Nessa and Smithy didn’t look a day older than the last Special 🤣
G&S’s children were definitely at the wedding - when they all ran off to go and try and catch up with Nessa, Stacey looked at Pete and said, “Look after the kids for me!” - or something to that effect.
I find it odd the girls were bridesmaid though, as generally the bridesmaids come from the bride’s side of the family/friendship group, and Sonia doesn’t strike me as the sort who’d want the daughters of a woman she barely seems to know and doesn’t seem to like. I can see why Smithy might have wanted Gavin’s daughters in the wedding, but Sonia doesn’t seem the sort to roll over and agree to do something she wouldn’t choose for herself just to make Smithy’s happy. It just didn’t seem realistic.
Sonia is such an unlikeable character isn’t she!!!!
For the first 20 minutes or so I really struggled to enjoy it and it just didn’t seem funny….but as the time passed I got hooked and drawn in!
Agree with others that Ness’s goodbye to Baby Neil was lovely, and I also loved it when Smithy told her what a good job she had done at raising him, how proud she should be and how he can so much of her influences in him. That made a me a little teary.
Mick’s speech also made me teary.
I tell you one thing that I wasn’t sure I liked… when the congregation were asked to stand up if they thought Smithy was making a mistake (or something along those lines) it seemed like it was Mick’s opinion whose mattered most, and if Mick didn’t think Smithy should marry Sonia, then he wouldn’t. All I could think was, “Your 16 year old son is standing up, meaning that he doesn’t want you to marry Sonia and he thinks that you’re making a mistake,” so isn’t that enough to make you reconsider? Isn’t his opinion the one that should matter the most? If Mick hadn’t have stood up would Smithy have married Sonia on the basis that Mick had no concerns about the marriage, despite the fact his son didn’t want it? I understand they were doing it to show how much Smithy respects Mick and probably sees him as a father figure, but I didn’t like how that meant his own son’s feelings didn’t seem to matter or take priority.
I thought the Role Play stuff was really silly. Stacey was always my least favourite character though so that probably didn’t help endear me to the storyline.
I missed seeing sweet Bryn.
I thought Nessa and Smithy’s wedding was lovey, and Nessa looked amazing!! I loved the fact they shook hands at the altar because they never kiss, but I did think in the final scene where the photo was taken, they would then be overcome with the urge to kiss each other, just to show us that alongside all their chemistry and craziness for each other, underneath they felt real love and affection for each other too.
But overall, I really, really loved it.
In fact, after me and my husband had finished watching it we went back to Series 1, episode 1, and started re-watching the series 🤣
I think it was a wonderful finale of a fantastic series! Well done to Ruth and James!