#polin theory

[miraculously-lost]

OKAY OKAY WAIT I HAVE A THEORY I HAVENT SEEN YET

WHAT IF they’re at the ball and its Penelope’s first time with this brand new look and shes actually getting attention from suitors and the night is going pretty well. Colin is watching from afar confused because there’s something uneasy about the situation but he can’t figure out what so he’s just watching on the sidelines. NOW Penelope is feeling good and great and shes thriving but suddenly someone starts to get a little jealous of her. Penelope goes to get some lemonade or steps out for a moment for some air because this is all new to her. Cressida follows her outside and tells her she looks like a fool and ridiculous everyone is just mocking her and she will always be an insipid wallflower regardless of how she tries to hide it and no one will ever love her or want her. Of course because she’s still insecure at heart Penelope believes her. Cressida walks away with a smirk on her face and leave Penelope on the balcony alone. Penelope starts crying and runs away pulling pins from her hair. She stops at a gazebo and just sits and cries when someone calls her name from behind her. Colin having been watching her the whole night saw everything that happened and without thought followed her into the garden. He asks her what Cressida said and she tells him through tears and he gets closer wanting to wipe the tears away and comfort her. The closer he gets more beautiful she looks and he cant believe she would ever believe Cressida’s words. He’s in a trance listening to her words and fighting every urge to rest his hands against her cheeks and wipe away the tears when suddenly he hears “Colin will you please kiss me” or the exact quote from the book. And then we have this moment from the picture.

So sorry if anyone has posted something like this already i haven’t seen it yet so i just wanted to share. Can’t wait for season 3!!

#bridgerton #polin bridgerton #colin x penelope #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #bridgerton season 3 #bridgerton season three #bridgerton theory #polin theory #polin #nicola coughlan #luke newton

[waltricia]

I LOVE this shot so god damn much. The lit chandelier and vibrant red wall behind him. The lush red vase with what I think are little cupids on it. Shelves of gold-toned books with red-toned detailing. Thick yellow gold framing everywhere. His champagne cravat and dark blue velvet jacket. Dark red flowers right next to him, and even some yellow flowers in the top left corner. Everything here means romance and love and Penelope.

The way he is placed in the shot, behind the others, closer to the wall and the flowers- the production team has done to him what they had been doing to Pen. Colin and Pen have switched places. He’s the wallflower here.

And he looks positively sick. He is at that stage of love where he is physically ill with it. The heaviness of his love is reflected in the heaviness of everything in this room. Just looking at this shot gives me the stomach-sinking, blood-draining, soul-crushing feeling that you can only get by watching the person who means everything to you be with someone else.

#oof #yeah i’m going to love this season #polin #bridgerton #bridgerton season 3 #bridgerton s3 #netflix #luke newton #nicola coughlan #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #bridgerton trailer #romance #color theory

[anxious-bisexual-0]

OK OK I HAVE A NEW THEORY

I think he had a sit down with her. The way his coat is flipping, he has just stood up. He has apologized and explained himself for this:

She has explains why she is angry and why he really messed up her prospects.

He came to see her after the ball the night before, after she says this:

He groveled. She won’t let him forget it but this is the reconciliation and the beginning of their “lessons”.

THOUGHTS?

#bridgerton #bridgerton netflix #bridgerton s3 #pen and col #polin #nicola coughlan #luke newton #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #I changed my theory #I think I was wrong about my theory #ok I don’t really care what the scene is I just want them to be happy #(and eventually fuck the shit out of each other) #romancing mister bridgerton

[lady-buggerinton]

Btw it’s actually cool and good that Penelope has a bit of vindictiveness and jealousy and anger and even that she’s secretive and that she lies. look at the family she comes from!! That’s the foundation her family is built on, and it would make no sense for her to be a sweet, angelic being with all that pettiness and spite being in her environment.

The way Portia backstabbed cousin Jack at the end of S2 is exactly the type of model that Penelope has for how to survive and to get what you want, and I’m not saying it’s right or good but it is interesting

I think she is a good person, and wants to do good things, and her doing those things despite her familial structure is what makes her a really compelling character, and also the times when she slips up and makes big mistakes. And I’m very interested to see how she will handle that balance this season and what she will make of herself

#penelope featherington #bridgerton 3 #polin #theories #season 3 #bridgerton season 3

[natasomewhere]

Is this the same outfit and so the same day?? 👀

Because the jacket is definitely the same…

(gifs by @thatonekimgirl and @dailybridgerton)

#bridgerton #polin #colin bridgerton #penelope featherington #I don’t have any theory or spoilers #it goes nowhere I just need to do something til may 16

[capriddle]

Bridgerton 3 trailer theory

I don't know about you, but to me Colin was clearly having an erotic dream about a certain 'friend' in this scene 😏. Thoughts?

