I got caught up in the MMO game I play, and missed the episode. Did I miss anything? Is the episode (1) on YouTube or similar yet, and (2) worth the effort?
Well, at the beginning there was some nice footage of the ship; strong winds, full sails, the bow crashing through the waves.
But.
Not really.
Well, except that you got to see First Set Adrift Idiot John be an even bigger idiot, if such a thing is possible. Which really didn’t surprise me.
And Laurel did suggest that a lot of Captain Azmyth’s dreads are phony, which also came as no surprise.
Well. You missed some displays of outstanding stupidity.
Item: All the crew except Captain/officers/cook are bitching about Azmyth and saying they want him gone. Then they bring back all the cast off pirates as a ‘ghost’ team vs. all the living pirates. If the ghosts win, there will be NO captain or officers until next time, and the ghosts get to determine who gets black spotted. Louis announces in a private interview that this is win/win for him: If the black team wins, he gets a share of the loot. If the Ghost team wins, Azmyth is toast.
Uh…doesn’t it occur to ANYONE that since they are on the black team, all they have to do is insure they lose??? Go slow, trip over something and wrench an ankle, whatever. But, no, the idiots are hurry along, mad to win. No one seems able to compare the benefit of one week’s share of gold vs. breaking up the triumvirate that is going to get you kicked off.
Item: The Ghost team is behind, but then the Black team proves unable to read a compass and heads off up the wrong stream. Score for the Ghost team, yes?
No. Because they dropped their key in the stream and didn’t even notice the loss until way way later. Black team wins.
Item: The swabbies are talking mutiny. Everyone is on board except for Jupiter. Jupiter immediately tries to clue in Azmyth that a mutiny is a real risk – in front of the entire crew! Does Azmyth appreciate the warning? Realize Jupiter is trying to help him?
No. He decides she is disloyal for even bringing up the subject and black spots her. Yes, he has just kept the one person who was anti-mutiny from being able to vote to derail it. Sort of guaranteeing his ouster…
Item: There are three people voting. All of them were pro-mutiny. They’d sounded out the two officers and got sort of interested comments. So they vote for mutiny, yes?
No. They decide that punishing Jupiter for her betraying their plan is more important than what might have been a successful mutiny.
Idiots. All of them.
I think they have some cool ideas, like the real fucking Gold coins. I am watching it, but not loving it.
StarvingButStrong, thanks very much for the recap. If these people are too idiotic to put together a mutiny, even when the opportunity is handed to them – twice! you said – then it’s not worth the effort.
Mama Tiger, as I recall First Set Adrift Idiot, John, only did two things truly idiotic: He sulked about not being named captain, and he swiped compasses that haven’t been required. What did he do that was even more idiotic?
And Azymuth gave a blackspot to a loyal pirate? Sheesh!
I’m a far better pirate captain than this ship of fools. At this point, I’d prefer to join Robot Arm and work the ship under the Jolly Roger, without the reality show aspect to it.
I am giving this show one more week. If the idiots can’t manage to out Azmyth next week, I quit. They’ve done hardly anything to change up their formula and it’s just getting mind-numbingly predictable.
He grabbed the key down from the rope it was hung by and stuck it half in/half out of his waistband. Which, I am just now realizing, is probably how he as an exotic dancer is used to carrying things. No pockets in g-strings, after all. Anyways, the key dropped out of his waistband and into the river and, when the crew realized it was gone, he tried to claim that he’d passed it off to another crew member.
Thanks, Otto. Between not securing the key, and trying to blame other people, I agree that that’s pretty darn idiotic. I fold.
But still, I’m not sure it was quite as dumb as the Jupiter/Azmyth joint idiocy going on later.
I’m still not sure if the people are lame or the set up is lame or it’s a combination of both.
And has the blonde woman said anything at all in the course of 10 episodes? I’m not even sure what her name is.
I’ve finally given up.
Pagonging on Survivor has more suspense than this show. It’s just not put together well, and the rules are fucked up. For one thing, it is next to impossible to get rid of a captain if he treats his officers decently. Also, I was floored when the first episode aired and it was revealed that the players hadn’t even been told the rules. They came back from the treasure hunt all excited only to find out that had they done things differently, they could be in control. Finally, the host seems like a tacked on thing to me. It just looks weird to see him in control on a captain’s ship, telling the captain what to do and when he can speak.
The whole thing just wasn’t thought out very well. I suspect they thought, “Pirates! Everybody love pirates!” and didn’t think much beyond than that.
I vote both. The Ghost Crew vs. the Pirate Crew is a pretty good idea-- and I liked the fact that those once eliminated weren’t being given a chance to rejoin the crew, just earn money and get a pinch of revenge.
But it failed as an episode/shake-up, because Idiot Ghost John lost the key.
This is mostly proof that he’s an idiot, but how hard would it have been to design the competition so that one would have something larger than a key to hang on to?
And I think “they” anticipated the captain changing every week or two, and didn’t really anticipate what has happened–three guys taking control of the ship and ot budging. And really, that should have been more anticipated than it seems to have been.
But then, as proof that the people are lame, Jupiter said she’d never vote for a mutiny, but she was given the black spot, so she couldn’t vote either way, so maybe they could have mutinied last night and gotten rid of Azymth.
I think they made several changes to the structure of Survivor, hoping for more excitement/change/uncertainty/more pirate-like and most of the changes were bad. I’m not sure how much they could have been predicted to be bad, but I’m sure that they all seem to have turned out to be bad.
rats, I missed the episode (gone for a great vacation on a deserted tropical island myself, hah). It sounds like it was worth the watch, even if only for the self-destruction pleasure of it. Is the ghost team staying? Is Jupiter going to join it? Do they sleep on the boat?
Have they ever said what happens if a mutiny FAILS?
As in, the voting crew all go for a mutiny, but the officers don’t.
Does no one get cut adrift? (Because there wouldn’t be a second highest vote getter.)
Maybe someone from the voters (not the black spotted) is randomly selected? That might make it even riskier to try for a mutiny.
I would assume it goes something like this:
mutiny fails, so the captain is safe (same as a pardon). therefore, the next highest vote-getter is cut adrift. Since there were no other votes, all 3 black spotted pirates are tied at 0 votes. We’ve already seen that the Captain breaks ties. Ergo, he chooses one of the 3 to go.
(I assume a similar situation if everyone voted for the pardoned black spot pirate. hence the other two would be tied at 0, and the captain would decide between those two.)
that’s all just guessing based on what we’ve seen and a little logic, but this game doesn’t always follow logic, so…
Based on the Probst Lite’s comments it doesn’t sound like the Ghost Team will be returning. Which makes me sad because I was digging Sean’s wicked facial hair.
Per Probst Lite, the captain picks someone to cut adrift. I don’t recall whether his choices are restricted to the three Black-spotted pirates or whether he can choose from among the entire crew.
:eek: That would change some people’s opinions on how good an idea mutiny is. Not having to wait until next challenge for the captain to exact vengeance on you is quite a disuader.
His name is Cameron Daddo. Remember, this is the SDMB, we try not to do cutesy “in” nicknames.
eta: This
http://www.wrex.com/News/index.php?ID=20010
source says the show is dead. 
"The CBS reality show, “Pirate Master,” seems to have been cut adrift. It’s being replaced tomorrow with another show. "
ugh, please. That would be rude, cutting the show. Just make a compressed one hour finale and tell us what happened. It is already filmed, anyways!
Drop a show instead of burning the unshown eps? The ratings must be in the negatives.