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The AMC series:
Punished, as a Boy
- Lady Jane delivers a speech that effectively shuts up the smug jerks on the Arctic Council while also prodding them to do something to help Franklin and his crew. When she realizes they're not going to do anything anyway, she immediately returns to planning how to leverage public opinion for a rescue mission.
- Crozier stops his crew from lynching Lady Silence in epic fashion; he storms onto the deck, fires his pistol into the air, and gives a single order that everyone, even Hickey, immediately obeys.Crozier: Everyone on their knees right now!
First Shot a Winner, Lads
- Thomas Blanky leaping and scrambling across the rigging to outmanoeuvre the Tuunbaq, then using his lantern to set it on fire to mark it as a target. It's one of the best action sequences of the show, and it's shot in a way that makes it both terrifying and awesome at the same time.
- Down on the deck, Crozier snaps out of his drunken rage, showing concern for the friend he had just spurned and taking command of the situation to get his men help.
- Fitzjames and the crew of Terror working together to hit the Tuunbaq with a cannonball, wounding the beast for the first time and causing it to flee in pain and fear. For a show that is Darker and Edgier with an emphasis on darker, it is a rare uplifting, upbeat, triumphant Hope Spot moment.
Terror Camp Clear
- Hartnell getting other crewmembers to safety during the Tuunbaq's attack and then facing down the beast rather than hiding with the rest of the crew. Luckily Fitzjames' intervention stops it from being a Heroic Sacrifice, but Hartnell was willing to lay down his life regardless.
- Fitzjames firing rockets into the Tuunbaq and driving it off, showing he's every bit the hero he privately feared he wasn't.
- Tozer does deserve at least some credit for facing his hanging and being held at gunpoint by Little without so much as flinching. The guy might be a dick, but he's got guts.
The C, the C, the Open C
- Goodsir shows that he isn't just some naive doctor, but a genuinely good man who possesses great reservoirs of inner strength. He bravely stands up to Hickey without an ounce of fear, only relenting when someone else is threatened.
We Are Gone
- Hickey brings the captured Crozier in for a talk. Hickey reminisces about the time he and Crozier shared that drink, inferring that Crozier recognized that Hickey was much more than he seemed, that Hickey was Crozier's peer as a superior man destined for great things. Crozier rebuts this rather contemptuously: no, instead he saw Hickey as a silly, pretentious, inconsequential little fool, and he thinks even less of him now. Hickey keeps his composure but it is obvious this deflated him. It's deeply satisfying to watch.
- Goodsir's last gambit is pretty badass. He mixes up a poisonous concoction from his medical kit and rubs it on his skin to make his flesh toxic, then overdoses on another of his medicines and slashes his wrists so that Hickey won't suspect what he's done. As a result, Goodsir gets to die on his own terms while also delivering an epic "fuck you" to the man who forced him to use his talents for grisly ends. He even manages to warn Crozier beforehand.
- Crozier finally kills off the Tuunbaq by choking it with Hickey's corpse and a rage filled look that says And This Is for... every last one of his men the Tuunbaq has killed. More than that, Crozier just killed the incarnation of an evil god. A Moment of Awesome in an otherwise bleak and relentlessly apocalyptic series.
Multiple Episodes/Unsorted
- Thomas Blanky is a extraordinary badass. He outwits and survives numerous encounters with the Tuunbaq, survives the amputation of his leg, doesn't let his lost limb slow him down and when he does die, it's by his own choice and for the greater good: sacrificing himself to lure the Tuunbaq away, decorating himself with cutlery to make the creature have a tough time eating him, and he even becomes the first man to discover the Northwest Passage! He even gets a "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner combined with Precision F-Strike. The Tuunbaq probably took so long finding him because it was afraid of this utter badass.Blanky: What in the name of God took you so fucking long?
