>obsessed with historical accuracy
>add manbearpig as a secondary villain because everything needs a supernatural threat
Obsessed with historical accuracy
Jason Moore
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Josiah Gray
>obsessed with historical accuracy
>add fictional female character as a secondary protagonist because everything needs a feminist bent
Jonathan Mitchell
lead poisoning part was made up as well
Colton Howard
>obsessed with historical accuracy
>add manbearpig
the bear was always in the novel, in the show they even cut out most of the actual scenes containing it
but it was a major downgrade
in the book its way more monsterous
>long neck
>short hind legs
>long front legs which are the only ones it walks on
>described as snow carried by the wind when moving around
>emerges and disapears trough the ice
Leo Jones
they were slightly poisoned which weakened them
the big part was scurvy and botulism
Joseph Perez
It's called cryptohistory, Simmons wrote a ton of books like this
>Drood
>Black Hills
>Fifth Heart
>Abominable
Lucas Wood
no it wasn't
>116176461
just change it to a polar bear
Julian Cook
bullshit
unless there are some very recent findings, lead poisoning was one of the key reasons why that expedition got fucked
Christian Jones
Maybe this way it would look more creepy and lovecraftian being then just the thing you could easily kill with an RPG. It's like Wells martian tripods that can be rammed by a destroyer or "occasionally" destroyed by a canon - for modern techs they look very retro-futuristic and weak. Why they put such a weak being in a modern show - I have no idea.
Anyway first 3 episodes were really nice.
Christian White
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they didnt get lead poisoning through the tins on the trip
Benjamin Allen
the trivial reason, the more major reason was that their heavy big ships were the worst possible option for the Arctic voyage. They were just too slow and ill-suited for the climate, they were never going to make the journey.
Joshua Ortiz
I liked the approach of mixing that up. Didn't turn out too well though
Ian Rodriguez
The fuck are those gold chains lmao
Matthew Bailey
inuits reported a body wrapped in golden chains
Joseph Wright
>have a light ship
>cant break any ice
Ryder Watson
the major reason was the timing of the expedition
the time they left was during a minor ''ice age'' that lasted for 30 years
if they left 10 years later they could've made it
Jaxon Rogers
you don't need to break the ice if your ship is 3x faster and starts the journey just when the ice has melted
Ethan Collins
Lmao
No fucking way.
Nolan Jones
Amundsen did it in a literally yacht.
Levi Gray
What was the point of demonstrating the northwest passage theoretically existed when it was clearly so difficult to get through it wouldn't be commercially viable?
Ryder Reed
5 years in the middle of nowhere, no food, dying of scurvy and weakened by lead poisoning
not really surprising
Evan Thomas
It's based on a Dan Simmons novel so that is to be expected.
Chase Stewart
Many died from foodborne illness, but only because they were constantly freezing and thawing the seals and carribou that were hunted. You'll notice many of the deaths prior to the trek were officers, aka those who got the bigger portions of meat.
Mason White
Description sounds like based snow dinosaur
John Gutierrez
The monster in the show is basically a short faced bear
Camden Russell
Most of the difficulty comes from stumbling around the arctic not knowing where the clear path through the ice is. If they had that it wouldn't be such a pain in the ass.