#blorbos tag

I was tagged to list 9 of my favorite characters :)

Please, ignore how awful the layout turned out 😞

Make a post showcasing all of your blorbos and then tag some friends to do the same 🫶🏻

Thanks for the tag @25bohemianmoons ✨

Open tag but I’ll tag @imeatingyourfloorboards and @gorbo-longstocking :)

Possibly only @mariusperkins and I care about this but I think about it all the time! Bertha Russell is a Stanwyck character come seventy years too late. Breakdown of Stanwyck movies and the way they relate to Bertha under the cut, because spoilers for some great films that everyone should see.

Personally, I didn’t see (as a viewer) what was the big problem with marrying Gladys off to a Duke. She has been trying to get married or even elope even before she was out, and all of her boyfriends were losers. While I do have A LOT of sympathy to Gladys as a modern woman and it’s a hearbreakign story, she was obviously behaving very dangerously.

And George understands it fully and that’s why he didn’t cancel the wedding - but his ego was wounded by being blindsided by Bertha, so he purposefully fed Gladys with empty promises. He literally sabotaged his daughter’s pre engagement, because of George’s problems, Gladys flat out refused to get to know Hector before the wedding. George himself made zero effort to get to know Hector. Like zero. Because posturing and showing Bertha who is the boss, being the favorite dad, is way more important than Gladys’s wellbeing.

And I’m pretty sure that’s e were intended to see it that way, I’ve been rewatching the first season and Larry said “we must always fall in line with father wants, all of us, me, Gladys and mother”. George is simply punishing Bertha for her first fully successful society scheme.

Lmao, I didn't know that was what that meme was called, but yes, yes he is.

I think, however you feel about Gladys’s situation (I feel bad for her as a character that she was so sad/scared but I'm not interested in writing off everyone born before 1970 as a terrible person and making characters in historical fiction act like they've just stumbled out a wardrobe in 2025) I don't understand how anyone thinks George is doing a good job right now. I've said this before but I think a major flaw in the writing of this season is that they're kind of ignoring that George has the power to do whatever he likes, so he's just doing... nothing. I don't know if I agree that he purposefully gave Gladys empty promises, I think maybe at that point he was deluding himself into thinking he was going to do something, but he didn't.

And you make a good point that I hadn't really considered that actually, if he did decide he was going to let this happen, he could have helped Gladys much more by encouraging her to really get to know Hector and plan and put her best foot forward if this was something that was going to have to happen. Rather than wibbling about and "washing his hands" of the situation and then acting like a hero.