Gavin and Stacey isn't funny amymore

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Is it just me? I don't think it's aged well at all, I thought the finale was rubbish!

Is it just me?

Yes

Bryn always hated Dave Coaches, because he's the only other soul who knows what happened on the fishing trip, Bryn having confided n him in a moment of weakness. However, we didn't see much of the warmer, gentler, credulous, funny side of Bryn in this special, which was a shame, as his (often funny) angry streak needs the balance of the sweeter side of him.

Because, as I said, I have seen clips that were described as being the "best bits" and my thought was "if that's the "best" then the rest must be dire" due to the fact that they weren't in the least bit funny to me.

As you said, comedy is subjective.

I laughed out loud! Brilliant

I’m a massive fan and absolutely loved it. Lots of it is funny, some amusing, some a bit odd but with some sentimental storytelling in there too. I never liked the Matt Lukas episode in Series 1, I thought the Taps scene last Christmas special was a bit OTT. But there are so many visual gags in earlier series (fingers under the tap, Gavins facial expressions, cream round the mouth) that are hard to replicate in a finale.

I wasn’t sure about Nessa fleecing the old couple, Bryns ideas for the stag do but I thought the rest held together well.
‘I was distracted by some of the finest Cosack dancing I’d even seen’. 😅
’Shes’s a bit sore down there… but already gone down 2 dress sizes’
‘ Gavison’
The sexual tension in the KFC scene! Incidentally it made me look and feel things for Smithy I never have. This grown up sweeter version was pretty sexy… ‘I do want the corn on the cob’ 🫢

The acting from a few was really wooden and I did cringe at the start (which was shit). The Gavin and Stacey sex stuff had my toes curling. I thought it got better, but it wasn't funny. More nostalgic for me.

It never was.
Gavin and Stacey are wooden and can’t act.

Not sure why you would join a thread about it then, if you have nothing to say about it?

I enjoyed it.
I do tire of all the wedding scenes where someone objects and the bride/groom say oh yeah, I suppose you are right and I won’t get married.
I also think it would have been a great ending to leave it where one of them proposes and the other one says yes. Then they hug and it ends.

I loved it but I agree ,they have said there won't be another episode and I think thats right all the loose ends are tied up for me another episode would spoil it.

I think all the characters are great but Ruth Jones is outstanding.

Am I right in saying that Neil the Baby was conceived after an embarrassed one night stand, and that at no point since then have Smithy and Nessa even lived in the same country?

Why oh why do crimbo specials need weddings, most people start by having relationships. They have a kid, they'd have noticed by now if they loved each other through small and ordinary ways, not histrionic marriage proposals.

And I don't like the abandoned wedding trope. Lots of people made huge effort, expense and sacrifice to get there and to make it happen. If Smithy's friends had any regard for him at all they'd have told him long before it got to that stage. What an utter see you next Tuesday Smithy is to do that.

Richard Curtis would have blushed.

hmm not sure I agree with it being subtle or gentle, it kind of smacks you in the face. I think people forget that it’s really quite crude especially the originals I think that it was watered down so much made it a bit rubbish tbh.

Have you watched the series at all?

Loved it but WTF has Julia Davis done to her face?

I've watched most episodes of Gavin and Stacey over the years and found it to be one of those shows you could dip into, watch and enjoy but not been overly passionate about it. I re-watched all the previous series back to back over the last couple of weeks or so and wacthing like this highlights how repetitive the the themes are in it.

The finale was ok- and I thought the nostalgia was nice; they gave the viewers what they wanted with Nessa and Smithy.

I think it's a shame they've never moved Stacey's character forward at all- Joanna Page looked like she struggled to play now her because she's aged and in her 40s but her character in the the show was still dressed in clothes 20 year olds wore in the 90s and she was finding hard to be that bubbly 20 year old now.

Really, though- it's never been about Gavin and Stacey- it always was the Nessa and Smithy show.

The clips wouldn't have made sense to you as you have never seen t,it's very nuanced with a lot of in jokes that make,sense of you have watched it all the way through and are are very funny if you understand the references .

I loved it as a finale to the whole saga. I think it is done now though- I don't want to see any more of it- it would be spoilt.

I watched the first two seasons but I can't remember Smithy and Nessa ever being together?

Me too - loved it.

I don't think we needed the final to be funny, we needed to see smithy and nessa together and I thought they did this amazingly

The marriage of Nessa and Smithy has ended it. It has no further potential- they are the catalysts for the whole show.

But there are so many tiny bits in the series. Throwaway lines you only spot on the fourth watch. Subtle bits of business in the background. Characters driving the scenes so you end up happily watching a discussion on oven gloves. Looks from one character to another that you wouldn’t understand if you hadn’t seen some previous episode.

That would have been shit.

The whole point is that their wedding was very low key. How much organising would that have taken?

This is just like those people who read the last page of a novel first.