Yeah kinda hit hard for me. Normally celebrity deaths don't bother me but this one has. The only other person I felt really sad when they passed was Bernie Mac. That bothered me big time...
I can't wait for the new season. I wonder if every episode will be about someone not catching crab, then catching crab with a story or two about disaster in between. Oh, and a greenhorn is going to be hazed along the way too. Seriously, this show has to be the most repetitive thing I've seen. I can honestly say if you've seen one episode you've seen them all.
The weird thing is...I can't argue with any of this, and yet somehow I still watch every episode. I don't know. It's hard to explain what I enjoy about the show, but I definitely love it. And I have to admit that I KNOW I'm going to lose it on the episode when Phil dies. I've been dreading that episode all season. He was easily my favorite captain.
I used to watch it too knowing it was basically the same thing in every episode but it didn't bother me either. Then, one day I was watching and didn't know what season or what episode I was watching and realized it didn't matter because every episode is the exactly the same. Sorta ruined it for me.
What's funny to me is the way they have the 4 or so boats that they follow every season and then they add another that's new every season. This year it's the Zokiak (sp?). And invariably, that new boat always has a ****TY season compared to the others, and more often than not the crew is far from interesting. It's the same pattern every show, every season, but I keep coming back for more. I will say, though, that there are a few things that are new every season, and every time I see something new, I question how it is that this is the first time we are hearing about it. A couple seasons ago it was when Phil was fishing by following the crab fart bubbles. This season it is the jellyfish on the tops of the pots as they come up. Never heard about those before but it seems like something that would have been mentioned. And they focussed the past couple episodes on Captain Phil's fishing of "The Rock" and made mention that he was the only captain that really knew how to fish that area and had made good money in his early years doing just that. And yet I'm pretty sure they haven't show him fishing that particular spot once in however many seasons the show has been on.
I have said the same thing about House, but I keep watching it also. Sometimes you have to stick with a winning formula.
Yeah, it's nothing like a basketball game which is never repetitive. He made a shot, he missed a shot, foul. But hey, we'll discuss that all day on a forum.
This is one of my favorite shows on tv. These guys don't get paid enough for the crap they do. I can't think of many jobs more dangerous than this. It tore me up a bit when they busted Jake stealing pain killers from his dad. I was thinking he was joking around at first. That was weird.
As a fan of the show and a still recovering addict from pain killers this episode tore me up. Pain killers are the devil and they steal your ****ing soul and take all the life out of you. Hopefully something good can come out of Phils death motivating jake to stay clean. I have been sober a little over 6 months and it still haunts the **** out of me to see something like that.
Don't they haul in around 30-40k for a couple weeks on the sea? Well maybe only the guys on the big boats pull in that much. But still, when I used to watch it faithfully, you'd always see some greenhorn out to make some good money who has no idea the ride he's in for.
I think that they make closer to 4 or 5k per week. There are actually several crab seasons. Basically a full hand can work all of the seasons for 4 or 5 months and make enough to live on the rest of the year.
love the show, don't care how repetitive it is. Gotta feel for Jake after that last episode knowing that Phil won't be around much longer
woah that's freaky, he was just talking about how his health was bad and how he wouldn't be there much longer.
The guys on the boats on the show can, but no way in hell I'd even attempt to risk my life on the Bering Sea for that much money. You seriously have to be half-nuts to do that kind of work.
He died in February. The season was recorded before that. I think the editing of the show's episodes is playing up the "he's going to die" angle.
Yeah, plus Phil talks about his poor health every season. Especially since that huge wave and his rib injury that caused his clot to break loose.
