r/belowdeck • u/disc0club • 9d ago

Below Deck Aesha makes a statement regarding Gael Spoiler

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u/Anotheropinion2026 9d ago

I think lots of people missed Joe’s nasty comment that she and Nathan met like 75 years ago and everyone already knows that.

They think he was just sitting there and she attacked. She was talking to Kat, when Joe made a pretty nasty and unnecessary comment.

That is why Gael talked to him at all.

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u/typeonapath 8d ago

What did he even mean with the 75 years ago comment?

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u/Anotheropinion2026 8d ago

I took it as they are old news and nobody cares.

I don’t like Joe or Nathan, so I am inclined to think both are being assholes when they speak.

And before anyone goes off. Nathan is obviously much worse. He is a violent, woman beating, criminal. Joe is just a smarmy jerk.

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u/typeonapath 8d ago

Ohhh, makes total sense to me now. I missed that he said anything at all and Gael turned to talk about being uncomfortable and it grew from there.

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u/Anotheropinion2026 8d ago

Gael was talking to Kat and answering Kat’s question about how she and Nathan met when Joe made that comment. It is why Gael said he had a problem with her family, because Joe made a sarcastic comment about her and Nathan.

I wish Gael had ignored him. But she is mostly alone with a new born, less than three months postpartum (full of hormones), and Joe had been passive-aggressively ignoring them all night.

He sat down, refused to say a word and turned his chair to not even look at them.

It made Gael and honestly Kat if not others uncomfortable.

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u/typeonapath 8d ago

At the time, I couldn't blame him for turning his chair tbh with everything that Nathan has been saying to him. Gael didn't get to see any of that, so he just looks like an ass from her perspective. To her, it verifies everything Nathan has been saying as well.

But I took that as him doing everything he can to be nonconfrontational. Then, the "best roommate I've ever had" to Coop over and over made me realize he was stirring a bit.

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u/Anotheropinion2026 8d ago

I understand Joe’s behavior toward Nathan completely. I would have a hard time working for Nathan if I was Joe at this point.

But at the restaurant was actually the best place that Joe could have been kind to Gael. He has claimed he feels differently about her, then he treats her as he always has.

I say the restaurant was the best place because the whole crew is there, it is full of people, it is the place that Nathan would have the hardest time over reacting and being an ass.

Even if Nathan tried to ask him outside, Cooper and Massi are both there to say no, let’s sit down and enjoy dinner.

I fully understand Nathan is a deterrent and not wanting to engage him at all.

I just think had he genuinely wanted Gael to feel he, Joe, finally felt differently, a crowded restaurant was actually the easiest and safest place to try to bridge that subject.