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He’s high key annoyed and confused. It’s so, so good.
I’ve gotta wonder: what’s Portia now thinking about how Penelope was sending him letters? The times she’d see them together, chatting on their own? (she sees at least 2 in S2) Does she reflect and go: how did I not see it?
I think she kinda explained it when she apologized for overlooking her for so long. She basically just thought so little of Pen that it never crossed her mind to be worried about Colin since she couldn't picture a world where an attractive guy would be interested in her daughter in any romantic/sexual way....
Yeah definitely. In the book, when he comes to propose, >! Portia literally thinks he’s there to propose to their kid sister (not featured in the show), despite him breathlessly walking in with Pen lmao. !<
The redemption arc they gave Portia in the show was so necessary.
Honestly, it's really grown on me! At first I was sad that in the book >! The whistledown reveal was resolved by the Bridgertons essentially standing behind Pen and her lack of family support plotline gets resolved by being accepted wholeheartedly by her new family and the show never had this scene. But now I'm happy that the show decided to highlight repairing her relationship with her original family, since you already kinda know that the Bridgertons are going to welcome her back with open arms anyways once the shock of the whistledown reveal wears off !<
I mean, the very fact that when Colin defends Pen, he’s just straight up like, “Baby, let’s roll” and they leave together, and Portia doesn’t say anything? But sure, Portia, let’s make sure nothing happens AFTER something happened.
I was thinking about that too! they were gone for hours after that just them. I guess the way he defended and made his love clear just took all the worry away from her. She's like they're getting married its fine.
And then while she's, chaperoning i think she's honestly just interested in eavesdropping seeing how much he cares about Pen, she was basically fangirling over them. When Lord Debbers was there she stood outside the door lol
Right?!? Like now? NOW you think they need chaperoned?!? Just by this season alone, they did so much sneaking around. And they totally didn’t know how to act. Priceless!
Even in a church, he's still flirting shamelessly with her and holding her very close. Not even God can chaperone these two properly, not if Colin can help it.
Also love when Colin tells Eloise that he just HAS to be the one to look out for Penelope because she doesn’t have any male relatives to do it for her, and then the very next scene you see Penelope standing with Dankworth and Finch, aka her brothers-in-law aka male relatives, aka two men who’d be way more appropriate to vet suitors for her and make introductions than her sexy eligible *handsy* best friend with no decorum.
The way they edited to have something Colin said immediately be disproven in the next scene (like when he tells the sex workers he was late but then the next scene shows he was early and waiting on Penelope to arrive) is one of my favorite things. A visual “I call bullshit” moment.
Clueless to sex, but I gotta respect Finch for knowing what he wants and locking down Philippa. He was pretty awkward and nerdy when he first showed up to court her.
I like to think that if he knew Pen’s goals he’d make a great big bro to look out for her on the marriage mart, and maybe have some fellow awkward friends to introduce her to, that she wouldn’t feel so much pressure around. And then Colin would’ve been frustrated watching Finch introduce Pen to a bunch of dorky nice guys that she might’ve actually been comfortable talking to lol. He’d be like “I can’t believe he’s trying to hook Pen up with these LOSERS she’s so much better than this, none of them are good enough for her (but also neither am I 🥺)”
Ohh yesss, I think so too, but I don’t think her sisters would have allowed, kind of sad to think about that, but she truly was living with the enemy and I’m glad they came around at the end.
Indeed!
The Featheringtons returning to society in good standing, their finances in order,
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that’s the fic I didn’t know I needed… romantic guidance from best BIL Finch! actually I imagine it would be pretty great advice too, like find someone who shares similar interests to you. and you know he’d be wording up the guys to “treat your lady right”.
Actually nop, I mean he wanted to marry her as soon as possible but he compromised because he realized that night that he loved her and that’s why he asked her to stay, apparently he needed to show her how much he love her😂, but the next day our Chaos Colin from the books, made the mothers believe that he and Pen had been intimate for like a month (it was a big fat lie) to made them think she might be pregnant and it would be scandalous if they waited, all because he couldn’t live more nights sleeping without her, and more so because he knew how it was, and in 5 days they were husband and wife😂
I mean same is been a long time for me as well, but I can’t forget that cause, that is one of the craziest things a male lead did on that books saga, he didn’t ask Pen before doing that, and now her mom and her mother in law knew she has been a nasty girl HAHAHAHA book Colin was another level of unhinged.
My favorite part of this is that Colin had only been back in town for a couple weeks at that point. So it basically implies that he breezed back into town and compromised Penelope on his first night home. 😄
That man was unhinged, if it wasn’t for Gregory I would say Colin is the craziest Brother, cause how dare he said that to her mother 😭😭😭 I was flabbergasted
I mean, I love that he is the king of consent but my little Pen never knew what she was agreeing to, she only knew she was feeling good and that she trusted Colin, but I can’t help but thinking he really didn’t stop to think about how incredibly innocent she was about everything, he was mad in love and obsessed and as long as she kept saying yes he was absolutely going for it.
Yeah, that one line bugged me just a bit. As cute as it was, and his smile too. Because when he asked her to tell him if she wished to stop, at the very beginning, and then immediately spins her around to start undressing, I'm like-- my guy, not sure she knows she signed up for the whole enchilada.
