Penelope and Eloise (and Marina!) are such interesting characters who’s interpersonal situations are truly grey and I think that who’s “side” fans tend to lean toward really depends on whether or not they ascribe to the individual or the greater good. For me, I obviously lean more towards Penelope’s perspective. This is because, as much as understand and sympathize with Eloise’s feelings of hurt and betrayal, I also see so many of her comments and actions as ignorant and willfully naive. She does things without fully thinking through the consequences, putting both herself and her family at risk. ❌‼️BOOK SPOILER START‼️❌In her story, this is literally the cause of her marrying - she decides to run off ALONE to a man’s home whom she’s never actually met without telling her family, leaving herself stuck in the situation where she has to marry him not only to protect her own reputation but also that of her entire family. ❌❗️❗️BOOK SPOILER END❗️❗️❌ Marina was very much the same in season 1. I sympathize with her perspective, and while I don’t think her actions were as naive as Eloise, I think that she was so focused on trying to grasp the best option for herself that she refused to acknowledge that by doing so she would absolutely ruin BOTH the Featherington’s and Bridgerton’s with a scandal much less recoverable for either family than the one penned by Whistledown. Meanwhile, the reason that I agree more with Penelope over the others is precisely the reason anti-Penelope fans dislike her. She is fully knowledgeable about the potential consequences of her actions. She considers all of the angles and tries to find alternatives, and even her most controversial decisions are made with such tangible regret that we see her sobbing on screen multiple times, but they are decisions that she makes the way she does because they limit the damage to all parties involved as much as possible. Now, could she have done things differently if she thought bringing in someone to her secret was an option? Absolutely! But she didn’t think it was - something that, given what we see of her home environment and how her friendships are largely reliant on her supporting the other individual, makes sense for her character. Anyway, all that is to say that I think people who tend to view these scenarios from the perspective of the individual also tend to agree with Eloise/Marina, where as those who tend to view from the perspective of the greater good also tend to agree with Penelope. Philosophically speaking, neither perspective is “wrong”, but I don’t know that everyone contributing to the conversation fully understands that, which is where we get the black and white hot takes that blatantly attack these characters as awful people.
Penelope in noway the ugly beast in this story the TON is lady, whistledown 📜acts as a mirror 🪞 , reflecting back all the ugly that the TON masks 🎭 behind pretty pastel and expensive Jewls💎. Notice all the mirror 🪞 imagery that surrounds Penelope. It has double meaning. Represents Penelope’s dual identity her work as whistledown 🪶and that she’s Aphrodite coated. people are excited that it’s not the conventionally, beautiful thin girls, but the plus size-wallflower. 🌼Who gets the siren goddess imagery. She got the aquamarine and seafoam green color palette. The Duck 🦆 to Swan 🦢 symbolism as well as the butterfly 🦋 , which is her family Crest. People are judging Penelope based off of what they’ve already experienced with Gossip Girl ❌⭕️💋 Pretty Little Liars 🅰️🆘💄and early 2000’s tabloids 📰 that was really harsh and cruel and Judgmental. Grossly simplifying, Penelope’s character is a huge injustice to her. I believe her writing is needed for her society to evolve.There Stagnant. A lot of artists were never appreciated in their time. but if it wasn’t for them, the world would still be in the dark ages, and the great depression with still loom over us all. she’s not some maniacal monster twiddling her thumb in a corner. Plotting how to take people down Some people are missing the whole point of lady whistle down not actually listen to what she’s printing, reading 📖 what she’s saying. it is a commentary on the society that they are living in and the hypocrisy of the society they live in and showing that nobody is perfect💝. And it’s ridiculous all the expectations everybody’s expected to live up to and she’s proven more than once you can’t actually be ruined if you’re RICH💰 and BEAUTIFUL 🌷 We don’t rebuke reporters, journalists and columnist so why should we condemn Penelope. She’s just writing ✍🏼 what she observes and hears👂 same as they do.Her friends and family are members of the TON she can’t exclude them it’s called journalistic integrity + she doesn’t do anything to anyone that she doesn’t do to herself. There is a lot of things that never make it to print things Penelope keeps under wraps and covers up by drawing attention away. Or She will make vague references and secret 🤫 innuendos. Trevor Noah said it best. 