History NightmareFuel / TheTerror

** Doubles as a TearJerker, for Crozier the last of his men have died. All their suffering and efforts were AllForNothing. For Crozier, he feels as though he has utterly failed as a captain, and [[AdultFear failed to keep his word to get them home.]] Formerly well groomed, disciplined and motivated men were reduced to cannibalism and unlike Hickey and his mutineers it was a IDidWhatIHadToDo moment and if Little's appearance is anything to go by, [[IAmAHumanitarian engaging in the act]] of cannibalism, [[WasOnceAMan they were utterly ashamed.]]

* After teasing it several times, Hickey finally forces his mutineers to indulge in [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]], coldly killing Gibson and [[BreakTheCutie forcing a captive Goodsir to prepare the body for consumption]].

** "''close''" is a call back to Episode 1 '''Go For Broke''' where Crozier explains to Jopson that close is the worst thing in the world for an explorer to be. Worse, the real life inspiration for Little's final camp is a place called Starvation Cove, which is only 100 km from the mouth of the Backfish river. Like Little's group, the last of Franklin's men expired '''close''' to their destination but as Crozier noted, in the context of exploration '''close''' might as well be AllForNothing.

* Crozier returns to ''Terror'' to find the vessel deserted, with the skeleton crew he left aboard before the march south nowhere to be seen. Inside he finds the mummified corpse of someone, or ''something'', described as displaying rodent-like teeth, laying in the bunk of Crozier's former cabin, which had been battened from the outside as if to keep it from escaping. Then, as he's collecting matches from his desk, Crozier ''hears movement coming from the direction of the bunk'' and doesn't dare turn around to see what it is. He promptly covers ''Terror'' in gunpowder and sets the ship ablaze to eradicate ''whatever'' now inhabits it. We are never told what happened to the skeleton crew or just what the hell Crozier found in that cabin. We're just left with the implication that something ''worse'' than the Tuunbaq invaded the ship and either killed the crew or forced them to take their chances in the frozen wilderness outside.

* The end result of Dr. Stanley's SanitySlippage. After Goodsir informs him that the entire food supply is contaminated with lead, he sets the carnival tent [[DrivenToSuicide and himself]] on fire in what's heavily implied to be a despairing attempt to MercyKill the crew, all while wearing white makeup that makes him look like a ghost. Better yet, there is a close-up shot of his agonized face as he's burning to death.

** And the scene is even more frightening given the body of the lost crewman is not shown with a JumsScare, suddenly appearing, but floats almost ghostlike, suspended in the water towards the terrified Collins, who screams to be pulled up as he sees the body suspended.

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* All of Carnival, really. From several shots of men screaming in agony as they burn to death to Heather's comatose corpse slipping from his friend's desperate grip and being crushed to death by the crowd . . . it's a horror show from start to finish. If the beginning of the Carnival stood for a reminder of home and civilization, the end of it was a savage reminder that the men <I>aren't</i> home, and that this world was intent on killing them in one way if not another.[[/folder]]

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* The titular punishment is no treat, but the scariest part of it might be seeing how close Crozier is to flying off the handle completely, whizzing past righteous anger straight to TheNeidermeyer -- Hickey certainly deserves some manner of punishment for disobeying orders and attacking Lady Silence, but the way Crozier doubles down on the number of lashes to spite Hickey for interrupting him and Crozier's visible enjoyment of such petty cruelty is a glimpse of his dark side.