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Posted: 9/1/2020 4:57:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: it's nowhere near historically, or even scientifically, accurate. 6/10. While true that it's not completely accurate, it's the closest that's ever been done in major media. It does rather overblow the effects, but it was supposed to be from the perspective of the time. The main thing I take issue with is the implication that radiation killed most of the town, and that retardation about the pregnant woman's baby absorbing all the radiation for her. |
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Posted: 9/1/2020 5:00:24 PM EDT
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Best miniseries since Band of Brothers as far as I’m concerned
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Posted: 9/1/2020 5:01:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My issue is that they got almost everything right, the plant workers were men for the large part, the nurses were women, the miners were men, the towns folk were families, the head guys at the plant and govt were men, yet they chose to interject a woman into an unbelievable role for no reason other than the directors needed to fulfill their SJW tendencies. Why not make some of the miners women or some of the nurses men? Because everyone knows those would not be believable traditional roles of the 80s. Just like everyone knows she didn't have some scientific epiphany and then bust her way through security to save the world. I remember watching it as it aired and it was so stupid I had to google it and there was literally one article at the time saying she was a fictional character. Now it seems she's part of some obscure team of scientists which doesn't make it any better, if true. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: From what I understand, she was a composite of a number of scientists to simplify the plot. Once again, the Soviets in fact DID have quite a few female scientists and engineers. |
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Posted: 9/1/2020 5:09:42 PM EDT
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My skinny Russian model wife who was growing up in Moscow in 1986 said accurate enough that she couldn't stand to watch it.
Nyet on the pics. I've watched it at least three times. They clearly combined characters for effect. The point was made-- Communist self protective reflex made it impossible to fix the problem. I'm fine with modest inaccuracies if the core (pun intended) message is accurate in a dramatic context. /ETA I was in Vienna at school when it happened. I travelled to Budapest the first week of May 86. We were hella close but more or less upwind. Couldn't eat anything from a garden, no greens, the only thing I ate was meat, most of which was killed before the event. |
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Posted: 9/1/2020 5:12:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I've heard from some people it ends up being anti-nuclear propaganda. Yes, no? I'll give that a "no". But anti-nuclear people will certainly take it that way. They did a pretty good job on how reactors operate, but overblew the effects of the accident quite a bit. But you could also take that as "this is what they thought at the time", apart from the two big stupid things of "everyone on the bridge died from exposure" and "the pregnant lady's baby saved her by absorbing the radiation". |
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Posted: 9/1/2020 5:13:34 PM EDT
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Small Factual Issue,
The Helicopter Crash (striking the Crane) happened several weeks AFTER the accident, not immediately afterwards as the show portrays. There is a huge field outside town packed with parked Helicopters, trucks, bulldozers, and other equipment used that was contaminated.   The Mil Helicopters were painted with a Cold War Nuclear Bomber White Anti-Radiation Paint to try to help protect the crews. As much as I absolutely HATE Commies, I genuinely feel for the First Responders of the Reactor Crew & the Fire Fighters who did all they could bravely in a true disaster that was affecting their loved ones in the town and across the country side. The hapless Military Volunteered "Bio Robots" told to run into a highly contaminated radioactive death zone to do all they could in the minute of two window they had. The Radioactivity given off by the open core was astonishing. Chernobyl is a Statement of the Failure of Socialism - Communism |
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Posted: 9/1/2020 5:13:50 PM EDT
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It was anti stupid-nuclear.
It was anti Soviet. |
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Posted: 9/1/2020 5:22:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Once again, the Soviets in fact DID have quite a few female scientists and engineers. |
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Posted: 9/1/2020 5:29:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Once again, there was at least a few women miners in Russia, some male nurses at the hospital, and some women in some sort of military role, so why not include them? Nah, instead we'll give everyone traditional roles, except for super woman. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Once again, the Soviets in fact DID have quite a few female scientists and engineers. So you would have felt better if they had cast MORE women, and put them in those non-traditional roles? I guess I'm not following your logic. Casting one woman in a believable role as a scientist is bad, but casting more as miners or men as nurses would have made it better? Or would you only be okay if only men were cast as everything? You're over stating her role. It was an important role, but Legasov was clearly the hero of the show. She pushed him in the right direction, but it was Legasov that stood up to the Soviet idiocy and quite literally put his ass on the line to the point where he thought he was about to be executed. You're making an issue out of nothing. |
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Posted: 9/1/2020 5:37:19 PM EDT
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A woman! Oh no.