'powerful' closing words at Correspondents' Dinner freedom of the press in relation to what is going on in Ukraine 🇺🇦. the responsibilities of a journalists to (Speaking Truth Power) What are the crimes is she actually committing telling over privileged narcissistic rich people that they’re not perfect. Because they’re fragile egos can’t take a little bit of criticism. Honestly they seriously need to get over themselves because you can’t be lovely and flawless all the time. It’s toxic and it’s unrealistic and Penelope is just holding A mirror 🪞 to that. What are her other crimes not liking somebody’s dress 👗 that they’re only ever going to wear once ☝️ and never wear again OK 👌. Yeah she’s straight up evil 👿 These out of touch aristocrats and members of the hierarchy are constantly overreacting and throwing hysteria over absolutely nothing. They are inheritors of generational wealth who’s only purpose is to secure it through arrange marriages and keep repeating the cycle, nothing lady whistled down writes is gonna change that, what’s going to happen to them they ’re literally the ruling class so what they have a little scandal it will pass. In the wise words from our favorite drug 💊 dealer with a heart ♥️ of gold 🥇 -Fezco from (euphoria)- "Sometimes, people need to get their feelings hurt." and should check their privilege As for the accusations of her Ruining peoples lives. Are we watching the same show ? She opens up show calling all the Bridgerton🐝 Ladies perfectly BEAUTIFUL 🌷 and the Gentleman perfectly HANDSOME 🏆she challenged Danbury into getting Simon and Daphne together and she saved Daphne from having to marry Burbrooke.A known sadistic rapist, who thinks of women as horses. Who raped his maid, and threw her out on the street.She kept their illegal dual a secret 🤐 and if you read the books you know that she knows about it. She saved Colin at the risk of her own family so he wouldn’t be deceived into a loveless marriage. She’s always singing the Bridgerton‘s high praises calling them iillustrious family lovely ☺️ and hyping up all their events not to mention bailing them out of the mess that they caused themselves. Penelope’s columns, are extremely thought-provoking🧐 Penelope is socially aware of her environment she’s communicating in a way that her audience would respond to without feeling force-fed or preach at or beaten over the head. Season 2 episode 5 DUTY📜 Penelope offers A profound philosophical insight The bond that keeps their fragile society together. A lot of times Penelope is dropping gems 💎 of wisdom. If you listen for it and pay attention you hear it. Season 2 episode 7 she gave the Sharmas 🪷and the Bridgertons 🐝 sound advice and a good 👍 game plan. Don’t leave the town to their “tawdry musings” she wrote. Solid advice and a good game plan. Penelope is a Business 👩💼 woman with employees who depend on her income. Theo himself depends on the income she brings in. It’s business not personal she can’t just alienate her loyal customers to make her best friend happy Eloise has never worked a day in her life she can’t devote her life‘s work to Satisfy her best friend‘s latest whim She has a goal to achieve In the books she’s the one who’s financing her Mom she set her up for life with an inheritance Penelope forged a Will using whistle down money and pretending it’s from her dead aunt. And I read on the Internet that some of those delivery boys are from an orphanage that she’s sponsoring with whistledown money and them delivering the papers is a bonus for their pocket money 💰 offering them comfort and opportunities that they never had before. Penelope 🪶doesn’t have a rich brother to take care of her for the rest of her life she has to make her own income her retirement money 💰 Whistledown is not just a hobby it’s her livelihood to secure her future and security. Eloise herself told Penelope that they should aspire to be just like Lady Whistledown. 💛📜🪶 Anthony⏱️ in his book says that he likes the way that lady Whistledown writes about him because it makes him seem very intimidating and strong. She gives him an impressive presence. 💛📜🪶 Daphne🌷 is happy that her story is told it lives on and is immortalized. even the hard parts because it’s her story. Penelope🦢contributes a lot to the Bridgerton status and power. she’s the one making them popular and relevant even. Against people that they’re ranked lower than in the pureage. which comes in handy, especially in Benedicts book. 📖
Penelope and Eloise (and Marina!) are such interesting characters who’s interpersonal situations are truly grey and I think that who’s “side” fans tend to lean toward really depends on whether or not they ascribe to the individual or the greater good.
