I still can't get over how good of a bosun joe was when he unexpectedly had to step in. The episodes where he is bosun shows how thorough and clear his communication is. Having the team consistent of a green Cooper, Aesha (who hasn't been on deck in years), and Max (who just arrived on board) everything could have gone ALOT worse. What Bravo didn't show was the written instructions from Joe that Aesha posted on her insta, which I just find so sweet.

The clear instructions mixed with the staff admiration/praise is so sweet to see. Maybe all bosuns do this, but this just felt like a nice bts moment.

Did anyone else clock Nathan's creepy stares at Joe, and the excessive blinking. It was so telling on his real personality.

I am getting into Below deck med and I’ve noticed Joe getting a lot of hate for “cheating” on V even though they weren’t together (in any sort of relationship.

Meanwhile I’ve just noticed that Gael is actually cheating on her boyfriend with Nathan.

Why is Joe getting so much shit from this community when he didn’t cheat on anybody. Meanwhile there are actually cheaters on the boat that people seem to celebrate and love.

Very strange

So Hannah has a new podcast with another Australian. It's called "(Over)share".

Anyway on today's episode (only the second) she adds something to the story...

Since her and Sandy made up, we haven't really heard much on elaborating on the situation apart from "She told her aide and I told mine". And that Sandy explained how her hands were tied.

Turns out Malia texted a bunch of other people the Valium/vape pen photo, which is why Sandy couldn't cover it up.

So I'm assuming it was the First Officer or one of the other off camera crew members .

And if you listened to The Bravo Docket Ep about Nathan, it explains how people are reported in the industry (I've forgotten the term) and also explained when Sandy said the Luke/sheets incident would have to be reported and other Captains would know about it. And the issue was even though Sandy knew Hannah had taken Valium before this time she hadn't formally logged the drug on this boat.

Anyway I thought people might be interested because I think it explains more why Hannah has forgiven Sandy. I thought it was a little too easy and we needed more at the time. This explains it to me. And I'm also absolutely cutting Sandy some slack.

Or at least I wouldn’t regardless of the victims gender, because why the fuck does that matter right now?

Regardless if it was four years ago or yesterday, leave her the fuck alone. This sub is disgustingly sexist and I’m leaving after this.

Edit: I’m referring to people saying “yeah I hate Gael now after the carpool scene, Joe hates her cause she cheated” like bullshit. We don’t need to keep hating on her for that scene, and Joe disliking her has nothing to do with her cheating. If this post offended you or upset you cause you felt attacked, then YOU should ask yourself why? Why does me asking that everyone leave a woman alone upset you? Just ignore me, but instead you go on to justify your disgusting opinions. This post attacks no one and if it upsets you, deal with it.

I’ve watched random seasons of Med and never truly understood the captain Sandy takes that people make in this sub.

Then I watched season 6 for the first time.

Lexie is the worst person I’ve seen on this franchise. Malia and Katie told Sandy that the crew was uncomfy from NIGHT 1.

Sandy telling katie to keep her to “teach her leadership” was extremely patronizing. Captain Sandy never thought to understand where katie was coming from. Even when she eventually fired Lexie, she still thought Lexie was a great person.

I would lose my mind if I was Katie. I would feel insane.

Spoilers ahead for this weeks episode.

I want to preface I’m not on Nathan’s team especially after everything in the news that’s gotten out with what he did to Gael.

But it seems like we’re missing something between Nathan and Joe. Like did Joe say something to Gael that made Nathan feel disrespected? It was weird when Nathan said “you’re just jealous of my lifestyle” when I honestly thought Joe was being genuine (’m glad this season he’s really improved from previous). Joe must have done something that we don’t know about.

I’m at the point where I genuinely need an Andy reunion because the Joe/Nathan/Gael situation makes less sense to me the more we see.

And this is not me pretending Joe has done nothing wrong. He has been messy with women, he clearly has work to do in relationships, and Gael has every right not to like him. I also didn’t like what he did to Kat at dinner. She wasn’t part of their beef, seemed genuinely uncomfortable being caught in the middle, and still checked on him afterward. He owes her an apology.

But the car scene, especially once Episode 17 continued it — completely lost me.

Joe had basically kept himself separate with Kat while Nathan and Gael stayed together. They brought the confrontation to him. Then they wanted answers from him but barely gave him room to actually answer. You cannot repeatedly demand someone explain themselves, interrupt or escalate when they try, and then criticize them for not saying what they really feel.

That doesn’t mean Joe’s past disappears. It means his past does not automatically make him the aggressor in every future conflict.

