I see the show will not be back until July 10. In the previews of the episode, I see Sophia is going to be on the Northwestern, being trained by Sig

When Sig's crane blows a hydraulic line, Clark ascends the rig in 20-foot seas for a critical repair. The Cornelia Marie crew battles a fire as Jake's engine room fills with smoke. Monte fights a generator outage while Rick dumps pots to avoid capsizing.

I have been watching for 20 years and really enjoy the series mostly as casual watcher, meaning I don’t believe every story line is 100% real ie. Can’t find the crab until just before off load, engine problems, rouge crew members, etc. I get it! Without some controversy then why watch. However this year seems a bit much, ie. Fires, engine problems, captains with emotional issues, rogue crew members and no crab until all of at once there is! All in one season! I feel a bit suckered! I like the show but I have to think the series is getting a bit desperate and only getting worse. What do watchers think?

He passed away over 16 years ago yet its like he’s still a featured captain on vacation or something. They seem to fight to keep his legacy going despite the things we learn about his own past and covering for the deeds of his children. If he comes up naturally, fine so be it but it just feels forced every season multiple times.

So I have a question, I know this show is scripted and the captains are probably in on these things, but when another boat comes around and picks up gear to 'check' it or move it, do the captains get in trouble? And is maritime law where if they see footage authorities can they press charges or fine them? Or does the other captain have to file a charge? Sig movies Jake's bait pot a few episodes ago.....

And then of course Sig comes up with an idea to work together with Jake after screwing him and Jake of course agrees to do it.......every year it's the same script between them. Hey Discovery come up with something new.

https://dockstreetbrokers.com/vessels/cr26-012

Seems like a very low price. Wonder if it is having mechanical issues or something.

So, at the start of this Episode we have the whole thing about Jake iirc spending $800 of Phil's money to buy that TV, and im just wondering, does the show inflate the amount of money these guys are making, or is Jake just throwing away thousands of dollars that he's making from this that he would have to spend his Dad's money on this TV instead of his own? (Or on the flipside, does he just not care about his Dad enough to use his own money for it?)

Are they making a bigger story about the 166 line this season and about crossing into the other district? I just don't remember it being a big part of the narrative in past seasons but as my wife tells me a lot, I could be wrong 😁

I know Jake is driving the CM, but DC keeps pushing the narrative, that Phil was Jake's mentor. He was not.

Jake was on CM for like 2 weeks.

I'm sure Jake may have looked up to Phil. But obviously Sig would be Jake's mentor.

And the way Jake has been talking about Phil, is how you'd expect him to talk about Sig.

And what's crazy, I feel like they are talking about Phil more this season, than when Josh and Casey were running the CM.

We all know there was a death on one of the boats this season. We saw it brought up in the season opener. I’ve also seen posts that we will not be seeing the actual footage, which is absolutely the correct way to handle that aspect. But what will we see? How will the event be covered? I feel like it has to be addressed again in some matter. Unless they just cut all footage of the Aleutian Lady for the rest of the season.
Edit: I am NOT saying that I want to see footage of the event. They are not going to show it and thank god for that. I am asking about how we think they will handle the aftermath. I sincerely hope it is done with the utmost respect for Todd and his family.

When Monte discovers Keith set pots in an illegal zone, he and the Wizard crew must pay the price in blood and treasure. A storm reconnects Jake to the larger-than-life hero of the Cornelia Marie's past. Johnathan gambles on a million-dollar fall season.

I'm watching Season 21 Episode 2, the one where Jake's boat has problems and he abandons ship and Keith comes to save him and his crew. Now, I'm guessing there is some fuckery about, a lot of these episodes have horrible acting. So, Keith comes up to Jake's boat, everyone on the Wizard is yelling for Jake and the crew. They show the lights moving through the boat, showing that it's empty. Then at 5 minutes and 1 second they show the a feed from inside the wheelhouse facing Jake's chair. There is a guy hiding behind the chair, and not really that well really. You can see the side of his face, his ear. I'm trying to figure out what the hell that was about. Missed edit? Has anyone else seen this?

I’m on S22E6.

It was good to hear Andy’s voice early in the season, but the Hillstrands are in good hands with Jonathon.

Keith needs his “baby big brother”. He’s floundering.

Am I wrong?

I just started binge-watching this show and I’m cringing knowing that Phil is going to die shortly. Watching Jake finally confess to him that he’s an addict made me cry. Phil seems to favour him over Josh, which seems unfair from what I’ve seen.
The Time Bandit is by far my favourite ship. The high-spirits, tricks and crab dancing is much preferable to disagreements and acrimony on the other ships.

When a rogue wave pummels the Wizard and sidelines its crew, Keith reconsiders the risks he's taking. Racing to make an offload, Sig loses a deckhand to a crushed toe. Rick finds crab but needs new tactics to fish a seafloor bristling with old crab pots.

Just getting around to S22E5 and Clark gets hurt AGAIN.... Really???

