I think we’re way over complicating the Lucie and Tommy thing, she blatantly fancies him. That’s not saying men and women can’t be friends - I have purely platonic male friends and two of DP’s best friends are women - but these two aren’t it. Tommy spent several episodes banging on about fancying Lucie and picked her when he had the chance, it’s just she then picked Joe again.
To say that last night’s events weren’t flirting is madness! Lying right next to him and whispering in his ear when sat in a group, playing silly food fights and giggling etc - that’s flirting! And MM did notice and pulled a ‘what the fuck?’
If DP’s female friend said openly to him ‘hey Bob I bet I could eat more chilli sauce than you’ and they had a little challenge to see, inviting everyone in the group to either join in or judge or whatever then I’d think ‘they’re a pair or weirdos but no harm no foul’. If she rolled to lie alongside him and whisper to him, then took him off away from the group to go and have their little chilli/feeding each other/ egg and spoon race fun excluding everyone else and making a big show of what fun they were having JUST THEM I’d absolutely think they were flirting and be pissed off.
Lucie also DID go primarily for Amy during the food fight and did talk and laugh about it afterwards that she was doing it because of what has happened the day before. So that’s not her not understanding that Amy hadn’t let things drop, that’s HER carrying it on. As far as we saw Amy had dropped it until then (I’m not saying she definitely had but we didn’t see her bring anything up about Lucie until that point).
Lucie has also said outright she’s never had a female friend and that she doesn’t want to sit with the girls because they’re ‘girly girls’ who ‘don’t get her’. Which to me does give the impression that she thinks there’s something special about her that mere ‘girly girls’ couldn’t possibly understand.
I’m not saying that Amy hasn’t been ridiculous and unkind, or that Joe isn’t a dick - but i also don’t buy that Lucie is this simple, unaffected and innocent flower who doesn’t understand how the game works or can’t pick up on social cues.
I actually think Joe’s major issue isn’t even jealousy- I think he’s completely obsessed with appearances and only wants Lucie as him having the ‘prettiest’ girl in there as he sees it, the one all the guys were fighting over to start with, he thinks that makes him look like the big man. He keeps saying ‘I want a happy villa’ and that Lucie shouldn’t cry because she’s too pretty - I think he’s pissed off with her because she’s NOT playing the game with the girls, not being the pretty, popular one that everyone loves and therefore not reflecting the glory onto him that he thinks he’s due. He wanted to act the cheeky chappy sandwich boy that everyone took to their hearts and wanted her to be the golden girl that made him look even better, and the two of them coast to the final. Instead he’s already let the mask slip and shown his angry/jealous side and now she’s not playing along with the pretty sunshine and rainbows act, and he’s getting more and more pissed off.