S09.E07: Chain Reaction

[snarts]

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To avoid being stranded at sea, Capt. Sandy must make a critical decision that could significantly impact the charter season; Aesha attempts to broker a truce and struggles on the bow lead Capt. Sandy to question the bosun's decisionmaking.

Airs 7.15.2024

[ZettaK]

According to Bravo promos, Iain and Jono will be the guests on Watch What Happens Live which will air after tonight's episode.

Edited July 16 by ZettaK

[snarts]

Anyone else wondering if Ellie purposely mixed up Sandy's laundry? It was awfully suspicious how she pulled everything out of the dryer, folded it & then had Bri to deliver it. She's such a petty pick me girl. That bodysuit was hideous  

All that said, could Sandy be a bigger bitch about the laundry? 

[ZettaK]

1 hour ago, snarts said:

Anyone else wondering if Ellie purposely mixed up Sandy's laundry? It was awfully suspicious how she pulled everything out of the dryer, folded it & then had Bri to deliver it. She's such a petty pick me girl. That bodysuit was hideous  

All that said, could Sandy be a bigger bitch about the laundry? 

It was suspicious.

[SHERMDOG]

Dear GOD!!! What in HELL was that contraption that Elle wore!? It was horrendous! Just because you have the body for certain things doesn't mean you should wear them!! Lol!

I don't know. I just don't like her. Shecthinks very high of herself!!!

JMO!!

[Chatty Cake]

Elle looked ridiculous in that body suit. It made me think part of a Halloween costume was missing . I had to laugh at Iain flirting with her and also Aesha stopping Joe from encouraging either of the stewardesses. 
Sandy usually annoys me but I’d expect the right laundry to end up in the Captains quarters. I also wouldn’t put it past Elle to do a switch in the laundry. Aesha should split the two up. I don’t see Sandy turning on Aesha the way she does to everyone else but it could happen if her team doesn’t step up. 
I felt a little bad for Joe getting a scolding from Sandy. Iain should have told her who was lead deckhand and maybe weighed in with her on who to choose in the first place since the guy doesn’t seem to care all that much about his job.
I didn’t watch WWH but I saw Iain and I think with a better haircut, his head doesn’t look as prominent.

Edited July 16 by Chatty Cake

[sugarbaker design]

Bri needs to get a better laundry system.  Girl is unorganized.

Ellie reveals new levels of assholery every week.  I can't seem to find any redeeming values in this nasty, self-centered bitch.  I hope all the male deck hands stay away from her and she contracts the female version of blue balls.

While it wasn't cool the guest had to miss their flight, why did they schedule the end of the cruise and the flight home so close together.  Shit does happen!

[iMonrey]

14 hours ago, snarts said:

All that said, could Sandy be a bigger bitch about the laundry? 

No, and what really cracked me up was her saying "I am busy . . . dealing with the wind!" While docked. Um, how exactly are you "dealing" with the wind, Sandy? 

2 hours ago, sugarbaker design said:

Ellie reveals new levels of assholery every week.  I can't seem to find any redeeming values in this nasty, self-centered bitch. 

Credit where it's due, she was nice enough not to just tell Iain to bug off with all the cringe-worthy flirting. And blowing on her hair in the car.

There is more than one tender on the yacht, the little one could have been used to ferry the guests who had flights scheduled to shore. 

Iain looked ten times better with short hair on WWHL. And he almost won me over by calling out Sandy for micromanaging. (Can you believe Sandy wrote a book, called "Be the Calm or Be the Storm"? The irony.)

But then . . . Andy asked if Iain or Jono were still friends with any BD cast members and Iain said . . . ASHTON. Ugh.

[Baltimore Betty]

1 hour ago, iMonrey said:

There is more than one tender on the yacht, the little one could have been used to ferry the guests who had flights scheduled to shore. 

I don't think I knew that but we know there is a fair amount of manufactured drama on every episode...those guests weren't missing any flights because if so they would have been on the phone or laptops frantically trying to rebook not casually sitting around waiting to disembark.

Ellie is pretty and has a great body, she needs to be the one that all the guys fall all over and vie for her attention, sadly it didn't happen and now she is pissed. The one guy that flirted with her (Iain) wasn't good enough so her ego is bruised and Bri is in the cross hairs and nothing Aesha can say will help that situation.

I figured out Bri's speech pattern/accent, it is as if the Kardashian's were suddenly from South Africa.

 

 

[Chatty Cake]

While Ellie does have a good figure, her head has a slightly long and almost odd shape. I’m surprised she was so put off that Iain likes her. Maybe she doesn’t realize that they are both of the long head.

