As many of you know (because I've gone on about it enough), I watched due South for the first time last summer. At the same time, I was reading The Terror by Dan Simmons, which is speculative fiction about the fate of the Franklin Expedition. As we all know, the Franklin Expedition looms large in due South canon. The Terror was made into a mini-series by AMC, starring Nive Nielson, among others.

When I gave up on The Dark Crystal (a post for another time), I found The Polar Sea. When I started watching that, I experienced so much fannish dissonance. The Polar Sea is narrated by Gordon Pinsent, and it features many, many variations and covers of Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers. Nive Nielson was featured in the first episode as a speaker for Inuit interests in the high Arctic. The show also goes into the whole story of the Franklin Expedition.

I've always been fascinated by the lands above the Arctic Circle, both from a historical perspective and from a scientific perspective, so this show is my jam. Although, how sad is it that global warming has finally created a Northwest Passage?