r/BelowDeckDownUnder

It seems like even if they did have 8 people to help fillet the fish it still would have looked awkward right? They didn’t have a cart to roll out so it would have either been (1) everyone walking out with the food and then going directly to the bar trying to fillet the fish in one small space or (2) everyone placing the food in front of their guest and then leaning over them trying to fillet them.

I feel like this is very different from going to a restaurant where they have an entire cart for this purpose and it is typically done for a few people.

It seems that whenever Ben gets himself into trouble he feels the need to reassert his position/dominance and takes it out on others. And again, Daisy got the blowback. Filet eight fish?? Seriously? Any Chef knows perfectly well that tableside service is not a “crack out eight of them in minutes” for a novice. And he didn’t come up to help?? He came up and served the whole-salted fish before. What changed? I’ve liked Ben in seasons past, but this season he has way too much baggage and is too easily triggered. Not the season for him to be on-air. Regardless…leave the crew alone, Ben!

She’s 100% wrong however Eddie did the exact same thing. It’s always a problem when a woman does it but never when a man does it.

And why doesn’t Ben have more responsibility considering the fact that he’s a head of department?

I can't believe Ben wanted her to do that....that's something a chef should do, couldn't see Kate or Hannah filet the stinky fish with all those bones. If Ben wanted to serve it like that, he should have been out there doing it, then Ellie says on after show "it's easy to filet a fish" would've liked to see her do it. Ben was being a jerk.

After this weeks episode I’ve seen a plethora of people trying to push this narrative that all the junior stews outrank Ellie.

This doesn’t make sense bc all lowest ranking roles on a yacht have 1 stripe. The galley hand/chef assistant role would also be a 1 stripe position since it is entry level.

That would mean they are all on the same rank since they are all at the bottom of their departments.

They don’t outrank Ellie, but Ellie doesn’t outrank them either.

Don’t get me wrong, Ellie’s not my fav either, but this whole rank argument makes no sense and just seems like people are pushing it because they can’t stand Ellie

Compared to her other season with her being a bvtch to the third stew I thought she started this season off redeeming.

But oh no the conniving and manipulative real Ellie will always find a way to show up.

Ellie is just an extremely insecure person who hides behind fitness and makeup. She’s not a a stable coworker , she loves drama, and she needs a man to validate her.

I do think Jaoa was wrong and I do feel bad about the cake. However, all that Blonde dye is making her delusional.

I happen to be re-watching the first season of Med. Ben is the chef, Hannah is the chief stew. On the final charter, he tells her he wants to serve a whole fish (just one!) And she looks at him and says "I don't know what to do with a whole fish!" And he just says he'll do it! Again, that was one fish. Not eight.

I didn’t know losing your stripes for bad behavior was a thing. After seeing Jenna’s stripe be taken away for yelling at other crew members, it occurred to me that Barbie should’ve lost her stripes for the way she yell and swore at Fraser. I think Barbie’s behavior in that past season was much worse than Jenna’s.

He’s such a bvtch why are you crying bro u did the exact same thing to her!!!! And then even played into making her jealous with Barbie !!??

And on top of that ur there to do a job why are you so immature and incapable of being professional like ewww his mental is a such a turnoff. He’s fine ash but don’t give it if u cant take it. And then gonna go cry to captain plzz.. and he lied about showing Ben the message. He just is a bvtch who cannot stand on business.

He’s selling out right before our eyes. From real captain to television persona smh

I have loved her since the first episode. She just is a great person and extremely hard worker. She’s really an inspiration and motivates me to wanna do better lol.

Obviously she’s not bravo messy but I would totally love to watch her on my screen anytime.

Ben approaching Captain to propose promoting Ellie to Sous Chef? Is this rage bait? I literally yelled "F*ck off!!" at my tv 🤣

I was so disgusted to see Ben sleeping in the guest cabins without bedding on. How is this allowed? Surely its not hygienic? I know the guests will have bedding over it when they sleep there, but still thats so gross. I personally would never sleep on a bed without linen, especially a bed that has thousands of guests sleep in it. As a guest i wouldn't be happy either if i found out Ben was all over the bed without sheets before i slept in it🤢

This is the angriest I’ve ever been at an episode because Eddys behaviour is scary and emotionally abusive.