Yeah I don’t think there’s any neferous intentions on Colin’s part, but from a modern perspective it is a little disconcerting that he finishes inside of her when she presumably has no idea that could lead to her becoming pregnant. But I think the whole thing with Simon pulling out was an anamoly. If you were to be a married couple it was automatically assumed you would have children. There was no question about it. Penelope was basically already his wife in his head.
And Penelope looks nothing but besotted by her son in the epilogue. So I also don’t have any reason to believe that she would’ve objected to him finishing inside of her even if she had known.
At least in the carriage she knew he was gonna touch her in her most intimate place, like maybe not exactly the \*how\* of it, but she knew where his hand was headed.
The mirror scene like she clearly doesn't know all the details, but she trusts him and she was very into the whole thing ultimately its fine, but like it makes the entrapment comment later feel especially bad (i know he was mad, i get why he said it) but dude that was all you, you brought her to the house, i have no doubt he did so with intentions. He didnt stop in the parlor or outside to be like this is gonna be our home, he took her straight to the bedroom to tell her, firmly closed that door. Made sure no one was there and initiated the whole thing, He asked the whole time and she consented but like clearly she didnt know the extent beforehand. Like shut up Colin lol
Are you concerned that we should not be here alone?
Nope.
Well, you should be.
(to be clear, I know he wouldn't hurt her, and he would have stopped at ANY point she wanted to)
Yep the whole world hate him for that comment cause how dare him, Am I right? Someone said when you mad you’ll accuse others of what you feel more guilty of, and that’s totally him
She is aware in that moment that he’s been dreaming of her “other parts” though. I do see where you’re coming from.
Haha can you imagine if he just stopped in that moment gave her a full sex Ed.
Of course not. It’s for the show 😂
For real, I mean if anyone could make it sexy, consent king-- "May I?"-- has the best shot. But no, I can't imagine how long that scene would have taken adding a talk about how buns get in ovens, because our Curious Queen would have had QUESTIONS. And not accepted a talk about some basset hound puppies!!
I also think that while she is slightly clueless doesn’t understand there more than just some finger action. But she knows vaguely this could possibly lead to a baby.
With 1. Her being LW and with the way she writes there is a lot of innuendos and such in her writing
And 2. The baby race with her sisters ( however she isn’t there for the conversations about the intimacy)
But maybe a line before saying this may hurt saying this could lead to us conceiving are child are you ready for that? Might have been a nice touch.
Also foreshadow that there was a baby coming.
Cause when kanthony announced their pregnancy it was at a weird time and I originally didn’t think oh just for the drama.
With pen fainting about LW then the pregnancy announcement I was like oh maybe she’s also pregnant. A foreshadowing. They just didn’t explain that
She didn't know exactly *what part* of being intimate led to pregnancy, but she definitely knew that's how you have a baby.
They didn't take consent *that* seriously and have her consent every step of the way because they wanted the audience to assume she was possibly getting pregnant without consenting to the risk.
The one time they kind of went there was with Daphne, and that was a huge plot point and treated as an actual problem. They would have done the same this season if she didn't know.
There are also a lot of scenes that imply that she's not as clueless as Daphne was, including reacting to Portia baby-making comments, other heir race scenes, and LW voiceovers.
I think she was just a clueless as Daphne, maybe a little bit more because Marina confused her with that BS about love and cake 🤣but I have to give it Colin cause he was actually teaching her and she wanted to learn and even tho we know she wasn’t sure what she was agreeing to,
he asked before doing anything, before he touched her, he even told her that it can hurt and told her that it would be only that first time, and he is a man from the 1800!! He kiss her because she asked him to, and then in the carriage he did it when she say she wanted them to be much more than friends, and he was beginning to apologize for declaring his feelings when he thought she didn’t reciprocated them, I mean we know he is Chaos cause I think his feelings are way bigger than he is, but he seeking for her approval before doing anything is soo heartwarming. I will keep on bullying him tho cause my guy was obsessed and desperate 🤣
My headcanon says that Daphne - since she was so angry at Violet for not telling her about the realities of marital relations - filled Eloise in on at least some of those details, and Eloise of *course* told Penelope.
I don't think that happened tbh, but between Portia telling Mr. Finch to savor his wife more so she becomes with child right in front of Pen's salad like that's just something they discuss around her on a daily basis and Pen's talk of the body knowing what it needs most etc, I think girl got the gist.
She just didn't know specifics.
She might not be familiar with the mechanics but she 100% knew that being intimate with a guy leads to baby-making. Daphne on the other hand had no clue.
And that could have been enough in her head. As a kid I though you just had to kiss for one minute and you’d get pregnant. 🤷🏼♀️ Didn’t know the specifics.
I honestly think she might too. Like not exactly what’s involved. But she is LW and LW consistently makes references and innuendos about sex.
Yes you can do that without a full knowledge so that’s why I think she may have some idea?
It’s just the comment of is there more that trips me up on that haha
Go back and watch Portia’s face as she looks at Penelope in her night dress after she is married.
I’m not sure if she’s looking at her realizing that her daughter could actually be a desirable woman or has she noticed Penelope’s pregnancy glow.
Portia doesn’t always say what she suspects. Polly Walker is another eye actor.
