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Continuity or Deviation

posted 4 years ago by JaqenHgar (731)
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Assuming that the show lasts long enough to cover all 8 of the Bridgerton children as the novels do, will the showrunners change certain aspects of the story to appease modern social agendas? I bring this up because I have read many things online where a subsection of viewers are essentially "demanding" that Eloise Bridgerton be gay. In the novels, Eloise is not gay. She simply has no interest in marriage and simply wants to be her own independent woman (which is very similar to the character Jo in "Little Women"). While I have absolutely no issue with characters being gay, or straight, or anything in between, I do take issue with deviating that drastically from the source material. I know Bridgerton is set in an "alternate history" from the novels, and while (as of now) that has primarily been related to the racial diversification of the characters of the era, I wonder if the showrunners will ultimately cater to these agendaists or not.

[–] Quasimodo (16388) 4 years ago

I'm hoping that Eloise gets abducted by aliens ! Grey aliens of course.

[–] Keelai (35395) 4 years ago

Eloise being gay would be too obvious. Hyacinth is a better choice.

[–] Elrod (2) 4 years ago

I agree. Liberty has already been exercised with the story, still arriving with the same ending. It was enough of a diverge that it was not really a conflict with the book, but the essence of the story. The diversity in this series is what it could have been had not racism existed - an interesting perspective that I enjoyed. I think going to other extremes outside the story for sexual orientation is problematic because the is a period piece in the early 1800s. There was a very small part in the series addressed but very small, consistent with the era. but anything more unlikely for this story, for that period.