#although I do think they should've stuck closer to its design in the book because holy hell that thing was freaky
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I think it's telling about the nature of the actual events The Terror is based on that the Tuunbaq isn't even the most batshit thing going on in it.
#history#shipwrecks#the terror amc#tbh I don't get the hate people have for the Tuunbaq?#maybe it's just because I interpreted it as being a personification of the Arctic itself#although I do think they should've stuck closer to its design in the book because holy hell that thing was freaky#anyway i think the Lost Franklin Expedition is one of those things that's so ridiculously over-the-top#that if it was a fictional story people would accuse it of being unrealistic#like#their food and water were contaminated with lead#the commander of the expedition was their SIXTH pick#and the rest were dismissed for reasons ranging from “just got married” to “being Irish”#they probably all died of some combination of exposure starvation disease AND SCURVY#on top of suffering from lead poisoning and god-knows-what-else#we didn't find the wrecks for over a century because the British were too high and mighty to listen to the natives#and then the Canadians found the wrecks in less than a decade by just asking the Inuit nicely#and they also named their ships Erebus and TERROR#at some point it stops being disturbing and loops into comedy through the power of sheer absurdity
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