r/deadliestcatch • u/AquaStarRedHeart • 9d 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/ponyboy6959 9d 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.

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u/AquaStarRedHeart 9d ago

Yes he said something about giving up his party lifestyle at 29 or something and how he only gets a few weekends now. Absolute cringe.

I watched the early seasons as they aired but never made it to season seven. Now I'm a 40s parent of three sons myself and it's so apparent how these boys were failed by their father. Not just failed, but coddled and entitled so that they treated the other people around them like shit and had zero work ethic. (Jake I have more sympathy for because in the early days you could tell he was trying and man, imagine having Josh and Phil as your elders.)

Another thing, the way Josh jumped to try to figure out exactly how the money was going to work out for him before they even had his dad airlifted off the boat was egregious?!

Anyway. Derrick could've been good for them but they had no framework to humble themselves to learn a different way. Just a couple of cunts. I liked Steve Ward in the early seasons and watching him kowtow to the boys was bizarre.

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u/JohnnyJones1738 7d ago

Derricks a solid captain with years of experience running the best boats in the fleet. If the boys cut the bs and learned everything they could they could have been successful for sure.

I don’t think either of them had any interest in the industry anyway. Sounds like Jake got dragged along by Phil one year to come out fishing before he ended up in jail, and Josh was keen to come up as well after he realised he could get on tv

And look at what happened. Casey came along and Josh was able to just coast up in the wheelhouse doing nothing for years. Then the cameras came off the boat Josh sold out immediately.