They are live blogging the Premiere tonight. Captains will be answering a few questions during commercials.
So, it’s looking like a good season. Glad to see Phil’s kids back at work.
Well, a great start to the new season. So far no sign of Wild Bill. I didn’t like him much last season. The new captain for the Cornelia Marie has a tough job replacing Phil. Especially with both Phil’s sons on the boat.
Hopefully we’ll get a great season this year. No more dying captains or drug addict stories please.
So Jake & Josh each own a quarter of the boat now? It’s got to be tough being the Captain over the owners, when you’re not an owner yourself.
Did they mention what happened to Matt on the Northwestern? They’ve got a new guy, and I didn’t see Matt, so I assume he’s gone. Hopefully on to better things, and not back to drugs & prison. I did think the whole “Is Edgar gone?” reveal was hokey.
I was surprised they didn’t mention any updates about Jake Anderson’s dad…between that and wondering how the Harris boys were doing, I was anticipating this opener with a bit of trepidation.
And where was Wild Bill anyway? He was just starting to grow on me toward the end of last season. Haven’t decided if I like/dislike the two new boats yet.
And godspeed, Derrick. You’ve got some truly huge shoes to fill.
Crap, I missed it. So is Edgar back or not?
Yes, he’s back. They did a whole bit over two minutes or so where everyone except Edgar was on the deck ready to start dropping pots, Sig came down to the deck and looked around, they played a shot from last season where Edgar said “I have to walk away sometime.”, they showed a shot of an empty chair in the wheelhouse, Sig said “Where is my baby brother?”, then the music got triumphant and Edgar came walking onto deck. That’s why I described it as hokey - basically he could have been taking a pre-shift dump.
Man, sometimes this show is the epitome of cheese. Maybe that is why I watch it every season.
It ended predictably, with the mystery of whether or not there were any crabs in the pot that was just being pulled out of the water. :rolleyes:
And don’t forget the drama of waiting to see if Jake passed his on-board piss test!
The rescue from the container ship was pretty cool though.
Actually, they showed that Jake passed his piss test at the end of that sequence.
The following drama about Jake & Steve going AWOL for 2.5 hours seems to have gone somewhat unresolved. Captain Derrick seems to have let Jake slide, then unleashed his wrath on Steve. It looked like Steve wan’t taking it and was about to quit but the captain wouldn’t let him. Or something.
Then, next time we see them, it’s back to business as usual. I wonder if this forebodes problems between captain and crew later on.
I wonder where the crab are this year? Nearly all the Captains are struggling to find any.
I think the new Greenhorn set a record for quitting. Got his feelings hurt and went running to the Captain 2 hours later. Even after getting his nose wiped, the horn quit a few days later and jumped in his bunk.
I’m liking the new boats and Captains. Shame they brought back Wild Bill and his bad luck. Already has a broke crane and a crewman with a broke back. Wild Bill seems cursed or something.
The ending tonight looked scary. The guy on the wheel falls asleep and the boat is headed straight at some other boats. I’m sure the camera guy will wake someone up. He’s not stupid enough to watch the boat he’s on crash just for an exciting camera shot.
I’m going to see Sig and the Hillstrom Brothers speak up in Milwaukee tomorrow evening. It should be interesting. 
And his obvious nervousness before he learned the result revealed the real answer, which was later corroborated by the Captain telling the cameraman that Jake stinks of boo. I’ve always thought that Jake is a congenital fuckup. Still do.
Jumping ships:
I’ve never been impressed by Keith’s hyper-emotionalism, much less his utter lack of people skills, but last night was the first time I realized how preposterously superstitious he really is.
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My wife saw them Friday. Said Sig was hilarious, Andy was good and Jonathan was so drunk out of his mind he ruined the show, blathering over everyone.
Was fascinated that none of them like Keith at all.
The thing that convinced me was the time he was taking a nap while Monte drove the boat to the next string. After they arrived, Keith berated Monte for 5 minutes straight. Why? Because they had passed a few walruses, and Monte should have woken Keith up since he knows that walruses are good luck for Keith. I think that’s when Keith screamed “This is my livelyhood you’re fucking with!” Over walruses.
Hmmm. Here’s hoping Jonathan doesn’t have the entire fifth of whiskey before tomorrow’s show. 
I wonder about that. Surely the cameramen had lights on their cameras they could have turned on to help the Northwestern find their way around in the dark after they lost power?
Also waiting for the backlash from that young captain that grossly under-calculated how much crab they had to offload.
I thnk he’s in way over his head. Too young (or immature) to know that there’s a big difference between saying and doing.
That was the first time I noticed it as well, but at the time I figured “Okay, he’s got this serious superstition about walruses.” I thought his reaction was silly as hell, but everybody’s entitled to their little quirks. Or something along those lines.
But these past two episodes it finally hit me. All the knocking on wood and rubbing things and “bad juju”, and phoning his daughter (grade school age?) so she could concoct good luck rituals which he then performed, to the letter, apparently dead serious, ON CAMERA.
That was last week. This week he topped it by finding the magic object (Hillstrand guitar neck) that was obviously the cause of his bad luck.
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Tonight was the best episode in a long, long time. Loved seeing Paul and guys on the Time Bandit.