(In Episode 6, Captain James Fitzjames hears the story of Ross’s disastrous Victory expedition from the Erebus's ice master Thomas Blanky, who was really there in 1829-1833.) Ross instead offered to rescue Franklin himself, and captained (at age 72!) a privately funded schooner in search of his lost friend in 1850. In real life, this conversation was much different, and it didn’t take place at the Admiralty.įranklin and Ross knew firsthand how a well-provisioned expedition can become a fight for survival. When Franklin says one won’t be needed-since the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror are the best-provisioned ships ever sent to the Arctic-Ross warns him that he’s being naïve. In a flashback in Episode 3, Sir John Franklin’s good friend Sir John Ross asks the soon-to-depart commander if the Admiralty had any plans for his rescue. WRONG: FRANKLIN’S BACK-UP PLANĬaptain Francis Crozier (Jared Harris), right, tries to convince Sir John that they're going to need rescuing pretty soon. His 20th-century stopwatch wouldn’t have helped. (Good thing they had that fire hole bored into the ice!) And assistant surgeon Harry Goodsir’s technique with the Daguerrotype camera in the blind would have produced a terrible photo.
Caulker's mate Cornelius Hickey has a fondness for cigarettes, but most sailors probably smoked pipes at the time, and definitely not inside the ship. There were a few hiccups noticed by sharp-eyed viewers in the Remembering the Franklin Expedition Facebook group, however. The imprisoned ships tilt with the pressure of the pack ice. As the hopelessness of their predicament dawns on the officers and men, summer’s 24-hour daylight vanishes, replaced by the 24-hour darkness of winter. The officers' uniforms and caps are also recreated with authentic details.
In another scene, Captain Francis Crozier sees a sun dog-a solar phenomenon caused by sunlight refracting through clouds of ice crystals, often witnessed by polar explorers. In the first tragic scene, a sailor falls overboard into a sea of accurately rendered pancake ice. Right off the bat, The Terror envelops viewers in an icy world that increasingly mirrors the crews’ isolation and desperation.
James Fitzjames (Tobias Menzies), left, and Sir John Franklin (Ciaran Hinds) survey the ice.
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