Not sure how this fares in terms of spamming the boards, since there are already a couple of similar threads- but yeah, as always, I agree they've gone too far in the opposite direction, which kind of defeats the point of the big issue with removing agency, when it comes to more extreme actions like these and the fact there's a pretty clear precedent for that kind of dynamic being possible here.
I really do think the rest of the new animations are fine (especially seeing them on a bunch of different faces) but the eyes closed big smile at the throat grab is just really bad, and the smile at being slapped/pushed is also not great either (while the smile in the kneeling kiss is just kind of goofy, this one I find to be offputting). I've said this before, but the turning night facial animations (in which I think Tav is explicitly enjoying everything) somehow have way more neutral expressions, that one could argue are /too/ neutral in that context.
I'm also surprised that they look kind of rushed- at the beginning of some actions Tav's face will do a quick shift between the original animations to the new ones that doesn't seem intentional on Larian's part (because it looks weird, and doesn't seem to portray anything in particular), it rather looks like they just did a quick tweak.
