#Go For Broke

[nigesakis]

[saints-who-never-existed]

Right, back to my usual schedule of rewatching and thinking way too much about random shit.

Do you think it means anything, the slightly differing levels of formality with which Franklin and Crozier refer to each other in their first scenes?

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I feel like Crozier is the more distant and formal of the two, even if only slightly:

"Tell Mr. Diggle Sir John and Commander Fitzjames are coming aboard to dine tonight."

Whereas Franklin is more casual in his use of first names:

"Let Francis know James and I will be joining him for dinner."

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Could mean nothing I suppose. Just something I noticed just now.

[earthshine-moon]

I love when flashbacks actually give you an insight into the character who’s remembering it and the Terror does this so well

In 1x01, there are two flashbacks of a shared memory Crozier and Sir John have (the Royal Opera House) but what they remember is different

Crozier:

• more focus on Sophia than anyone / anything else

• a single shot of Sir John obviously keeping tabs on Crozier & Sophia - shows that Franklin’s disapproval of their relationship is always in the back of Crozier’s mind

• there’s much less focus on the audience after they start applauding. Most of the shots are close in on the top boxes & focus on the people he knows (himself, Sophia, Ross, Franklin & Lady Jane). I imagine this is because he was feeling very awkward and so at the time he would have focused on the people he knew even if they didn’t make him feel incredibly comfortable either (it’s better than seeing how much attention he’s receiving)

• there’s no shot of the box where Sir John Barrow, his son and Fitzjames are sitting like there is in Franklin’s flashback (which makes sense since Crozier isn’t looking for the Admiralty’s praise and he hated Fitzjames at the time)

Sir John:

• focus is mostly on the people in the audience and on stage clapping

• in this scene in the script it says that “Franklin needs [the applause]” and in the book it’s made very clear that he’s liked but not respected. I think that’s obvious here since he’s taking praise wherever he can get it even if it’s not meant for him. This applause was for Ross, Crozier and the men who sailed to the Antarctic in ‘39 (which Sir John wasn’t a part of)

• the shot of Sir John Barrow, his son (George Barrow) & Fitzjames has always been interesting to me - it really shows that his standing with the head of the Admiralty is the most important thing to him

• there’s also a close up shot of Sophia looking at Crozier - reinforcing the impression we got from Crozier’s flashback that Sir John was always keeping tabs on them

[cinemaocd]

Rewatching the Terror and I remember that I fucking hate Sir John and even JFJ a little in the first few eps...just insufferable arrogance and naked insecurity wrapped in terrible, dangerous bravado. They both fucking deserve to eat their boots at that moment...but then somehow after all the bloodletting it changes.

It starts right away in Go For Broke, the first episode: his horrible arrogance in moving David Young, and then to blaspheme at his funeral and talk about glory and hardly a word about the young man who died. He's awful, he uses it as an occasion to grand stand. Gross. And then not wanting to go for Francis' plan despite him actually being the only experienced Arctic captain...In that moment Franklin reads like he just wants to preserve his comforts. But the darkness on his face the morning they are frozen in...the mask of cheerfulness falls for a millisecond and Ciaran Hinds, does some amazing micro acting, just by holding still and moving on his mark. The lighting does all the work. He's the kind of actor that you don't see working sometimes so you don't credit him...I love him as much as I dislike Franklin.

[clarabowlover]

Gianna Maria Canale - Go For Broke (1951)

[soupy-sez]

Atlanta, S1E3 "Go For Broke"

[nerdsleaze]

Manon, Street Fighter 6

Illustrated by Xorjin.

[boanerges20]

1985 "Go For Broke" [Future City Records VHS Video Cover]

[crisperthanthou]

“Go For Broke”

Midjourney V4 in the (ostensible) style of Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831-1889) who more or less invented the manga magazine in 1874.

[krastbannert]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💗

Alright, let's see here.