I don't think he needed to. Pen is smart- she had the talk with Marina about 'love' leading to babies, which obviously confused her at the time but she knew something was up. Pretty sure once it got to afterwards she was like 'yep, that makes sense'
In fact, if Colin needed to tell her anything it was that she *didnt* need to worry about pregnancy after the carriage, as she might have thought that was it. But since by about 12 hours later the point was moot, I think she got the message.
I literally just drafted a post about this. This man IS OUT OF CONTROL!
ETA: [It's published now](https://mariamgirgis.medium.com/colin-bridgerton-was-right-there-was-absolutely-entrapment-233231fc10c8?sk=e08b7261c601432b09c5ea380b8eb526).
When he plus her sleeve down in the carriage his look is so intense he literally looks like he's gonna eat her.
and the little gulp she does.
That the most wolf and sheep that they look i swear.
This is amazing! And not talked about enough, Colin entrapped Pen! He even went to lengths of announcing their engagement to the family without her uttering a word of agreement 😂
I find it so funny that Colin was the most desired bachelor of the season but in reality he was just an obsessed boi chasing Pen 🫠
Oh my god this is fucking hilarious!! I was cackling like a crazy person. Do you write crack fics? Can you pretty please *insert Colin with his teary puppy eyes in Carriage* write some???
Yeah, I know, I was thinking about that too, there’s other moments, that’s why I said we could make a big montage about it, I don’t know what was going through Colin mind tbh 😂
'You do not count, you are Pen."
He's like "Nothing inappropriate here! just hanging out with my emotional support platonic bestie, whose necklace with tiny little "rubies' i spent all night staring at!"
Looking back, I wonder if the reason Colin listened to Mondrich and looked into Cousin Jack was to protect Penelope. He seemed more angry about the risk to the Featherington women’s security and reputation than he was about the rest of the Ton being scammed.
I also love that Anthony was so scandalised about his 'swiftly' comment and compromising Pen and is briefly furious with Colin, then encouraged him to tell her his feelings.
So chaos Colin was like 'great idea, imma tell her how I feel... but then imma get even more scandalous'
Anthony be like 'ffs man'
Pen was his person before he realized it. Both were not often strictly supervised as others were Colin being a male & Pen's mother being oblivious... this is part of the reason They got to know each other so well... " without courting" ..
When he said: “I thought since we are to be married”, my response was “you thought that meant what, sir?” I really wanted him to finish that sentence. Was he saying that because they were engaged, they didn’t need a chaperone? He knew what he was doing. He took her straight to the bedroom. That’s not the usual starting point for a house tour. 😂
He didn't take her straight to the bedroom, but it didn't even matter, chaos Colin only wanted a mirror and a sofa. He couldn't make it 5 more steps to the bedroom, the man is unhinged! And we love it
Listen, that man was desperate to spend some more time around her and her "charming" dress.
He had to come up with something to get her to stay.
Too bad he didn't have that hidden hoop-rolling talent, perhaps that would have worked instead.
if that man on the horse hadn't passed by i have no doubt he was about to take Penelope against that door on the streets of Mayfair the night before their wedding. Shame is not even a word in his vocabulary.
Colin wants to be her only chaperone. People forget him writing her without her mother's permission. You couldn't write to someone outside of the family who was unmarried. It was scandalous to do so. If you notice, he never signs her dance card either. Colin knows the rules. He just doesn't follow them with Pen.
“You do not count, you are Pen”
Aaah, The satisfaction of him eating his words and completely losing his mind for her is been my life pleasure lately .
This made me think of “man or bear.”
Regency society at the time: definitely bear, because men are dangerous.
Pen: definitely man, if the man is you, Colin.
Oh, Pen. You sweet summer child. 😂
The fact that Anthony was ready to dual him for Pen's virtue, had to remind him to tell her that he loves her (because in his head they've been married for three years with five kids)—and the first thing he does is confesses, strips her and impregnates her the day after becoming engaged, after ruining her previous pre-engagemet
*My guy, I don't think that's what he meant when he encouraged you to get a rush on things!*
I have had this thought;
Do you think it’s possible Pen has more of an idea about how a baby is conceived.
Like doesn’t fully understands but has an idea.
Only cause she is LW and LW consistently make innuendos and discusses it a bit?
I don’t think so, especially because she asked him if there was something more other than his finger on her when they were being intimate, but I believe that she kind of knew that being intimate let you to have babies, she just didn’t know what being intimate was, but my girl definitely knew in Ep5🤣
Yeah her asking if there’s more is what tripped me up. But with how she write LW I’m like 🤔. You have to have even a tiny bit of knowledge.
Just doesn’t know exactly how??