For me, I obviously lean more towards Penelope’s perspective. This is because, as much as understand and sympathize with Eloise’s feelings of hurt and betrayal, I also see so many of her comments and actions as ignorant and willfully naive. She does things without fully thinking through the consequences, putting both herself and her family at risk.
❌‼️BOOK SPOILER START‼️❌In her story, this is literally the cause of her marrying - she decides to run off ALONE to a man’s home whom she’s never actually met without telling her family, leaving herself stuck in the situation where she has to marry him not only to protect her own reputation but also that of her entire family. ❌❗️❗️BOOK SPOILER END❗️❗️❌
Marina was very much the same in season 1. I sympathize with her perspective, and while I don’t think her actions were as naive as Eloise, I think that she was so focused on trying to grasp the best option for herself that she refused to acknowledge that by doing so she would absolutely ruin BOTH the Featherington’s and Bridgerton’s with a scandal much less recoverable for either family than the one penned by Whistledown.
Meanwhile, the reason that I agree more with Penelope over the others is precisely the reason anti-Penelope fans dislike her. She is fully knowledgeable about the potential consequences of her actions. She considers all of the angles and tries to find alternatives, and even her most controversial decisions are made with such tangible regret that we see her sobbing on screen multiple times, but they are decisions that she makes the way she does because they limit the damage to all parties involved as much as possible. Now, could she have done things differently if she thought bringing in someone to her secret was an option? Absolutely! But she didn’t think it was - something that, given what we see of her home environment and how her friendships are largely reliant on her supporting the other individual, makes sense for her character.
Anyway, all that is to say that I think people who tend to view these scenarios from the perspective of the individual also tend to agree with Eloise/Marina, where as those who tend to view from the perspective of the greater good also tend to agree with Penelope.
Philosophically speaking, neither perspective is “wrong”, but I don’t know that everyone contributing to the conversation fully understands that, which is where we get the black and white hot takes that blatantly attack these characters as awful people.
Penelope is flawed and 16 but she’s not a villain. All the characters are complicated in this show
She's 19
All the characters have flaws literally every single one. So no she’s not a villain
Penelope in noway the ugly beast in this story the TON is lady, whistledown 📜acts as a mirror 🪞 , reflecting back all the ugly that the TON masks 🎭 behind pretty pastel and expensive Jewls💎.
Notice all the mirror 🪞 imagery that surrounds Penelope. It has double meaning. Represents Penelope’s dual identity her work as whistledown 🪶and that she’s Aphrodite coated. people are excited that it’s not the conventionally, beautiful thin girls, but the plus size-wallflower. 🌼Who gets the siren goddess imagery. She got the aquamarine and seafoam green color palette. The Duck 🦆 to Swan 🦢 symbolism as well as the butterfly 🦋 , which is her family Crest.
People are judging Penelope based off of what they’ve already experienced with Gossip Girl ❌⭕️💋 Pretty Little Liars 🅰️🆘💄and early 2000’s tabloids 📰 that was really harsh and cruel and Judgmental.
Grossly simplifying, Penelope’s character is a huge injustice to her. I believe her writing is needed for her society to evolve.There Stagnant. A lot of artists were never appreciated in their time. but if it wasn’t for them, the world would still be in the dark ages, and the great depression with still loom over us all.
she’s not some maniacal monster twiddling her thumb in a corner. Plotting how to take people down
Some people are missing the whole point of lady whistle down not actually listen to what she’s printing, reading 📖 what she’s saying. it is a commentary on the society that they are living in and the hypocrisy of the society they live in and showing that nobody is perfect💝. And it’s ridiculous all the expectations everybody’s expected to live up to and she’s proven more than once you can’t actually be ruined if you’re RICH💰 and BEAUTIFUL 🌷
We don’t rebuke reporters, journalists and columnist so why should we condemn Penelope. She’s just writing ✍🏼 what she observes and hears👂 same as they do.Her friends and family are members of the TON she can’t exclude them it’s called journalistic integrity + she doesn’t do anything to anyone that she doesn’t do to herself. There is a lot of things that never make it to print things Penelope keeps under wraps and covers up by drawing attention away. Or She will make vague references and secret 🤫 innuendos.
