Married at first sight. C4

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Jag_NE

2,949 posts

99 months

Friday 12th April 2019
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WilliamWoollard said:
I feel a bit sorry for the boys on this, missing out on the dating phase when you’re at it hammer and tongue and jumping ahead straight to a sexless marriage sucks.

Jack clearly didn’t fancy Verity, all that bs about being a gentleman and building the relationship was such obvious rubbish. He was trying to talk himself into it.
Totally agree, it was another blatant mismatch and jack was going through the motions, probably for multiple reasons.

Verity does come across as a lovely girl. I think there is a consensus that she isn’t a stunner but all things considered it seems weird that she keeps getting dumped. Bad breath?

The editing may play a part but Steph has come out of this looking pretty bad. The lack of a romantic spark doesn’t give you the excuse to be mean, and alongside an uber nice bloke like Jonathan, any nastiness will be massively amplified, by contrast.

Steve126

301 posts

182 months

Friday 12th April 2019
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Many people criticised Jack's Dad for what he said at the wedding, but he got it completely right.

They gave Steph what she asked for but the experts should have realised that what she asked for wasn't what she was really attracted to. In the first episode she said she likes bad boys and that this had resulted in her having her heart broken. Women who like bad boys think nice men are boring and like the excitement/challenge of being with someone who treats them like st and then runs off with one of their friends, so nice Jonathan with his fussing and gift giving was never going to appeal.

I love the fact that at the end of the programme, having maintained their record of 100% failure, they told us how to apply for the next series!

Edited by Steve126 on Friday 12th April 16:58

Fckitdriveon

1,036 posts

89 months

Friday 12th April 2019
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Steve126 said:
Many people criticised Jack's Dad for what he said at the wedding, but he got it completely right.

They gave Steph what she asked for but the experts should have realised that what she asked for wasn't what she was really attracted to. In the first episode she said she likes bad boys and that this had resulted in her having her heart broken. Women who like bad boys think nice men are boring and like the excitement/challenge of being with someone who treats them like st and then runs off with one of their friends, so nice Jonathan with his fussing and gift giving was never going to appeal.

I love the fact that at the end of the programme, having maintained their record of 100% failure, they told has how to apply for the next series!
By now surely the programs irrelevant, if they do piece a couple together at some point who stick at it, then that surely could be attributed to blind luck.....rather than a miracle science based match....

fluffekins

160 posts

283 months

Friday 12th April 2019
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While quite enjoyable I feel the programme has completely lacks merit in terms of it being some kind of valuable social experiment.

I cannot see any real difference in being actually married or just being shacked up with a blind date. The marriage can be annulled or a divorce without any jeopardy whatsoever.

While no one in the UK show has ever stayed together, I believe the US show has had better results.

g3org3y

20,606 posts

190 months

Saturday 13th April 2019
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Steph getting a lot of stick on here. Didn't come across great but tbh, Jonathan was wetter than a really wet thing. There's one thing to be a 'nice guy' but the chap had no charisma at all. Women may state they want nice sensitive guys, but they do still want men with confidence. Confidence is attractive and he had none. Being a (rather boring) doormat is not attractive. Ultimately he just came across as annoying (imo) - my wife agreed.

"If only you'd parked 8 inches across I could have got my car in the drive". hehe Smooth talker.

Verity and Jack were a much better match. Shame it didn't work out, they seemed to get on. I think she was more invested in it than he was (despite his chat).

Frank7

6,619 posts

86 months

Saturday 13th April 2019
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g3org3y said:
Steph getting a lot of stick on here. Didn't come across great but tbh, Jonathan was wetter than a really wet thing. There's one thing to be a 'nice guy' but the chap had no charisma at all. Women may state they want nice sensitive guys, but they do still want men with confidence. Confidence is attractive and he had none. Being a (rather boring) doormat is not attractive. Ultimately he just came across as annoying (imo) - my wife agreed.

"If only you'd parked 8 inches across I could have got my car in the drive". hehe Smooth talker.

Verity and Jack were a much better match. Shame it didn't work out, they seemed to get on. I think she was more invested in it than he was (despite his chat).
Couldn’t agree more about Jonathan, I kept thinking, “FFS do something, don’t just sit there, suggesting Snakes & Ladders, or Trivial Pursuits, pull her gently to you, and softly kiss her, she’s your wife for Chrissakes!”
The height of his prurient chat was when he said “dick fingers” in one of those dumbass board games, and I felt like projectile vomiting when he trotted out those inane T-shirts, with Wifey and Hubby, (I think), on them

g3org3y

20,606 posts

190 months

Saturday 13th April 2019
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Frank7 said:
Couldn’t agree more about Jonathan, I kept thinking, “FFS do something, don’t just sit there, suggesting Snakes & Ladders, or Trivial Pursuits, pull her gently to you, and softly kiss her, she’s your wife for Chrissakes!”
The height of his prurient chat was when he said “dick fingers” in one of those dumbass board games, and I felt like projectile vomiting when he trotted out those inane T-shirts, with Wifey and Hubby, (I think), on them
Dick fingers could have been hilarious but he made it unfunny.

He was well meaning and his heart was in the right place. He just lacked any kind of the charisma or confidence that women (especially Steph's type) go for. I can see why on paper it could have been a match, but half an hour of them together in a room would have proven otherwise.

All his friends were women which was a little unusual. Clearly been Friendzoned many many times. I don't want to do a Welshbeef here but he quite easily could have been gay.

abzmike

8,241 posts

105 months

Saturday 13th April 2019
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Steph clearly just didn’t like him from the get go, so should have said so earlier. Pretty much everything she said to him was catty and demeaning. For her to get so cross about the annulment papers under her pillow as very ironic.

