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They seriously have to fix the ending...

posted 11 years ago by BrunoAntony
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... fantastic book, but it fizzles out once all the seamen are dead and the focus shifts to the Eskimo mythology

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I kind of felt that way the first time I read The Terror, but the second and third times through, I really appreciated the fact that Dan Simmons took this secondary threat and made it more than just a mindless creature without a purpose. He gave it a back story that is actually (like the rest of the novel) very well researched and steeped in true Inuit lore. I'm pleased that I didn't have to say goodbye to my favorite character, too. But more than that, I love that Simmons manages to save him in a way that is so far outside of the English Imperial experience (and reader expectations) that its very alien-ness does not trivialize the horrible fate of the others. Only HE could have survived that way, and ONLY because he gave up EVERYTHING that he was before.

[–] BrunoAntony 11 years ago

I was kind of bored by it, and the revelation that the creature is virtually omnipotent (indestructable, can control the weather and ice flow) and the men never stood a chance kind of knocked the air out of it for me.

[–] cool guy69 11 years ago

I absolutely LOVED the last 100 pages. I never understood the flack it got. Perhaps it wouldn't translate well to the visual medium the way it stands, so some changes may be prudent, but I'd like the series to include some semblance of the feeling the book's ending gave me.

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[–] RustyShackleworth 10 years ago

No doubt there will be some tinkering. A lot of the Eskimo mythology won't translate well to the screen.

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[–] BrunoAntony 8 years ago

There was a massive information dump from the unseen narrator at the end explaining the "monster". And a huge number of the crew die "off-screen" when the narrative shifts from the survivors to the Eskimos. Plus, the hero getting his tongue chewed off.

I don't think TV audiences are going to dig that ending at all.

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[–] prbronx5 8 years ago

Not knowing anything about the book, I was hoping this would be, a sea voyage story. A fleet of vessels, heading west, stalked by a sea monster. Maybe some sort of squid like creature, that can actually board the ships, and jump back in the ocean after feasting.

Learning that it is ANOTHER wendigo type story, with a massive polar bear, is turning me off.

Since it has a great cast, I may still watch. But man another ancient spirit/giant bear movie? Ugh!!

[–] scochs-1 7 years ago

prbronx5 - you might be surprised by the how the "Creature" is introduced into the flow of this story.

I mean, certainly it's horrible, but it's like the cherry on top of horrible circumstances that happen to the crews.

The power of this story is in how absolutely helpless this crew is. The historical aspect of the story gives it an entertaining weight, and the fiction capitalizes on the mystery of no one knowing, EXACTLY, what happened to the poor Bastids. It is the stuff of nightmares, when all of the ingredients are mixed together.

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