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James Bond ?

As so many have already mentioned, what struck me while watching The Other Bennet Sister was the feeling of "Hey so it IS possible to produce engaging, normal, kind, loving, decent, non-iphone-face depictions of everyday people and there IS an audience for it". Why isn't there more of this? I noticed how starved I was for depictions of women with rosacea, with arm pit hair, with faces allowed to look scrunched up, ill-at-ease, giddy with happiness, nerdy info dumping, awkwardness, "ugly-crying", with decent clothes that might not be to everybodys taste but make them feel like themself, with proper yearning, without sex scenes, with loads of getting to know the other person by talking, doing things together, and observing their healthy behavior patterns towards them but also their friends and family, colleagues etc. To watch a man who has decided that is the woman he wants to marry and then confidently pursuing her at a pace she needs to warm up to the idea of him, giving her all the autonomy, letting her be herself and loving her for who she is. This is not boring! Why does all of this feel revolutionary when it should be the healthy norm?!?!