Gavin and Stacey: The finale

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A final final episode!

Fingers crossed they can go out with a bang but not sure!

Oh yes the bridezillas...

I found it very forced

Yeah and Harry walked in with Pam and Mick...

They wanted a big reunion at Cardiff airport , but the authorities said no , so the dockyard was the place in the end ( probably easier to film there )

I can imagine Sonia went for Smithy because she thought he was 'punching' and would put up with her more than most men. Similar to Dawn & Pete.

Could someone explain the owain Hughes joke !!!!!!

Ruth Jones looks good full stop. No additional age comment needed.

Most of the details of Sonia's Hen night and wedding could have come straight from threads on Mumsnet.

Nessa and Smithy's wedding was fabulous.

No idea about Owain Hughes either
Is it a play on words ' owing , owain ' or something?
Plus that fishing trip too , have to make up your own story there

i loved the drunken party before the stag, looked so much fun

I know, people are obsessed with age for some reason, not just on here but everywhere, it's really annoying.

The Owain Hughes is to mess with us... it isn't a thing but they put it in the script to confuse people!

The Owain Hughes thing is a non-joke. It doesn't mean anything. The actor has had people asking him to explain it ever since.

The 2019 episode was way off the mark and felt like forced humour (I cringe in particular when I think back to the “Are you asking me to step into Christmas?” scene as an attempt to recreate the iconic Jon Barnes rap scene), but this latest one has left me desperate to rewatch the whole series from the start. It was brilliant (although I would have loved a hint of the nice Bryn)

I hate looking and feeling older , but it is part of life and people should embrace it more ( in my case , learn to live with it !)
We do live in an agist society though
Sad to say.

I thought it was fairly obvious that Sonia stuck with Smithy because, as an experienced plumber, he was earning more and more money. Which he was entirely willing to spend on her because he naively believed she brought the ‘class’ element to them as a couple. That’s why we heard that he paid for everything.

I imagine the utterly delightful Neil the Baby will be a zillionaire before he’s thirty. Aren’t we always saying here that learning a trade is a better prospect than Oxbridge?

Loved it. Especially the party before the stag. Looked really joyful and like they were genuinely having a laugh filming it.

Some of the ageist comments on this thread are depressing. Shock horror - people do age.... Why do we even need to comment on it ?

Each to their own! I love the Step into Christmas scene.

In the whole episode one of my very favourite things was the shocking contrast between Sonia’s svelte friends - all dressed in clearly new full length Reformation type dresses - and the Stacey contingent, drably thrown together in dated printed midi dresses (not Nessa obvs). To me that was a more powerful indicator of difference than the stripper.

I thought Ruth Jones looked stunning throughout the finale.
We saw Smithy's mum when she goes to help him buy a suit - for the christening? And Rudi and Smithy end up scrapping on the shop floor 😂

I love the Step into Christmas scene from the previous special too...showed real warmth and love between Smithy and the Shipman's

That’s one of the few lines from 2019 that made it into our G&S quote bank.

Yes the contrasting approach to the hen night was brilliantly done.

Sobbed my way through the last 20mins, amazing tv!

I think it’s because she’s meant to be younger than that on the show, James Corden is around 46/47 I think , there’s an age gap in real life but they’re meant to be the same age on the show.
She plays a much younger part, you wouldn’t think she approaching 60 in real life. I think that’s all people meant when it comes to Ruth Jones age

I’ve never seen Fat Friends or Stella starring Ruth Jones, were they any good ?