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I am in TEARS this is hands down the funniest Bridgerton tweet [edit: was not expecting it to quickly become my post popular post lmao here’s the link if you’re a twitter person]

I think I missed something in Bridgerton because how are people thinking that the love story between John and Francesca is not as good as Daphne x Simon's or Anthony x Kate's storylines?

In TV, it's true, because the angst and the drama makes it more entertaining and fun to watch.

But in real life, I think people look for what John and Francesca have: a connection, a new found peace, knowing you have found someone you love and are willing to spend the rest of your life with them.

Who wants drama? Your futur spouse pretending to hate you, and not wanting to marry you and only at the last moment deciding they want to be with you? How is that better? Or more passionate?

Most people don't want Colin "I would never dream of courting Penelope Featherington " Bridgerton. They want John * I'll write you a music partition because you didn't like the original one* Kilmartin.

Anthony was literally going to marry Kate's sister and only didn't because Edwina stopped the wedding.... not him.

Why would Violet or anyone think this is better than what John and Francesca have???

Yes, it's "boring" to watch, but it's not boring to live. That's true romance. Not the drama.

They are the healthiest couple out of all the Bridgertons.

And no hate to the other couples, I do love Angst with a happy ending, I just don't get the contempt towards John x Francesca.

Barry Trivers and Gerd Oswald dropping “The Conscience of the King” on December 8th of 1966, only to never elaborate on Tarsus IV and Kirk’s past there

Instead of trying so hard to make fans think of Daenerys when they see Rhaenyra, they should have tried to insert a bit of Daenerys into every Targaryen character.

Right now it's obvious the show is trying to make Rhaenyra a Dany 2.0 and doing everything they can to link this one character to Daenerys. The amount of scenes she gets with her dragon, the idea that Syrax's eggs are somehow Daenerys' dragons and it's thanks to Rhaenyra that dragons live on... likely all due to the writers seeing "dragonriding ruling queen" for both characters and then really overly forcing the connection at all costs even if it doesn't always quite fit.

What I would have preferred is to see all of Daenerys' ancestors within her and her in them. Show all of their connections to their dragons and their joy in flying. Show all of them as quick to anger and slow to forgive. Show all of them believing in the power and superiority of their dragon blood and the inherent right of their family to rule. Show all of them willing to use fire and blood to avenge what they see as injustices and being ruthless in their pursuit of that justice. Show me how each of these characters are as Targaryen as the next and how absolutely tragic it is that within this so similar family they only saw their own differences and their own ambitions, leading to them destroying themselves and the dragons that they loved so much and that gave them so much power.

All of this means not leaning so hard on showing Rhaenyra as just like Daenerys, but showing Dany's traits in the others. Show Helaena finding freedom, power, and independence on dragonback and savoring her strong bond with Dreamfyre, which comes more easily to her as an autistic woman surrounded by people playing the unspoken game of thrones around her. Show Aegon on Sunfyre after the coronation as he wears the conqueror's crown and reminds the people of his ancestral Targaryen power and right to rule. Show their children and their hatchlings. Let Baela have her own opinions apart from her betrothed and his mother and let her be bold in expressing them. Let Rhaena learn the importance of politicking and soft power in ruling and gaining allies and the balance between hard and soft power, and let the moment she hatches Morning at the end of the war be a melancholic moment, as she finally has a dragon but now is alone in this fact as one of the last living Targaryens.

We should be able to see traces of Daenerys in all of these Targaryens, and choosing just one to try to emulate Daenerys over all the others is a misstep and minimizes the impact of this story as a dynastic civil war of a family destroying itself.