It didn't take long to identify one of the more polarizing characters on season 8 of Love Is Blind. The first batch of episodes of the Netflix dating series dropped on Friday, February 14, with Dave Bettenburg catching our attention with his pods pick-up line,

"I think there's a certain heartfelt-ness to this season that maybe we haven't seen in others. There's a certain sensitivity to everybody in the pods this season," Nick Lachey tells PEOPLE of the Minneapolis-based cast Love Is Blind season 8 is almost here — and Nick and Vanessa Lachey want fans to know it's different than past seasons.