Sanditon Season 2 Ending Explained: Did Lennox Have Feelings for Charlotte?

By Saumya On Apr 25, 2022

Sanditon Season 2 Ending Explained: The conclusion of Sanditon season 2 has a wedding, a betrayal, and a painful disappointment.

At least three of Sanditon’s most compelling love subplots, involving the sisters Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) and Alison Lambe (Crystal Clarke), had their arcs wrapped up in intriguingly diverse ways.

As a result of his late brother Sidney (Theo James), Tom Parker (Kris Marshall) was finally able to assert himself against Colonel Francis Lennox (Tom Weston-Jones), while Sir Edward Denham (Jack Fox) finally got what he deserved for his betrayal of Esther Babington (Charlotte Spencer), Clara Brereton (Lily Sacofsky), and his aunt, Lady Denham (Anne Reid).

In the season 2 finale, Sanditon came to an end to the Heywood sisters’ love triangles. Captain Declan Fraser was the only person who truly cared about Alison a year after Captain William Carter deceived her. Alison loved him back, and he loved her back.

It made Charlotte’s love triangle even more complicated because of the backgrounds of Colonel Lennox and Alexander Colbourne (Ben Lloyd-Hughes).

Colbourne told his daughter Leonora (Flora Mitchell) that Alexander was her father when he wasn’t. He told her he was. It took Charlotte a while to accept her feelings for Colbourne after Sidney died in the second season of Sanditon, but after a while, she did.

Sidney and Charlotte were not the main focus of Season 2. This meant that each of the main characters had their own story arc. Afterward, the second and third seasons were shot at the same time, so that they could be shown at the same time.

At the end of season 2, there was a big surprise that set the tone for the next season and brought back Charlotte Heywood as the show’s love protagonist.

Did Lennox Have Feelings for Charlotte?

Another Sanditon Season 2 figure who was exposed for all of their deceptions and misdeeds?? Lennox, the Colonel.

Kris Marshall finally challenged him about his debt, but more crucially, tiny Leonora Mitchell goes to the soldiers’ camp to meet the guy who she believes is her true father. Asked whether he’s her father, Lennox — whom she looks more like than Colbourne — flatly denies it.

“I feel the solution is very convoluted,” says Tom Weston-Jones. You may assert objectively that it benefits the greater good.” I believe he’s helping Leo accept Colburne and move on with his life. But is it the best course of action? Is it possible to leave a kid who may be your only one? So, it was deliciously puzzling.

“You remind me of a young lady,” Lennox said to Charlotte after the balloon flight, Weston-Jones recounted. I think he’s speaking the truth.

Weston-Jones says the finest liars can fool themselves into thinking they’re telling the truth. “I don’t think he’s manipulating Charlotte much. To my knowledge, he has never thought of himself as manipulating. His relationship with Lucy and Charlotte is what I feel helps him fully commit.”

That’s why I believe he’s manipulating, yet his relationships with both ladies are legitimate “WJ said. Season 3 may provide a happy ending to some of our favorite characters from Season 2.

What Do You Think About Sanditon’s Charles Lockhart?

There is a moment during the Sanditon Season 2 Finale when the Parkers find out that Sidney was actually in Antigua to stop a shady cousin named…Charles Lockhart from stealing Georgiana’s inheritance.

Yes, Lockhart was trying to defraud Miss Lambe the entire time he was seducing her. The second season of Sanditon would have included the Lockhart/Georgiana narrative, according to Justin Young.

Right after the end of Season 1, we came up with this Lockhart character and we all fell in love with him, says Young. In addition, he didn’t really change during the development process. Even if everything else about the project evolved to an unrecognizable state, Charles Lockhart remained essentially the same.

It would be easy to appreciate [Lockhart] because of his charm and irony, but then we would learn that he had a plan all along. Because of Alexander Vlahos’ performance, “of course what occurred was, we all were infatuated with the character,” he says. To make him this villain, it’s really unfortunate!

Lockhart, sadly, is a scoundrel. Georgiana should not wind up with Charles Lockhart because he is not the type of guy you want her to end up with, Young stated. In fact, I don’t believe that’s Georgiana’s ultimate goal. So, I’m sorry. Season 3 will feature him, so we haven’t seen him yet.”

Charles Lockhart is “just utterly horrible,” Crystal Clarke said to Decider.

“I just thought he did a fantastic job.” Is it actually what individuals do if they are skilled manipulators?… Clarke described them as “very lovely” at a first impression. The shock of these kinds of betrayals comes from there, then. We assume we know and have the authenticity of a person and then it turns out to be a lie.

Georgiana’s story will continue into Season 3 even if that isn’t the case.” Clarke spoke of the strength it takes to recover from something like that.

Sanditon Season 2 Ending Explained

“Conventional marriage narrative” and the fact that the program will return for Season 3 are the reasons why Charlotte hasn’t met true love, according to Sanditon creator Justin Young. In the end, the serial is over once Charlotte gets her happy ending.

It seems to me that in Austen’s novels, the story ends after the pair is married. The narrative ends here. In the end, “that’s the goal,” Young said, before adding that they wanted any new love story to feel “natural and plausible.”

To say, “Oh, six episodes later, she’s completely moved on,” after having been brokenhearted at the end of Season 1, would have been a little immoral.” She’s found a new way to be happy. There is nothing to worry about,# Young remarked. “So I don’t think she’ll be fully there by the conclusion of Season 2,” he continues.

Season 3’s problems between Colburne and Charlotte “will keep you guessing right up to the finish,” Young hinted. “And I think, you’ll see in a year,” Young teased.

Ben Lloyd-Hughes told Decider that he “enjoyed” messing around with Colbourne’s final scene with Charlotte in Season 2 of The Walking Dead. Was Colbourne planning a marriage proposal? Could it be that his primary motivation was to get his governess back to work for him?

What Colbourne was going to say and do on stage was entirely up to those in the crowd, according to Lloyd-Hughes. In my mind, he was going to ask me to marry him.

In that regard, it appears that good old Ralph had the upper hand on Colbourne. Even after all these years, Justin Young still hopes that Charlotte’s Sanditon admirers would have trust in her fairy tale ending.

With Alison’s happy conclusion, Young hoped that the audience would have faith in the movie’s joyful finale as well. “It’s just not yet.”