[meep.meep]

3 hours ago, iMonrey said:

 

There is more than one tender on the yacht, the little one could have been used to ferry the guests who had flights scheduled to shore. 

 

It took them two hours using the big boat.  Taking the tiny tender would have been more like four hours.

They all had phones, and I presume travel agents.  They just didn't want to show anyone rebooking their flights.

[SG429]

14 minutes ago, meep.meep said:

They all had phones, and I presume travel agents.  They just didn't want to show anyone rebooking their flights.

Probably with some production shenanigans assistance as well.

[Shrek]

4 hours ago, iMonrey said:

No, and what really cracked me up was her saying "I am busy . . . dealing with the wind!" While docked. Um, how exactly are you "dealing" with the wind, Sandy? 

 

Pretty sure she said "I'm dealing with wind". 😉

[iMonrey]

4 hours ago, Baltimore Betty said:

I don't think I knew that but we know there is a fair amount of manufactured drama on every episode...those guests weren't missing any flights because if so they would have been on the phone or laptops frantically trying to rebook not casually sitting around waiting to disembark.

Well there was an overhead shot of the yacht and you could clearly see the small tender on the back. It's what they used to go out and tie and buoy to the anchor chain. And Sandy had initially said she was going to use the bigger tender to take the guests back before she found out the battery was dead. 

Now, there might have been some safety issue preventing them from ferrying the guests in the smaller tender and obviously all eight of them wouldn't have fit with all their luggage. But there must have been discussions we didn't see, and yeah the guests probably just shrugged it off and rebooked their flights. Nobody seemed upset about it.

[TV Glotzer]

I love that Ellie got all decked out in her hoochie catsuit to outshine Bri and nobody paid any attention to her except creepy Iain. 

[howiveaddict]

9 hours ago, iMonrey said:

No, and what really cracked me up was her saying "I am busy . . . dealing with the wind!" While docked. Um, how exactly are you "dealing" with the wind, Sandy? 

It is her favorite show.  "Wind!"

I call Iain "Neck".   His neck is wider is than his head.  

I figured Ellie purposely mixed up the laundry too.  And she was so snotty during the team meeting.

[aqusdealer]

With all that wind the small tender would have been slow, hazardous in the waves  and probably cause all the guests to get seasick.

[ZettaK]

Iain said on Watch What Happens Live that it was Sandy's fault (!) the battery drained.

Joe is good at promoting himself, but he failed at his job. I guess his "experience" didn't help. He seems more interested in flirting. 

I didn't think that Ellie's catsuit was fitting for the restaurant/club they went. It's obvious she is promoting herself to get more followers on social media, and OnlyFans. And endorsements. Also, the place was almost empty. Was it too early? 

We were left with the cliffhanger (not really) of if Sandy's wise piloting will lead the boat successfully through the other boats.

The charter will take the guests to Hydra island on the next episode.

 

Edited July 17 by ZettaK

[Zaffy]

Info of the day: this episode was filmed last July, almost exactly a year ago (the big wildfires at Loutraki area).

I actually found this episode quite entertaining. I did laugh a lot at the awkward tries of Iain to flirt Ellie.
I also loled when Sandy said "I have to deal with wildfires", but do you Sandy? 
Not sure Greek Firefighters would agree with this statement.

Poor Aesha tried to fix things and Ellie wasn't really helping, was she? She needs extra lessons on what teamwork is. And also a few lessons on styling. Wth she wore that night? 

Iain, Iain,  Iain... you are at Sandy's crosshair.. which is not a good thing.
Should we have a  pool here, betting who from the crew will "leave" the boat first?

Guests were so cool about loosing their flight which made me think there was no flight to loose. Or they are indeed so rich they didn't care at all. Or both!

Hydra, which they gonna visit next, is an amazing island. Cars are not allowed, so donkeys are used to curry things, which is debatable as many think the animals are quite abused. Hydra also had wildfires this year.. caused by a ... mega yacht!! Yes, a mega yacht with very rich foreigners threw fireworks on a very windy day and started a fire in the island!!  Hmmm.. you think this will give Bravo ideas about future BD seasons? Too dramatic? yeah probably!  But it would put Sandy in jail, since the captain takes the blame. Hmmm...

Edited July 17 by Zaffy

[iMonrey]

5 hours ago, ZettaK said:

Iain said on Watch What Happens Live that it was Sandy's fault (!) the battery drained.

Actually I think it was the chase boat? I assume they mean the boat with the crew that follows them. It was someone from there who left the battery on. But Andy asked him to respond to Joe and Ethan's accusations of him micromanaging them and he said he basically had to because Sandy was micromanaging him. 

