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Thank you, I'm glad I wasn't making it up.

I don't know if I'm conjuring this up or mixing it up with something else but somewhere in the back of my mind there's a line along the lines of, the Duke wanted an heir, the Duchess wanted a child.

I honestly think they could have cut down the eight episodes they made. I don't feel the need for more.

I don't think it's giving too much away to say that in the books the first few issues were given free of charge. Then the paper boys stared charging but while people grumbled, they all paid.

I think we're just to take it as a guy thing. They fight and then it's water under the bridge. They were fine in the church waiting for the bishop after the aborted duel.

In his book he lives at Violet's place for a while since his lease on his rooms was up during the time he spent in Greece. It's not this place, since Violet choses to move after Anthony and Kate marry. His book, more than 10 years down the line, doesn't mention anything about his living situation at this point in time. It really doesn't even matter since there is no Marina storyline like this one in the book. Oh God, it just hit me, I don't know that this Daphne is cut out for the Pall Mall scene. Since Anthony bans Hyacinth from going near his lucky mallet it's obviously planned, which hell, yes, but on the other hand, how will it work? I don't know that this Colin will work either. Daphne's pretty blood thirsty and Colin is more into mind games and annoying Anthony in the book. Maybe show Colin's deal with Marina and his travels, and Daphne... I don't know, becoming a mother, will push them more in the right direction. The Pall Mall scene is great because it's a group scene and each character pops. Edwina has no clue what these people are on about, but she's too much of a good sport to even think of complaining, Simon is aware that he's in a lunatic asylum, but whatcha gonna do, they were part of his dowry, Daphne is ready to throw down, Colin is basically performing psychological warfare with glee and Anthony and Kate just want to annihilate each other. It could and should be one of the highlights of prospective season 2, but you need to have the right players aligned. As the characters are now, I'd honestly swap out Colin and Daphne for Benedict and Eloise. Benedict seems much more lighthearted and honestly Colin-like than show Colin, and Eloise would be ready to cut a bitch, but then able to step back and enjoy the show once she saw what Kate was made of.

I don't think Colin interpreted Marina as having been in love as her sleeping with the guy either. As for Gretna Green, it most definitely was the Vegas of the era.

Confucius.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJUumysjtqq/ I love that they did Bridgerton siblings' oil portraits as part of the show promotion.

You're mixing it up with some other book most likely. How do you figure? I honestly don't see the connection between Marina’s marriage and the financial straits in which the Featheringtons find themselves at the end of the season. What Penelope did was fucked up, no doubt about it, but thinking about it some more, maybe it's not such a bad choice from a writer's point of view. This reckless thing gives her a chance to take stock of herself and see who she wants to be as both Penelope and Lady Whistledown. Because while Penelope is overlooked, Lady Whistledown shapes the ton as much as Lady Danburry or the Queen. How does she want to use that influence? She's also IMO a little too influential this early in the game. She's only just come out. She couldn't have started writing before she had done so because she wouldn't have been present at necessary events. And I feel it's to soon for her to become Whistledown straight after her debut. I almost wish there was another Whistledown earlier on and she passed the baton to Penelope sometime during the season. It's a good exposition device and certainly a popular aspect of the books, plus they got Julie Andrews, but logistically spraking, this may have been too soon for Lady Whistledown.

I love The Devil in Winter, but the first two books I couldn't finish. The first one simply bored me and I found the heroine of the second one exhausting and infuriating. I did finish the last one, but wasn't impressed by any account. So without some great casting and rewrites, I don't know that I'd be interested in a whole series.

I'd be up for Hathaways. For historic siblings series, I'd also suggest Chase's Carsingtons. I'd also say her Scoundrels series, but I haven't read it all so I can't judge.

I don't think that made sense in the book either. It was just 'cause.

Possible, but it would feel weird in a way. Anthony flirting with the singer in the book was trying to detach himself from his burgeoning feelings for Kate. How much detachment could he get if he replays the scene with Sienna with whom he had a couple of idiotic and uncharacterist plans with? Really, in retrospect one has to laugh at him calling Colin immature when he was proposing fleeing to the continent and bringing Sienna to Daphne's ball.

The books weren't multiracial at all, but the author has stated she approved of this change for the show.

I have a question about a line from when the family gathers to deal with the Marina scandal. Violet comments on how nice it is to have all her children present at the same time and Colin, I believe, remarks that they should court scandal more often then. It's a good line, but I'm wondering if it's in the books. For some reason it immediately reminded me of Lisa Kleypas' Leo Hathaway. It may be that it just sounds like him or that he'd actually said something like it. The Hathaways were no strangers to scandal.

Simon's father was such an imbecile on top of his cruelty. It never made sense that he didn't remarry and try to get another poor woman pregnant to hedge his bets. Babies and children dying back then was not unusual.

It was a fun weekend watch. I do wish they get more decisive with editing next season. Some episodes seemed overly long.

There was a Smythe-Smith musical in Romancing Mr. Bridgerton but not in The Viscount Who Loved Me. Maybe they didn't appear at all in the Bridgerton series before then. 🤷‍♀️ Or maybe the show replaced it with Phillipa howling in one of the episodes. Which would be a shame. I’m still trying to understand what they were trying to accomplish with the Sienna storyline. If she was Anthony’s mistress with whom he cavorted and maybe discussed matters from timw to time, fine. But this pathetic thwarted love story? Anthony had mistresses at least in part because they were safe for his plan never to fall in love.

Definitely 3rd season in the book. She was basically voted the ton's Miss Congeniality during her first two seasons and friendzoned by all.

A discussion in another thread reminded me of the closing scene in the show. Intelectually I get that it was meant to contrast the scene of Simon's birth. While his mother was alone with the doctor and the servants and Lady Danburry having to fight her way in at the last moment, and her husband was only angrily waiting to what he saw as his God given right to an heir, Daphne was clutching Simon's and Violet's hands and she was Simon's primary concern. And I get that, I truly do. But my first reaction was, oh, there's Daphne, once again grinding and grunting on her back. I truly think this is a show storyline. I don't remember anything about it from the books so I'm intrigued as well.

Very true. In a way I think the story needed for Daphne to do something deplorable because of their power imbalance. But the fallout should have been handled with much more care if that's the path you choose to take.

I don't know if it would have been right but it definitely would have been better if Daphne acknowledged and apologized for what she had done.

Yeah, Daphne's age was changed in the show a little to accomodate the diamond of the first water angle, but they did try not to overdo it since they had Penelope point out that Lady Bridgerton had decided to delay Daphne's first season for a year so she'd be readier. Okay, I found the official family tree. I'm only linking it because it includes all the future spouses. Anthony was born in 1784, Benedict in 1786, Colin in 1791 and Daphne in 1792. Eloise in 1796, Francesca in 1797, Gregory in 1801 and Hyacinth in 1803.

According to the information from books two (Anthony) and four (Colin) which is fresh in my mind, the Bridgerton kids came sort of in pairs, with a one or two years of an age difference between the closest kids. This depends on the book, since I think Quinn doesn't (or didn't at that point, maybe she's better at it now) keep a tight track of these things. So it Anthony, then Benedict two years after him. Then four or five years after Benedict came Colin and one or two years after Colin came Daphne. Maybe two or three years after Daphne we get Eloise and, according to one source, exactly a year to the day after Eloise Francesca is born. The youngest, Gregory and Hyacinth, are 16 and 18 years younger than Anthony. I think the only age difference that probably held true throughout the series is the one between Anthony and Hyacinth. So, by this maths, during the 1813 season, Anthony would have been 28 and Hyacinth 10 with everyone else falling accordingly in between.