Late to the party on this one but wanted to add my thoughts!
I thought Cole was immature and childish. His "brutal honesty" was unnecessary and he was definitely careless with his words.
But I think Zainab was full of insecurities. And Cole's thoughtless comments were taken by her and she almost forced them to fit every insecurity she had.
Ironically I kept getting her and Colleen mixed up at the start - I thought they were so similar. She seemed to have such a hang up about not looking like her.
I felt for him during the reunion. He was a prick but he was not a master manipulator. Her lecture of him at the alter was really awful. He would absolutely do my head in but then again so would she. They seemed so mismatched from the very minute they stepped out of the pods it seemed hard to believe they connected in the first place. He was a playful annoying puppy, she was so stern. They seemed to bring out the worst in eachother and seemed to not even like eachother at times.
And this may be insensitive but it annoyed me then that she spent the morning crying about her parents not being there on her wedding day when she quite clearly knew that she was going to say no. It wasn't her wedding day! The longing look over to their empty seat and then basically annihilating him!
Raven grew on me throughout but I found SK to be a snorefest. His mother was adorable though.
Bartise and Nancy just didn't look right together at all. She seemed so much older. But was absolutely lovely. I just definitely think in his case that looks were more important than he thought. The way he kept talking about him and Raven being the type of people people "look at" was cringey.
He reminded me of someone who reads self help books and talks the talk, wants to be a better, less shallow person but in reality he cannot steer away from his "type".
Matt is just awful. Red flags a flying everywhere. Colleen was so off in the reunion. I wish his behavior was addressed more. I think of younger people watching that and its such a bad example.
Agree Nick and Vanessa are pointless. Why aren't they even at the weddings?! Slagging off Andrew and him not even there and yet letting Matt gloss over his awful behaviour makes no sense. And fawning all over eachother to show what a great couple they are and how they know better because they've been married for so long.