5 hours ago, ZettaK said:

I didn't think that Ellie's catsuit was fitting for the restaurant/club they went. It's obvious she is promoting herself to get more followers on social media, and OnlyFans. And endorsements.

I didn't think that outfit was fitting for anywhere. And I thought Aesha made a good point when she told her in a team environment you can't just say "I am what I am and you'll just have to take it." But Ellie isn't hearing it. 

Has Ellie been on WWHL yet? I'm guessing she's the one getting fired. Or maybe leaving of her own accord.

[ZettaK]

5 hours ago, iMonrey said:

Actually I think it was the chase boat? I assume they mean the boat with the crew that follows them. It was someone from there who left the battery on. But Andy asked him to respond to Joe and Ethan's accusations of him micromanaging them and he said he basically had to because Sandy was micromanaging him. 

I didn't think that outfit was fitting for anywhere. And I thought Aesha made a good point when she told her in a team environment you can't just say "I am what I am and you'll just have to take it." But Ellie isn't hearing it. 

Has Ellie been on WWHL yet? I'm guessing she's the one getting fired. Or maybe leaving of her own accord.

Ellie was on Watch What Happens Live with Aesha in June. 

I also think Iain shouldn't be accusing other people (he knows he is not returning to the show) when he is not that great at his job. 

Edited July 17 by ZettaK

[aqusdealer]

Ellie looked half dressed in that catsuit and not in a good way. 😱

[UncleChuck]

So at the "tip meeting" Sandy announced that they had received $25,000 US Dollars, which was $2,000 per crew member.  How does that math work?  And how many crew members on the Mustique share in that money?

[Zaffy]

4 hours ago, UncleChuck said:

So at the "tip meeting" Sandy announced that they had received $25,000 US Dollars, which was $2,000 per crew member.  How does that math work?  And how many crew members on the Mustique share in that money?

well, if you divide 25,000 by 2,000 that is about 12 people.
The crew we know are 8, 4 deckhands, 3 stews and the Chef. I guess the other 4 are the invisible crew that we usually get to see only at the 1st episode and in case something malfunctions? I do not think the Captain takes from the tip.

[sugarbaker design]

3 hours ago, Zaffy said:

I do not think the Captain takes from the tip.

Captain does indeed take an equal portion of the tip.  There's also usually an unseen first mate and two engineers.

[Zaffy]

3 hours ago, sugarbaker design said:

Captain does indeed take an equal portion of the tip.  There's also usually an unseen first mate and two engineers.

wow, I did not know that. I thought that the "boss" of the ship doesn't "bother" with tips since  (s)he must have the biggest salary of all

[ZettaK]

Bravo is showings promos of a new stew (a female) arriving at the boat. 

[Mr. Miner]

On 7/16/2024 at 4:09 PM, Shrek said:

Pretty sure she said "I'm dealing with wind".

More like "I'm breaking wind" with the rest of her crew.

[Zaffy]

The "scripting" debate.

As you must already know by now,  I  believe the show it  is "scripted".
What I had in mind with the "scripted" theory, was mostly that the production creates the direction of every episode or the whole season with many different ways:  hiring incompetent people or people that can cause trouble, create drama (fake or not), advise the crew towards desirable behavior or even manipulate them. Never thought they were reading pages.
Until this episode.
Cause the whole wildfire incident was exaggerated to the point of almost being fake drama. The specific wildfire's smoke never  reached the area but that wasn't really the issue.. At one point some of the crew (I think Aesha) told they see the smoke and even fire behind a hill. Both are impossible. Completely impossible. 
Not only because wildfires were 74km (45miles) away but because their smoke never reached Athens area, at least in the thickness the showed us. They just said what the production told them to do.

[ZettaK]

On 7/19/2024 at 2:06 PM, Zaffy said:

The "scripting" debate.

As you must already know by now,  I  believe the show it  is "scripted".
What I had in mind with the "scripted" theory, was mostly that the production creates the direction of every episode or the whole season with many different ways:  hiring incompetent people or people that can cause trouble, create drama (fake or not), advise the crew towards desirable behavior or even manipulate them. Never thought they were reading pages.
Until this episode.
Cause the whole wildfire incident was exaggerated to the point of almost being fake drama. The specific wildfire's smoke never  reached the area but that wasn't really the issue.. At one point some of the crew (I think Aesha) told they see the smoke and even fire behind a hill. Both are impossible. Completely impossible. 
Not only because wildfires were 74km (45miles) away but because their smoke never reached Athens area, at least in the thickness the showed us. They just said what the production told them to do.

They exaggerated the wild fire issue to create drama. 

Edited July 22 by ZettaK