#dr Stanley

[noughticalcrossings]

Dr Stephen Stanley

Look forward to the party, Mr Collins

#burning man concert of 1848 #the terror #the terror ghosts #stephen stanley #tw self immolation #dr stanley #hippocratic oath violations to the wazoo #my art #por queue my dear knight

[merryverse]

The Terror - A Mercy

#the terror #the terror amc #the terror brainrot 2023 (continued) #alexander mcdonald #charles edwards #alistair petrie #dr stanley

[idontthinknowsthebesttime]

The terror 2018 & religious symbols in storytelling and character development

Religious themes are widely used in cinema mainly because religion is an inherent part of our culture. The story of the bible is told using tropes and storytelling devices that are still prevalent to this day. It can help the audience recognize themes, character archetypes and offers the storyteller/director an opportunity to play with those common ideas and reshape them to create a unique piece of art.

We will be looking at first season of The terror series and how that applies to it. I have not read the book on which it's based, so I'll be focusing on the show's version.

(Disclaimer, I was raised catholic but never went to catechism class, so my knowledge of the subject may be flawed as it dates back to my childhood. Also, I am awfully uneducated and don't know anything about other religions or how they may apply to any of this. Therefore I'll be sticking to what I know here, but you're welcome to add to this and enlighten me!)

Episode 6 "A Mercy"

This episode quite obviously relates to religion as Fitzjames names the event they organize after the Catholic season of Carnival. All the episodes after it also follow the events that come after Carnival in the catholic faith, fasting for 40 days and then the resurrection of Christ.

Fitzjames orders this Carnival to keep the crew's spirits up and to "prepare them for what's to come". The walk home and/or the Lent season.

In the catholic faith, Carnival is a celebration of worldly pleasures. People eat in abundance, expensive and unhealthy foods, lots of sweets and fat. This is a time of celebration, with dancing, music and playing games. And of course lots of alcohol consumption.

We see the event through Francis' eyes, still afflicted by withdrawal. There is a fever dream quality to the place. The abundance of everything, the time it must have taken the men to not only build the place but their costumes as well, it all feels exaggerated and far too elaborated for the resources available to them.

This furthers the idea of abundance that Carnival represents.

Francis congratulates them on their skills, their creativity, and their cooperation in building this place that he calls a 'temple'. Again, the word is significant in the sense that a temple is a church.

He goes on to tell the men what's awaiting them. A long walk, to get back home. After Carnival comes a season of fasting in the Catholic faith during which people atone for their overindulgence. They eat sparingly, no meats, sweets, dairy, and liquor and everything else they did at Carnival.

This fast lasts 40 days. A parallel can easily be made with the imminent starvation the men are about to go through.

One of the most important things that happen at this Carnival is its end. Dr. Stanley foresees these horrors awaiting them all and opts for mass murder, in his eyes it's the gentler end, 'a mercy'.

He attempts to save the men from this otherwise inevitable fate by setting himself on fire and walking out with his arms spread out like a burning cross.

There is a tradition at the end of Carnival where the Carnival King is burned, it represents the end of the festivities and the beginning of lent. It's a scapegoat for all this excess.

Also, before Carnival Kings were puppets or floats, they were an appointed person. During Carnival, this 'king' was allowed to speak freely, even against their own government and would not be punished or imprisoned for it afterwards. They were meant to advocate for the people and bring up potential issues. Where Crozier tries to be honest with the men and make them feel brave to face the task ahead, Dr. Stanly, knowing the truth about the cans, goes against that directly, to him there is no hope. He advocates for the crew through an extreme act, which looking back on by the end of the season can indeed look like the lesser of two evils.

The 40 days of fasting are a call back to the 40 years the Hebrews spent in the desert, before reaching the promised land. When looking at the visuals from the episodes following the Carnival, the landscape is strongly reminiscent of the desert. The rocky hills look just like sand dunes. It's just as barren, nothing grows and nothing lives there. Where one is hot, the other is cold.

Dr. Goodsir as a Christ figure

First off, Goodsir's nature and personality can be compared to that of Jesus. He is a man who acts out of compassion and who believes in the goodness of human nature. He doesn't project racist beliefs onto the Netsilik people, like most of the crew does. He treats Silna as an equal and a friend, not a captive. He is the one who brings her her food, symbolically breaking bread.

He even continues to believe in the good of the British people despite the horrors he realizes they are responsible for, he claims this is not all his people are. His profession itself is reminiscent of Jesus, as they both heal the ill.

But his Christ-like metamorphosis really shines through in the latter half of the season.

As we established, the 40 days of fasting relate to the 40 years of wandering in the desert. However, it most importantly relates to the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert and being tormented by Satan's temptations.

Many times in the 4 episodes that follow the Carnival we see Goodsir refusing to eat, because he knows of the cans. Later Hickey's group stops eating the cans as well, but they don't fast, they resort to cannibalism. Where satan tempts Jesus to turn the stones into bread, Hickey makes Goodsir turn men into food. Still, despite being hungrier than any of them because of his fast, Goodsir does not yield to the temptation Hickey lays in front of him.

Furthermore, the only way he can be coerced into participating in this horrible act and preparing the flesh to be eaten, is by being threatened that harm could befall Hodgson if he refuses.

Witnessing Dr. Stanley's suicide planted the idea for Dr. Goodsir's own early on, but what triggers it is Hodgson's story about attending papist mass.

He describes the vivid elated feeling of being purified through eating the body of Christ. In the Catholic faith Jesus died for our sins and by doing so, absolved us of our wrongdoings. By consuming him, we become a little more like him ourselves. If you attend Mass on Easter Sunday, the lights will be off and then turned on to symbolize the resurrection of Christ, then you are called to eat the wafer. It's Christ's body that you first consume after your fast, it gives you life again.

