I think the problem I have with it, in the end, is that GL is ultimately too carefully constructed for me to buy the romances as romances. I mean, I saw visual cues, like you did. It's not like I was flummoxed that they ended up engaged, it's just...well, it was basically about the "idea of love" and less about love as it happens between two people, messiness and awkwardness that comes as part and parcel.

Nia and Simon were always slightly too compatible, slightly too "SOULMATE HAS APPEARED" for me to be invested in them. It came across as plastic to me.