History Buffs: The Terror

After a long wait here is The Terror! Hope you enjoy the review as much as I loved making it!

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[nomduclavier]

"Yes, these are our ships, 'Terror' and 'Darkness'; we predict a jolly good time"

[jdrvargo]

"Erebus" means darkness in ancient Greek. So the ships were named "Darkness" and "Terror"

It was like they wanted it to be a doomed expedition

[robpolaris]

It never fails to amaze me how people who have never missed a meal, judge people staving to death.

[synsrfem]

As a Canadian this story has always fascinated and terrified me. One of my honours supervisors in my undergrad was Owen Beatty, the anthropologist who helped identify lead poisoning as the cause of death when the graves were found. I remembered being a child seeing the frozen corpse in its coffin on the cover of National Geographic in the grocery store. I haven't seen the movie as I'm currently single and I am sure I would need to be held to sleep after. Like Scott's expedition to the South Pole, even living in Northern Alberta is enough to make you truly understand how powerful the Canadian arctic is.

[stephgreen]

My husband was on one of the missions to find the Hms Terror with the Royal Canadian Navy. Unfortunately the mission he was on failed, it was the very next mission that found the HMS Terror. The navy along with research ships found the HMS Terror with the help of Inuit guides. It turns out the Inuits had passed on the location of the ship to their descendents. Without their help who knows when the ships would have been found.
Anyway, I thought you may enjoy this little story. I enjoyed your review and will definitely sit down and watch this mini series.

[Migzter]

I really like how they designed the 'tuunbaq'. It looks like an oversized Polar Bear from afar but looking at it closely show eerie human-like characteristics like the eyes, the hands and feet, even it's teeth. It really fits the biological aesthetic of its mythical description that of a human spirit inhabiting an animal.

[wrongwayconway]

I just started watching this series yesterday. This made news in Canada quite a few times when each ship was discovered. I remember the Inuit in the area kept telling researchers where Franklin's ship was...no one seemed to take their handed down knowledge as legit. Ha, turns out the Inuit were right all along.

[Dankalank]

Geez, those five men who got sick in Greenland must've initially felt so bad about missing out on the expedition. Turns out they were the lucky ones in the end :x

[mitsvanmitsvanio]

So nobody commented about calling them the astronauts of the day? This is one of the best lines and comparisons you can hear.

[RawbeardX]

I LOVE that the Royal Navy had ships called Erebus and Terror. there even had a ship named Vampire! like... wtf. I love it

[tauriusmagnamus]

Everyone: "-40C? or -40F?"


HB: "yes"

[NathanielTavington]

Not only the food, but the Terror and Erebus also had water purification systems that used lead pipes. So even if the lead poisoning didn't come from the canned food, it definitely came from the water.

[samualwatkins]

This was always my favorite bit of history, that we invented canned food like fifty years before we figured out a good way of opening them.

[mirtexxan]

Polar bear + lead poisoning hallucinations = monster?

[TheMrJogador]

The thing is, this series plays around with Magical Realism, which is to blend the barrier between reality and fantasy until you're not entirely sure what's being depicted. When you see the bear and it turns out it's a dark spirit of sorts, it's not because it's literally a monster hunting them down. What you're seeing really is most likely a normal polar bear, but one that a crew of starved, ill and paranoid men believed to be something much worse. The story is told from their POV, so it makes sense it's completely taken to the extreme.

[rippingtore]

Love seeing my inuit brethren represented in today's media, I rarely get to hear our language heard in movies. Great review and like everyone else's comments, we've missed your work Nakumek Thank you

[shonzee]

That's what a spirit bear looks like when you're tripping on botulism.

[WalesGaming]

Every time I see him, I still think of Julius Caesar. He really nailed that role.

[RacinZilla]

Is there a way to request the legendary Das Boot???

Not just one of the greatest war movies ever made, one of the greatest suspense films!

[yuoma]

ah, the final voyages of the famous ships "Suicide Mission", and the SS "NOTGONNAMAKEIT"