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primeideal) wrote2024-09-08 07:17 pm
primeideal) wrote2024-09-08 07:17 pm
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Prime liveblogs: The Terror (AMC 2018)
Okay so I said this was close to, but not quite, my id, based on what I'd osmosed, so it was like "keep me posted but I'm not actually going to get out of my way to get access." And then it came to a streaming service I had access to already, so it's like...yeah, might as well try. And I do think that "close to, but not quite, my id" is fair. Like, I don't super care about the flashbacks/awkward romance/delusions of grandeur type stuff. And I was worried about sameface issues, however, I was able to mostly tell apart the main characters successfully so could be worse. That said, when it came to keeping track of the minor characters, that's harder. (RIP, Old Guy Who Gave Book About Ancient Greeks to Young Guy He Likes.) Medium-adaptation wise, this is the kind of thing where with a book you could pause, flip over to a map, compare the place names then in use to contemporary ones. Here it's like...are we near Canada yet? Is this still Greenland? IDK.
Episode 1:
Interesting choice starting with the frame story. Makes sense given all the drama of the searches/aftermath/pop culture infiltration.
"Three courses and a dessert" yes, this and the fancy plates are fancy foreshadowing, I get it.
"Please don't dissect me" good start.
And the prize for nominative determinism goes to "Dr. Goodsir"
Is that a little monkey on the ship? What? Why? (Update from future episodes...yes.)
Episode 2:
Seeing them carrying guns around this early is a little unnerving, like what are they expecting? Polar bears? Unfriendly natives?
Episode 3:
Francis should be pulling the "I told you so" card. But...it sounds like he was too cynical during the previous episodes?
Wait a minute, he's captain now, so he can send a rescure party...okay yeah he's doing just that.
Episode 4:
Jane :handshake meme: Crozier
Franklin is a nice guy but kinda incompetent
Love the aurora!
I don't need to watch this squick of the guy with his head chopped open :/
I love the drum. Like, yeah, we're going to have these brutal and unpleasant corporal punishments, but at least we will have well-organized music during it.
"Where does it hurt?" "The front of my head." "Well at least it's not too bright." Yeah, relatable.
Episode 5:
Dr. Stanley :handshake meme: me
I have no friends that ever invite me to weddings :(
In the year '39...the whaler's tooth exploded. Catchy.
You know it's going well when you have a "Dead Room."
The poor guy on the ropes, he tried so hard. :(
Odysseus tying himself up? (In reference to Francis trying to quit drinking.)
Episode 6:
Is there any way they can make things less hierarchical between the officers and enlisted men? Or will that just lead to a downbreak of "standards" ie shaving?
Is the guy with the fire Collins? [Note from future episodes: no.] Seems kinda over-the-top at this point.
Episode 7:
Is the "almost fifty" people we're expecting in the rescue party the same as the scouts from episode 3? I thought there were, like, eight of them?
What is the thought process on leaving a few guys behind with the ship? Are they too sick to walk? Were they drafted? Volunteers?
Lady Silence: "You need to leave here." Crozier: "Okay, I am sending an advance party to get help." Advance party *gets eaten by a bear* Like, what were they supposed to do, this is kinda Too Bleak, Stopped Caring
"Dr. Goodsir is lying to us" meme headline of "Horrifying: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point."
Nearly 100 versus 40 people, I am confused about numbers.
Episode 8:
Fitzjames: "I walked all the way across Asia and Europe to be a spy" Is there fic of this??
"What would a biographer say"--frame stories and legacy, again"There isn't enough game so let's kill people who might know where to find food" I feel like he isn't even that bright at treason.
Further to "How many people are there"--how many people are in on the secret plan? The more of them there are, the higher risk of it being counterproductive (you still have too many people) and/or blowing your cover!
Crozier is genre savvy at least.
Episode 9:
"There will be poems" I'm sure this is what adventurer James would want and I'm also sure they're going to be full of over-the-top Victorian sentimentality.
Crozier really be like "I have no more forks to give"
I would be happy for Blanky finding the Northwest passage if I had some sense of...a map...or what he's looking at that lets him tell it's the right place?
Episode 10:
So, the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke all tell the story of the Last Supper in about the same way--Jesus takes the bread and wine and says "this is my body, given for you; this is my blood, shed for you." Metaphorical Cannibalism Hour! The Gospel of John tells a different story about the same event: Jesus washes the disciples' feet (because the feet are the body part that gets dusty and grimy from walking everywhere). Peter: "whoa, no, you're never going to wash my feet." Jesus: "unless I wash you, you have no share with me." Peter: "well in that case, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!" Jesus: "someone who has washed doesn't need to wash again, except for their feet, but is already clean. And you are clean, although not all of you." Narrator: "This is an allusion to the fact that one of them was about to betray him, hint hint."
Cleanliness/foot washing as an alternative POV on eating flesh...this has to be purposeful, right??
And not only does Silna have her tongue cut out but she gets exiled too :( I feel like Goodsir and Crozier should have roleswapped and then Goodsir and Silna could have made up their own sign language or something. I don't know.
