Deadliest Catch - True or False

Well gosh... since we already have a Deadliest Catch thread going, any thoughts on last night's show?

Was Derrick just a jerk of a captain who bullied his crew and unnecessarily reported Jake to the authorities for some suspected pot use? Or, is Jake a spoiled brat, who disrespected his captain and placed his whole crew at risk by getting high while at sea, and Derrick did the right thing by calling in the authorities for what he found?

Or... do you think the whole thing was staged for the cameras?
 
Obviously it was somwhat staged, camera in the cop car, camera follwing Jake thru the parking lot, camera with him it the airport.
I hate to say it, but the show went down a few notches because of last nights show.
Dont know about Derrick but the boys need to mature.
JOSH NEEDS TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE, GET SOME HELP FROM SOMEONE AND TAKE CONTROL OF THE BOAT OR THEY WILL LOSE IT - if there is any truth to what we are seeing.
Jake is a punk.
 
Still like the show, but Jake and Josh need to man up. I'm starting to the the swordfishing show better. Deadliest Catch is definitly going Hollywood - shooting machine guns out of the wheelhouse, it's getting out there a little bit. I enjoy the footage of the boats coming in and out of the harbors and shots in the engine room more than the fishing these days.
 
Derrick is a jerk who does not know how to manage his resources and fails to review and change a plan when it goes wrong. He simply relies upon past glory to justify himself and not present circumstances. Simply put, you are only as good as your last pot and lets face it, a little success would have gone a long way towards solving the problems here. His failure to get on the crab eventually led to his crews suspicion of him which turned to cynicism. After that, he could do nothing right, even if he is right which he was with the drug issue.

Jake is a jerk who is incapable of handling anything that has been given to him. Josh is simply overwhelmed and lacks the assertiveness that comes with maturity. Their father should have put the boat in a trust and had the trustee manage the vessel under the boys where ready and capable. Phil had a lot of friends in the business who could have been a good trustee. Heck, Sig would have done a good job I am sure.
 
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Originally posted by GeeBee

Derrick is a jerk who does not know how to manage his resources and fails to review and change a plan when it goes wrong. He simply relies upon past glory to justify himself and not present circumstances. Simply put, you are only as good as your last pot and lets face it, a little success would have gone a long way towards solving the problems here. His failure to get on the crab eventually led to his crews suspicion of him which turned to cynicism. After that, he could do nothing right, even if he is right which he was with the drug issue.

Jake is a jerk who is incapable of handling anything that has been given to him. Josh is simply overwhelmed and lacks the assertiveness that comes with maturity. Their father should have put the boat in a trust and had the trustee manage the vessel under the boys where ready and capable. Phil had a lot of friends in the business who could have been a good trustee. Heck, Sig would have done a good job I am sure.

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Problem is, unlike the show depicts - the Harris boys do not call the shots with respect to the boat.

Reality is, Phil, and now Jake/Josh are minority owners of the boat and its quota. Ironically, the vessel is 75% owned by a woman, named - Cornelia Maria. Jake and Josh own the remaining 25%

Apparently, before the season, she deemed Jake and Josh not capable and she leased out the Cornelia's quota. Things changed and the ship was to sail, only they had no quota. Enter Derrick - based on his reputation he was able to secure leases for other ships/Captain's quota.

Grant it things did not work out, but bottom line, if not for Derrick, the Cornelia would have never sailed for Red and Blue season.
 
You wonder what is going on behind the scenes - the other captains who seemed to like and respect Phil are strangely un-involved in this. On another not the boat looks like it is not being kept up all that well - it just looks rough. It's sad, these boys spend time with their father, but I am afraid they did not learn much about fishing.
 
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You wonder what is going on behind the scenes - the other captains who seemed to like and respect Phil are strangely un-involved in this. On another not the boat looks like it is not being kept up all that well - it just looks rough. It's sad, these boys spend time with their father, but I am afraid they did not learn much about fishing.

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What do you expect the other Captain's to do? Phil and now his sons are not the majority owners of the boat.

The boat had zero quota going into the season, the only way they got it was from Derrick's reputation. If anything, the other Captain's probably wanted Derrick out of the picture so they could bid on the quota for themselves.

For example, how many know that the Wizard and its owner Keith have zero quota. Keith has to lease all his quota every season.

If you know anything about commercial fisherman and the boat owners, you know that they are as cut throat as it gets and they are not worried in the least about Phil's legacy or Jake and Josh.

The show, while dramatic and good TV does a very, very poor job of depicting the realities of running a commercial fishing operation.

As for the boat, in a recent interview, Derrick described the boat as being in "deplorable condition".
 
Its no secret the CM has been in less than stellar condition for awhile. That's been apparent in past seasons too. It's not going to get better on its own. Derick is an idiot, Jake is just lost and Josh doesn't have the authority to do anything even if he suddenly came up with the drive, which me might have, but has not shown. Both the boys have apparently gotten by more on their mouth than their hands, or their actions.

I fully expect the boat owners, including Cornelia to look out for their best interests. The boats are secondary to the licenses. Fine.

As far as the show, its a numbers game. Keep enough film rolling long enough and something interesting is going to happen. That's the formula. In the meanwhile, the producers are now directly and visibly influencing the experiment by focusing on the created and inflated drama. The behind the scenes pot stirring is getting rather bad and the show is not as fun to watch. The fact that swords has become more interesting is rediculous. At least were not watching those stupid lobster women anymore. That was the most pathetic show I've seen and I sure hope most of the lobstermen are really not that backward stupid in real life. Same for swords, Greenlaw is a full sellout, staged and unnatural. I'd probably do what she did too, but its all show, no fish. Past season boats have been just stupid rediculous too. Sadly, makes me want to transfer the current stupidity as just maybe being accurate on a whole. I had to think what that implies to the prior beliefs I held in general around the sword fleet of yesteryear. Maybe they never were all that smart. The shows are now giving everyone a bad name. Too bad. Not everyone is like this when the camera is off.
 
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