The Terror: The Show, the Book and the History. Episode 5 First Shots a winner lads

[@melinoel616]

If I remember right, researchers found an Inuit dictionary Goodsir was developing during the expedition. Since it was found after Simmons' novel, the show creators added Goodsir interacting with Lady Silence, him creating the dictionary, and their eventual close friendship. Really fucking tragic that Victorian England lost such a fascinating scientist.

[@leow3696]

I do wonder if he could have been a major name in scientific history had he lived. He seems like he was a bright, forward-thinking bloke, and while Paul Ready's casting may not be particularly close to the reality of his age and likely accent, he gave him a kind of Boy Scout-ish eagerness and sweetness.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

I read up on Goodsir too, who knew he and his brother were so important to cell theory! Also, his other brother Robert spent years looking for him...

[@MrsChirpyBird]

I'm really excited about this. I'm currently writing a novel (fiction) and wanted to incorporate Goodsir into the story. If anyone has any good sources I could look into so I can stay historically accurate, I'd greatly appreciate it!

[@lucykwiatek5159]

"Tuunbaq in the tundra! TUUNBAQ IN THE TUNDRA! ...Thought you ought to know."

[@JackAShepherd]

A good band name!

[@bishopp14]

​@@JackAShepherdNo sir. That is a GREAT band name!

[@Jay-qh6uv]

The most astonishing thing in the video is that Blankey and Professor Quirrel are played by the same fucking guy…THE RANGE ON THIS MAN. Could not be two more different characters. And he totally disappears into each role, becoming unrecognizable. A true character actor.

[@asandwell]

At the beginning, when Des Voeux and Le Vesconte are taking readings, they are measuring how the speed of sound is affected by low temperatures and pressures. You can see they have some men on the Terror fire a cannon and time the sound following the flash of the cannon fire, which Des Voeux notes along with the weather readings and then performs a calculation.

[@nameless5413]

YEES! it is back! thank you mistress i do like these dives into series's. (probably more so if you like them since your best so far was Adam Adamant)

[@asandwell]

I do find it curious that so little is known about Stanley. Earlier I referenced Russell Potter's Visions of the North article on him, written while the TV series was airing and I was struck by even Potter's inability to learn much about Erebus's senior medical officer. Potter has always struck me as a thorough, exhaustive, and persistent historian yet all he could find was that Stanley joined the Royal Navy in 1838 as an assistant surgeon, served on the HMS Cornwallis in China in 1841 and '42 with Fitzjames, was promoted apparently while on the Cornwallis, and got married just ten days before he left for the Arctic on the Erebus, most likely to a widow, as his bride had a ten-year-old child from a previous relationship. That's all! Anyone else find that weird?

[@litorres4125]

There’s so many adjacent figures in history who’s lives are unknown since record keeping was what it was

[@skvader4187]

I'm more pissed off that there are no portraits of the officers from the Terror (apart from Irving's which is a couple of years old, Crozier's and a painting of McDonald)

[@cleverusername9369]

It was always my interpretation that the Tuunbaaq was actually just an especially large and aggressive polar bear, but appeared as a monster to the men due to lead poisoning, starvation, and paranoia.

[@kylerstorm9260]

a polar bear that left gifts for Lady Silence and didn’t just eat her? you must not have seen all the episodes

[@asandwell]

Much more is known about the other three medics on the Franklin expedition. We know that Goodsir, Peddie, and McDonald were all Scotsmen who received medical degrees from the University of Edinburgh Medical School(William Battersby opines that the three probably made one another's acquaintances while studying there); Peddie graduated in 1836, McDonald in '38 and Goodsir '40; and records of their places and dates of birth have survived also. That all this information is lacking for Stanley is therefore all the more remarkable.

[@inazone222able]

These videos are great! Please do the entire season!

[@ericgarrison9059]

Please continue the terror review, it's very entertaining, I interested on your comments on the remaining episodes.

[@DiamandaHagan]

Ep7 is half edited, it's v high on my list to do.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Fun fact, Pathfinder made a D&D style monster out of the Tuunbaq. It's huge (aka as large as an elephant), has a long prehensile neck, and can cast frost spells. I assume based more on the book than the tv show, since that did not exist yet. Looking forward to the second season. If you have not seen it yet, Teen Wolf also had a season that dealt with a japanese-american internment camp being haunted by a nogitsune.

[@ZombiiChix]

This show has so many amazing characters. I am watching your videos after finishing the series lol

[@sbird8675]

The drawing of the Tuunbaq drives me crazy because of the penguin. Wrong pole for penguins!!!!

[@DiamandaHagan]

Might be a Great Awk. They went extinct in the mid 1800s.