#bridgerton 3 #bridgerton #colin x penelope #colin bridgerton #polin #penelope featherington #penelope bridgerton #lady featherington #lady whistledown #fan theory #trailer

[winnie-the-monster]

👀👀👀👀 I already have my theories about episode 4. But Nic saying that is making me add to them and come up even more theories.

#bridgerton #bridgerton season 3 #polin #colin bridgerton #penelope featherington #interviews #nicola coughlan #luke newton #all of theories tend to end the same way #but now I’m thinking something…….which I feel like might be something Shonda might do

[alwaysalir]

So is Eloise going out Penelope as Lady Whistledown to Colin?

In the promo, you see Eloise asking Colin about his relationship with Penelope. Asking if Penelope is seeking him to be her husband and then you hear a voice where Eloise says since when do you worry about Penelope and you see a shot where it looks like Eloise is watching an interaction between Penelope and Colin.

It seems like Eloise has kept Penelope’s secret up into this point, but I do think if she starts suspecting that Colin has feelings for Penelope she could end up spilling as a way to protect Colin.

There has been a lot of tease about their being a cliffhanger at the end of episode four so what if we get resolution to the Lord Debling thing (which is starting to feel like red herring anyway)early in the episode and the actual cliffhanger is either Colin figuring out that she’s lady whistledown or Eloise just flat out telling him because there is one shot in the trailer that is made to look like Colin is looking at Penelope in the green dress but he looks way too upset and I really think it’s the lady whistled down reveal

#Polin #bridgerton #theories

[liziana]

@ktbeets and I spent a very long time spiralling and coming up with these extensive timeline predictions for Season 3 Part 1! Go check out our theories!

They aren't technically spoilers, just very detailed speculation, so watch at your own discretion!

#polin #bridgerton #bridgerton season 3 #colin x penelope #colin bridgerton #penelope featherington #polinedit #s3 speculation #s3 theories

[lamiue]

It's so crazy how all of my ships fit in (my) Taylor Swift universe (in my head).

#taylor swift #good omens #aziracrow #percy jackson #percabeth #the rookie #chenford #red white and royal blue #alex and henry #the bigbang theory #shamy #bridgerton #polin #glee #samcedes #marauders #wolfstar #jily #jegulus #banana fish #ash and eiji #i cant remember everything help

[dollypopup]

like. . .are any other Polin fans out there that do not give a singular flying fuck about Debling? we should form a club lol because from the very bottom of my heart and with my whole chest: I could not care less about him. Not sorry, I'm tuning into S3 for Pen and Colin and Pen and Colin alone

#polin #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #like. . .i keep seeing all these theories about debling and i'm going '. . .and?' #someone: what if debling- #me: don't care. when is colin back on screen? i miss my boy #because really. . .who gives a fuck? he's a random oc who's gonna be gone by ep 3? #frankly i don't give a shit about him in any capacity #and tbh. . .like it's not even a contest for me. colin is SO much more attractive and appealing than debling #no shade to the actor i'm sure he's lovely but guys. . .luke newton is SO fucking fine #tired: colin gets jealous of debling because he's courting penelope and thus disapproves of them #wired: colin distrusts debling because he's a vegetarian and colin the foodie cannot trust a man who cuts out an entire food group #inspired: colin is friendly to debling and can always hype pen up around him but debling isn't listening because he's queer and likes him #y'all just 'care' about debling because he has no traits rn and you can turn him into your perfect male oc prize for penelope #'i ship pen with options' and i ship pen with colin. . .you know. . .like a polin shipper. . .crazy how that's. . .how it works #anywhoozle i am first and foremost a hater #fellow haters come join me we meet up on tuesdays and we have snacks

[bridgerton-bard]

Polin Angst Thoughts

Warning: Spoilers (Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Netflix Season 2)

I have been seeing the online discourse about how much angst people think should be included in the Polin storyline of season three, and I thought I would add my two cents.

Personally, I am a little excited to see the power dynamic in the relationship shift in Penelope's favor. She has spent years pining after this man who has never seriously entertained the idea that she would make a good partner. Maybe she should have moved on when it was clear that Colin didn't reciprocate her romantic feelings, but then we'd never have the Polin story.