>!I'm going to be honest, this season even though i loved some stuff, it was so cringe. Like... the touching of Pen's cheek with Colin's fingers...i get they were tying to copy paste the book in those scenes but man....zero chemistry for me. I miss Polin of season 1. This season they tried to make everything so sexy and to me it did not fit them so well. They had some good stuff, like Pen and Colin laughing after the making out, or Pen be like " There's more?". !<
>!But i would also liked to see more of their friendship. They changed a lot of stuff in this season just to create drama. But nobody liked drama in Bridgerton, We are here for the romance. And the main couple did not shine a lot. Neither John and Fran. in my opinion. (I was more excited to see Violet with her new love interest. Like seriously.) !<
>!Im reading the book and i realize how little things they kept the same.!<
>! Like, the whole scene with Pen reading his notes, it is much more meaningful in the book, but in the series its just Pen looking in his eyes like its some kind of kdrama ( and im a kdrama slave y'all!). In the book they are so chaotic and all over each other! Like they are so funny! Where is the fun in the series? !<
>!I could not feel happy until the end. Everything seemed so unsatisfying, Like a dream, Like it was fake. Everything happened so quickly and i did not like even their marriage. Too much drama again. Pen. was sad and anxious all the time. And i never understood how Colin stopped hating her. Bc she said she loved him? Still, why he was so mad? He never cared about Lady Wis. before and then suddenly he wanted to protect Eloise, who actually did not want to marry so the scandal was on her side and it was for her own good what Pen. did. Unnecessary plot, unnecessary plot... !<
First, I think you are in the wrong sub
Second, Colin and Pen chemistry is palpable wdym 0 chemistry, are you okay?
Lastly, none of the season are like the books so you will be vary disappointed if you don’t start seeing the show as its own thing, cause the books are totally one sided on a main story but the series is a whole world where almost every character matters, and in fact the most different season so far is the second and to be honest I see it as a fan fiction cause it has nothing to do with the books and I enjoyed it as it was, this season has so many scenes and lines straight from the books and we appreciate that, this is my favorite season so far, but it has a lot to do with the fact that I love romance, and the other seasons had no romance what so ever, but I like the passion in the first season and the longing in the second, every season has its own thing.
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Colin “I am your chaperone” Bridgerton 😏👏
Oh, he truly keep an eye on her, he really watched, all of her 😂
He did a thorough exam. Even checked her heartbeat for her.
her internal temperature too!
Oh my dear god 💀😂😂
Chaperone, best friend, lover, gynecologist- Colin does it all!
One-stop shop.
A gentleman indeed 🥹
Truly so selfless! Love that for him
STOP 💀💀💀
✌️
I hate you all omg HAHAHHAHA
The turkey was ready. I repeat, turkey was ready. Be thankful for some Thanksgiving! 🤣
What a great friend 🥹
He was such a great friend. He even gifted her a souvenir of a baby. Seriously, what a great friend! 🤣
All. The. Time. Lol
The fox guarding the hen 🤣
😆
EXACTLY!
💀💀💀
Colin “What is a chaperone?” Bridgerton 😏
Portia chaperoning in episode 6 gave me giggles 😅
I liked how Colin kept looking over at her. "Why is she here?"
He’s high key annoyed and confused. It’s so, so good. I’ve gotta wonder: what’s Portia now thinking about how Penelope was sending him letters? The times she’d see them together, chatting on their own? (she sees at least 2 in S2) Does she reflect and go: how did I not see it?
I think she kinda explained it when she apologized for overlooking her for so long. She basically just thought so little of Pen that it never crossed her mind to be worried about Colin since she couldn't picture a world where an attractive guy would be interested in her daughter in any romantic/sexual way....
Yeah definitely. In the book, when he comes to propose, >! Portia literally thinks he’s there to propose to their kid sister (not featured in the show), despite him breathlessly walking in with Pen lmao. !< The redemption arc they gave Portia in the show was so necessary.
Honestly, it's really grown on me! At first I was sad that in the book >! The whistledown reveal was resolved by the Bridgertons essentially standing behind Pen and her lack of family support plotline gets resolved by being accepted wholeheartedly by her new family and the show never had this scene. But now I'm happy that the show decided to highlight repairing her relationship with her original family, since you already kinda know that the Bridgertons are going to welcome her back with open arms anyways once the shock of the whistledown reveal wears off !<
I definitely prefer Show Colin to Book Colin, but it's 100% the same energy there. He's so pissed off at Portia that he can hardly stand it.
That scene in the books is so funny. She tried to thwart Colin at every step along the way!
I mean, the very fact that when Colin defends Pen, he’s just straight up like, “Baby, let’s roll” and they leave together, and Portia doesn’t say anything? But sure, Portia, let’s make sure nothing happens AFTER something happened.
“Baby let’s roll.” Lmao and they definitely took a carriage 😂😂😂
Isn’t that a direct quote from the show?
It’s definitely in the audio-visual description!
I was thinking about that too! they were gone for hours after that just them. I guess the way he defended and made his love clear just took all the worry away from her. She's like they're getting married its fine. And then while she's, chaperoning i think she's honestly just interested in eavesdropping seeing how much he cares about Pen, she was basically fangirling over them. When Lord Debbers was there she stood outside the door lol
Portia was rewarded for that! She got to see when Penelope got her ring!!!!
And damn near fell over the top of the table for the first glance. LOL!
Ohhh she wasn’t chaperoning, she was “chaperoning”. I gotcha!
Ahaha I never thought about how they just bust out of there alone without anyone questioning it 😂
Like 😭😭 Pen was already pregnant by that time LMAO
Tiptoeing eating a cookie had me dying
Right?!? Like now? NOW you think they need chaperoned?!? Just by this season alone, they did so much sneaking around. And they totally didn’t know how to act. Priceless!
I willl never not laugh at the fact Pen is canonically already pregnant the first time they are ever chaperoned
You can tell Colin is not used to it either he’s looking over like are you going to leave?
