Deadliest Catch

By getting to know the members it makes the season that much more interesting. This episode we see the teams take off again in troubled weather and the anticipation of the season is felt the whole time. The teams take off to search for hunting grounds and soon we are well aware of the dangers that these ships navigate into an a seasonal basis. The rescue call came closer to the end of the episode and it left me wanting to know what the outcome will be. They teased us with the drama and I like that. I also want to know how this season will go now with this big accident hanging over the heads of the rest of the teams. I think that the drama we get to see later on in the episode is what this show is all about. It left me thinking about how crazy this job is and how these people leave everything behind for the hunt. It was a great touch seeing a father on the phone with his family when he overhears the rescue call go out. What must be going through his mind as he says goodnight to his children and his wife. Great starter episode for the season.

The most anticipated season premiere for the series and it started a little slow. But toward the end of the episode it really picked up with the footage of the Coast Guard Coast rescue operation and with the boats heading out to the grounds to make their living(which is the reason behind the high ratting).



First at all it seems that Discovery has totally go over the top with of the new graphics, but that was totally expected with the fact that season is the first time that it would be filmed in HD, which makes the series a lot crisper then in the pervious two seasons. In this new improved title segment that only includes the captains of the featured boats, but also their crews, with I liked because it shows that the Captain of a boat can't do it all himself. Also a more colorful RADAR map graphic, gone is the black screen with the checked board, which I like because it mimic the RADAR screen in which is seen on real-life RADAR screens. What really irked me, was the fact that every time we jumpped to the RADAR map graphic, there was a Lexus logo right there, it clearly puts a question in the credibility that is truely a documentary type show.



Now, let's get on to the show, once again we are reintroduced to some of the boats of last year, with includes the return of the Northwestern, the Maverick, the Time Bandit, and the Cornelia Marie, like what happen in the two pervious years changes are afoot with includes a couple of new crew members for the Northwestern, the Cornelia Marie, but the real big change was the fact that the Maverick isn't being commanded by Rick, but this time Blake and his very own crew. We are also introduced to a few new boats, which includes the Wizard, the Early Dawn, and the Farwest Leader, but it seems that they aren't going to get a lot footage to them.



But, as the old saying goes "The more things change, the more things stay the same", holds true with this series, which includes a pratical joker Sig, which we saw for the first time last year, but this time Sig isn't shutting the water off a shower on a fellow crew member or welding a pot shut of a follow boat, but time he put a dead fish in the Maverick's wheelhouse and I am waiting to see how Blake will react to this pratical joke done by Sig. Also the dangerous decks of these boats while the crew unload their pots and the mistakes that young crew members can make while getting their boats ready to fish, which include the deck of the Wizard.



The real kicker of this episode is the Coast Guard rescue opperation toward the end of the episode and the lack of background music and Mike's narration. This forces the viewer of the episode to read and listen the sub titles on the opperation, and while I did know about this boat sinking back in October when it really did happen. It didn't lessen the emtional impact of seeing the rescue opperation done by the Coast Guard and seeing the empty suit and raft or seeing a surrivor in water holding on a piece of debris in the water waiting for the Coast Guard to get himself out of the water.



All in all, a great start for the new season, but by expections are high for this new season and I hope that my expection will by meet.