Top 10 show Philip Questions
Spoilers Here are my top 10 questions around Show Philip when trying to envision the book ending.
Why would they have Marina a POC, with a tragic and relatable backstory, with 2 children who have already lost their biological father at war, eventually die, only to be replaced with a privileged non-POC? Could this really be an oversight when there was no reason Marina's character needed to be a POC and could have been more one-dimensional to lessen the impact of her death?
If they intended Marina to die and replaced with a non-POC, why wouldn't they make SPC a POC to keep the diversity, especially for raising POC children?
Why would they make both Eloise and SPC so different from their book characters, making it difficult to imagine how major elements of their book story could be adapted?
Why would SPC be so amiable but still have the dad issues that was a huge part of his book character arc?
Why would Eloise write to Sir Philip in the first place if she was not related to Marina and the show went out of their way to make sure there was no direct contact between El and Marina?
Why would they initially have Eloise against marriage and children only to run away to someone she has never met for a marriage of convenience and who she knows has children? (It's possible she could change her mind about marriage and children but not like this)
Why would they introduce SPC and make no attempt to show interest other than plants that could tie into El's feminist or political passions? As a botonist, it's already assumed he has an interest in plants, no need for the show to reempahasize as his only interest multiple times.
Why would they introduce a lead character without a strong character arc while adding in a "plot device" character with so much arc and links to multiple Netflix and Shondaland articles?
Why would they give El a perfect match in Theo (except for being lower class), only to choose a wealthy, titled white man instead? Wouldn't that just make her character seem haughty and unrelatable?
And last! Why do Philoise shippers hate Theloise shippers when it's the writers that have left us with so many questions?
Did I miss any?