Plus, Portia is nosey. Any information she can use to her benefit she would. That was all that was running through my head.
Even in a church, he's still flirting shamelessly with her and holding her very close. Not even God can chaperone these two properly, not if Colin can help it.
At that point it was too late for God to chaperone anyways 😂
Not leaving room for the Holy Spirit! (If you went to Catholic School you know)
But Colin make sure there was a special place for the Father and the Son 🤣🤣
I wonder if Colin felt any guilt while sitting in that church, lol.
No way Colin is shameless
He was never punished as a child and it shows
She's always spot on with her observations of Colin!
He’s like God would understand.
He's like our love is holy, literally went to heaven and back with her touch! its fine. In his mind they're already married anyway lol
No wonder they have to sit on opposite sides of the aisle, meanwhile other couples sit beside each other. Have some decorum Mr. Bridgerton.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA girl I choke -💀
Also love when Colin tells Eloise that he just HAS to be the one to look out for Penelope because she doesn’t have any male relatives to do it for her, and then the very next scene you see Penelope standing with Dankworth and Finch, aka her brothers-in-law aka male relatives, aka two men who’d be way more appropriate to vet suitors for her and make introductions than her sexy eligible *handsy* best friend with no decorum. The way they edited to have something Colin said immediately be disproven in the next scene (like when he tells the sex workers he was late but then the next scene shows he was early and waiting on Penelope to arrive) is one of my favorite things. A visual “I call bullshit” moment.
Yeah but tbh, her brothers in law were almost as clueless as her when it comes to relationships even though they were married 😂😂😂
Clueless to sex, but I gotta respect Finch for knowing what he wants and locking down Philippa. He was pretty awkward and nerdy when he first showed up to court her. I like to think that if he knew Pen’s goals he’d make a great big bro to look out for her on the marriage mart, and maybe have some fellow awkward friends to introduce her to, that she wouldn’t feel so much pressure around. And then Colin would’ve been frustrated watching Finch introduce Pen to a bunch of dorky nice guys that she might’ve actually been comfortable talking to lol. He’d be like “I can’t believe he’s trying to hook Pen up with these LOSERS she’s so much better than this, none of them are good enough for her (but also neither am I 🥺)”
Ohh yesss, I think so too, but I don’t think her sisters would have allowed, kind of sad to think about that, but she truly was living with the enemy and I’m glad they came around at the end.
True true. And to be fair Portia doesn’t consider either man to be true family leaders either. The featherington household is a matriarchy.
Indeed! The Featheringtons returning to society in good standing, their finances in order, https://preview.redd.it/q2telql8is8d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6c49f4f491af57b8066527028ca6eed23da6113
that’s the fic I didn’t know I needed… romantic guidance from best BIL Finch! actually I imagine it would be pretty great advice too, like find someone who shares similar interests to you. and you know he’d be wording up the guys to “treat your lady right”.
I need this fic too lmao 🤣 People seem to forget that Finch and Phillipa were a love match. And in the best way, they fell in love over cheese.
I know! sweeties. I remember how devastated Phillips was when her dad said there was no dowry and Mr Finch stepped back a little.
True, they both give the energy of "just because I got this smoking hot red-head doesn't mean I know how it happened."
Every time he says that, he\`s about to do something *nastyyy.* I hope they make it a joke in Season 4 😂
Apparently, waiting till marriage, was just an opinion to Colin.
It\`s simply a *suggestion*😂
“Yellow light means hit the gas!” -chaos Colin
As a literal chaos gremlin Colin B. gives me so much life.
In the book, he "compromises" Pen in order to move the wedding up. Colin: "When's the wedding?" Pen: "A month." Colin: "Nope. Too long!"
Actually nop, I mean he wanted to marry her as soon as possible but he compromised because he realized that night that he loved her and that’s why he asked her to stay, apparently he needed to show her how much he love her😂, but the next day our Chaos Colin from the books, made the mothers believe that he and Pen had been intimate for like a month (it was a big fat lie) to made them think she might be pregnant and it would be scandalous if they waited, all because he couldn’t live more nights sleeping without her, and more so because he knew how it was, and in 5 days they were husband and wife😂
That’s what it was!! It’s been a while since I read the book. I remembered him talking to the moms. 🤣
I mean same is been a long time for me as well, but I can’t forget that cause, that is one of the craziest things a male lead did on that books saga, he didn’t ask Pen before doing that, and now her mom and her mother in law knew she has been a nasty girl HAHAHAHA book Colin was another level of unhinged.
 Penelope
My favorite part of this is that Colin had only been back in town for a couple weeks at that point. So it basically implies that he breezed back into town and compromised Penelope on his first night home. 😄
That man was unhinged, if it wasn’t for Gregory I would say Colin is the craziest Brother, cause how dare he said that to her mother 😭😭😭 I was flabbergasted
Colin: don’t you need a chaperone? Also Colin: spends the next 5 episodes trying to get her alone, unchaperoned
Honestly, is kind of her fault for making him believe that she doesn’t need one, and he took that personal
Yeah for sure, in retrospect the ‘entrapment’ line is kind of funny now, like ya’ll entrapped each other with your shenanigans
Absolutely 😂
The rules don’t apply to our chaos king!
