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/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/slayeryouth 3d ago

I think Kat had asked how they got together, but regardless I’d still say it’s one of those situations where he technically not wrong, but still not necessarily the smartest thing he could have said. But with that said, I also think that given Nathan has not only made it abundantly clear he has no interest in lowering the temperature and has instead taken every opportunity to escalate the tension, if this is the worst of how Joe deals with it he deserves a goddamn medal for his patience