u/Illustrious_Scale_34

I don’t know about you guys but nothing the bridgerton marketing team has done since s4 release has ever felt like we’re really in the bridgerton sisters era. no joint promo, no pictures of claudia hannah and florence together, not even an acknowledgment by the official accounts that the next two (or three?) seasons will be focused on EFH.

I’m excited for the bridgerton brothers video being posted tomorrow but i fear for a show that always stands to give a more in depth lense of women living in the regency era they really haven’t used these next couple seasons of female protagonists to their advantage.

I’m sorry but I’m starting to tire on these “Eloise needs to see different kinds of love to see love for herself” takes. Eloise is a grown woman who has watched 5 out of 8 of her siblings marry and start families. She’s seen her younger sister be widowed, her best friend fall in love with her brother while being a gossip writer, and see her brother fall in love with a maid. She’s truly seen everything. There’s simply nothing at this point in the narrative that she could possibly gain from Francesca and Michaela’s romance that she didn’t already get from all the family members before her.

I’m also tired of the justifications for her needing to see different kinds of love being so surface level it almost makes Eloise sound like an idiot. “Franchaela will show her you can have love outside of marriage” I would think she already knew that when all of her siblings found love BEFORE getting married. I don’t know if it’s just an extension of the fandom’s problem with infantilizing Eloise but she’s not THAT oblivious to why people get married, her speech at the end of s4 tells you as much.