I’ve been commenting and seen other commenters. I have not seen one person say Jenna was right to behave the way she did. Every defender of Jenna is just saying that, it wasn’t just Jenna at fault and that the demotion seems to be eddy related more so than her drunk and destructive behaviour.

ALL Jenna did before the tantrum was play two guys. And the “victim” played her first, except it was far worse because he was very gross about it. She is not an angel here but she’s just doing exactly what was done to her.

Eddys timeline to Jenna of scary behaviour that seems like misunderstandings or fuck ups, but is more so scary intense behaviour

- when she’s interested he expresses interest back and they kiss. Immediately after he’s not shy of expressing behind her back he would dump her in a second. Also lets another girl clearly in competition compare and pass comments encouraging competition for himself.

- Jenna moves onto Ben because Eddy is mixed signals but then they are interested in each other again so he wants to take her on a date

- in that whole date it might seem just like a bad date, but he did not listen to her and everytime she stated “I like this” “I like to wear this” he corrected her and decided what answers he wanted to hear himself. So he basically went on a date and told this woman “I do not care about your likes and interests if your dating me I’m going to decide them for you”. That is INTENSE after one date. It seems harmless at the start of him joking with her. If she dates this man how real will it be when he is deciding her activities and what she likes to wear and do. That wasn’t a sign of going to fast that was a very very big controlling red flag

- Jenna isn’t happy with date and could have been nicer about it. Also really fucking sneaky with the kiss with Ben then cuddle with Eddy. But she BROKE it off with Eddy after.

- Jenna is SINGLE now or was single anyway and just informed Eddy she’s not interested. The text was sly but she didn’t get a response. Immediately she’s probably like fuck that was embarrassing. But then he shows the text to Ben. Now Ben knows and soon the whole boat knows

- because Jenna was a little messy with men on the boat which is completely normal for the men to do to women it had a snowball affect of her being in a mood about the situation to everyone isolating her for said mood. While Eddy who started spreading the drama sits there laughing with Barbie in her face.

- Jenna continues to have a mood, which was a bit much but I can see why considering all of the above and now suddenly having the whole crew seem annoyed at her

-nobody wants to engage with her, she fights with Ben and she’s messy drunk now. They get back to the place and she’s going nuts. She should have gone to bed and not approached Eddy, but I’m not fucking surprised that she went mental because guess what Eddy did. Lied to her fucking face about showing Ben the texts. So he’s just gaslighting and angry drunk woman knowing she will react more.

- asks for a hug the next day- doesn’t get hug so reports to captain. I actually think he wanted the hug because he got nowhere flirting with Barbie. So now Jenna has ruined his time on the boat and because of the boat romance and drama he fueled he wants to take the whole team down with her. Now Jason uses that while demoting Jenna teaching her the lesson of “don’t hurt boys feelings” instead of “don’t drink too much on charter and have aggressive destructive behaviour.

So now everyone feels sorry for poor Eddy who let’s not forget purposely sat by himself at the beaching hoping it would get him attention.

Jenna being demoted should have been strictly about her destructive and aggressive behaviour. The fact that Eddy was brought up in the conversation of her being demoted is absolutely vile. I am so so mad. I don’t agree it should have been a demotion, but whatever punishment she got it should have been strictly to do with her behaviour.
So because of Eddy now Jenna probably has in her head that the romances affected her work. Instead of her actual behaviour which is a piss poor message from the captain. Seriously fuck that I am actually so fucking annoyed.

And yes Jenna took responsibility and said she would take her punishment. Eddys on WWHL laughing at shoving the camera man. I love an equal gendered world!!!

Edit: none of my post is excusing any of bens behaviour. I commented below reasons why. But I am firm that my lack of comments on his involvement isn’t excusing anything he has done.