But even dying on the cross, Jesus continued to love people, even the ones who put him there and asked God to forgive them. Goodsir, captive in Hickey's camp and pushed to his limit, takes another route. He only lets Crozier know of the plan, therefore sentencing Hickey's followers along with him.

Hodgson told Goodsir that if he were a braver man he'd kill Hickey, implying not Hickey's group. Francis tells Hickey that he forgives everyone, except for him. Goodsir, however, is starting to embrace his former colleague's point of view, and opts for mass murder as well.

He tells Crozier that even through all of this he still finds beauty in the environment that surrounds them. As he bleeds to death, it is not loved ones that welcome him, like he had told David Young in the beginning, but symbols of nature.

In many ways, Goodsir represents an alternate path Jesus could easily have taken, one in which he lost his faith in the goodness of people and his faith in God.

"Any God?"

Still, Goodsir is a martyr and makes the ultimate sacrifice, like Jesus did, dying for the sins of others. But by eating his flesh Hickey will not be washed of his sins but punished for them.

#too lazy to write a conclusion #no idea if this makes sense #unemployed friend behavior #the terror #the terror amc #james fitzjames #jfj #dr goodsir #george hodgson #dr stanley #francis crozier #cornelius hickey #ec #terror and erebus #the franklin expedition #storytelling #essay writing #character analysis #religious imagery #i just needed to get this out don't mind me

[bilgewater01]

terror (and erebus) boys (and girls) breastfeeding chart (I worked real hard on it) (see also: the official pussy chart)

#the terror #charles frederick des voeux #cornelius hickey #henry thomas dundas le vesconte #captain francis rawdon moira crozier #lieutenant little #solomon tozer #thomas jopson #tuunbaq #lady silence #lieutenant irving #dr stanley #harry goodsir #james fitzjames #thomas blanky #john morfin #lieutenant hodgson #william gibson #henry collins #thomas armitage #I would tag everybody however I cannot be arsed

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

Dr Stanley the Confessor

#stephen stanley #dr stanley #harry goodsir #paul ready #trystan gravelle #henry collins #the terror #amc the terror #the terror amc #my stuff #my edits #tv edits #horror edits

[majorxmaggiexboy]

#the terror amc #dr goodsir #dr stanley

[vandrawsing]

A peek of my page for the terror's 2024 pin-up calendar 🍂 and i've also committed two (2) stickers for the merch bundle !

Pre-orders are open until sunday (2023.10.5), visit @theterrorpinup for more info and previews :D all proceeds go to a good cause

#the terror pinup calendar #the terror* #dr stanley

[asparklethatisblue]

Favourite Cold Boys and Warm Girl

Some colour studies + sketches cause I guess I've got art materials I should learn how to use

#dr stanley #stephen stanley #francis crozier #james fitzjames #silna #the terror #the terror amc #my art i guess

[gizmzo]

Hello amc terror fandom i heard you like content?? Well then you sure will appreciate this specific ass character sorting meme based on peter rabbit movie! Enjoy

#it's so random #but i spent so much of my headspace on this #i think this is the first time i make something for any fandom that is not a fanart #amc terror #amc terror meme #the terror #thomas blanky #thomas jopson #tom hartnell #francis crozier #james fitzjames #john franklin #john irving #dr Stanley #harry goodsir #silna #cornelius hickey #henry le vesconte #edward little #george hodgson #Charles des voeux #solomon tozer #william gibson #henry collins #dr Macdonald #jane Franklin #peter rabbit

[emese-of-void]

I've been rewatching The Terror, and realised that I remembered the order of some events wrong. I thought Collins tried to explain depression to Dr Stanley after he learned about the cans, his actions make sense in that context: telling Collins to go to the Carnival not because it had any relevance at all to his problems but because he had Plans. Drawing the daughter he was never going to see again, a very last night of your life thing to do.

But no, the actual sequence of events was

Dr Stanley having a normal night discounting the existence of mental health

Goodsir filling him in about the lead poisoning

Dr Stanley skipping over a vast range of potential responses to this news and landing immediately on setting everyone on fire about it

Quite the speedrun there.

#the terror #dr stanley #henry collins

[haredjarris]

someone: dr stanley

me: oh yeas. dr adam’sdad

#the terror #sex education #alistair petrie #adam groff #michael groff #dr stanley #stephen stanley

[brightlydust]

local man rescued by mermaid. still manages to be unimpressed.

#the terror #stephen stanley #alexander mcdonald #macstan #im still in love w these two #had another one i didnt finish were stan is having tea on the pier and being pontidly annoyed w macca bothering him #(hes not annoyed. hes pretending.) #mermay #dr stanley

[lei-aj]

we don’t talk enough about dr stanley being short and brisque with everyone but worrying over fitzjames because he dug those bullets out and he knows that his captain is WiLd

#jfj #james fitzjames #terror amc #the terror amc #the terror #dr stanley

[bilgewater01]

no for real what was with the doctors from Erebus and murder-suicides, seems like a very oddly specific hobby to share

#the terror #harry goodsir #dr stanley

[majorxmaggiexboy]

Goodsir: Make a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day :)

Stanley: Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Goodsir: ):

#the terror amc #dr stanley #dr goodsir

[vandrawsing]

The Terror’s doctors (and one (1) surgeon) and their shark familiars. Dr Stanley doesn’t like his shark and that is both a symptom & aggravating factor of his general depression.

#shark familiars au #dr mcdonald #dr stanley #henry goodsir #the terror*