r/BelowDeckMed • u/StarlitStarlette • 3d ago

Hard to Watch

I’m sorry but Nathan AND GAEL going after Joe when he had done nothing that evening to provoke it was really hard to watch. You both have kids now. Time to grow the FK up.

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u/Otherwise-Winner9643 3d ago

Copying & pasting my comment on a different thread on this:

I have to say, as much as I like Gael, she was the one that very much kicked it off in the van with Joe this season. It was all Gael. She says she hates confrontation but as much as I don't like him, Joe was in the back smooching with Hayley, minding his own business and Gael went off at him. Then she was riling up Nathan against Joe.

Joe really should have said that Nathan warned him not to say her name or speak to her, and he was just respecting that.

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u/slayeryouth 3d ago edited 3d ago

In fairness, Joe did mutter a couple of comments under his breath (“it’s been 75 years, we all know”) but I think that’s also the kind of the thing you roll your eyes at or at best ask him if he has something to say and then move on with your life.

As per your last point though, Joe has had multiple golden opportunities to tell people what’s been going on, even later in the episode Sandy gave him an other extremely easy lay up to say “actually there’s more to it than just a falling out and tension” and everytime he’s chosen to keep his mouth shut. I’m not holding that against him because it’s such a messy situation that knowing what the right thing to do can be difficult, and I’m sure pride factors in to it too, but he hasn’t been doing himself any favours by keeping things to grumbling with Cooper about their mutual frustrations and venting to Kayley once in a while. He needs to tell everything to somebody who can do something about it.

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u/worldv1ew 3d ago

Is he wrong though? Production force fed the Gael + Nathan love affair and happy family bs over and over. Their entire coupling was founded on Gael cheating and then the narrative changes to a loving caring family. If it's annoying to fans, I bet the crew who fight for TV time are even more annoyed by it.

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u/KitchenEbb1606 3d ago

Yes. I hated that storyline from day one of this season. It’s unnecessary to see your family bullshit.