[@thenumbah1birdman]

@@DiamandaHagan the last pair were killed for their egg, treasured by museums-when their assailants found it was cracked, lowering it's value, they smashed it and strangled the parents. Damn shame.

[@Dresdenflower]

Yes! Thank you for posting!

[@Special_Tactics_Force_Unit]

I love your voice, this is some seriously easy listening

[@DiamandaHagan]

Thanks !

[@Mobysimo]

That filthy surgeon thing is more terrifying than the Toombak

[@asandwell]

I also like how you do an impression of Commander Fitzjames DiamandaHagan, even though we obviously don't know what he sounded like!

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Thanks for letting me know of this show, would not have heard about this show if not for you and Professor Tosspot. I am just watching this - at episode 7 now. :)

[@CanIswearinmyhandle]

Oh boy oh boy! We're gonna learn about the Medusa next time! I'm so exited!!

[@Wanda711]

I don't remember the amputation scenes - I must have had my eyes closed for those!

[@Special_Tactics_Force_Unit]

Goodsir is Bestsir

[@asandwell]

Also, I don't understand why Peddie was all but omitted from the AMC series. The show implies that McDonald is the HMS Terror's chief, and apparently only, surgeon.

[@thenumbah1birdman]

He's mentioned as being dead after the carnivale incident when someone tells goodsir.

[@nomisunrider6472]

One nitpick: It's not known if Liston actually did amputate a man's fingers, but as far as I know the rest is accurate. As far as doctors of this era were concerned, disease was the provenance of the poor and implying that they could transmit it was an insult, so they actively resisted any attempts at sanitation.

[@jonnavdpas]

Really enjoying these!

[@dewittbourchier7169]

Yay it is finally back!

[@operationcreation5583]

Yes great a new video about the terror

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

It’s funny that Crozier is categorized as an alcoholic in the show, given that he’s characterized as being the most knowledgeable about traveling in the cold. Alcohol causes blood vessels beneath the skin to dilate, causing a false sensation of warmth, steals heat from the other organs, and decreases one’s core body temperature. This effect is heightened immensely when taken in tandem with cold weather. I’m not sure if this was known at the time, but if it was, Crozier likely would’ve known better to touch the stuff on the journey even if he DID drink.

[@JackAShepherd]

These are freakin excellent

[@STM1066]

8:50...I see what you did there

[@asandwell]

Another comment: in this episode Lt. Le Vesconte is featured prominently for the first time--he's the one having his toes amputated by Stanley--and I've always thought that for the sake of aesthetic accuracy, the actor playing Le Vesconte and the actor playing Stanley should have switched roles. The guy playing Le Vesconte doesn't look much like the real man but does bear rather a strong resemblance to Stanley, while the chap playing Stanley looks nothing like the real person and if anything more like Le Vesconte!

[@dewittbourchier7169]

True but Alistair Petrie looks more like a Doctor and with his red hair, looks more 'Scottish.'

[@asandwell]

@@dewittbourchier7169 Do we know the real Stanley was Scottish? As I said earlier here, where he was born and bred is apparently lost to history.

[@dewittbourchier7169]

@@asandwell In some ways it does not matter. For example Fitzjames' biographer points out that his foster family the Conninghams were actually 'English' but mistaken for 'Irish' as in an Ulster accent the name Cunningham is pronounced more like Conningham which is where the name comes from. By the time of the Franklin expedition, as it is today, what 'nationality' you are in the British Isles is more a function of where you were born and raised than what your family background is.

[@asandwell]

@@dewittbourchier7169 Why is it desirable that Stanley be depicted as somehow Scottish-looking?

[@dewittbourchier7169]

@@asandwell Alistair Petrie was cast to portray the character in a certain way, one of those was to hint at his background and also because no one would really believe a younger man as Stanley. It is why, for example, Nigel Green was cast as Colour Sergeant Bourne in Zulu even though Bourne was 24.

[@richardmalcolm1457]

My only complaint with this episode is that it was too short!

[@jeffgustafson4552]

This is great

[@doorsfan48]

Voldemort defiantly should have went with Blankey instead lol

[@asandwell]

Your next Terror episode review is overdue, Miss Hagan ;)

[@DiamandaHagan]

I'm editing it. Besides the Raft of the Medusa was technically a Terror ep :P

[@theresonly2genders857]

Hey, just so you know, the description is wrong, you copy pasted but didn't edit it to say episode 5.

[@marcuscallaghan2238]

Good man👍🏻

[@axe863]

Its 400 Chest Xrays.

[@bishopp14]

...huh?

[@TulilaSalome]

I seem to be the 666th person watching this...