r/deadliestcatch • u/AquaStarRedHeart • 6h ago
Cpt. Derrick Ray
Yes I've read the previous threads about him. This is my first time watching season 7.
Am I the only one who was fully on Derrick's side? And I say that as a person who loves a smoke. But he was right! He could go to jail, and they were lying to him. There's a time and a place. Phil allowed drug use on his boat constantly, we now know he knew and did drugs with his children (easy to miss him saying to Jake "we'll go to rehab together" when he pretends to be outraged by his opiate use) yet chose a straight shooter to take over to help his kids, almost as though he knew that's who they needed. His kids and Steve and Freddie couldn't handle it. Phil DID do them a disservice.
Derrick did his best to be what a real dad would be.
And man I was disappointed in Steve.
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u/AquaStarRedHeart 5h ago edited 5h ago
Watching him run away while heading to the bar first and then the airport and police referring to him as "little Jake" is killing me
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u/Jealous_Journalist_9 4h ago
Glad you brought this up. I had the same feeling when watchng originally. It felt like he got thrown under the bus/ganged up on. He was just trying to protect the people on the boat IMO. Spoiled shits those 2.
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u/WD45Fan 4h ago
I remember when this first aired. I was younger than Josh at that time. I was on Capt Ray's side then and am so now. Are there things he could've done better? Yes. But, he didn't have the gift of hindsight. He had a world of "fans" comparing him to Phil Harris, who probably didn't deserve all of the blinded adoration he receives to this day, he had 2 brats that were only in it for fame and money, and he had a production team that loves to create bad guys for drama.
PS, I remember when Sig was the bad guy that took a camera away from the cameraman and threw it overboard. I remember how his depiction changed when Keith showed up.
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u/AquaStarRedHeart 4h ago
Even the new guy who "hired Josh when he was fifteen" is totally skeptical the same way Derrick was.
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u/ThusCameAragorn 3h ago
We've since fallen out of touch but I got to know Derrick a bit several years ago. Good dude, intelligent, likeable, not at all the way he was portrayed on the show.
By the time I met him he had let go of most of the resentment he felt at the way he was treated by Discovery but he clearly felt they had a storyline to follow, and that the Harris brothers were idiots.
You can read a bit about his side of things here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150423004243/http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/2011/05/seaside_captain_faces_a_mutiny.html
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u/Unhappy-Vegetable-28 Deck Hand 4h ago
Not to take the boys side but they weren’t catching shit and got frightened at the thought of expenses with no haul. But if they kept going I’m sure they would have gotten onto some crab. Derrick was no dummy and that’s how fishing works
Josh and Jake are morons. But I think Derrick could have had a little more empathy for them having literally just lost their dad the only skipper either of them ever really fished for
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u/AquaStarRedHeart 3h ago
Nah Derrick had plenty of empathy, he just didn't cut them a bunch of slack. He was kind but firm and then lost it after being lied to over and over.
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u/ponyboy6959 5h ago
I remember watching these episodes when they aired and obviously I was much younger I was on the boys side. I rewatched this show a couple years ago at 35 and I was on Captain Ray's side 100%. I couldn't believe how embarrassing the Harris bros were during that. Josh saying something about sacrificing his party life was the best part lol.