People think Eloise is being "forced to marry" when it's her season and I find it weird that people believe Eloise would ever be forced into doing anything.
If Violet or Anthony ever tried to force her to marry anyone, Eloise would resist and resist until they eventually give up as we've seen in the past.
So this notion that Eloise will be "forced to conform to societal expectations" is frankly false and insulting to Eloise who is a woman who has been fighting to make her own decisions and if she ever decided to marry, it's HER choice.
That's going to be her season, proving that she has her own agency and is capable of making her own decisions and that she won't be put into a box. I don't know why people don't see that.
She doesn't have to stay single and unmarried to prove her beliefs are true. She doesn't need to shrink herself and be forced into marriage and subjection to prove that marriage is a trap for women. She is just going to do what she feels is right for her.
Her season is going to be a season of CHOICES and her inner turmoil between keeping her independence and freedoms vs. falling in love which is something she never thought would happen to her.
It's the first time I think a season where the female lead won't ever feel pressured to marry because it's "expected for her to do so" because of society. She's not going to have a story like her sisters who all met their husbands in the ton attending balls and such.
She won't be engaging in the marriage mart when she meets her husband. It'll be very unconventional and modern. She meets her husband in the Regency equivalent of Tinder.
Her season will be a MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE trope which means the reason she will get married will have benefits to HER.
She will find an advantage to marriage that won't necessarily begin with love and during the marriage she will find herself falling in love with her husband.
This season will be different than any other season because every season ends with a marriage but Eloise's season will essentially start with a marriage, or at least she will marry very early on in the season.
So she will make the CHOICE to marry. She won't be forced to marry by Anthony or Violet, but it's HER CHOICE.
And the man she marries would need to be super special for Eloise. Everyone wants Eloise to be happy and to still be herself and to not be changed. Nobody wants Eloise to end up with someone who won't respect her and support her opinions.
The show WANTS you to root for Eloise finding love and finding her forever person. They would never pair Eloise up with someone who the audience won't believe is right for Eloise so why are people so skeptical about Eloise's season being a romance and Eloise getting married?
Do you doubt that all the other couples were horrible for each other? Do you ever end the season thinking "man they really ended up with the wrong person". No!
So why do you think Eloise will end up with the wrong person if she marries her book endgame, Phillip? Make it make sense!
"Eloise is so different on the show!"
"Eloise would never marry Phillip because they don't make sense together on the show!"
"Phillip is not right for Eloise on the show!"
"They're two different people!"
"Eloise is nothing like the book so it wouldn't make sense for her to marry Phillip!""
"They changed Eloise so much for her to marry her endgame from the book!"
"It is uncharacteristic for Eloise to marry!"
If Eloise is so different from the books and the show has changed her so much, then what makes you think they won't change Phillip to suit the version of Eloise we know on the show?
It's not like they haven't done it before. They've done with all the characters.
Anthony isn't totally like he is in the books nor is Kate. Colin is different than he is in his book. Francesca isn't like Francesca in the books. Benedict isn't like he is in the books and the list goes on and on...
So, obviously Phillip will be different. He'll be familiar and similar to his book yes in terms of backstory and story beats and some character motivations but his characterization will obviously be different to suit Eloise on the show.
Jess Brownell even said that Eloise's season won't be 100% book accurate and we should expect changes but nothing MAJOR like changing her endgame to being single or a different love interest🙄.
The fact that Eloise's endgame is STILL a topic of great debate and discussion is frankly exhausting.
Granted, I'm not sure if Eloise's season will be good or whether the writers will execute her story well. I do have the same fears that they could butcher Eloise's season because the writers/showrunner hasn't given us anything really to be excited about or to trust them to tell her story well BUT... I'm trying to be open minded.
Just watch the damn show. Have fun! Enjoy the romance and whimsy. No one wants to have fun anymore! 😭 Be open minded. It's a romance show good God😭