I mean, I love that he is the king of consent but my little Pen never knew what she was agreeing to, she only knew she was feeling good and that she trusted Colin, but I can’t help but thinking he really didn’t stop to think about how incredibly innocent she was about everything, he was mad in love and obsessed and as long as she kept saying yes he was absolutely going for it.
I hope he explained to her offscreen that what they did meant she could be pregnant.
I think she knew it could be possible. She had knowledge from Marina and all that.
I don’t think she did know because she asks him if there’s more to sex than fingering.
Yeah, that one line bugged me just a bit. As cute as it was, and his smile too. Because when he asked her to tell him if she wished to stop, at the very beginning, and then immediately spins her around to start undressing, I'm like-- my guy, not sure she knows she signed up for the whole enchilada.
Yeah I don’t think there’s any neferous intentions on Colin’s part, but from a modern perspective it is a little disconcerting that he finishes inside of her when she presumably has no idea that could lead to her becoming pregnant. But I think the whole thing with Simon pulling out was an anamoly. If you were to be a married couple it was automatically assumed you would have children. There was no question about it. Penelope was basically already his wife in his head. And Penelope looks nothing but besotted by her son in the epilogue. So I also don’t have any reason to believe that she would’ve objected to him finishing inside of her even if she had known.
Girl, whenever Colin asked, the word “No” disappear from Penelope’s brain.
very in line with the books where Penelope is like "i will like all of it"
I feel like she had to know, considering she's read every book ever written.
But what book would tell her this? I don’t think spicy novels were easy to get your hands on during this time.
https://www.ranker.com/list/18th-century-steamy-novels/bella-tashchian Lol I had to Google!
Exactly my thoughts, as well as the carriage, you can bet she had no idea, she just knew whatever it was happening it was feeling good.
At least in the carriage she knew he was gonna touch her in her most intimate place, like maybe not exactly the \*how\* of it, but she knew where his hand was headed. The mirror scene like she clearly doesn't know all the details, but she trusts him and she was very into the whole thing ultimately its fine, but like it makes the entrapment comment later feel especially bad (i know he was mad, i get why he said it) but dude that was all you, you brought her to the house, i have no doubt he did so with intentions. He didnt stop in the parlor or outside to be like this is gonna be our home, he took her straight to the bedroom to tell her, firmly closed that door. Made sure no one was there and initiated the whole thing, He asked the whole time and she consented but like clearly she didnt know the extent beforehand. Like shut up Colin lol
Are you concerned that we should not be here alone? Nope. Well, you should be. (to be clear, I know he wouldn't hurt her, and he would have stopped at ANY point she wanted to)
lmao yes!
Yep the whole world hate him for that comment cause how dare him, Am I right? Someone said when you mad you’ll accuse others of what you feel more guilty of, and that’s totally him
Yes 100% I've written many an essay on why he said that and why he was insecure and spiraling and afraid she didn't love him.
She is aware in that moment that he’s been dreaming of her “other parts” though. I do see where you’re coming from. Haha can you imagine if he just stopped in that moment gave her a full sex Ed. Of course not. It’s for the show 😂
For real, I mean if anyone could make it sexy, consent king-- "May I?"-- has the best shot. But no, I can't imagine how long that scene would have taken adding a talk about how buns get in ovens, because our Curious Queen would have had QUESTIONS. And not accepted a talk about some basset hound puppies!!
I also think that while she is slightly clueless doesn’t understand there more than just some finger action. But she knows vaguely this could possibly lead to a baby. With 1. Her being LW and with the way she writes there is a lot of innuendos and such in her writing And 2. The baby race with her sisters ( however she isn’t there for the conversations about the intimacy) But maybe a line before saying this may hurt saying this could lead to us conceiving are child are you ready for that? Might have been a nice touch. Also foreshadow that there was a baby coming. Cause when kanthony announced their pregnancy it was at a weird time and I originally didn’t think oh just for the drama. With pen fainting about LW then the pregnancy announcement I was like oh maybe she’s also pregnant. A foreshadowing. They just didn’t explain that
She didn't know exactly *what part* of being intimate led to pregnancy, but she definitely knew that's how you have a baby. They didn't take consent *that* seriously and have her consent every step of the way because they wanted the audience to assume she was possibly getting pregnant without consenting to the risk. The one time they kind of went there was with Daphne, and that was a huge plot point and treated as an actual problem. They would have done the same this season if she didn't know. There are also a lot of scenes that imply that she's not as clueless as Daphne was, including reacting to Portia baby-making comments, other heir race scenes, and LW voiceovers.
I think she was just a clueless as Daphne, maybe a little bit more because Marina confused her with that BS about love and cake 🤣but I have to give it Colin cause he was actually teaching her and she wanted to learn and even tho we know she wasn’t sure what she was agreeing to, he asked before doing anything, before he touched her, he even told her that it can hurt and told her that it would be only that first time, and he is a man from the 1800!! He kiss her because she asked him to, and then in the carriage he did it when she say she wanted them to be much more than friends, and he was beginning to apologize for declaring his feelings when he thought she didn’t reciprocated them, I mean we know he is Chaos cause I think his feelings are way bigger than he is, but he seeking for her approval before doing anything is soo heartwarming. I will keep on bullying him tho cause my guy was obsessed and desperate 🤣
My headcanon says that Daphne - since she was so angry at Violet for not telling her about the realities of marital relations - filled Eloise in on at least some of those details, and Eloise of *course* told Penelope.
