Gavin and Stacey isn't funny amymore

Well, it was Smithy’s own money. And better lose that than marry the wrong person.

Also, you know, it’s not real.

On the cancelled wedding thing, DPs best friend called off his wedding with six weeks to go. It was truly awful and fifteen years on he doesn't trust himself to have a relationship.

Obviously we supported him, nobody should get married out of obligation or embarrassment but the financial and emotional fallout was horrific. Literally standing at the altar and doing it is the work of a truly nasty person (and a rich one, who can afford to flush 40k down the toilet).

Was Dave Coaches in that Viagra thing last year?

My parents gave their first baby (me) up and literally never spoke about it to each other for 40 years. They didn't discuss not discussung it, they just didn't mention it

I think Bryn was always odd but well intentioned.

He lived his life through others. I think the creepy bits for the stag were done to show that he was still trying to cling on to how it was first time around when they were all young lads. He wasn't really part of it then and in a bid to join in went overboard with what he thought they would want.

The contrast was there with it being the younger characters who had changed.

He never coped well with change and Nessa and Neil leaving would affect a character like his.

I think people expect too much of these things. It was a good bit of writing.

The last Christmas special wasn't as popular but they had a lot more work to do with moving on the characters and explaining what happened. They showed how ridiculous it all was through Sonia's eyes. I thought that was quite clever. Originally the differences were between the Barry and Essex cultures but over the years they combined into one group and so the laughs needed to be at this rather than the opposite nature of it..

It's one of the few bits of telly I've really enjoyed. It was never laugh out loud and always had touching moments. They took the Only Fools and Horses approach to this. If it was all laughs no one would care for the characters or they are entirely one dimensional.

DD spotted it. It looks like filler has migrated.

Other than highlighting their incompatibility, I think the stripper scene was a nod to Stacey's hen night. Maybe she thinks a hen night isn't complete without one and it was her gift to Sonia?

Loved Dawn crouching down to take pics 😁

I thought it ws I reference to Stacy having a stripper at her hen night ?
Times have changed, and stripper, s are a bit cheesy and Sonia isn't supposed to cheesy
I imagine she posts everything in Instagram
I didn't like her character at all but they just shows whst a great actress she is.

It's not you, it was so meh.

I really enjoyed it, though had issues with a few bits - the tone of the stripper scene felt off, I would have completely agreed with Sonia and her friends but I'm not sure what the writers were going for there?

I thought it was about what you say later about avoiding making her an out and out villain because I think a lot of us would have sided with her about the stripper. It showed his side as being quite bawdy and that they were just wrong for each other.

Ness has spent the whole series fleecing people.

I think the fleecing thing was because those bike things are ridiculously expensive (in central London anyway there's a bit of an issue about tourists being fleeced on them) so it was a nod to that.

Defo & they normally blare out pop music but she just had the harmonica

"You eating with us, Dawn, or are you having a Chinese?"

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha

I really enjoyed it, though had issues with a few bits - the tone of the stripper scene felt off, I would have completely agreed with Sonia and her friends but I'm not sure what the writers were going for there? Why would Stacey have arranged a stripper in the first place when she's not a close friend of the bride? And why on earth would Pam, Dawn and Gwen have been invited to the hen party? Your fiancé's best friend's mother-in-law?!

I'm also not a big fan of the 'wedding being interrupted and called off at the last minute' trope, mainly because of how truly awful it would be for the jilted person and their family. It was done once at the end of the series with Nessa and Dave's wedding and it worked well - I think trying to repeat it was a step too far.

On Sonia - she's not very nice, and definitely not right for Smithy, but I liked that they didn't make her an out-and-out villain. I especially appreciated that she was portrayed as being 100% welcoming of Neil the Baby, and being genuinely touched by his singing at the wedding - Smithy, for all his faults, would never have married someone who wasn't on board with him being an involved and present father, so I was glad that they avoided the wicked stepmother trope here.

I really welled up at Mick's speech at the stag - how he and Pam had struggled for years to have another child, and how their family always felt a bit incomplete until Smithy came along. Mick has always been one of the best characters, and he's a really good male role model, I think - always calm and willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, and never afraid to show affection. Love him. Pam's description of her second chance at life after his untimely death was priceless.

I had no problem with Gwen and Dave Coaches getting together - he was never a terrible person, and Gwen seemed really happy.

Smithy has been the heart of the show the whole way along, and acting-wise JC really nailed it. Though was internally shouting at him at the end to just get down on one knee and ask her, you dozy twat.

All in all I loved it, I did.

On rewatching I had to laugh at the bit at the end where Nessa effortlessly tosses her bag - VERY heavy by the sound it made when it landed - onto the ship. Obviously her phenomenal strength is one of the reasons Clayton was so keen to have her aboard 😂

I wish it was a Fat Friends reunion instead :(

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I've personally never found it that funny. Odd part maybe, watched it because OH wanted to.

The finale wasn’t great imo. The acting was poor and the wedding scene was a bit rushed and ridiculous

Agreed,I love G&S but they need,to stick to.their word and leave it there now,
Further episodes,would spoil it imo.

I had t really watched G & S previously so did a big catch up all through December. I did like this finale though I think there were some absolutely brilliant lines in other earlier episodes. Mick's speech, Nessa's farewell to Neil the baby's singing at and Neil the baby's song at the wedding had me in bits. Loved the little things like Rudi's babies, Brighton and Aldi.

I really wanted to love it but didn't. The build up to the wedding was slow-paced. Letting it get as far as the wedding and then everyone standing up just felt a bit mean to the (admittedly annoying) bride.
I would have preferred to have seen more of everyday Barry Island life and learnt more about Baby Neil etc.
I'm glad it was well-received generally though.

I think the fleecing thing was because those bike things are ridiculously expensive (in central London anyway there's a bit of an issue about tourists being fleeced on them) so it was a nod to that.

I thought it was very good, although I would have liked to see Bryn portrayed a little more affectionately. I especially enjoyed Pam
talking about her second life, and the Pete and Dawn saga - I love Adrian Scarborough. I enjoy the characters being exaggerations of very recognisable personality types! I thought both James Corden and Ruth Jones were excellent. There are so many threads of love, loyalty and friendship woven through the storylines, it’s lovely that Smithy and Nessa were able to grow enough to commit to one another.

I liked it and laughed out loud a few times. I thought the ending could have been a bit more emotional with their wedding, it was rushed at the end.

Maybe because you can't just see a few seconds out of context and have the faintest idea what's going on?
I'm seeing quite a few people on t'internet who don't seem to have any idea that Blackburd is a Beatles song.