I'm not saying I want Colin to suffer for the sake of suffering, but I do think some angst from him is going to be required, because he so thoroughly dismissed the idea of courting Penelope in season two. In real life, if someone dismissed Penelope (or anyone else) in this way, they would need to earn their way back into her heart, to prove that their affections were not part of a cruel joke. It would be unrealistic for Colin to dismiss Penelope as a prospect for courting in such a resounding, public fashion at the end of season two, and then win her back by simply saying "I missed you" at the start of the next social season less than a year later.

Even considering the social mores of the regency time period, I think Penelope unequivocally accepting Colin's "I missed you" as an apology and beginning to court Colin would be unrealistic. Julia Quinn stresses in several of the Bridgerton books that women in the regency period generally had little power in the courting process. Women had to wait for gentlemen to be introduced to them (never introducing themselves to gentlemen they were interested in), women had to accept offers from any man to dance unless their dance card was already full or they were betrothed, etc. In most of the courting process, regency women had to be passive and wait for their desired suitor to approach and court them. Accepting or not accepting offers to court and marriage proposals were the two significant points in the courting process where regency women actually held the upper hand in the dynamics. Penelope making it clear to Colin that she will not court him is simply her exercising what little power she does have in the social mores of the time.

I think one thing that gets glossed over about Colin's behavior towards Penelope in seasons one and two is that it is also the behavior of a rake, but in a different way than Anthony or Benedict's rake behavior. Anthony and Benedict's bachelor periods tend to show them both as rakes because they kept mistresses, visited brothels, or had a parade of women engaged in some sort of fling. Colin's behavior in seasons one and two is rake behavior because it should be clear to everyone, including Colin, that he is leading Penelope on. Without any intention to court her, Colin is impeding Penelope from moving on and finding a suitor who requites her feelings. This does get a little complicated because in the books, it is Violet Bridgerton who is encouraging Colin to dance with Penelope, and Penelope is aware of this or at least suspects it. However, I still argue that just because Colin is not in possession of a parade of flings, it doesn't counteract that some of his behavior towards Penelope is befitting of a rake.

So yes, I do think it's important that we see Colin fight a little for Penelope's affections. It's important for him to realize what he had once she's gone, and that she's worthy of more than always being the backup on call for when he's lonely or feeling misunderstood. I would like to see Colin realize his feelings for Penelope before another suitor proposes to Penelope. Otherwise, I think we get into territory where it just feels like he wants her because he can't have her.

#polin #polin angst #bridgerton season 3 #bridgerton s3 #bridgerton season three #bridgerton series #romancing mister bridgerton #romancing mr. bridgerton #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #a theory #ramblings #don't fight me

[waltricia]

What do you mean I’m fixating on all of the red tones in the Bridgerton season 3 trailer and how they seem to be following Colin around, gradually increasing in prominence, like a certain red-headed siren wallflower who haunts his dreams???

#also note the yellow #i’m totally normal about this #this definitely will not be keeping me awake at night #red #polin #bridgerton #bridgerton season 3 #bridgerton s3 #netflix #nicola coughlan #luke newton #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #color theory #bridgerton trailer #romance

[l-is-for-loser]

So this is my theory on what will happen regarding LW and Cressida in S3:

Eloise will accidentally reveal to Cressida that Penelope is Lady Whistledown, and then Cressida will threaten to tell the queen. Eloise will feel very guilty and therefore will try to help Penelope get rid of Cressida's threats (restored peneloise friendship).

Throughout the season, Eloise will uncover some dirt on the Cowpers (perhaps something regarding Sophie?) that she will use to ensure Cressida's silence about Lady Whistledown, and the Cowpers will leave the Ton.

Do you think this makes sense? I haven't read the books, so I'm not sure how relevant Cressida is to the other stories.

#bridgerton #polin #peneloise #cressida cowper #bridgerton season 3 #theory #eloise bridgerton #penelope featherington #lady whistledown

[plumeriacosmos]

thinking about all the scenes that might happen in s3 for polin is making me spiral ngl, like all that tension and ohhh, if we get jealous colin i will literally bury myself alive i cant wait for s3

#sunnie thoughts #bridgerton #polin #polin bridgerton #bridgerton tv #colin bridgerton #penelope featherington #ive been listening to what a barb podcast #and their theories and predictions #whew #😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 #GIVE ME SEASON 3 NOW #PLEASE

[naodito]

I really hope Shonda makes Colin's wish come true

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