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The lack of consequences for Pen is just hilarious. I get that its fantasy but there's a limit to being unrealistic.
It seems to me the writers wrote themselves in a corner by having Pen write all that shit in the first 2 seasons to stir up drama and move the plot forward. Then they started scrambling when they had to make her look good for her own season.
Also why show us all that backstory with Cressida if that's the ending she was gonna get. Its the poorest writing I've seen.
What the fuck show?
If Cressida is a monster for publishing one little cue card worth of Whistledown that doesn’t even slander anyone, how much worse of a monster is Penelope, who has been releasing a double sided three columned sheet consistently for years at this point?
If Cressida is a monster with a feud with Eloise and her family when she hasn’t even written anything about Eloise or the Bridgerton’s (yet?) how much more is Penelope a monster for her very overt resentment of the Bridgerton’s (for being what? Prettier than her? More loving? As if the Bridgerton’s aren’t chock full of dysfunction) a resentment so strong that it bleed into her writing that consistently attacked the Bridgerton’s?
If Eloise has put her family in danger by inviting Cressida into her home, how much danger did she put them in by inviting Penelope into their home?
If Eloise should never have befriended Cressida - how much more should she have never befriended Penelope?
If Cressida is evil for pretending to be Lady Whistledown how much more is Penelope evil for BEING Whistledown?
It can’t be one rule for one and another rule for another?
What is this moral essentialism? Where when Cressida does something it is bad because she is bad and when Penelope does a worse thing for long it’s fine because Penelope is good?
Well I am sorry show but I don’t believe that some people are good and some people are bad - I think the morality of people’s actions is what defines their personal morality.
Why didn’t they have Eloise doing her speech about feeling upset and guilty about inviting a viper with a grudge in to her home, and make it about Penelope?
Because having her say it about Cressida feels fake
But having her say it about Penelope would have felt real - and would have been one of the desperately needed consequences for her.