Not actual terror, but Dopers who suggested this FX (AMC?) series. I’m gobbling the show up and started reading the novel last week.
The series is one of a few that I’d recommend watching before reading the novel. I liked having a vivid image of what the ice and ship look like.
So, thanks!
My wife wants to watch this, but missed out.
Last Sunday, they ran a bunch back-to-back. So I DVR’ed them.
They are completely out of order! :mad:
I was hoping this might be the new ‘Walking Dead’. It looked intriguing, but I watched an episode or two and was…eh…
I haven’t watched any of it yet (but I’ve heard rumors…), but I gotta say, I have real problems with stuff based on actual horrific events that feel the need to jiggy it up.
A dry-ass PBS documentary (narrated by David McCullough) on the horrors of The Terror would be good enough for me.
Now, where is that lead-sealed can of beer I had sitting around…
I have a copy of the novel sitting on my shelf but haven’t started it yet. I’m fascinated by the history of the Franklin Expedition (read several nonfiction tomes about it), but not sure it needs the addition of Scary Monsters.
Anybody know why I can’t stream this from the AMC website? It asks me to log in to my cable provider, which I do, but then it keeps asking me to log in.
This is one of those weird cases where I think the book and the tv show are completely different things, and they wanted them to be that way. The tv show is Masterpiece Theater with some scary bits. It’s mostly in your head. There’s something scary out there, but your imagination does most of the work. It’s also beautiful, and very British. A lovely, atmospheric drama.
The book does a better job of sharing exactly what a knob the commander Franklin was, and at the same time sharing the supernatural elements. The scares come from different places. We know the men were doomed by the idiotic antics of their superior officer and we know that the terror that stalks them is real, not imagined.
I think they are both well worth seeing and reading.
Was Franklin really known to be a knob, though, or did the author take unfortunate liberties with the character?
The Scary Monster to whom the crew must sacrifice so much and offers only death in return is the Arctic, of course.
I had this problem with another show. The “fix” was two fold.
1.) I was choosing the “wrong” cable provider. Apparently it’s not TWC anymore, even though that option was available. It was Spectrum. (either that or I was choosing Spectrum when I should have been choosing TWC. I can’t recall exactly, but it was something along those lines)
2.) It didn’t like my Chrome browser for some reason. I had to use IE.
I guess that doesn’t bother me because it’s obviously false stuff. Alternate history, alternate reality, “What if…” type things. I don’t expect any of the characters to match their real-life namesakes in anything but name and broad strokes (he was the captain, etc) and certainly don’t think their depictions are reflections on who they really were.
There’s enough Hollywood taking liberties with events and portraying them as the True Story Of… that I can’t get worked up about unfortunate ice-locked sailors being hunted by a mystical murder-bear in an obvious work of fiction.
It’s fiction, so it doesn’t really matter. I will probably go and check at some point, just out of curiosity. In the book, Franklin is very much a prideful idiot whose decisions doom his men, and the creature is definitely supernatural.
I’m using Chrome. Maybe I’ll give IE a shot.
I’ve always thought of Franklin as a total knob. His job in the Arctic was like the John the Baptist to Robert Falcon Scott’s JC of supreme knobbery in the Antarctic in 1912.
What IS it about the British brain once you get it cold…?