Every season needs people who are going to be a problem. That's what creates the drama. We need people to like: Eddie, Amy, Ben, Emile and Connie. Then we need villains, Don, Leon, and Rocky who are either smug, stupid or obnoxious or all three. That provides lots of room for confrontations and disagreements which equals drama.
I think the show producers do the hiring because if Capt Lee were to hire, he would get a bunch of professionals who did their job and did it well. and that would be boring.
Don was a jerk...a real tool. When he told Capt Lee he needs to report to his real boss the First Engineer, I pretty much decided what he said was scripted because even HE couldn't be that stupid. He's gone..good. Let's see if they bring back a deckhand from earlier or get a new one like they did with Logan.
Kate is a jekyl and hyde. Mostly good at what she does, but looks to be lousy at the people part of her job. She has little personality for a stewardess who job it is to engage the guests. She can be downright vicious and condescending and NEVER finds anything to be her fault. She was mean and evil to Amy last year...a real bitch. Amy has Kate beat hands down when it comes to serving the guests. So I will take Amy's "Hooter" type service (as Kate calls it) over Kate's "stoic" dead pan looks anytime. By the way, never been in Hooters, but if servers there smile and joke a lot like Amy, I'm game to go.
Eddie -what's to say? Ed's a doll love his work ethic and funny as hell. Two thumbs up!
Emile - Seems like a good guy. Love his work ethic and that he wasn't afraid to stand up to that jerk Don. Kudos. I don't think he is as cute as he thinks he is. I'm with Connie on this one. But I would like to see him stick around a bit more.
Rocky - OMG, where do I begin? She is basically this season's "Samantha" from season one, with a good helping of weirdness. I'm sure a therapist could tell us why Rocky is always staring at the ceiling and weaving her head back and forth. At the risk of being silly, I'll guess that maybe she hit her head on one of those high diving boards she was jumping off of. Even I know that the higher you go on the boat, more profound the effect of the waves and I've never set foot on a yacht. So you cannot equate standing still on a high dive platform, to swaying back and forth in the ocean at very high heights next to a revolving radar.
Amy - love her, took too much crap from Kate last year. Hope she gets to be head stewardess at some point hopefully with Kate and Kat under her. :-)
Leon - apparently a good chef at some things and a complete asshole at others. Who doesn't know to have a plan B for food if the guests com back empty handed from fishing. Who serves spaghetti as a Mexican dish? And if the guests give you a specific time frame for their meal why do you think you don't have to follow it? But I would love to eat his food.
Connie - love her attitude. a bit easy if you take your clothes off for anyone who says "Wanna go fishing?"
Capt Lee - yes!
