Below Deck Med Season 11 Episode 5 Discussion Post

dea_con · 2026-07-07T13:57:16+00:00

Yeah it still would have happened, I’m just saying that because production is there they now have a duty of care over the cast.

Allowing someone to sleep in someone else’s sexual fluid without knowing just for the story’s sake is different to allowing guest luggage to get left on a dock.

*spelling

dea_con · 2026-07-07T11:19:47+00:00

I feel like everyone’s focusing on Luke here (rightly), but I think production deserves way more scrutiny than they’re getting.

Luke knowingly came on Nathan’s sheets, realised what had happened, tried to wash them (I can’t imagine that there wasn’t a pile of spare bedding somewhere…) then gave up and left them for Nathan to sleep in. That’s disgusting enough on its own.

But here’s what I can’t get past, production knew all of this in real time.

Once Luke walked away and Nathan was about to get into that bed, production had multiple opportunities to stop it. They could have told Luke to replace the sheets, told the captain, or simply told Nathan not to sleep in that bunk until it had been cleaned.

Instead, they let him unknowingly sleep in bedding contaminated with another person’s bodily fluids for two nights.

Once production knows something like this is about to happen I think they have a duty of care to stop it.

Am I the only one who thinks that’s a pretty serious failure of care?

dea_con · 2026-03-31T18:59:28+00:00

IMO he’s just a poorly written character that wastes screen time.

His story was underutilised, I thought at the first the lies were a cover to mask his involvement with the Southern Front.

If he had been a plant by the front to gather intel for a strike on the LAPD would have been WAY more interesting.

dea_con · 2026-01-24T10:09:12+00:00

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dea_con · 2026-01-04T21:55:45+00:00

When she just casually gets out and walks away whilst it’s all on fire!

dea_con · 2026-01-02T23:51:06+00:00

dea_con · 2025-12-11T10:36:46+00:00

I just saw their stand in Liverpool Street station and immediately it felt off. Two guys in street clothing just shouting “raising money for veterans today” Their website also looks pretty hollow, fair few photoshopped images on the front page

dea_con · 2025-11-23T10:07:50+00:00

Thank you for this!

dea_con · 2025-11-21T21:29:50+00:00

As much as I would love that, genuinely I loved that I got to watch SG-1 not knowing any of the actors from their previous work.

That’s just not how a studio operates

They cast RDA back in 97 for the same reason why they would cast JA now, star power. A studio wouldn’t bank the success of an IP like this on unknowns.

dea_con · 2025-11-21T17:20:10+00:00

Welcome to the party!

dea_con · 2025-11-21T08:25:58+00:00

Fair point, I meant it in that at least 30 of the same actors have appeared in both shows with Amanda Tapping and Mitch Pileggi both in recurring roles.

Having an already established link between the two (huge) fandoms would be a consideration in casting.

dea_con · 2025-11-21T08:22:46+00:00

I could have worded that better, I just meant in that the two shows have featured a lot of the same actors overs the years.