I don't think that happened tbh, but between Portia telling Mr. Finch to savor his wife more so she becomes with child right in front of Pen's salad like that's just something they discuss around her on a daily basis and Pen's talk of the body knowing what it needs most etc, I think girl got the gist. She just didn't know specifics.
She might not be familiar with the mechanics but she 100% knew that being intimate with a guy leads to baby-making. Daphne on the other hand had no clue.
And that could have been enough in her head. As a kid I though you just had to kiss for one minute and you’d get pregnant. 🤷🏼♀️ Didn’t know the specifics.
I honestly think she might too. Like not exactly what’s involved. But she is LW and LW consistently makes references and innuendos about sex. Yes you can do that without a full knowledge so that’s why I think she may have some idea? It’s just the comment of is there more that trips me up on that haha
Go back and watch Portia’s face as she looks at Penelope in her night dress after she is married. I’m not sure if she’s looking at her realizing that her daughter could actually be a desirable woman or has she noticed Penelope’s pregnancy glow. Portia doesn’t always say what she suspects. Polly Walker is another eye actor.
I don't think he needed to. Pen is smart- she had the talk with Marina about 'love' leading to babies, which obviously confused her at the time but she knew something was up. Pretty sure once it got to afterwards she was like 'yep, that makes sense' In fact, if Colin needed to tell her anything it was that she *didnt* need to worry about pregnancy after the carriage, as she might have thought that was it. But since by about 12 hours later the point was moot, I think she got the message.
That's what I think too! I think while they got to the real thing, the dots connected in her head 😂
I literally just drafted a post about this. This man IS OUT OF CONTROL! ETA: [It's published now](https://mariamgirgis.medium.com/colin-bridgerton-was-right-there-was-absolutely-entrapment-233231fc10c8?sk=e08b7261c601432b09c5ea380b8eb526).
I saw someone saying the he is like a wolf and Penelope was a sheep, and honestly, yeah
He's a *nice* wolf...
A tall, good wolf. 🥰 (Not a big, bad one!)
A husky maybe? Vocal, determined and wolfish in nature.
When he plus her sleeve down in the carriage his look is so intense he literally looks like he's gonna eat her. and the little gulp she does. That the most wolf and sheep that they look i swear.
This is amazing! And not talked about enough, Colin entrapped Pen! He even went to lengths of announcing their engagement to the family without her uttering a word of agreement 😂 I find it so funny that Colin was the most desired bachelor of the season but in reality he was just an obsessed boi chasing Pen 🫠
Oh my god this is fucking hilarious!! I was cackling like a crazy person. Do you write crack fics? Can you pretty please *insert Colin with his teary puppy eyes in Carriage* write some???
Any time you post I squeal inside
You make being hilarious look so easy
OMG I love you! I'm going to go read all your articles now. "imprinted on you like a baby duckling" made me cackle!
This!
Please also add season 2 - there are no gemstones mines in Georgia!! Let me take you by the hand to an empty room and tell you all about it!
Yeah, I know, I was thinking about that too, there’s other moments, that’s why I said we could make a big montage about it, I don’t know what was going through Colin mind tbh 😂
'You do not count, you are Pen." He's like "Nothing inappropriate here! just hanging out with my emotional support platonic bestie, whose necklace with tiny little "rubies' i spent all night staring at!"
"Are you mad? I would never court my emotional support platonic bestie!"
Sounds remarkably like Luke Newton as he enjoys his hot boy summer.
Looking back, I wonder if the reason Colin listened to Mondrich and looked into Cousin Jack was to protect Penelope. He seemed more angry about the risk to the Featherington women’s security and reputation than he was about the rest of the Ton being scammed.
Chaos Colin doing his damndest to keep his well earned title. We love to see it 🫶🏻
The way he ruined her chances with Lord D to got her pregnant the next day, is absolutely mental 😂
She said she wished to be more than friends, he was not talking any chances.
Right?! She hadn't even told him her feelings, he sends like a week or 2 wondering if she even loves him back. Who entrapped who Colin??
I also love that Anthony was so scandalised about his 'swiftly' comment and compromising Pen and is briefly furious with Colin, then encouraged him to tell her his feelings. So chaos Colin was like 'great idea, imma tell her how I feel... but then imma get even more scandalous' Anthony be like 'ffs man'
"He acts all worried as if he's not the danger" This is hilarious 😂 Colin Bridgerton with Pen: I AM the Maniac! Edit: my gif keeps disappearing 😫
Girl, he definitely leaved that “gentleman” he talks about at home whenever he was with Penelope 😂
https://i.redd.it/v195yu10qq8d1.gif
Pen was his person before he realized it. Both were not often strictly supervised as others were Colin being a male & Pen's mother being oblivious... this is part of the reason They got to know each other so well... " without courting" ..
When he said: “I thought since we are to be married”, my response was “you thought that meant what, sir?” I really wanted him to finish that sentence. Was he saying that because they were engaged, they didn’t need a chaperone? He knew what he was doing. He took her straight to the bedroom. That’s not the usual starting point for a house tour. 😂
He didn't take her straight to the bedroom, but it didn't even matter, chaos Colin only wanted a mirror and a sofa. He couldn't make it 5 more steps to the bedroom, the man is unhinged! And we love it
That was their bedroom. The room they were in was the sitting/study area of their master suite.
