Far and away, episode MVPs were Chase and his homeboy, Charlie. Loved the scene of Chase silently snacking while you can see Charlie eyeing the food from his backpack.
I hate, hate, hate when during a Zoom reunion everyone is talking, screaming, crying, and screeching over each other. I feel like I missed a lot of what happened with the Gary/Daisy/Colin "triangle."
Colin is definitely less hot to me - although if he told Daisy about the other woman, and the other woman about Daisy, and both were fine with it, that's on them. And if what Colin was saying was truth and Daisy pulled back and wouldn't commit, well, I guess that's on her now. I'm not surprised that the relationship was toxic. I hate to agree with Gary but he wasn't wrong when he said that Daisy was fine and dandy with interrupting him and Colin but if they attempted to say something over her, she lost her shit. And despite her denial to Andy that she was/had ever been in love with Colin, I think she was lying. I think she's still in love with him and that's why she was so emotional and broke down several times.
As far as Daisy shouldering the blame for Gary making moves on her, no, that's on Gary. He shouldn't have done that. However, Daisy laughed and giggled and cuddled up to him and even kissed him. She was sending mixed signals all over the place. Unless the production monkeys were up to shenanigans and didn't show it, she should have told Gary very firmly that she did not appreciate nor want him to do such things and he was to stop it immediately. And if he didn't, report him to Glenn. I understand how Colin would feel uncomfortable and be confused with Daisy laughing it off like it's no big deal.
And Gary was clearly stunned and hurt by Mads being Gary this season. She had/has no time for his b.s. - Daisy needs to check in with Mads on how to do that because that's how she should have been treating Gary's advances.
I did find it interesting that Gary did not watch the season (if this was from part 1, I apologize, I watched them back-to-back). Chase was 100% correct in his advice to Gary that maybe watching would give him some self-awareness. I'm glad that Chase got his due about being a hard worker and good deckhand. I think Gary probably is a good first mate/lead deckhand/bosun whatever when there are no cameras around. He does seem very concerned about the guest experience. And I would imagine that Glenn would not work with on a regular and permanent basis if he wasn't good at his job. Makes me wonder what might have happened if Gary had been on the boat from day 1 of this season.
Interesting that Chase and Ileisha met up multiple times after the season ended - and presumably after she and her boyfriend broke up. Apparently so did Alex and Mads - although Alex now has a girlfriend he's not too jazzed about.
Did anyone else think that Colin and Ileisha were flirting? I didn't. I thought they were cute together and had a nice chemistry but I never got flirtatious. Maybe Daisy was trying to throw more shade at Colin?
Will be interesting to see if Daisy and/or Colin returns for future seasons.
ETA: Andy is the worst host ever. Not only could he not control the participants who were talking over each other but he interrupted Colin's explanation of how the sitch with him and Daisy started and how it was going at the start of the season and was never able to go back to it and finish. Thanks, Andy -- you dumbass.
Edited July 19, 2023 by psychoticstatencG1vNJzZmien6fCrr%2BNqamipZWptq6x0WeaqKVfqbyxtcJoaG1oY2iBbr%2BPbZxqcV2nsra6yKilZqiRp8Fufo4%3D