In conclusion: I was sold on/osmosed the cannibalism/heroic sacrifice/uncomfortable mercy kill stuff and we don't get any till episode 9 out of 10. I'm not sure what that says about me. :/ But yeah, the evil polar bear monster/flashbacks to the Empire/imperialism is the real monster here mkay stuff isn't really my thing, and that's fine.
Fic recs welcome, if you have any that you think would be RTMI.
Episode 1:
Interesting choice starting with the frame story. Makes sense given all the drama of the searches/aftermath/pop culture infiltration.
"Three courses and a dessert" yes, this and the fancy plates are fancy foreshadowing, I get it.
"Please don't dissect me" good start.
And the prize for nominative determinism goes to "Dr. Goodsir"
Is that a little monkey on the ship? What? Why? (Update from future episodes...yes.)
Episode 2:
Seeing them carrying guns around this early is a little unnerving, like what are they expecting? Polar bears? Unfriendly natives?
Episode 3:
Francis should be pulling the "I told you so" card. But...it sounds like he was too cynical during the previous episodes?
Wait a minute, he's captain now, so he can send a rescure party...okay yeah he's doing just that.
Episode 4:
Jane :handshake meme: Crozier
Franklin is a nice guy but kinda incompetent
Love the aurora!
I don't need to watch this squick of the guy with his head chopped open :/
I love the drum. Like, yeah, we're going to have these brutal and unpleasant corporal punishments, but at least we will have well-organized music during it.
"Where does it hurt?" "The front of my head." "Well at least it's not too bright." Yeah, relatable.
Episode 5:
Dr. Stanley :handshake meme: me
I have no friends that ever invite me to weddings :(
In the year '39...the whaler's tooth exploded. Catchy.
You know it's going well when you have a "Dead Room."
The poor guy on the ropes, he tried so hard. :(
Odysseus tying himself up? (In reference to Francis trying to quit drinking.)
Episode 6:
Is there any way they can make things less hierarchical between the officers and enlisted men? Or will that just lead to a downbreak of "standards" ie shaving?
Is the guy with the fire Collins? [Note from future episodes: no.] Seems kinda over-the-top at this point.
Episode 7:
Is the "almost fifty" people we're expecting in the rescue party the same as the scouts from episode 3? I thought there were, like, eight of them?
What is the thought process on leaving a few guys behind with the ship? Are they too sick to walk? Were they drafted? Volunteers?
Lady Silence: "You need to leave here." Crozier: "Okay, I am sending an advance party to get help." Advance party *gets eaten by a bear* Like, what were they supposed to do, this is kinda Too Bleak, Stopped Caring
"Dr. Goodsir is lying to us" meme headline of "Horrifying: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point."
Nearly 100 versus 40 people, I am confused about numbers.
Episode 8:
Fitzjames: "I walked all the way across Asia and Europe to be a spy" Is there fic of this??
"What would a biographer say"--frame stories and legacy, again"There isn't enough game so let's kill people who might know where to find food" I feel like he isn't even that bright at treason.
Further to "How many people are there"--how many people are in on the secret plan? The more of them there are, the higher risk of it being counterproductive (you still have too many people) and/or blowing your cover!
Crozier is genre savvy at least.
Episode 9:
"There will be poems" I'm sure this is what adventurer James would want and I'm also sure they're going to be full of over-the-top Victorian sentimentality.
Crozier really be like "I have no more forks to give"
I would be happy for Blanky finding the Northwest passage if I had some sense of...a map...or what he's looking at that lets him tell it's the right place?
Episode 10:
So, the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke all tell the story of the Last Supper in about the same way--Jesus takes the bread and wine and says "this is my body, given for you; this is my blood, shed for you." Metaphorical Cannibalism Hour! The Gospel of John tells a different story about the same event: Jesus washes the disciples' feet (because the feet are the body part that gets dusty and grimy from walking everywhere). Peter: "whoa, no, you're never going to wash my feet." Jesus: "unless I wash you, you have no share with me." Peter: "well in that case, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!" Jesus: "someone who has washed doesn't need to wash again, except for their feet, but is already clean. And you are clean, although not all of you." Narrator: "This is an allusion to the fact that one of them was about to betray him, hint hint."
Cleanliness/foot washing as an alternative POV on eating flesh...this has to be purposeful, right??
And not only does Silna have her tongue cut out but she gets exiled too :( I feel like Goodsir and Crozier should have roleswapped and then Goodsir and Silna could have made up their own sign language or something. I don't know.
In conclusion: I was sold on/osmosed the cannibalism/heroic sacrifice/uncomfortable mercy kill stuff and we don't get any till episode 9 out of 10. I'm not sure what that says about me. :/ But yeah, the evil polar bear monster/flashbacks to the Empire/imperialism is the real monster here mkay stuff isn't really my thing, and that's fine.
Fic recs welcome, if you have any that you think would be RTMI.