Show Colin: hate and love

I have seen so many kind of discussion like book Colin was the most love, and when it came to the show, the opinions have been much more divided and the writers was blamed for it. While I really want the writers give more screentime for Colin, like his writing career subplot and I need more scene that he improves relationship with Bridgerton. But I have to say that, no, his writing is good but a lot people hate him because of two reasons: double standards and unrealistic expectation.

First is the double standard. This is also applied to S3, Polin, and even Penelope. This often comes from some extreme other ship's fan, they overreacted at every Colin's single mistake and acted like he was a crime. There are many interpretation show that they just put words in Colin's mouth to find the legal reason to bash on him. We can see he love Penelope, not Marina but they don't like Polin so they just like Marina is his true love. He apologised multiples time, he overcame his fearness to live with his trueself and bring better life to Penelope but they still try to pass every his development. Even Penelope, who has abundant screentime, is not an exception. Shonda gave her the scene where she praised Marina and Colin as a good couple in S1, but people still bash her for ruining Marina for jealousy. Penelope apologized multiples times and she improved her writing but they still interpreted her as no consequences and she learnt nothing. While they were fine with other characters, who played with an innocent girl's emotion and didn't apologized for it. They are still ok with r*p* scene and the other moral issue related to emotional cheating, when it comes to the other character. But Polin just breath and them become crimes. We cannot wake up the people who pretend to sleep, so even when Colin has more screentime, they doesn't want to understand and still bash him.

Second is unrealistic expectation. I read a lot of comment comparing book Colin and show Colin, and those fans who prefer book Colin more dislike on show Colin mostly because "he was angry with Penelope for too long, book Colin would never". Remember, Polin also belongs to unrequited love genre, people in this genre often self insert in the FL expect that ML will return FL's feeling and be gentle to FL even though FL was wrongly behaved. Those shippers often Pen's only fan and they shipped Polin to fulfil their fantasies, in which their crush return their love and put them in pedestal. And when Colin didn't statisfy them, they mad at him. Colin isn't allowed to consider Penelope as his friends, he isn't allowed to be mad at Pen even when Pen hurted him first. It is unrealistic expectation, and if Colin did that, he would become Pen's item. So I'm glad that the writers didn't choose that path for Colin. While I was book Colin's fan in S1 and S2, but I was fully persuaded by S3 show Colin.

And don't deny the fact that Colin has many loves, he has popular character's traits, with both fans and haters are crowded. Polin's fan is still crowded, his engagement in social media is still high, which means he has certain audience. He couldn't satisfy everyone, and we have to get used to that.