The Terror

I’ve actually googled the ending before watching the last couple of episodes which is cowardly of me. I did so initially because I couldn’t work out what was happening but I just kept on going. I am struggling a bit with the doctor being the nice funny guy from Motherland though. I didn’t realise the series was a few years old: thought it was more recent. It hadn’t dawned in me that the captain was the actor from Chernobyl. Yet again I find it strange that I’m looking on something like this as escapism from real life! It seems to happen to me quite a lot these days!

Well I just watched the last episode on iPlayer. That was intense

I also have the answer on the gold chains, after Googling it, but I'll wait until the last episode's been on TV before I say anything!

Right, Line of Duty next!

Damn!!?

Alegrias1

I thought it explained it well without any spoilers at all ilovecheese !

A spoiler would be my telling you that in the last episode, the SAS helicopter in and rescue all the goodies and Captain Crozier is reunited with his true love - oh and Goodsir marries Lady Silent and they have lots of fur clad adorable little babies. Ohhhh- sorry ?

I thought it explained it well without any spoilers at all ilovecheese !

That is not a spoiler, by the way, just an explanation.

Re the gold chains on the mans face: they were the fabric chains from his gold coloured epaulettes, it was so cold that when the fabric brushed his skin it froze to it, as he tossed and turned about.

Watching last two this weekend some time - maybe then could start separate thread with spoiler alert in title to discuss?

Still got the last one to watch, so no opinion on the gold chains yet.

But what were the forks for?!?!?

I don't mind waiting until everyone's seen it, but I need to know!

Have just watched episodes 7 and 8. Continue to be impressed at how this was filmed and how cold watching it makes me feel.

I’m loving this topic. It’s made me want to read up further on these intrepid explorers. Even the music from the drama sends chills down my spine.

British explorers took advice from "civilized" experts. ‘Primitive’ people who would not be acceptable guests in an upperclass drawing room were not consulted.

Roald Amundsen was an exception to this general rule, consulting the Sami and Inuit about clothing, equipment and supplies. Of course he was not a proper British gentleman either, but instead was a Norwegian explorer who was very familiar with those uncivilized Arctic tribes and their lifestyle.

Fridtjof Nansen who Roald sailed with on Fridtjof's unsuccessful attempt to drift to the north pole with the sea ice is another exception to the general rule, again consulting the Arctic dwelling tribes in order to learn how to survive the conditions they lived in. Again he was not a proper British gentleman, being a Norwegian explorer.

Robert Falcon Scott on the other hand was a proper English gentleman, so he took sensible woven fabric cold weather clothing instead of furs and included horses along with dogs and tractors for transport on the snow. These were perfectly sensible choices for a properly civilized gentleman. After all those Arctic primitives being uncivilized are not worth consulting.

Of these three explorers, guess which one did not return home after his last polar expedition.

I've just got past the "meeting Inuit family on dry land not ending how I expected" bit UG!!

Catch up soon Alegrias then we can chat more freely!
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Try Google and let us know?

It’s a double bill tonight. Goody!

I haven't got to that episode yet so I'll have a go at answering when I get there Currently trying to avoid spoilers here.

Oh come on GNetters! Somebody must have some sort of logical answer to the question.

It's bugging me so much I actually dreamt I had gold chains on my face last night.

supernanauna1

Anybody else got a theory?

To safeguard him in the next life?

Anybody else got a theory?

supernanauna1

I thoroughly enjoyed it although after they left the ships it did start to drag a bit.

But why on earth did that poor dying man near the end have gold chains attached to his face and beard? I couldn't believe what I was seeing! Does anybody know what that bit was about?

And as for Cornelius Hickey - what a horrible man. Ugh.

All cultures have rites and customs around death and dying - I guess some cultures would find embalming pretty odd?

I thoroughly enjoyed it although after they left the ships it did start to drag a bit.

But why on earth did that poor dying man near the end have gold chains attached to his face and beard? I couldn't believe what I was seeing! Does anybody know what that bit was about?

And as for Cornelius Hickey - what a horrible man. Ugh.

Deedaa

I know the song about Franklin that Pentangle recorded.
"In Baffin Bay where the whale fishes blow the fate of Franklin no man may know"

I’ll have a listen

Watched all episodes on Iplayer. All in one go!!!! Could not stop watching

I know the song about Franklin that Pentangle recorded.
"In Baffin Bay where the whale fishes blow the fate of Franklin no man may know"

On a lighter note, does anyone know the song ‘North West Passage’? I love Judy Collins version

Alegrias1

There are no facts though UG, they have no idea what happened to them. So after they sailed into the ice, that would be the end.....until they found the remains in 2004, I think?

I didn't realise it was going to be so much of a horror movie but I am enjoying it.

We do know some things about what happened. However what’s interesting is how Victorian England reacted to the failure of the expedition and how they desperately needed to find someone to blame and not the brave men themselves for some things

“Though research in the 1990s [PDF] and in 2016 strongly supported the cannibalism account, most Victorians thought it inconceivable that Royal Navy men would resort to "the last dread alternative." Charles Dickens captured the racist sentiment of the time when he wrote in his magazine Household Words, "No man can, with any show of reason, undertake to affirm that this sad remnant of Franklin's gallant band were not set upon and slain by the Esquimaux themselves … We believe every savage to be in his heart covetous, treacherous, and cruel." Yet physical evidence collected over the past 160 years has consistently proven the accuracy of Inuit oral histories of the expedition's final days.”

I think this one small example says something very pertinent about how history is initially written up, by whom, whose accounts are given credibility and how it’s nearly always nationalistic and how it needs to be revisited and revised.