Kolya on 11/4/2021 at 22:48
I watched The Terror, just finished actually. Early on it reminded me of a Titanic story, the way you knew from the start that everyone in it was doomed. I really enjoyed the psychological portraits it painted and the development of emotional connections particularly between the most unlikely pair: Francis Crozier and James Fitzjames. I didn't enjoy Mr. Hickey's corruption starting with homosexual relations. It seemed like a perpetuation of Victorian morals that a guy who enjoys butt sex with another man would also relish in all sort of other unspeakable acts.
The atmosphere of the series was extremely oppressive from the start and their situation just got worse and worse. So many times I thought: Okay, that's it, now they're done for! And I didn't mind the paranormal component as much as I thought I would, because it was well grounded in this world. The end I'm not sure about yet.
Why did Crozier hide among the Netsilik people? With his emotional connection Silna gone, what kept him there? I can imagine he was guilt ridden for failing his men, but previously he also talked about bringing their wives and children closure, by getting back and telling their stories. Wasn't this the last service he owed them?If you enjoyed this series I can recommend reading (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(book)) The Lost city of Z about British explorer Percy Fawcett.
demagogue on 11/4/2021 at 23:56
Quote Posted by Kolya
The end I'm not sure about yet.
Why did Crozier hide among the Netsilik people? With his emotional connection Silna gone, what kept him there? I can imagine he was guilt ridden for failing his men, but previously he also talked about bringing their wives and children closure, by getting back and telling their stories. Wasn't this the last service he owed them?My answer to this is that
the Crozier that stayed wasn't exactly the one we knew, but the one two years later after he'd already gotten married and had a kid in this society who wouldn't have wanted to go with him and whom he wouldn't want to leave (I think). But plus I think the show made clear he had nothing to go back to, and the connections he had weren't worth it to him.
And the answer to your last question is exactly what the last scenes of the last episode were about. He did pay that last service when he made sure the story got conveyed to the explorers that finally arrived. That was my interpretation, anyway.
Kolya on 12/4/2021 at 00:27
Interesting interpretation. I didn't think that that the kid might be his own. But I like that.
I did think about him passing on their story through the Netsilik clan head. But it is hardly a history of what happened, he just says they're all dead. And he must have known that the account of an Eskimo wouldn't count for much in Victorian society. In fact it put the clan head in considerable danger to say anything at all.
Tocky on 12/4/2021 at 00:42
I haven't seen the end yet. I got to Hickey's stabby scene and could see the doom set in for any help from the locals and set it aside for awhile.
I watched "I Care a Lot" instead and it's a very memorable film for a number of reasons. It's rare that you like a movie that hasn't a decent person in it. Mostly, you root for the lead characters to die, horribly in the worst possible way, if it can be arranged. It's about health care and a bureaucracy that lets it be abused for profit. But one set of evil people accidentally butt heads with another set who are more direct in their methods. I can't say everyone got what they deserved but some did. The sad part is that one can easily see this happening in the America of today. When morality and empathy are given over to greed then it isn't such a stretch. In the last four years we have seen a man worshipped for his wealth and all truth sacrificed for power.
Kolya on 12/4/2021 at 01:01
I watched a few episodes of "I Care a Lot" and frankly I couldn't stomach how the series celebrates this detestable woman. Especially because it all seemed so believable.
I don't like watching something just to root for the main character to die. Doesn't seem healthy.
Tocky on 12/4/2021 at 01:46
I was speaking of the movie. They made a series out of it? Given how the movie ended I don't know how. Are you sure it wasn't something else?
And she was certainly detestable. I couldn't watch her for any repeated times. That would be a drain on the spirit. Already I have to face that I wanted her to suffer. Too often in life there are no consequences for evil except monetary compensation for perpetrating it.
Edit: I'm reminded of Marsha Blackburn, a senator from Tennessee, who passed a bill during Republican majority rule that made it more difficult for big pharma to be prosecuted for pushing opioids. She was paid handsomely in campaign contributions and is still enjoying the fruits of her evil today. All I can do is remind her on her facebook page every so often that not all of us are rubes, not that it matters because enough are in Tennessee to keep voting her back in. She sticks it to those dirty liberals who want to ban Dr. Suess books (though that is a lie and the Dr. Suess estate just took some questionable books out of sales on their own). Get those liberals Marsha! Take that money for evil and go get them!
Kolya on 12/4/2021 at 08:06
Ah yeah, we mean the same thing and it's a movie of course. Sorry for the confusion. I tend to binge watch series so I don't always remember the format. I stopped watching the movie after the old lady was moved to the old people's home and they started selling her stuff.
Kolya on 14/4/2021 at 00:34
I watched Bram Stoker's Dracula when it came out in the cinema. And I vaguely remember being disappointed, because despite all its apparent will for grandezza it looked kinda cheap and obviously filmed on studio sets.
That was almost 30 years ago. Fuck, I really thought it was 20 years...how does that even work?
Anyway, I read (
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/bram-stoker-dracula-visual-effects-francis-ford-coppola/) an article about the film lately and it filled me in on what had happened: Francis Ford Coppola meant to film it without any CGI effects and relied solely on old fashioned in-camera effects, smoke and mirrors. The studios feared it would be a costly project but his pitch was that he could do it on sound stages completly. As had been done in the old times.
It had been Winona Ryder who asked him to do a Dracula movie and it turned out Coppola had been a fan of the story since he was a kid. Gary Oldman played Dracula; back in 1992 I didn't know much about him, but he went on to play the greatest villains ((
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmR-fB2qeA0) Leon, (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt1W0F0yObg) 5th Element). And Tom Waits played Dracula's convert Renfield. A musician turned actor I thought; now I know what a great actor he became. (And that Winona (
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=winona+ryder+to+waits) was and is his fan.)
So I watched it again. And what can I say: I'm still not a huge fan of the crammed feeling of its sets. Knowing the reasons I didn't mind the old school effects as much. But mainly I thoroughly enjoyed a whole cast of great actors at the top of their game.
• (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWsAMYBRHt8) Bram Stoker's Dracula [complete film on youtube, 720p]
• (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvSqFcGr5LU) The Blood Is The Life - The Making of Dracula [docu on youtube]
demagogue on 19/4/2021 at 07:45
This is a pretty awesome scifi short somebody made, "Slice of Life".
[video=youtube;uyn0cLCMKsM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyn0cLCMKsM[/video]
Starker on 19/4/2021 at 22:47
It's well done, but we don't have such flimsy ATMs even in our regular, not that much cyberpunk world. Still, very impressive otherwise.