Owen Paciuszko takes on the belief that all successful first dates must create some special connection between the couple:
[First dates are] awkward and strange for the most part. It's two people finding their way around one another, trying to figure each other out, maybe you won't hit it out of the park on that first date, but unless you utterly despise one another should you discount a second date because there weren't any 'sparks'? Is life really too short to not give someone a second chance?
Ellen Waddell complicates the narrative:
Now I do believe there is such a thing that draws people together like an invisible magnet powered by the almighty waves of Neptune himself but I believe it is part of the process of evolution. We have all felt that intangible fire-o-loin’s lust with someone we don’t know all that well, just as we have all felt that sad damp squid-o-loin’s no lust with someone who we really want to fancy but just don’t and this could be because mother nature wants us all to have a powerful race of super babies.
