Bridgerton, Episode 6: A Couple of Wrongs Still Make Things Wrong
"SWISH"
I was naive to think that Clyvedon was Simon's house; the huge castle that Daphne is soon eager to redecorate is one of his estates. Anyway, it looks like they are only there for the honeymoon.
The newlyweds arrive, and the world -- including the housekeepers and the protocols -- is just a background. Life is perfect and the air has been cleared, so what's left to do is just have sex everywhere all the time -- on the library's ladder, at the park in front of the ducks, at night in the rain at the mausoleum. Daphne can't wait to do all the Duchess stuff too, being noble-y and touching people's hearts with her kindness and knowledge and plans. Unfortunately, her lavender-goggled eyes getting into the role -- that includes her pardoning three pigs from being slaughtered -- starts her off on the wrong foot with her new housekeeper Mrs Colson and her subjects around Clyvedon.
Back in London, young Colin announces his engagement to Miss Marina Thompson at a party, catching his family off-guard. Violet hides her surprise and congratulates the couple, urging Anthony to do the same because "people are looking". Anthony later questions Colin's decision and asks if he has compromised Miss Thompson -- because that kind of crisis is Anthony's area of expertise to tackle, obviously. Compromised -- the word, among these people, is amusing, as if the lady were a top secret government file. Anthony also thinks they could have avoided Colin proposing to the first woman he's interested in, had he brought Colin to the brothel more to sow more wild oats. There. Lmao.
The engagement news has apparently elevated the Featheringtons' social standing. They start to receive dinner invitations that they have never received before. And Marina gets Genevieve Delacroix to extend the Featheringtons' credit at the modiste by speaking French, discreetly warning Genevieve that she'll bust Genevieve's fake French origin otherwise. At a dinner the Featheringtons host for their future in-laws, Penelope tries to get Colin to back out of the engagement, revealing to him about Marina's old lover George Crane, and fails. In fact, nudged by Marina, he suggests they elope to Scotland instead.
Penelope searches Marina's room, finds George Crane's letters, realizes that the last one was a forgery and shows it to Marina. But Marina burns them and says she'd rather go with Colin now, leaving a little jab at Penelope while she's at it -- realizing Penelope is in love with Colin, she says Colin only sees Penelope as a sister. On the morning Colin and Marina are ready to sneak out, Lady Whistledown beats them to it with the news: Marina has already been with child on the day she arrived in London. So, no Scotland for the two now-possibly-former lovebirds.
Real-life inconveniences have taken over Clyvedon too. Too soon, the honeymoon has to take a backseat. Simon has to get to work and sort out his tenants' matters, and Daphne realizes she needs to mend her relationship with Mrs Colson and the locals. It is during the tea she has with Mrs Colson that she receives her first clue about barren men and the function of sperm.
That gets her wheels turning, connecting it to how Simon pulls out every time they have sex. Finally, she goes to her maid Rose, who explains it to her the exact biology behind conceiving children.
This leads a determined Daphne to make a point about Simon's lie, betraying him back by not letting him withdraw again. What she did was wrong. And we can't expect characters to be perfect. That's not how stories we watch and read work. One action does not justify the other, though. Both can be independently wrong.
According to Simon, he thought Daphne knew what it meant when he did it, which is a weak argument. I'd be insulted, too, if the man dared to throw that excuse to my face. Didn't Daphne ask him at one point if he did it because it hurt him? And at one time she was worried that looking at children would pain him because he "cannot" have one?
It looks like Daphne thinks Simon deserves to be called out that way. No, Daphne. If you find out people have decided on something as huge as not wanting a child even if it's through a busted lie, you don't go against their wishes and force them your way without their consent. You ask them, rhetorically, why they are being a giant, untrustworthy asshole.
Image: Netflix
I was naive to think that Clyvedon was Simon's house; the huge castle that Daphne is soon eager to redecorate is one of his estates. Anyway, it looks like they are only there for the honeymoon.
The newlyweds arrive, and the world -- including the housekeepers and the protocols -- is just a background. Life is perfect and the air has been cleared, so what's left to do is just have sex everywhere all the time -- on the library's ladder, at the park in front of the ducks, at night in the rain at the mausoleum. Daphne can't wait to do all the Duchess stuff too, being noble-y and touching people's hearts with her kindness and knowledge and plans. Unfortunately, her lavender-goggled eyes getting into the role -- that includes her pardoning three pigs from being slaughtered -- starts her off on the wrong foot with her new housekeeper Mrs Colson and her subjects around Clyvedon.
Back in London, young Colin announces his engagement to Miss Marina Thompson at a party, catching his family off-guard. Violet hides her surprise and congratulates the couple, urging Anthony to do the same because "people are looking". Anthony later questions Colin's decision and asks if he has compromised Miss Thompson -- because that kind of crisis is Anthony's area of expertise to tackle, obviously. Compromised -- the word, among these people, is amusing, as if the lady were a top secret government file. Anthony also thinks they could have avoided Colin proposing to the first woman he's interested in, had he brought Colin to the brothel more to sow more wild oats. There. Lmao.
The engagement news has apparently elevated the Featheringtons' social standing. They start to receive dinner invitations that they have never received before. And Marina gets Genevieve Delacroix to extend the Featheringtons' credit at the modiste by speaking French, discreetly warning Genevieve that she'll bust Genevieve's fake French origin otherwise. At a dinner the Featheringtons host for their future in-laws, Penelope tries to get Colin to back out of the engagement, revealing to him about Marina's old lover George Crane, and fails. In fact, nudged by Marina, he suggests they elope to Scotland instead.
Penelope searches Marina's room, finds George Crane's letters, realizes that the last one was a forgery and shows it to Marina. But Marina burns them and says she'd rather go with Colin now, leaving a little jab at Penelope while she's at it -- realizing Penelope is in love with Colin, she says Colin only sees Penelope as a sister. On the morning Colin and Marina are ready to sneak out, Lady Whistledown beats them to it with the news: Marina has already been with child on the day she arrived in London. So, no Scotland for the two now-possibly-former lovebirds.
Real-life inconveniences have taken over Clyvedon too. Too soon, the honeymoon has to take a backseat. Simon has to get to work and sort out his tenants' matters, and Daphne realizes she needs to mend her relationship with Mrs Colson and the locals. It is during the tea she has with Mrs Colson that she receives her first clue about barren men and the function of sperm.
That gets her wheels turning, connecting it to how Simon pulls out every time they have sex. Finally, she goes to her maid Rose, who explains it to her the exact biology behind conceiving children.
This leads a determined Daphne to make a point about Simon's lie, betraying him back by not letting him withdraw again. What she did was wrong. And we can't expect characters to be perfect. That's not how stories we watch and read work. One action does not justify the other, though. Both can be independently wrong.
According to Simon, he thought Daphne knew what it meant when he did it, which is a weak argument. I'd be insulted, too, if the man dared to throw that excuse to my face. Didn't Daphne ask him at one point if he did it because it hurt him? And at one time she was worried that looking at children would pain him because he "cannot" have one?
It looks like Daphne thinks Simon deserves to be called out that way. No, Daphne. If you find out people have decided on something as huge as not wanting a child even if it's through a busted lie, you don't go against their wishes and force them your way without their consent. You ask them, rhetorically, why they are being a giant, untrustworthy asshole.
Image: Netflix
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