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Posted: 9/1/2020 5:43:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So you would have felt better if they had cast MORE women, and put them in those non-traditional roles? I guess I'm not following your logic. Casting one woman in a believable role as a scientist is bad, but casting more as miners or men as nurses would have made it better? Or would you only be okay if only men were cast as everything? You're over stating her role. It was an important role, but Legasov was clearly the hero of the show. She pushed him in the right direction, but it was Legasov that stood up to the Soviet idiocy and quite literally put his ass on the line to the point where he thought he was about to be executed. You're making an issue out of nothing. |
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Posted: 9/1/2020 5:45:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My issue is they interjected her character and role needlessly into an unbelievable situation for 80s Russia which was a detriment to the overall film. It's so blatantly obvious that a women of that time(not a dig on women, but the culture), being an obscure factual character or not, would not single handedly solve the issue and then force her way through security like that as a one "man" show. I can't make it any clearer than that. The issue then becomes why is the film largely factual in its gender roles and then goes haywire all of a sudden into the realm of fantasyland with the lead woman's role? In my opinion, it's SJWs run amuck, where they had to interject a woman into it and thus the film suffers because it's so far out there (not her being an engineer, rather her actions) that it's unbelievable. And they were willing to detract from the overall story to do it, but I guess that's where we're at now. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: So you would have felt better if they had cast MORE women, and put them in those non-traditional roles? I guess I'm not following your logic. Casting one woman in a believable role as a scientist is bad, but casting more as miners or men as nurses would have made it better? Or would you only be okay if only men were cast as everything? You're over stating her role. It was an important role, but Legasov was clearly the hero of the show. She pushed him in the right direction, but it was Legasov that stood up to the Soviet idiocy and quite literally put his ass on the line to the point where he thought he was about to be executed. You're making an issue out of nothing. I started typing then decided fuck it. You're not listening to anyone so why waste the time. Enjoy your outrage. |
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Posted: 9/1/2020 5:50:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I started typing then decided fuck it. You're not listening to anyone so why waste the time. Enjoy your outrage. |
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Posted: 9/1/2020 5:52:17 PM EDT
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It was great... but HBO just aired the disastrous final season of Game of Thrones... It wasn't enough to make it all better.
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Posted: 9/1/2020 5:52:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No problem, enjoy your next historical movie where random people are thrown into fantasy roles because reasons. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I started typing then decided fuck it. You're not listening to anyone so why waste the time. Enjoy your outrage. You mean casting a woman in a role like scientist, which doesn't change the story whether it's a man or woman at all? Yeah I sure will enjoy it, provided the rest of it is good. |
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Posted: 9/1/2020 5:54:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/1/2020 6:20:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/1/2020 6:23:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I haven't had cable TV in years is this it ? https://www.amazon.com/Chernobyl-Season-1/dp/B07PGBXYPV That's it. |
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Posted: 9/1/2020 10:19:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That's it. thanks, just making sure. 
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Posted: 9/1/2020 10:35:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes it's not a scientific documentary. Yes it's still 10/10. Read through the archive thread and follow along through the five episodes. The biggest technical inaccuracy is in the last episode so I won't spoil it for you. It's still a good show. Gamma762 knows what he's talking about. As far as the Khomyuk character... If you know anything about telling a story that complex in such a compressed format, you know they have to take artistic license. They did it pretty well, and even admitted it up front. They didn't admit it after the fact, because of some backlash as some of you are claiming. Chernobyl is so on the money that I let my tweener daughters watch it, swinging miner dicks and all, because it's such an important story, and piece of history. |
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