Brave Soldier Girl - I absolutely adore this fic, so much. Even if it's hard to write, even if most people who've read it seem to not like it or think it's unrealistic or whatever, even if I went the a more depressing direction at first (which would have, in its own right, been an amazing, glorious trainwreck). I think this story has some of my best ideas and some of my best writing, ever, and even if I haven't worked on it in a while, I'm still immensely proud of it, and I will finish it, even if it takes me a decade to do it.

Go For Broke - At the time I wrote it, this was my second longest fic I'd ever written, and I believe it's still the longest story I've ever completed. And you know what? It's not perfect - there's definitely places where I could have had better writing, better word choice, better characterization. But I didn't write it to be perfect, I wrote it to tell the story of one version of Kanto, in a way that honored a man who was willing to give his life in the greatest cause of all: that others may live. And you know what? I'm damn fucking proud of the result. I wrote the entire thing in about two weeks, and it came out a hundred times better than it had reason to, and I love it still. It's one fic that I will always and forever be proud of.

Sins of the Past - It only has one chapter, but it has characters and a world that I created, entirely on my own, over the course of multiple years. Yeah, sure, it has what will probably turn out to be a rather average plot, but you know what? I don't care. It's a plot and a world that I built from nothing, all on my own. And I will never, ever give up on that being something special.

Sunrise - A slight trip on the wild side, this is actually a Tron: Legacy fanfic. Yes, that Tron, as in the sequel to the not-great-but-actually-amazing 1982 film that helped revolutionize computer generated imagery. It's only a shade over 500 words, but I literally had to write a sunrise from the perspective of someone who'd never seen or felt one - and I actually fucking did it. It worked. How can I not be insanely proud of that?

to die clean - Another very short fic, this one from the Horizon fandom. I feel like this fic, honestly, had more meaning put into it than most I've written, and it's maybe half the length of most of my other stories. And I feel like I gave a lot of depth to a character who, in my opinion, didn't get half the depth and thought she really deserved. I want to write more, and I need to write more, because this fic is one of my shortest - but I think it's also one of my best.

[jtem]

I do this a lot

[sleepydrabbles]

Now I want to name my kid lore.

or an OC.

An OC would be faster.

Now the real question is do I make Lore incredibly knowledgeable about everything he touches or do I make him impossible to understand

Whoever tf Lore is better be running

[saints-who-never-existed]

There's something that always gets me about JCR trying to bypass his translator entirely to speak directly to the Netsilik Hunter.

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Ross is caught between not wanting to hear more, but needing to hear it all. "What did Francis say? Aglooka?"

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He's so so desperate for information and closure but there's that fundamental disconnect there that means he'll never truly get either. Unable to make the depth of his feeling understood in a language he cannot speak and being unable to understand the full meaning of what is being said to him in turn.

To the best of my knowledge, my good friend Jimmy Ross could speak Inuktitut with a fair degree of fluency in real life, so to make the choice to put him through that extra level of pain and confusion in the show is personally hurtful to me.

[earthshine-moon]

This shot is so important to understanding Sir John’s character

The focus is on Sir John Barrow (the old guy on the right) and your eye is immediately drawn there despite Fitzjames being closer to the camera (and being a face we are already familiar with)

The guy in the middle (George Barrow) is less in focus but still clearer than Fitzjames

And I know what you’re thinking, Fitzjames being so out of focus here could literally just be because Sir John didn’t know him very well at this point (and tbh I think this is partially the thing) but JFJ had risen up the ranks extremely quickly and (according to the script) is friends with George Barrow so he’s obviously much more respected by the Admiralty than Franklin is but he’s not his primary source when looking for praise and respect

He’s Sir John’s third option for this

As far as he’s concerned, if he gains Sir John Barrow’s respect, he’ll gain the respect of the entire Admiralty. If that fails, he can attempt to gain the respect of George Barrow (I’m assuming the closest living male relative to his father) to gain Barrow’s respect. And if that fails, he can gain the respect of Fitzjames (the close friend of Barrow’s son)

My point is that he’s a dick who only cares about his standing in the world and with the Admiralty

[akashicrecordtelevision-com]

I'm sorry but this happened and I'm ok with it now.