Surely you understood the purpose of ManBearPig and how he complements The Terror's themes of Man vs Wild, Order vs Chaos and "Enlightened" and "Advanced" man vs the Primal and Unknowable.
You understand how it hearkens back to the days of old when European settlers in the New World and places like Africa would write about stories and encounters with supposedly mythical creatures such as Sasquatch, Wendigo, Bunyip and Mokele-mbembe don't you?
You do realise that there is more in the vast ancient wilderness of the world than what science has said is there...right?
>show is a gritty and realistic period survival story drawing you in
>suddenly decides to ruin the plot by showing poorly rendered low budget manbearpig
they could have easily done what you suggest in OP, and alluded to these things in a clever and artistic way. but they didnt. it just became a monster slasher flick with no point
Filtered, Trump will wiin
actually its reddit to like /rcreepypasta tier thuunbaq
how the frick does it rip flesh and bone apart with those puny excuses for teeth?
lead in the beans
because it's fricking huge and strong. a hippo can damn near bite you in half
hippos are happy they don't bite
its 20 feet long dude its like being mauled by a dinosaur
Real ass dudes with spears cubs and weapons would easily kill any nonhuman creature in fiction and you know it
It's amazing how many redditors got filtered by a single monster bear
I agree with you, though I think it could have been done better visually. Still a 10/10 show though.
I just wish the new "season" would go back to a similar formula. It could be about a kraken, maybe.
>MFW no boat kinos in current gae era
I truly and genuinely do not understand why they can't use famous historical situations and especially nautical ones as a basis for more horror. It seems like AMC is trying to copy American Horror Story here but it's not working because what everyone loved was the first season, which involved boats and history. I suppose the second one was sort of historical, but it sucked. There are so many interesting historical/nautical events they could use and they don't, even though they'd have a captive audience and horror fans (a huge base) tuning in.
They could even capitalize off all the memes about Lovecraftian horror with a tentacle based monster.
the problem is naming the series after the boat
That's why they should have left the first season as "The Terror" and then kept the subsequent shows different (say, The Exeter).
They did a pretty good job with The Terror and they even managed to add a female character. The same could be done with other situations, like The Mary Celeste or Roanoke (the latter is certainly boat related).
still historical boat kino is male oriented and dominated
Sure but nobody actually minds. And like I said, The Terror added a female character and it worked out fine. The examples I used (Roanoke and The Mary Celeste) had women involved while still being historical and boat related. Roanoke even had natives involved, probably.
The Endurance? That would be another great idea.
idk seems like a high budget kino like master & commander would be hard to sell nowadays. at least if it is to be a huge movie/series with a gigantic budget
The Terror worked because a lot was happening inside where the budget is lower because they don't need a CGI ocean. The same could be done for other shows too. Also, the horror genre gets people watching, it's a far larger audience than people who like history and especially nautical history, so adding in a monster or some supernatural element is a good idea. Having a historical situation with some fame and name recognition helps.
i would go with the endurance, but they are stalked by something along the way (or are they?)
I agree. Throw in some aliens or something and you've got a working show.
>aliens or something
shackleton spoke of feeling another presence among them when they were trekking across south georgia to look for help at the islands whaling station
>The Mary Celeste or Roanoke
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I would really love to see that one story where an expedition goes to south pole and their boats get crashed by ice and they have to walk all the way back to the shore with their boats and then navigate through storms to a near by island, leave some people there and again send some others to find help or smth.
I don't remember the name name of the expedition but it was in 1800s era I think. Really kino story for a series
damn how the frick is pacific ocean so big
somehow I just realized that the antarctic is just a big island, I mean I knew it but that pic really drove it home. How big is it compered to AU or US
it takes a lot of research to make boat kino, also you wouldn't have any female characters
It still would have been a thousand times better if they left the manbearpig out.
They could still have implemented whatever the thing does, showing the results of his actions but still leaving the crew and the viewer bewildered if there really is something threatening and otherworldly out there or if the crew fell into hallucination and mass hysteria due to malnourishment and lead poisoning.
Would have kept the psychological horror alive until the end but the moment they gave that horror a face, the psychological part completely fell apart and it ended up being Cocain Bear at the north pole.
>It still would have been a thousand times better if they left the manbearpig out.
Or just left it as a giant polar bear, could still have the inuits control it or whatever. The human face on it just looks dumb
i was, the fantasy bullshit made already average tv show into a 4/10
My problem is that they showed it way too early (would have been better never to actually see it, or at least all of it) and it looked like SHIT
it was cool but should have had the long neck like the book, this woulda been some freaky shit
penguins dont live in the north pole
What if you take a bunch from down under and put them there will they know the difference
Antarctica is colder than the Arctic
Sounds like you didn't get the point
Franklin expedition was too mature to be about muh mythical creature discoveries like in medieval times and earlier. The fact that they were bothered by one was not part of any expectation they had
The show should have kept it as a normal polar bear. To be fair, the men (save Hickey) did believe that and it worked, because it would be the sort of natural threat they expected in the region and it fits in well with the themes OP is talking about. Ideally, they would have had far more hunting expeditions/traps that go wrong because then it would making command look incompetent (thus further encouraging mutiny) because they can't kill a simple bear.
Making it unusually interesting works well for horror but in the bigger picture turns the men away from each other and onto the monster when it should have been them starting to turn on each other from the start.
>Wendigo, Bunyip and Mokele-mbembe
does anybody knows what any of these are, I only know Sasquatch
everyone knows wendigo but yeah I also know Bunyip which is a semi aquatic swamp lizard humanoid thing, and Mokele-mbembe which is an ancient lochness type from africa that some say is a spirit or the last dinosaur, I know all this cause ive studied cryptids and various monsters mythic and real since I was like 11 so 18+ years now
Mokele-mbembe is also frequently just depicted as a sauropod dinosaur that survived extinction.
Name a better intro to a show, ill wait
Antarctica is so ripe for good mystery kino. Supernatural, extraterrestrial, everything. It's just a perfect spooky place.
Why did they make Mr Hickey so hot bros...
It was important to the show.
is that the same thing from True Detective?
OHH FOR JUST ONE TIME I WOULD TAKE THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE