Deadliest Catch: Not-Quite Reality Show

[cheerful_deviant]

LOS ANGELES - Tuesday's fourth-season premiere of Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch" opens during a raging nighttime storm in the Bering Sea. Mammoth waves smash an Alaskan crab fishing boat called the Wizard, sending large swells crashing over its deck. Inside, alarmed crew members discover that their stateroom is flooding with incoming seawater.

The sequence suggests that the fishermen are in danger of sinking as a violent tempest tosses huge waves against the boat.

But here's the not-so-deadliest catch:

The boat flooded in September.

The huge storm waves were from October.

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I suppose in Hollywood, no reality can stay real forever.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

LOS ANGELES - Tuesday's fourth-season premiere of Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch" opens during a raging nighttime storm in the Bering Sea. Mammoth waves smash an Alaskan crab fishing boat called the Wizard, sending large swells crashing over its deck. Inside, alarmed crew members discover that their stateroom is flooding with incoming seawater.

The sequence suggests that the fishermen are in danger of sinking as a violent tempest tosses huge waves against the boat.

But here's the not-so-deadliest catch:

The boat flooded in September.

The huge storm waves were from October.

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I suppose in Hollywood, no reality can stay real forever.

Oh, they've always done wacky editing on reality shows, so it doesn't really surprise me. You'll see commercials for the next episode of Deadliest Catch, where supposedly someone is going to fall in the ocean and then it turns out to be some dude that they don't even know. It's the same on Ice Road Truckers. There's too much of a temptation by producers to "write" a reality show with tricky editing.

 

[jomar]

There's a scene in the Perfect Storm where the boat is cruising out to sea. The water was so calm that day is was like glass. The director didn't think an audience would believe it so they added a bit of chop with computer graphics. Hard to trust anything on a screen anymore.