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the best scene in any war and peace adaptation is when nikolai comes home and everyone runs to greet him
say what you will about bbc war and peace but this shared look between natasha and nikolai is everything to me
most of war and peace is just men creating issues for themselves while women suffer the worst horrors imaginable.
there’s a lot of blatant misogyny in the epilogue, but then there’s also subtle things like natasha’s new dynamics with her family. she interacts with few people outside of the household at all anymore, but she’s really only friends with marya (seemingly because they’re both mothers), her friendship with nikolai has almost completely deteriorated (as if they can’t relate on any level anymore), and we barely see her interact with sonya. it’s unsettling to me to say the least.
do they mention nikolai at all in the great comet (besides mentioning sonya’s fiancé)? only asking cuz sometimes i think about how they managed to mention boris and not nikolai