Love is Blind season 7 exams what it means to fall in love…once more. Do appears, cash, and different issues matter in terms of issues of the guts? Or are you able to fall in love with somebody sight unseen? Once more, we’re watching a bunch of hopefuls navigate these questions in season 7 of the sequence. And since we will’t management selves (as evidenced by our season 7 breakdown of episodes 1-6, episodes 7-9, and episodes 10-11), right here is our breakdown of episode 12 of season 7!
1. Did Ramses make the suitable determination by telling Marissa he didn’t wish to go to marry her?
Lizzie: I don’t suppose so. Or, in the long run, he might need made the suitable determination by Marissa, as a result of a person who will let himself be talked out of one thing he was so positive of some days earlier than isn’t somebody she actually needs to marry. However general, it looks like he fumbled the ball as he was attending to the endzone. Positive, they’ve had their points and I wasn’t all too comfortable along with his entire ‘I received’t put on condoms’ spiel, however they appeared to maneuver previous it and Marissa actually, actually cared about him. And he simply …let his worry get in the best way of that. It’s like, when push got here to shove, he forgot what present he’d signed up for.
Lyra: He made the suitable determination for Marissa by saving her future heartbreak from himself. He made the improper determination by fumbling Marissa. It’s like, why did you join this present in case you weren’t prepared for marriage? And sure, Love is Blind season 7 scouted a few of these individuals. That occurs each season. However they nonetheless must signal on the dotted line and agree. And with yearly that passes I really feel like much less and fewer persons are really right here for the method. It’s a social media influencer coaching camp. Downside for Ramses is that he got here out trying just like the worst man of all the season. And it’s his personal fault from begin to end.
2. Watching Marissa mourn the tip of her relationship was painful to look at. Why do you suppose it hit her this difficult?
Lizzie: I feel largely as a result of she felt blindsided. I feel she’s an emotional individual, however she additionally completely didn’t see this coming so she hadn’t ready himself emotionally for it. She put her belief in Ramses and he completely let her down, and I feel that’s the half that hurts essentially the most — that she thought he was totally different and issues ended up the identical manner they all the time had for her.
I’ll simply add, watching this lady cry …I’ll go to battle for her. The place will we march?
Lyra: Admittedly, I believed Marissa ought to’ve seen this coming. The cameras have made it clear to us that Ramses wasn’t that into it as soon as they obtained out of the pods. However when Marissa mentioned that he obtained emotional selecting their marriage ceremony music, that’s once I knew that there are tons of excellent moments that we missed between these two. Moments that might’ve solidified their relationship and made it much less like Marissa was ignoring the warning indicators for funsies. No, Ramses offered this romance to her. After which he pulled the rug out proper beneath her as a result of she believed of their journey. She dedicated to it with love as the ultimate cease. Ramses didn’t.
3. Had been you stunned that solely Ashley/Tyler and Taylor/Garrett made it to the altar?
Lizzie: Within the context of the previous few episodes, no, contemplating the place we began, sure. I believed we have been gonna have so many extra {couples}. However the previous few episodes saved displaying cracks in all of the foundations, so actually …not that stunned. Shocked that Ashley and Tyler tied the knot, although. I believed the entire child factor was going to be a dealbreaker, particularly as a result of we nonetheless don’t know what that scenario is definitely like.
Lyra: I used to be stunned Ashley and Tyler made it to the altar. Taylor and Garrett? Not a lot. They’re the type that can go to remedy, determine their stuff out, and be completely wonderful. Ashley and Tyler alternatively, their relationship is constructed on lies. Both straight up lies or lies of omission. Due to the entire infants drama, he didn’t inform her. After which for weeks on finish there have been rumors and leaks from individuals claiming that these aren’t sperm donation infants. These are his kids that he has frolicked with. However perhaps I’m improper. I didn’t reside this expertise and we positive as heck solely noticed perhaps 10% of what really occurred on Love is Blind season 7.
4. Did any of those {couples} make you really feel issues? In any respect on this episode 12 finale?
Lizzie: Sure, I actually preferred Taylor and Garrett. They didn’t have all that a lot drama this season, however they felt like probably the most practical {couples} we’ve seen on this present for some time. From the start, they felt like a pair that might make sense collectively, and even they remarked on it on their marriage ceremony wows. So I feel they have been fortunate to seek out one another, and I admit I obtained just a little emotional watching Garrett and Taylor’s dad. Dads all the time get me, man.
Lyra: I feel the vows in episode 12 obtained to me. Taylor and Garrett genuinely seem like they love and like one another. This isn’t simply to succeed in the tip line and show a degree or that they did the present proper. They really discovered one another. And don’t even get me began on the laughing. That proper there’s an ease with one another the place even within the largest moments of their lives, they’ll chortle collectively. That’s actual. As for Ashley and Tyler, although I wasn’t feeling a lot for them, I did get the feels when he cried seeing her stroll down the aisle. There’s one thing there with them. And so long as they get it, that’s all that issues.
5. Do you miss the drama? As a result of this episode was missing in it.
Lizzie: I don’t normally want drama in marriage ceremony episodes. I’d find it irresistible if this present have been just a little bit about love too! Although I admit it felt a bit anticlimactic, maybe as a result of we obtained SO MUCH drama this season, or at the very least fallout of drama.
Lyra: I miss it. I do know the entire level of this present is about discovering the one. However it’s additionally actuality TV. It’s a present. It’s right here to entertain. And I wasn’t entertained. Not less than if there’s no drama, give me one thing to cheer for or get emotionally invested in. I wasn’t emotionally invested right here. The weddings have been cute. However we’re not right here for cute, are we?
6. How does this season finale evaluate to season 6?
Lizzie: I really feel like this the most effective season and it would maybe be among the many weakest if not the weakest? I’ll take Season 6 over this. And the primary few seasons, completely. The factor is, for all of the drama, we didn’t really see drama! And I felt like there have been only a few actual connections. It was only a dangerous mixture.
Lyra: Season 7 of Love is Blind is by far the weakest for me. The present has persistently offered me on capturing the moments between individuals falling in love and being examined with the realities of actual life. However season 7 didn’t ship on that. Half the time we didn’t see the place fights began, why breakups occurred, and even the robust emotional moments that might’ve made us perceive why these breakups hit the forged so exhausting. It was lackluster. Interval.
7. What does Love is Blind must do higher in future seasons?
Lizzie: Make contestants don’t outsmart them they usually really get footage of the problems as they happen? This was a brilliant disappointing season as a result of we saved discovering out about issues that occurred off-camera afterwards, in conversations that felt a bit staged. That’s not what actuality TV is about. I wish to watch the factor occur so I can have opinions about it? In any other case I’ll watch scripted TV.
Lyra: I agree with every little thing that Lizzie mentioned. I watch actuality TV for the “candid” moments. Any time that we obtained a battle/breakup, it felt staged. It felt like they rang up the cameras and requested them to come back. The cameras shouldn’t must be referred to as. They need to be there. It is a present. And in case you don’t have any content material, I would as nicely watch scripted TV, as a result of at the very least there I do know I’ll get a extra coherent storyline. Hopefully. So for season 8 and all of the spin-offs, Love is Blind must create a story and comply with it. Construct it, information it, and don’t let the viewer really feel like they’ve solely watched 10% of their journey to like.
The season 7 reunion of Love is Blind airs October thirtieth at 6 p.m. PT/ 9 p.m. ET.
Love is Blind season 7 is out there on Netflix.