Debling’s initial interest in Penelope
Happy St. Patty’s Day ☘️!
In honor of our lovely Galway Girl and fabulous interpreter of our favorite character Penelope Featherington, I wanted to ponder on a Debling-related query.
If this topic has been discussed here before, please be kind! ☺️
I am doing a S3 rewatch and noticed some aspects of the E1 meet cute between Debling and Pen I had not picked up on before.
When Debling first approaches Pen as she’s angrily scarfing down an ice, is he there because he notices her discomfort and the petty looks from the other debs (Clara Livingston and Mary Hallewell, I believe), or,
Had Debling also been visually captivated by Pen’s appearance and was just looking to talk to her?
The image at the beginning of this post… the look he gives her after reassuring Pen she could… “in turn make one wither”, I must admit, made me question Colin’s being the one and only for Pen 😏.
I personally believe he was very attracted to her, and if Chaos Colin had not meddled, Pen may have ended up being temporarily happy with Lord Debling.
Cressida’s competing for his attention has been mentioned before but upon further scrutiny, Lord Debling was only being polite with her.
Sam Phillips deserves better recognition for this role. It easily could have been played as a slightly creepy character, maybe like Berbrooke or as a less annoying but still icky Mr. Collins from P&P.
Yet he was, I found, very attractive, attentive and gave one some second thoughts.
Just thought I’d ask ☺️. I noticed a similar post on either a Bridgerton or the Philoise subreddit about Cressida potentially coming back to be Eloise’s adversary in the marriage mart, and it prompted my interest.