I've only seen the first three eps, but at the end of the second ep he says he took care of the guards on the ship... while picking his teeth. On the third ep he's hanging with the girl from the other ship and at the end he's serving the crew meat "from an angel".
Has anyone else caught the insinuation or am I mistaken?
No, and yes. In that order.
shareAnd I'd say yes, and no, in [i]that[i/] order. Although, I don't think that he's a hard-core cannibal, just an opportunist. And, while we're thinking about the cook, has he ever left the ship? I admit I haven't seen every episode, but he seems kind of [i]attached[i/] to it.
shareI absolutely thought he had killed and cooked the guards, but never thought he'd killed the girl: he was obviously having a great time talking shop with her, I didn't see any hint of his wanting to hurt her. His "angel" gave him food that he later cooked for the crew (after all, she came from a very rich ship, so it's not much of a stretch to conclude she decided to share some of her provisions with her new friend).
"Occasionally I'm callous and strange."
I think the most important thing to consider is that, as the show has progressed, it felt like there were quite a few hidden parts to each of the crew which were meant to gradually unfold in time.
Each episode reveals more about the various crewmembers and how they are developed, and I think that's pretty cool as it shows that they have more developed backgrounds than were let on.
For example - when dealing with the wedding to "Death" - I kept thinking it very odd that Cook had a very powerful connection to not only the ship, but also sensed the presence of Death first.
I wondered (at that episode) - if it was meant as a coincidence that we never heard his real name. He is simply "Cook". Who is he really? Could he be more than just a simple cook? Or even more than just a man? If so, what could it be? Well, perhaps a djinn, or something like that, but maybe in disguise as a human? And could "Cook" be an alias to something, even as Death had its alias?
The thing is, it felt like a lot of subtle potential for development here. I also felt like if we had more time we could find out what happens next. More details, more information about the people who are on the ship would come out, I think, in time.
In a way it reminded me a bit of the show Firefly - I always wondered about the backstory to Shepherd Book - I wondered if he was an Alliance Magistrate or Judge or military officer and had sentenced people to horrible death's in the name of the Alliance's "justice" and that's he became a "shepherd" - to attain penance for his sins.
Much like Cook, though, I don't think we'll ever know the full details here, as I read that Sinbad was canceled.
But then again, we might. They may do a comic book follow-up, or something like that. We'll just have to see.
p.s. I find it an unusual coincidence to see you on this thread, too - or maybe it's a coincidence that I'm on this board that you posted on... You either post quite a bit on lots of threads, or it seems we have very similar tastes in things :)
Hello Dain! Well I just had a quick look at your post history and yes, it does seem we share similar tastes for TV shows! All the more so now you mention Firefly and how similar Sheperd Book's and Cook's backstories could have been... Shame they didn't renew Sinbad: it wasn't the best thing ever but it certainly had great potential.
"Occasionally I'm callous and strange."
I agree with you completely about the element of potential.
I think that the show had a lot of good actors involved in it, and it had a lot of good story brewing in the background to keep me interested.
I just felt like its biggest problem was that the show seemed to have a dual creative team. One part of the team wanted to do episodes when Death came to meet the crew and there was plague and destruction. The other episode has “zany” adventures when the crew is sitting in a “casino” that looks like a very bad Caesar’s Palace.
What really hurt is that they have both the style and the ability to have done better. For example – the casino? They could have had the people using dice more similar to the ones used in the ancient world, instead of obviously gaudy “casino-style’ looking dice. They could have the gambling games used by Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and so on. Given the whole place the feel of a “Senet House” from ancient Egypt, or something like that.
It seemed to flip-flop back and forth between cool ideas and foolish ideas. If they did foolish ideas, the darker episodes would alienate the people who liked things silly. If they did darker episodes the “zany” episodes felt annoying.
But, like you said, lots of good potential. Oh well, Sinbad has always been a good concept, but it always ends up feeling so weak when it's on screen. If they can do "Pirates of the Caribbean" decently, why not this?
Oh well, I'll just have to content myself with watching more Vikings, it seems :)
I wonder where he keeps the fava beans and cianti?
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I think eatomson's replies are accurate. I think the cook did kill the guards from the second episode for meat, but I'm pretty sure he didn't kill the girl from episode 3. I think the cook is the spirit of Sinbad's ship (like eatomson said), and that he's loyal to Sinbad, because Sinbad saved him from the tidal wave. I think the girl from the 3rd episode was the spirit of that rich guy's ship, and that's why she and the cook got along so well. Interestingly, she served as the cook on her ship, too. I think she shared some of her ship's stores with the cook, because she's a spirit being like he is, which is why the cook refers to her as an angel.
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