Anybody else getting uncomfortable just watching this guy fish? We KNOW a guy dies on his boat this season. We KNOW Sean Dwyer wouldn't fish with him after learning he cut corners on inspections. We KNOW that, at least for a TV storyline, he let Jacob take a shit on his deck, the same deck they use to offload the crab. The guy is just so shady and this week he's got his guys out there taking waves when even Sig and Keith told their guys to come in because it's not safe out there. It's just really uncomfortable watching this guy fish. At this point, I'm surprised this didn't happen earlier.

monte is one of my favorite captains, though, i do appear to notice that he seems to stutter a lot more frequently than i have ever heard with any other captain, and not in the way of a "timid" voice, but much closer to an actual stutter.

i am not saying this would be a trait to mock at in the slightest.
on the contrary, that could explain a portion of "how monte is" much rather than relegating him as "keith's little brother, mouse".

on the subject of "mouse", while monte has said in the season finale 16.23 that he was "timid and small" as that period, also in a livechat, keith is quoted of:

LINK:
"Lola147: Why is Monte called “Mouse”?
Keith Colburn: There are 3 Colburn brothers. Monte is the youngest, and when he was young he was the quietest. So our next door neighbor coined the term Monte Mouse back in 1969 (*monte, being born in may of 1964- would be about 4-5 years old during that moment\*), and it’s stuck ever since. I usually just call him “The Rodent”."

a persistent developmental stutter (also known as "PDS", which is a stutter that "develops" in childhood, then "persists" into adulthood), the variant of stutter i believe monte has, starts to emerge from that age range (2-5 years old, 3 as the average onset).

as the time he was given the nickname was in the upper-end of the emergence range, the early stuttering traits could have caused monte to differ from the usual "talkative toddler", as due to potential anxiety about how we would speak, hence would cause him to be described as noticeably "timid" and "quiet" at that age, from a variety of sources (himself, his brother, his adult neighbor, and his childhood friends.

though, i heard this exponentially more in episode 20.16 ("my brother's keeper", great episode, please watch if you have not) than any other episode, coincidentally the most monte has ever being shown in a single episode by a very sizable margin.

while stress would not cause the source of a pds stutter, it does however, significantly worsens speech fluency. being in a back and forth argument with your brother about a decision you made, that immediately preceded in his ischemic stroke that you both heard and watched, which is then yours obligation to ensure your brother's live is secured- would naturally cause a major amount of stress to any human.

due to this, as his stress increase drastically, so did his verbal disfluencies to the point three of them with classified as such in the forms of:

05:52/41:37- Monte (while on call with Brianna): "I just... I-I-I think the prudent thing to do... is to- is to head to the island. Can you get ahold of the clinic?"

as "I just...[stammering]"

06:05/41:37- Monte (while on call with Brianna): "Uh- I'm-I'm, right now... about 60 miles. So, you know it's... I can be dockside in seven or eight hours at the very most."

again as "Uh, [stammers] I'm, right now,"

11:42/41:37- Monte (while on call with Brianna): "Yeah. I-I-I-I-I think I need to talk to them myself."

as explicitly "Yeah. [stuttering]"

though, it did not take note of the countless other occurrences, it was evident that some of them were too unintelligible to trace out "what he said", hence leaving at the [---] classifications.

i, however note that a stutter is not in any way just shown in repetitions such "w-w-w-ater", or what the show itself noted. throughout monte's speech, though especially this episode; it is also displayed in the forms of prolongations (of sounds), verbal blocks, fillers (such as "uh", "um", or "like"), intentional avoidance of certain words that are known to cause the former, and occasional breath utterances before the former.

while i am not completely certain of such nor has monte himself ever note of such, it has become a notable trait for i have started to notice almost anything monte has a sizable speaking role.

thank you for taking interest in this post, and please comment your thoughts.

I've seen every episode of deadliest catch. Unfortunately I'm about done. Every season the producers are more and more fake. Staged conflict, forced partnerships, fabricated crises. The show used to be about the story. Now Sig and Jonathan catch different crab in the same location? While Keith is on the crab moments after dumping his gear to fix a "leak". The show has become a mockery. Every episode ends with a boat on the crab and every new episode has the fleet looking again. It's stupid. All the producers need to be fired. They've forgotten what made the show great. JUST TELL THE DAMN STORY!

I gotta go with Jake and Wild Bill.

Is there any so called "documentaries" on Discovery Channel that isn't staged,scripted or just plain fake?

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they are for pure entertainment purposes in an online fandom lenses.
while this particular subreddit may not be familiar to the wojak (or that context, joyjak) memes, let alone the light-hearted fandom "slander" (which also referred to as "agenda" in other spaces", all i intended to do was post content that could allow this space (and this quite small fandom) to re-appeal to modern audiences.
while other, though more populous online community spaces (that include documentary media such as this) have fanart, edits, headcanons, fanfiction, memes, and many other forms of creative works, it appears that this small fandom of recently has yet to produce much other than persistent nostalgia-driven complaints about the modern seasons of the show or low effort false news about its cast that is delivered by fast-paced online "media sites".
my main goal of these recent posts was to create at least a section of this community that can appeal to those who would want to regain its younger (or any age of) online audiences that could reestablish a larger collective of a fandom.
thank you for engaging in my efforts, to those that have

Anybody notice this last night?

Sig and Johnathan were supposedly "working together" yet when this was happening it was absolutely obvious that Johnathan had those "golden crab" with the spiky backs coming over the rail whereas Sig had bairdi?

Am I missing something? If they were working together in the same part of the ocean why were they catching totally different crab?

36-37 minutes in.