#hacash on terror watch

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Fitzjames: Are you getting excited for the officially-mandated office party? Have you got your costume sorted? What drag outfit are you going for?

Little: Sir, surely it would be cheaper just to shoot me.

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Last song? "Grace Kelly" by Mika

Favorite color? 💙💙💙

Currently watching? Rewatching some of 9-1-1 for fic inspiration; up next on my list is The Terror (very excited to meet @hacash's frozen blorbos)

Last movie? Wicked Little Letters. I could have watched Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman curse each other out for six hours.

Sweet, spicy, or savory? Sweet all the way.

Relationship status? Currently single.

Current obsessions? 9-1-1, Night Court, and all things John Larroquette, Harry Anderson, Tom Cruise, and Peter Krause.

Last thing you Googled? The origins of the 'prodigal son' phrase, again for Fic Reasons. Always thought that referred to Jesus but apparently not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I’ve said it before, but if Tozer had walked in just in time to see Hickey squidge-poking Heather in the brain he’d have snapped his scrawny little rat-neck so quick and everyone would have been saved a lot of trouble.

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The script makes a point of saying Irving is able to loosen up while tipsy, which just hurts my heart all the more 😭

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love how this is the first time we see FitzJames properly in command, not seconding to Crozier or Franklin, and in that one scene we have him:

+ making the emergency plans that Franklin probably would never have had the stomach to make

+ reassuring his subordinates with an emotional intelligence Crozier hasn't (yet) shown

+ made bad jokes about the supernatural vengeance creature that's been trying to eat all their souls

truly a man of many parts

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I love this entire scene between Fitzjames and Blanky because - apart from being marvellously bloody creepy - the entire concept of an officer going ‘the commander of this expedition says x, y and z, but I am willing to accept that may not be the truth of the matter and want to hear what you say happened’ to someone like Blanky is already such a dismissal of Victorian social norms. And then he actually asks Blanky’s opinion on how to handle the men in the face of this ‘darkness’ - in effect, asking Blanky how to command, asking how Fitzjames should be doing his own job! It’s one of the first real signs of everything ‘normal’ going sideways on the expedition and I love it.

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This is your friendly reminder that as per the script it’s Tozer who says they need to bring Heather to join the festivities and Tozer who gets to have his best friend ripped from his arms and trampled and Tozer who gets to sit with the knowledge that if it wasn’t for him Heather would still be safe on the ship :) :) :)

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‘Just let me lie in it. It’ll teach me.’

Did the writers have a policy that every scene with Crozier was wasted until they included some line showing his abject and blatant self-loathing?

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James Fitzjames having to watch all of his good intentions literally going up in smoke…

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‘A worse case of gastritis surely there never was.’

Look, you could just smack him in the face, Little. Just once. No one would mind. Just do it.

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Fact one: Christian-naming, in the 19th century, was a sign of very close friendship or intimacy, and not something to be done lightly.

Fact two: in Gore, De Voeux says 'wait, Tom' to Hartnell when they see the boat has been smashed up: probably as a result of the time they spent together on Erebus.

Fact three: The C, the C, the Open C.

Fact four: I am going to be violently ill.

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I love Crozier and Blanky’s spill-all-the-tea-bestie friendship, but I think it’s very telling that when the opportunity is open for Crozier to full-on bitch about Sir John’s lack of competence, he doesn’t take it and instead changes the subject quite bluntly - and Blanky, smiling in acknowledgement, allows him to do so. We’ve seen ample evidence as to why Crozier should be pissed at Sir John for a myriad of reasons, but when it comes down to it, he can’t bring himself to start dissing the man in front of company (unlike Fitzjames, who he can’t stop dissing). Which says a lot about their friendship - a friendship we never see, but whose absence nonetheless is the grave this show starts off from.

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I feel like Hickey's tone-deaf, over-the-top explanation of his Evening Of Daring Do is such an underrated moment of comedy. You've got Manson and Hartnell obviously terrified of their upcoming punishment, all the listening officers clearly want to wring Hickey's neck, and he is just so obviously oblivious to the fact that he's actually nose-deep in the shit here. Like, what a skilful manipulator, there’s no getting anything past this guy.

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Solomon Tozer could have just been the archetypal stoic, man’s man character - and tbh that’s debateably what he is, he’s a bit grumpy and cocky and doesn’t quite get science and is good with a gun, and physically we see him shaking off injuries almost more than any other character. He’s just also the character we see tending his brain-dead friend and providing him with personal grooming and giving him physical comfort. I is foaming at the mouth.

He’s also the character with the sexiest accent bar none, but I maintain there’s nothing debatable about that even slightly.

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‘It’s come onto the ship, Edward.’

Edward Little: Dear diary, this is the worst day of my life, beating other two hundred and fifty eight other contenders for the title so far…

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I love how we’re introduced to james clark ross as just this Dude, he’s the one the Netsilik chief is explaining the backstory to, so clearly he’s the audience surrogate but we’re not gonna care that much about him

and then you rewatch this scene having seen jcr’s friendship with crozier and you’re like: oh no. oh fuck. this is not okay. he just wants his buddy.