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The Terror (the novel, the show)
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 11:20 pm
by Five
Anybody plan on checking this series out?
Anybody read the book?
Thoughts?
I'm about halfway through the book and I'm digging it. It's got Masque written all over it...and a neat little reference too.
Re: The Terror (the novel, the show)
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 10:03 am
by Five
I just finished watching this series. Not bad at all. I personally wouldn't call it "horror" but it certainly does touch on a lot of themes associated with it. Great inspiration for DMs of our genre, I like to think. The time jumping might put some off (like my wife) but give it time (or read the book first like I did) and it's really a non issue. It's constricted a bit more than I'd like (10 episodes is too short to develop anything survival-based: physical, emotional and interpersonal), especially considering its almost 800 page source material, and led IMO to a watering down of some of its themes but it's still a good/solid imaginative exercise. Like I said my only real gripe is the length/lack of proper attention to certain themes.
I would recommend it to anybody even remotely interested in themes of Man versus Nature, survival, hubris, supernatural, exploration, social machinations, 19th century "trim"/history and the like.