We've spent our entire lives being told that at best people looking like Zendaya is the standard of Blackness that's allowed to be "most beautiful" (which is why I thought their roles would be switched, in this film), because she's got lighter skin, thinner texture, closer to the European beauty standard. She's beautiful! But she's Acceptable.

So Lupita?? Like, someone with my hair texture and length? With skin darker than a paper bag? With full lips and a beautiful, muscular frame?? 😱😱😱😱😱 Especially when I had to live in the same timeline that the Daily Mail had audacity to say that "science proved white Aryan features were the most beautiful"? Especially after sitting in this racist ass fandom for years watching casual antiblackness slide??

This timeline 🥹

Ella Bruccoleri as Mary Bennet and Dónal Finn as Tom Hayward | The Other Bennet Sister (2026)

NO! I started watching it because I noticed the almost $4,000 red leather Gucci purse.

And that's how I realized the purse (along with everything else) was color relevant.

So now I am watching it because it's color coded.

But that's not the only reason I'm watching it! I'm also watching it because it's sun and moon coded/light x dark dynamic, which is why an eclipse happened in both timelines.

But also, there's a whole thing about red flowers, specifically peonies, "the king of flowers," and how they are the most beautiful flower in a garden full of beautiful flowers.

(The flowers are her)

Because she was the most beautiful flower blooming in the royal garden before she was plucked and crushed.

But she wasn't always the red flower and her love interest wasn't always the dark cloud.

He was blue. Loyal. Smart. Kind (to her).

And she was pink, even in the current timeline.

So I think the past and the present Shin Seo-Ri are the same person since the grandmother mentioned an accident occurred and Shin Seo-Ri forgot who she was then, so maybe she had an accident at work again and woke up with full memories of her past life . . . but that's not what this post is about. It's about the colors, and how slowly, these two are getting back to their softer colors.

Instead of always being red and black, they are gradually moving to pink and blue one color step at a time.

And it's probably because they found each other again in the midst of an eclipse with a shining red comet included.

Or maybe it's because love (mixed with this bokeh effect) reveals everyone's true color.

Either way, count me in!