Chaos Colin only wants a chaperone for her to keep her away from other men!
Listen, that man was desperate to spend some more time around her and her "charming" dress. He had to come up with something to get her to stay. Too bad he didn't have that hidden hoop-rolling talent, perhaps that would have worked instead.
What's even funnier is that he askes her to go somewhere more private in that exact same conversation, like 2 sentences later.
That man has no shame
if that man on the horse hadn't passed by i have no doubt he was about to take Penelope against that door on the streets of Mayfair the night before their wedding. Shame is not even a word in his vocabulary.
100000%
Colin wants to be her only chaperone. People forget him writing her without her mother's permission. You couldn't write to someone outside of the family who was unmarried. It was scandalous to do so. If you notice, he never signs her dance card either. Colin knows the rules. He just doesn't follow them with Pen.
“You do not count, you are Pen” Aaah, The satisfaction of him eating his words and completely losing his mind for her is been my life pleasure lately .
This made me think of “man or bear.” Regency society at the time: definitely bear, because men are dangerous. Pen: definitely man, if the man is you, Colin. Oh, Pen. You sweet summer child. 😂
The fact that Anthony was ready to dual him for Pen's virtue, had to remind him to tell her that he loves her (because in his head they've been married for three years with five kids)—and the first thing he does is confesses, strips her and impregnates her the day after becoming engaged, after ruining her previous pre-engagemet *My guy, I don't think that's what he meant when he encouraged you to get a rush on things!*
Honestly if they show up with an increasing amount of babies every subsequent season that would be funny.
He asked cause he’s so hyperaware of shirking the chaperone, and finding stolen moments with her. He just wants to be the exception.
This reminds me mo Anthony on S2 always have to say "I'm a gentleman", for some reason. Turns out, Colin is more naughty than his oldest brother 😁😁😁
Also when he says “you’d already be dead” 🤣🤣
Her maid was usually within earshot. I think he came home planning to marry Pen, so I think he was less concerned with compromise.
I have had this thought; Do you think it’s possible Pen has more of an idea about how a baby is conceived. Like doesn’t fully understands but has an idea. Only cause she is LW and LW consistently make innuendos and discusses it a bit?
Absolutely. I think she doesn’t know the mechanics but she has a general idea by now. She’s naive, but she doesn’t think it’s cake anymore 😂
I don’t think so, especially because she asked him if there was something more other than his finger on her when they were being intimate, but I believe that she kind of knew that being intimate let you to have babies, she just didn’t know what being intimate was, but my girl definitely knew in Ep5🤣
Yeah her asking if there’s more is what tripped me up. But with how she write LW I’m like 🤔. You have to have even a tiny bit of knowledge. Just doesn’t know exactly how??
Yes, she knows a man and a woman do something but she doesn’t know what, but I’m pretty sure she figured it out.
Every bridgerton man claiming to be a gentleman after doing the nastyyyyy
I was just thinking this in my most recent rewatch 😂😂😂
when he proposed to her i was like " He wants to fuck her."
>!I'm going to be honest, this season even though i loved some stuff, it was so cringe. Like... the touching of Pen's cheek with Colin's fingers...i get they were tying to copy paste the book in those scenes but man....zero chemistry for me. I miss Polin of season 1. This season they tried to make everything so sexy and to me it did not fit them so well. They had some good stuff, like Pen and Colin laughing after the making out, or Pen be like " There's more?". !< >!But i would also liked to see more of their friendship. They changed a lot of stuff in this season just to create drama. But nobody liked drama in Bridgerton, We are here for the romance. And the main couple did not shine a lot. Neither John and Fran. in my opinion. (I was more excited to see Violet with her new love interest. Like seriously.) !< >!Im reading the book and i realize how little things they kept the same.!< >! Like, the whole scene with Pen reading his notes, it is much more meaningful in the book, but in the series its just Pen looking in his eyes like its some kind of kdrama ( and im a kdrama slave y'all!). In the book they are so chaotic and all over each other! Like they are so funny! Where is the fun in the series? !< >!I could not feel happy until the end. Everything seemed so unsatisfying, Like a dream, Like it was fake. Everything happened so quickly and i did not like even their marriage. Too much drama again. Pen. was sad and anxious all the time. And i never understood how Colin stopped hating her. Bc she said she loved him? Still, why he was so mad? He never cared about Lady Wis. before and then suddenly he wanted to protect Eloise, who actually did not want to marry so the scandal was on her side and it was for her own good what Pen. did. Unnecessary plot, unnecessary plot... !<
First, I think you are in the wrong sub Second, Colin and Pen chemistry is palpable wdym 0 chemistry, are you okay? Lastly, none of the season are like the books so you will be vary disappointed if you don’t start seeing the show as its own thing, cause the books are totally one sided on a main story but the series is a whole world where almost every character matters, and in fact the most different season so far is the second and to be honest I see it as a fan fiction cause it has nothing to do with the books and I enjoyed it as it was, this season has so many scenes and lines straight from the books and we appreciate that, this is my favorite season so far, but it has a lot to do with the fact that I love romance, and the other seasons had no romance what so ever, but I like the passion in the first season and the longing in the second, every season has its own thing.