Frank7

6,619 posts

86 months

Saturday 13th April 2019
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g3org3y said:
Dick fingers could have been hilarious but he made it unfunny.

He was well meaning and his heart was in the right place. He just lacked any kind of the charisma or confidence that women (especially Steph's type) go for. I can see why on paper it could have been a match, but half an hour of them together in a room would have proven otherwise.

All his friends were women which was a little unusual. Clearly been Friendzoned many many times. I don't want to do a Welshbeef here but he quite easily could have been gay.
When they were in Seville, Steph said that they had had a bit of a barney, and she’d slept in another room.
I was hoping against hope that he’d got a tad wasted on Rioja, brushed his teeth, and crept into bed, and had a crack at her, surely on honeymoon it would have been appropriate?
But he’d probably been caught cheating at Ludo.

Driver101

14,376 posts

120 months

Saturday 13th April 2019
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I don't think we saw the worst of Steph. His conversation with her mum makes me think we never got to see one of her really bad mood swings.

RacerMike

4,192 posts

210 months

Sunday 14th April 2019
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Don’t really get why Steph is getting such a bad rap on here. Jonathan was so wet, he’d make even the most tragically romantic stereotype look like a dick. He genuinely encompassed every cliche of ‘how not to get the girl’ and then created a tonne more afterwards. She was near enough telling him what to say at points and he still didn’t get it.

And that’s what I don’t get. Literally, any number of people in the production team would realise they were totally incompatible if they’d have spent 5mins with either of them. I would have said banter, cynicism and tequila are Steph’s 3 cornerstones of a relationship. Johnathan were snakes and ladders, his and hers T Shirts and amateur poetry.

NuckyThompson

1,570 posts

167 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Anyone been watching this season.

Owen and Michele seem to be a very good match but Dave and that south african woman, he grew on e as the series went on but she seems like shed have been a nightmare regardless of who they matched her with

Composite Guru

2,205 posts

202 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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NuckyThompson said:
Anyone been watching this season.

Owen and Michele seem to be a very good match but Dave and that south african woman, he grew on e as the series went on but she seems like shed have been a nightmare regardless of who they matched her with
I've been watching it.

Yeah the SA woman was a nightmare. Not sure what she was expecting but I don't think the person is out there that she described. Seemed very selfish and set in her ways and could never accept what anyone else wanted to do. That guy was better off without IMO.

Mikebentley

6,034 posts

139 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Wife made me watch this again..........sure she did. The older woman was a hippy dippy nightmare. The bloke was a nice enough sort who clearly wore his heart on his sleeve.

abzmike

8,241 posts

105 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Mikebentley said:
Wife made me watch this again..........sure she did. The older woman was a hippy dippy nightmare. The bloke was a nice enough sort who clearly wore his heart on his sleeve.
He seemed a nice guy, but from the moment he mentioned the prep bag he was doomed... his tattoos sealed his fate. Probably for the best because before long she would have chucked him for something really important like leaving the loo seat up, or not folding the dishtowel the right way.

Hub

6,411 posts

197 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Yep, she was a nightmare. The reaction to the kit bag was mentally irrational. So much for being open minded! We all have our quirks and interests but it isn't fundamental - the 'experts' were clearly disappointed and trying to get that through, but she'd already checked out.

Nice to see the younger couple getting along and surviving lockdown. The sister was a bit of a bh though!

Frank7

6,619 posts

86 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Hub said:
Yep, she was a nightmare. The reaction to the kit bag was mentally irrational. So much for being open minded! We all have our quirks and interests but it isn't fundamental - the 'experts' were clearly disappointed and trying to get that through, but she'd already checked out.

Nice to see the younger couple getting along and surviving lockdown. The sister was a bit of a bh though!
I think that the sister didn’t want to lose her “best friend”, and in common with a lot of us, couldn’t understand how Michelle could marry a guy that she first met on their wedding day.
As for David and Shareen, for me the writing was on the wall on their wedding day, it all looked good, let’s be fair, she looked good, but for all their embracing and loving looks, never once did I see Shareen kiss David on the lips, it was always on the cheek.
He really shot his bolt with that prep bag thing though IMO, you never know when you’ll need a needle and thread, yeah right.
I asked my wife how she would have taken it if she found that I’d had a “prep bag”, she said, “Forget the prep bag, you wouldn’t have got within striking distance if you’d had his tattoos when you first asked if you could buy me a drink.”

Mikebentley

6,034 posts

139 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Full disclosure. I have a couple of large tattoos but you would never see them even in a t shirt. I do though question the sanity of a man who seemed quite meek in many ways to have seemingly recently tattooed his hands.

I wonder if his back story is that when he split with his ex (we saw his adult son) if he just did a midlife crisis thing by doing whatever he wanted as he no longer needed to worry about the wife?

Just my thoughts and I don’t make judgments on heavily tattooed people generally as Ibelieve I can see past them. Again for the record my first tattoo now lasered off I refer to as an act of self harm, it was ill considered when I wasn’t in the best of places. The saving grace was it was on the top of my arm not my hands neck or face.

Driver101

14,376 posts

120 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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I thought the guidance councillor got it right last night when she told the SA woman that she wasn't open minded as she claimed.

I caught a couple of episodes and it was dull this year. Only having two couple didn't help.

abzmike

8,241 posts

105 months

Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Driver101 said:
I thought the guidance councillor got it right last night when she told the SA woman that she wasn't open minded as she claimed.

I caught a couple of episodes and it was dull this year. Only having two couple didn't help.
I think they were rather sytmied by Covid in the weeks both before and after the weddings.. Didn't help the format. But there was never a chance for Davif and Shareen with her attitude... I don't think anything would have pleased her. She should have been filtered out in the selection process, but that seemed very brief compared to previously.