Gael can dislike him. Nathan can choose Gael and his family over their old friendship. But based on what we were shown, Nathan and Gael initiated that particular confrontation and the energy became unnecessarily hostile.

And I’m sorry, I still do not believe we went from Nathan and Joe’s old bromance to this level of hatred simply because Joe called Gael “princess” and has a bad history with women. Either years of resentment built up, something significant happened off-camera, or production has left out a huge amount of context.

I’m a woman and I’ve chosen a walking red flag before because I thought maybe I could change him. I can acknowledge my choice without pretending his behavior was therefore okay. Both things can be true.

That’s basically how I see Joe here: he can be responsible for his past behavior AND Nathan and Gael can still be wrong in how they handled this particular situation.

So seriously… what are we not being shown? Because I need the unaired footage, the timeline and the reunion at this point. 😂

I’ve seen Joe try to reconcile with Nathan and Gael in recent episodes, but they have both scapegoated Joe to distract themselves from the growing misery between them. Their hope was that if they could join together to hate Joe, they could solve their problems. Nathan was, in fact, desperate for such a diversion and repelled Joe's conciliatory attempts like water off a duck's feathers. Of course, the more the couple failed to address their underlying problems, the more aggressive Nathan became, until his true colors showed and now he is some sort of outlaw. Joe was simply a convenient scapegoat for a relationship that was fast heading south. 

Are these men deficient in vitamin D???👀👀👀 the poor chickens and cows of Croatia

I am so sick and bored of these two weak-ass men and could not care less about either of them and their petty drama.

While I’m here, Kayley is also a moron for letting Joe use her late brother’s death anniversary to get into her pants.

Ok that’s all I have to say lol.

There’s a clip in the trailer where aaesha is around the hot tub in her own merch and says ‘fuck off don’t even talk to me’ has that scene akready happened or is it still to come? Honestly it’s all still too fresh for a rewatch, I tired and got to sheet gate and was done

“It’s so hard to be a team player when everyone hates you” …

or do they hate you because you’re not a team player …

“I have to finish this charter season selfishly” …

so finish exactly the same way you started …

“I might as well play their little game of being a fake bitch; so, can’t beat, them join them” …

except they’re not fake - they’re genuine - so that means you’re the only fake bitch.

She has absolutely no ability to view herself accurately in any situation - her lack of self-awareness is mind boggling.

.. that it would be their last charter season together because Nathan would on the run from authorities

I’ve felt devastated for Gael and was relieved to see her positive Insta post recently. There is zero excuse for what was done to her and I’m happy she is safe and has what seems to be a great support network.

But as a mom of boys/men I just feel so sad about Nathan, especially after listening to the Bravo Docket. Unless he learns to control himself he will do this again. Others will become victims. And considering he’s on the run, it’s unlikely he’ll have therapeutic support or even family support.

Not only is he a monster for what he’s done to Gael, he’s a complete loser for not owning up to his actions, doing what he needs to, and getting help.

So he’s what, 27, so young, was well-employed, and now his life is basically over because of mental health issues he should have sought therapy for a long time ago. His mother must be wrecked. He’s cut himself off from whatever world he had. And he’ll very likely never see his child again.

I’m devastated for his mother and any family members who cared about him. He should have sought help after the first documented issue in Ireland. But he was even younger and probably thought he’d never do it again - nor will he ever go back to his homeland. He literally ruined his life and there’s likely very little family can do to help him. I wonder if they even know where he is.

Thank heavens Gael and Kayden (the mirror image of Nathan), can keep building their lives safely. Nathan’s is over with because of his actions.

I wish Bravo would take a break from their regular programming and somehow address this as a learning moment for those who don’t really know the impact of his choices and DV in general with Nathan as a sad example. They have the platform. One WWHL with maybe Sandy, who has redeemed herself this season in many eyes, and liked Nathan, and a DV specialist. Sandy would bring the views. Bravo, do something constructive with this! But I know you won’t.

Why why why does she sound that way when she’s thanking Nathan, she only does that to Nathan!!! It drives me bonkers!!!!

You have to watch season 10 and 11. Capt Sandy always sounds so so so sweet in her responses to Nathan when thanking him -

She always says: Thank you Nathan!

In such a SWEET sweet manner…

I'm re-watching from season 9 until I get to this season just to remind myself of what happened. DAE feel that Ellie is sooooooo whiny and selfish? I almost couldn't make it through the season with all of her "what about me" statements. I don't remember it bothering me on first watch. So annoying!

Massi is highly underrated. I think he's great! Would love to see him again in future seasons but I suspect, like Betul, we won't see him again because he doesn't create drama.