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Originally Posted by FromBB8

I can understand where you're coming from but Khaled's relationships with Hanah, Marcello and Segun do not strike me as mechanical. And I'd say the same for Ali towards Lily and perhaps Martha.

The annoying thing is it feels like Ali and Khaled had sorted out their issues, but one comment being taken the wrong way has blown everything up, aided by Dean's influence on the pairings.

Sure but that's only looking at those relationships that are being driven by the house atm. How close are they really? We don't know yet, Remember when some were suggesting Khaled was being "fake" (he likely wasn't) and everything felt forced. I think this was part of why. Khaled was helped by Ali's behavior in the longrun because it gave everyone an incentive to check through his exterior behavior for themselves and see if there was anything to that.

I wonder if Lily is going to have a rethink. I don't think she is completely happy with staying in a sidekick, "friend friend" role. Their relationship still seems shallow atm. Khaled I think risks pushing more people to nominate him if he doesn't relax, but it's a much smaller risk because he has multiple people around him to keep him in check. In retrospect, I can see where Izaaz may not have wanted to get too involved with that side of things regarding him, at least at first... after all they're still forced to live together. Martha is harder to examine but I think I agree with Nathan a bit that she is being a bit fake, but it could be fake it til you make it for all we know?