"We suspected East was not our brightest star to follow"

I'm currently doing a rewatch of The Terror with my merry band of IRLs known as the Gay Pirates. However, for the duration of our Terror watch, we have rechristened ourselves the Gay Boat Cannibals.

Every time I watch this show—this will be my third watch overall—I realize what a horrible go of it the lieutenants specifically are having. Having just rewatched episode 2, I’m very struck by how haunted Lieutenant Hodgson looks after returning from the leads party—the only other character with that much of a thousand-yard stare that early on is Collins.

And on returning, Sir John tells him, “We suspected East was not our brightest star to follow”

If I were Lt. Hodgson, I’d be wondering, “Did Sir John really just send me out into unknown horrors just to own Captain Crozier?"

I think he did—or at least, that he assigned the Terror lieutenant to the eastern party for not-unrelated reasons.

my favorite anecdote about the franklin expedition ever. brother we are going the wrong way!!!!

The Terror

Is no one going to be not normal with me about the fact that this guy:

YES. THIS MAN:

WROTE THESE?!

OR DO I HAVE TO BE NOT NORMAL ABOUT IT ALL BY MYSELF?!?!!?

They have unionised

Cornelius Hickey is God's least favourite passenger princess

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+ more cringe-fail hickey

terror shitposting (32/?)

sir john plot: i need to find the northwest passage to restore my reputation as an explorer

crozier plot: i must overcome my alcoholism to save this arctic expedition

hickey subplot:

Would you fuck a clone of yourself? Terror edition.

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Live Franklin reaction.

in the evil hell dimension everything is the same except the terror was released in 2016 and there is an intense subsection of the fan community that create the worst highschool aus you’ve ever seen (all 114k words) and they’re obsessed with shoehorning silna and sophia cracroft into a hashtag girlboss relationship to make room for their slash oh also jopson is a cinnamon roll and franklin is always the principal who jfj was adopted by because of mangled tragic backstory and this is his first year in a real school and he’s soooo nervous. also someone needs to be obsessed with a random object or animal that becomes their fandom personality after they mentioned it once in the show i’m thinking goodsir and crabs but i’m open to suggestions. anyways that’s just a peek into my dark and twisted mind. this room will self destruct in

The Terror + Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Because Franklin's funeral and Crozier's drunken eulogy is so eyes emoji I think it gets lost in the shuffle that it completely replaces any sort of memorial for Gore (his name being literally crossed out! no honors or prayers for him! no burial either but that's on the Tuunbaq) despite the fact that it is one of the most succint summaries of the show's themes, namely, Colonialism Bad and Supplanting of Identity.

Like Sir John, Thee Avatar of Empire, takes the very funeral honors and, in Victorian Society, the only chance Gore's immortal soul has of being at peace, because despite him liking Gore very much he still takes and takes and takes because of the corrosive hierarchy they cling to when it will be their ruin. And there's the very literal taking of his name and ceremony over, in the way individual identities and even personhood are eroded, stolen and warped beyond recognition over the course of the show until they are Gone and even Crozier is quite Dead, figuratively, because only Aglooka remains.