Trevor Noah said it best. 'powerful' closing words at Correspondents' Dinner
freedom of the press in relation to what is going on in Ukraine 🇺🇦.
the responsibilities of a journalists to
(Speaking Truth Power)
What are the crimes is she actually committing telling over privileged narcissistic rich people that they’re not perfect. Because they’re fragile egos can’t take a little bit of criticism. Honestly they seriously need to get over themselves because you can’t be lovely and flawless all the time. It’s toxic and it’s unrealistic and Penelope is just holding A mirror 🪞 to that. What are her other crimes not liking somebody’s dress 👗 that they’re only ever going to wear once ☝️ and never wear again OK 👌. Yeah she’s straight up evil 👿
These out of touch aristocrats and members of the hierarchy are constantly overreacting and throwing hysteria over absolutely nothing. They are inheritors of generational wealth who’s only purpose is to secure it through arrange marriages and keep repeating the cycle, nothing lady whistled down writes is gonna change that, what’s going to happen to them they ’re literally the ruling class so what they have a little scandal it will pass.
In the wise words from our favorite drug 💊 dealer with a heart ♥️ of gold 🥇 -Fezco from (euphoria)- "Sometimes, people need to get their feelings hurt." and should check their privilege
As for the accusations of her Ruining peoples lives.
Are we watching the same show ? She opens up show calling all the Bridgerton🐝 Ladies perfectly BEAUTIFUL 🌷 and the Gentleman perfectly HANDSOME 🏆she challenged Danbury into getting Simon and Daphne together and she saved Daphne from having to marry Burbrooke.A known sadistic rapist, who thinks of women as horses. Who raped his maid, and threw her out on the street.She kept their illegal dual a secret 🤐 and if you read the books you know that she knows about it. She saved Colin at the risk of her own family so he wouldn’t be deceived into a loveless marriage. She’s always singing the Bridgerton‘s high praises calling them iillustrious family lovely ☺️ and hyping up all their events not to mention bailing them out of the mess that they caused themselves.
Penelope’s columns, are extremely thought-provoking🧐
Penelope is socially aware of her environment she’s communicating in a way that her audience would respond to without feeling force-fed or preach at or beaten over the head.
Season 2 episode 5 DUTY📜
Penelope offers A profound philosophical insight
The bond that keeps their fragile society together. A lot of times Penelope is dropping gems 💎 of wisdom. If you listen for it and pay attention you hear it.
Season 2 episode 7 she gave the Sharmas 🪷and the Bridgertons 🐝 sound advice and a good 👍 game plan. Don’t leave the town to their “tawdry musings” she wrote. Solid advice and a good game plan.
Penelope is a Business 👩💼 woman with employees who depend on her income.
Theo himself depends on the income she brings in.
It’s business not personal she can’t just alienate her loyal customers to make her best friend happy Eloise has never worked a day in her life she can’t devote her life‘s work to Satisfy her best friend‘s latest whim
She has a goal to achieve
In the books she’s the one who’s financing her Mom she set her up for life with an inheritance Penelope forged a Will using whistle down money and pretending it’s from her dead aunt. And I read on the Internet that some of those delivery boys are from an orphanage that she’s sponsoring with whistledown money and them delivering the papers is a bonus for their pocket money 💰 offering them comfort and opportunities that they never had before. Penelope 🪶doesn’t have a rich brother to take care of her for the rest of her life she has to make her own income her retirement money 💰 Whistledown is not just a hobby it’s her livelihood to secure her future and security.
Eloise herself told Penelope that they should aspire to be just like Lady Whistledown.
💛📜🪶
Anthony⏱️ in his book says that he likes the way that lady Whistledown writes about him because it makes him seem very intimidating and strong. She gives him an impressive presence.
💛📜🪶
Daphne🌷 is happy that her story is told it lives on and is immortalized. even the hard parts because it’s her story.
Penelope🦢contributes a lot to the Bridgerton status and power. she’s the one making them popular and relevant even. Against people that they’re ranked lower than in the pureage. which comes in handy, especially in Benedicts book. 📖