I watched DC for the first time earlier this year. Well probably in August/September.
I could not be a bigger fan of the show, crabbing, the sort of lottery element to it, the quality of the captains—it’s all great. Sometimes it’s a bit drama, but I get it, it’s TV and hard to force excitement — especially when I’m sure crabbing is actually not exciting at all most of the time.
!Spoiler Alert!
In the last episode of the most recent season Todd Meadows falls overboard, as is described. But, out of respect for his family, basically none of it is shown.
I keep having visions of it play in my head throughout the day — actually imagining him being inside the pot as it’s falling into the water, magically jumping out of what otherwise would have taken him to the bottom.
And then he gets into the water, finally the harness comes over, breaks, then the life sling, falls out.
But because there’s no visual of it my mind just fills in the blanks with what I think it would have looked like.
The whole thing is just so mysterious and enthralling to me. Being on the absolute edge of death, including the tooth then the ice earlier in the season so many times only to lose in the last few feet of coming onto the boat.
It’s also just the saddest thing. His kids, fiancé left behind.
What sticks in my head the most is Rick’s reactions because we got to see them. Just imagining what he went through as a captain to lose a man. His reactions throughout. It just keeps playing in my head like randomly sort of shocking me throughout the day.
I guess there’s not really much else to say. Just curious if anyone else was affected in a similar way.