It may have become more mutated human like the more terrible people that it ate.

Minor key. The higher piano part was left out. 

There are two shows that I think best deal with the frailty of human beings in the service of belief. Terror and The Americans. That being said, I still believe that belief (in one’s own civilization, in one’s own sense of honor, in actions in service to humanity) are important, whether we can see them through to the…

you’ll be glad you did. Quality show. Gets better ep after ep.

First episode, when Jopson is helping Crozier dress for dinner.

Same here. He’s not a classically handsome man, but talent is hot.

I’d make a play for Jared Harris in a hot minute because I enjoy him immensely, but based on the interaction on the show, it made more sense for them not to be a thing. In truth, I didn’t love that part of the book even without a physical stand-in for Crozier.

Yeah I’m really glad they didn’t pursue the Lady Silence/Crozier romantic coupling in the book. Nothing against Jared Harris, but I would not have bought a relationship between him and Lady Silence one single bit.

I have to disagree with your critique of the monster (who was decidedly CG but moved in a wonderful stop-motion animation). Its human features were amazingly convincing even though I hoped that Tuunbaq was in [the show’s] reality just a crazed mutilated polar bear.

What a great series. Started the book after the 1st episode and finished at about the series’ midpoint, and while I enjoyed the additional detail the book provided, overall I think the series made for a more memorable story. The alterations to the plotline of the book were all improvements, nothing against Dan Simmons…

I do agree that I liked that moment a bit better, but I’m also glad they went less heavy handed on him/Lady Silence as a pairing and had a less supernatural heavy ending.

Ok, you convinced me. I avoided this show because I thought it would turn out to be another Alienist - just a weak adaptation of a novel I really liked. I’m starting watching this on Demand tonight. Glad there’s a three day weekend in the near future.

I noticed that, too.  It was - more sparse?

Did anyone else notice the score from the opening credits was different?

That was heartbreaking. But worth seeing Goodsir go out like a boss.

Stan Rogers’ ‘Northwest Passage’. Greatest Canadian song ever written? Quite possibly.’Seeking gold and glory / Leaving weathered, broken bones’.

Roald Amundsen - In June 1928, while taking part in a rescue mission for the airship Italia, the plane in which he was a passenger disappeared. The tragedy of the Ialia is pretty gripping.

Ah yes, the ‘long-forgotten, lonely cairn of stones’. And the note that...escalates quickly.

Yup, that was Fitzjames boot, it has the same initials in it from the previous episode. Crozier realizes the body of his comrade has been desecrated by the mutineers.

It seems Roald Amundsen, one of the first men to make it to the South Pole, ignored that story Crozier made up that there “was no passage” considering he was one of the first man to successfully traverse the Northwest Passage. He’s also the first man that we can confirm 100% made it to the North Pole via airplane in…