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You guys cannot fathom how badly I love people who have massive, uncomfortable feelings and old-fashioned souls leaking with love to be spread all around. It’s beyond me to want to get to know these individuals & be loved by them… I was clearly sent into this world to preserve plus value what is perceived as their weirdness…

The scene in The Terror Episode 2 where the last lead party returns (sans Lieut. Gore, plus Silna & her father) and Franklin goes "where's Graham?" When they're still like, 200 metres away makes more sense when you know that the actual Graham Gore, this guy

Was an ABSOLUTE UNIT of a man. Above six-foot in height and broad-built with it too. The actor Tom Weston-Jones, who is lovely and does his best with a limited role, is 6' scratch and just doesn't have the sheer size of the man.

(from a tumblr post of how to pick which one is Gore - he's hat-pompom-guy).

I don't think they changed the script to reflect that it would be hard for Franklin to see that Gore isn't there (given the actor is regular sized) versus it being easy to tell he's not there (the real man was an absolute unit!).

I wish they'd found a big fella to play Graham, rip big sexy, I just love a unit of man in a uniform <3

Terror re-rewatch, episode 1. Really struck this time round by the contrast in 'manner' between Mr Goodsir (I'm using the mister here for a reason) and Dr Stanley. The historical men had different training (hence Mr - a designation of someone *without* a degree in medicine vs Dr) but also vastly different *experiences*. Dr Stanley was a war surgeon (after his training as a doctor), and per history as well as in Fitzjames' own story in the show, he served in a combat theatre, being the one who saved Fitzjames' life after the Chinese sniper wound. I think that really informs the clever choice they made to cast such an austere looking fella as Alistair Petrie and how he acts -- this is a character that's seen *a lot* of death, and has a requisite coldness about it when David Young is dying. It really contrasts him to Goodsir, who trained as an anatomist and doesn't have a medical degree (and this is his first voyage/service as a surgeon) - how much death has Goodsir actually seen? How much does that inform how 'clumsy but caring' he acts with David Young? So interesting.

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Proof Harry D.S. Goodsir wasn't a doctor *yet* -- readable handwriting!

Obsessed with how in the Erebus muster book all of the officer’s signature are super fancy and neat and then you have Goodsir…

Bless his little heart

I just have to shout out the sound designers on the Terror. On my rewatch (from 'Horrible from Supper' onwards), I'm really noticing how straight up disturbing the sounds are for some pivotal scenes. The Jirv murder with the off-key song, Jopson's crawling scene (I'm sure there are more but these two spring most immediately). Does anyone know if they used infrasound or some other low-frequency effects? I swear I'm getting the heebie-jeebies from the sounds alone!

Wish you were here!?!?! No will not be normal about this!

Davechella #8: Thomas Blanky

Happy Sunday, campers! Dave's playlist for the eighth week of #Davechella is for Thomas Blanky. ✨🎶

Listen here:

For last week's Irving playlist, Ronan Raftery chose "Old Note" by Lisa O'Neill.

Keep your own amazing character playlists coming using #davechella! ✨🎶

So I need to babble about a contrast I noticed between two 'cold boys in boats' shows: The Terror and The North Water. So, in The North Water, Jack O'Connell is wonderful as ship's surgeon Patrick Sumner.

But, and this is a regretful but, a decision made by his character/the show's writers just straight up *busted* the show for me. He's supposedly (due to complex backstory reasons) addicted to laudanum/opium. Yet, in the third ep, he apparently decides to send *his whole supply* off with someone else, to somewhere else, and, it being the heckin' arctic, therefore loses it. I remember straight-up pausing the show to go rant to my partner "Is it this bitch's first day as a drug addict? He didn't even keep *any* on his person at all times? Come the heck on!"

Where in The Terror, after three years stuck in ice, this absolute madlad, Mr Blanky, still has his tobacco for his last smoke, on his person, at all times:

And gleefully takes it while waiting for the monsterbear to kill him. *That's* a sailor with an addiction I can believe in!

too many frozen boys!

From @leadandblood

Couldn't leave it in the reblog tags, so poignant that they might be having "goodbye dinner" 😭

The Terror Rewatch: episode 3. Does anyone know anything about why they still set Lieut. Gore's place at the wardroom table?

Just seems absolutely peculiar to me that they're setting his place out at the table (nice china & silverware and all) when he's died.