The Terror (spoilers)
I thought we could use a thread where we could discuss spoilers about this fantastic, bleak, frightening, amazing show. That said - tonight's episode was a game changer! I did not think Captain Franklin would be taken so soon. I was in shock when the bear took him down the ladder.
The more I watch, the more I just get a pit in my stomach out of dread of what is coming for the rest of the men. It's a rare show that affects me in this way. I don't think I've felt like this since Lost.
The more I watch, the more I just get a pit in my stomach out of dread of what is coming for the rest of the men. It's a rare show that affects me in this way. I don't think I've felt like this since Lost.
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Holy shit last night's episode was bad the fuck ass. I can't believe they offed Mance Rayder so quickly!
Yesterday I got way down a rabbit hole on the Terror.
1st off I read about how not too long ago they discovered the ship and it was a huge fucking deal in the world of archeology, a guilty pleasure of mine. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/hms-terror-wreck-found-arctic-nearly-170-years-northwest-passage-attempt
Then I wondered if being in the miserable conditions...lack of sun, lack of normal days/nights could cause people in the arctic region to go mad. So I googled "arctic madness" and voila - "Piblokto" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piblokto
Next up was a walk down the lane of "Inuit Mythological Monsters" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Inuit_legendary_creatures
Followed of course by checking out pics of this sweet grocery store on King William Island https://tinyurl.com/y7cqvvrt
Then I discovered how the actress that plays Lady Silence, Nive Nielson, is in a band: "Nive & The Deer Children"
Finally I rounded it all off by educating myself on the gruesome fact that cannibalism occurs in stages. The final stage is called "end stage cannibalism", when the poor souls crack bones in half to get after the marrow inside. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/franklins-doomed-arctic-expedition-ended-gruesome-cannibalism-180956054/ ; Researchers in the 80s-90s discovered the bones of the Terror & Erebus crew members and they had knife marks and were broken in half.
So when I watched last night with the cannibalism knowledge in the back of my head, I noticed a heavy motif focusing on food, knives and utensils. The show has had a heavy motif on food from the get go to foreshadow what's to come. It's gonna get gross. The gore in last night's few scenes with "the bear" confirmed this show is not going to pull punches when it comes to gore.
Here's my question though: when they found the man who had been sliced in half, who put the two halves together so that the man was standing upright (or at a slight lean forward)? If the creature sliced his torso from his lower half, fine... but did he pick him up with both claws and gently rest the upper half perfectly in position? Doubtful.
Also - was that tobacco/snuff that Hickey found in the pouch on his hammock when he returned after being treated? Who do we think left it for him... Crozier? His ex-hookup?
I liked Mrs. Franklin confronting the men about the expedition being trapped on the ice. I balked though when the one man said that if they don't hear from them by 1850, they'd act. Uh, that's two more years!
@A_Ron_Hubbard can we please, please have a 2 - 3 hour special Bald TV wrap up pod? if we're not doing a weekly recap, otherwise my membership renewal might be in jeapody :P
Me thinks this will be a retrospective masterpiece.
i wish the boys were covering this show, it is fantastic!
That scene with the bear/spirit demon (I guess?) chasing Blanky up to the crows nest was soooooo frightening!
Our first real view of the Tuunbaq! I'm glad they didn't make it overly supernatural looking. For me, in some ways, it's just as terrifying as a dire-bear than an otherworldly looking creator.
And yes, great action scene and good thinking by Blanky to throw the oil!! The way they shot that, the hit on the Tuunbaq was palpable in my living room!
I'm gonna binge the shit out of this show and then cancel the AMC Premiere.
I may have to do that. It's not like there's a weekly podcast I listen to that accompanies it. There *was*, but after the third episode their production failed and they haven't updated for the past couple of episodes.
Thanks for the tip, @cdrive!