colin was the "ANTI-Anthony" who was against Benophies union. If they wrote Colin as one of the siblings who knew about Benophie and being "Team Benophie" from the beginning, this would've been something that would have —not necessarily validated Benedict's love for Sophie. At least Benedict have had one brother in his corner.

I don't know how they're gonna use Benophie in Franchaelas season but I'm not hopeful at all if S3 and S4 are any indication.

Now it feels pointless to have the previous leads appear in the following seasons because all they do is just show up for cameos in a few episodes.

I was just scrolling through Julia Quinn's website after she updated it recently to include Masali and Michael's character and it just dawned on me that we really are 80% complete with the couple castings for all the books/seasons.

All six couples for the six confirmed seasons have been cast.

We don't have to worry about casting anyone new until S7 which is probably 4 or 5 years away.

The only once left to be cast are Hyacinth and Gregory's love interests.

We are in the home stretch!

For as much as we like to complain about how long it takes for the show to film, I'm actually surprised that we have so many couples already complete on the show already.

The fact that it's just the younger siblings left is insane when you think about it.

But i still need them to pump out these seasons faster. I gotta see my fave Philoise on screen ​​and I am so ready for Hyacinth's season already!

Source : https://juliaquinn.com/books/

I love Eloise. She's my girl but I'm going to keep it a buck and say... They really did her dirty in the wig department in S1 lol. Her wigs had a glow up in the following season but yeah haha😂😭

Still all love to my best girl.

...they are the two characters who if you asked the production to say their name out loud before their seasons, they would rather kidnap you and send you to the mountains. 😂

Anyone remember before S4, the show/production/cast/crew spent the first 3 seasons avoiding mentioning Sophie's name. If you asked the showrunner to speak about Benophie or Sophie they would've sh0t you on the spot.

They only mentioned Sophie by name for the first time publicly after S4 was announced. Luke Thompson always dodged the mention of Sophie (although he did drop subtle Easter eggs such as saying he read his book and that he can't wait to swim in a lake), the showrunner avoided speaking about Benophie, Tom Verica even made enemies with Benophie fans when he kept antagonizing them and fought with them in the comment sections.

It was such a crazy time.

The same thing is happening to Phillip by the constant "the love interest from the book".

It's just an observation and I find that so funny actually. As both a Benophie and Philoise fan, I've clearly been in the TRENCHES.

If I had a nickel for every time the show has dodged the name of a future love interest, I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

Jess Brownell was on the Lele Pons Podcast show on Netflix and she was asked whether we would ever see a Latino or Latina main character and lead in future seasons and she confirmed that it's definitely going to happen and is in the plan because she wants everyone to feel represented so it's a priority.

The next two main lead love interests for S5 and S6 will be black (Michaela) and white (Phillip)

This means either Gregory or Hyacinth's love interests will be Latin.

My money is on Gregory as I think they will make Lucy a Latina named Lucia (that's my mother's name so that's personal to me) or they'll just keep Lucinda because that's still Latin and they'll change her last name from Abernathy to a Spanish name like Alvarez or Abrego. But I've always wanted Lucy to be Latina. This has been something I've always wanted. ​

But it is possible for them to make Hyacinth's love interest Gareth Afro-Latino as well.

Any Brown Latino/Hispanic representation would be so exciting for me. I'll be so happy.

This is so exciting!