YMMV / Love, Death & Robots: "Bad Travelling"

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Did Torrin intend to spare as many of the crew as possible if they had voted not to go to Phaiden Island (explaining his plan about setting the ship afire in secret so that they could escape together) and only moved with killing them all when he realised how willing they were to condemn the island? Or did he only resort to the latter when he learned there were now hundreds of infant thanapods in the hold, that needed to be fed? Or did he plan to feed all of them to the thanapod regardless, considering they'd done precisely the same thing to him earlier?
• Base-Breaking Character: While most find Torrin's dedication to defy the thanapod admirable, there is a fair amount of debate around how necessary killing the entire crew was. Some interpret Torrin as a being a Sympathetic Murderer who, given the untrustworthiness of the others, had to act decisively to ensure the success of his mission. Others believe that killing everyone under his command, including those who posed no threat to him, was an unnecessary attempt at revenge for the others' collective Bystander Syndrome.
• Fridge Brilliance: The reason behind the surviving crew’s Dirty Coward nature may seem odd considering their choice of work as sailors on a monster-infested sea until you realized that their discipline may have been kept in check by the captain and officers.
• Idiot Ball: While there are lifeboats, everyone is so focused on saving their own skin that nobody bothers to suggest abandoning ship with what supplies they can muster, even after a course is plotted to take them near Phaiden. Though in fairness, they'd probably rather take their chances with the Horror Hunger of the crab monster than the threat of slow starvation on the open monster-filled sea.
• Magnificent Bastard: Torrin, the helmsman of the Jable Shark hunting vessel, is the man to communicate with the monstrous Thanapod crustacean, learning it desires passage to the populated Phaiden Island for the meat there. Managing to get a gun to control the crew and having the new "captain" thrown to the beast, Torrin intends to spare Phaiden Island, convincing the crew to mark secret ballots to decide where to send the beast. Torrin executes the only two he claimed marked an "X" to send the Thanapod to the populated Phaiden Island, while also preparing for a mutiny and getting the drop on his attackers to kill them. Torrin then throws the final man to the Thanapod, saying every single one of them drew an X, before trapping the Thanapod and burning the ship with oil, escaping with his own life.
• Nausea Fuel: Almost everything the thanapod does that isn't completely terrifying qualifies, from vomiting up partially digested crew members, to using a visibly rotting corpse as a mouthpiece, to pulverizing several bodies (including a closeup of someone's head getting smashed in) to make them easier for its offspring to eat.

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