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#my beautiful wife #amazing!!!#the terror #the terror amc #james fitzjames #rb

Stories often use their characters as mouthpieces for the narrative and/or the writer, and I am fascinated by the Terror's take on this, because the characters are so often wrong.

For example, consider the conversation between Blanky and Francis in episode 7, when they are about to abandon the ships. Blanky tells a story about the time the Terror almost sank only to come thru in the end and concludes about the present day "she may well triumph" with perfect sincerity of belief. In another show, one can imagine the Terror coming thru for the walking men just when all hope seemed lost, following a thaw. And yet, we know even as Blanky says those words, that the ship is doomed--it will never sail again.

And this keeps happening through out the show. Bridgens tells Peglar about the men who found themselves in hostile country in Persia, who "walked for hundreds and hundreds of miles through desert and snow, with no food," and survived, when we know they very much so will not. Lady Jane speaks with utmost conviction about being able to feel Sir John calling to her when we know that Sir John is long dead. The examples go on and on.

The most interesting thing this does is that it makes statements that would otherwise be read as the writer's ultimate verdict on the topic into these beautifully nuanced and ambivalent things. For example, Bridgens tells a dying Fitzjames that he was a good man. Was he? He who is being poetically killed by the ghost of a Chinese sniper whose worth he once equated to a roasted duck? Is self-awareness and remorse enough to make up for that when it makes no tangible difference in the real world?

Francis tells Goodsir that "even if God is seeing every last thing we do here, you have nothing to fear. Not you. You're clean, Goodsir. Clean--even if your hand is forced by swine." Such a resounding statement which in any other context would have absolved Goodsir of everything he has done. But does it? Goodsir certainly does not accept the absolution himself, and his suicide is...something.

I could go on, and I am not saying that as a result Goodsir is damned and James an awful man--rather that I love the way we are invited to interrogate these verdicts and decide for ourselves.

#absolutely love this about it #let the audience consider it for themselves #love the characters and the writing deeply #the terror #the terror amc #rb

wonderstruck

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky #finally i am getting to it #and also paradise lost by john milton #which i am also finally getting to </3

fluoresensitives

(smoking a cigarette) the average american is afraid of what is new and what is foreign, and especially of what is adult. they are trapped forever in daycares of their own design, reading books and watching shows made for children. And while there are interesting things made for children, by and large, they tend to stick to inoffensive, intensely juvenile things that won't challenge them much. And worst of all, if you suggest to your Average American that they should try to step outside of their narrow box, especially if they're trying to become artists, animators, film makers, novelists, etc, everyone acts as if you've just bombed the daycare. Wow.

forcibly pulling myself from my art rut

#the terror #the terror amc #john irving #jirving #for my jirving friends #cornelius hickey #like that lucifer statue #sir john franklin #james fitzjames #ft jacko

sanhunpo

Wanted to draw smth out of my comfort zone and to experiment with techniques more, (struggled a lot due to it) but really I just really liked looking and drawing Isabelle adjani :)

#GORGEOUS #BEAUTIFUL #possession #isabelle adjani #rb