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UNHOLYWOOD MAKING SOMETHING ABOUT SOMETHING SET IN THE SOVIET UNION, OR IN TODAY'S RUSSIA? TOTALLY NOT ANTIRUSSIAN PROPAGANDA; YOU SHOULD WATCH IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
>>220353546Its pretty good. The scientist woman dodnt exist though, thats about it
>>220353592It's not so much that imo, it's that they wrote her so smugly superior. She's never wrong and she doesn't afraid of telling the men in charge when they're wrong.
>>220353648She was the same character almost in the shitty Dune TV show too
>>220353546Not great, not terrible.
>>2203535463.6/5Not great not terrible
>>220353546Apart from the ridiculous magic lady who's smarter than all the male characters combined and has to come in and save the day because men are too stupid, it's an excellent show.
>>220353546Watch the Eternaut. its a Argentinian TV show, but it has english dub.i watched through season 1 twice now. it so good. cant wait for season 2, i might watch through it one more time before then.
>>220353592>>220353741>apart from the thing that drags everything down and makes you skip her scenes if you don't want to get subjected to typical goyslop, it's bretty goodwhy is cattle like this?
>>220353758Because its not that bad you moron.
>>220353546bleakslop but stellan is kino as always
>>220354001also watch Generation Kill
>>220353546Kino. The generals were such a comfy time and didn't outstay their welcome.
>entire movie is about soviet propaganda bad>is actually based on a soviet propaganda account where one of the kurchatov institute scientists responsible for the RBMK and who lied to the whole world is actually the hero of the story and the operators were being complete idiotsIt was a classic soviet propaganda move too, where they start with the "IT WAS ALL THE LITTLE GUYS ON THE GROUND'S FAULT THEY WERE BEING COMPLETELY STUPID" story, nobody buys it, and then they walk it back just the tiniest little bit to "THE LITTLE GUYS WERE BEING SO COMPLETELY STUPID THEY REVEALED A TINY LITTLE DESIGN FLAW THAT NOBODY DOING THEIR JOB PROPERLY WOULD EVER EVER RUN INTO" and everyone falls for it hook line and sinker.
>>220354149I'm somewhat of a retard and my takeaway was that it's management that always fucks shit up for everyone. Really it sort of show that the Soviet shit wasn't all that different to how businesses are run today under capitalism.
>>220353546kino
>>220353546Makes soviet-larpers seethe, its pretty good.
>he missed the /rbmk/ threads KWAB
>>220353546it's pretty good. it does a good job at showing the systemic issues with yuros/commies being corrupt retards. The major issues are that they skip over the fact that the reactor wasn't even built to spec, which I don't think Valery knew and wasn't in his report. They lie about other random shit. They say the 3 divers who went under the reactor died but 2 of them are alive and the third died by having a heart attack while driving in 2014. They made the coal minister look like a rich fag when he was a coal miner himself. they implied the firefighter caused his wife's miscarriage when he wouldn't have been radioactive. the dust was radioactive and they would have stripped him of his clothes and washed all the dust off him before his wife got there and irl his wife had had multiple miscarriages already at that point and her family had a history of miscarriages. they also present the rumor/urban legend that everyone on that one bridge died when they have no way of knowing that.They had a podcast with NPR or PBS or something where the director went through everything he made up so IDK why they presented stuff like the divers dying as fact. Cause there are things like combining the scientists into one character for the narrative, but it's weird the way they present some things as fact when they could have easily mentioned at the end of the episode that the divers lived. the anti radiation lies like the miscarriage do annoy me. Like the fact that a lot of media, not just chernobyl, incorrectly portrays how radiation works to make it even scarier than it is
>>220353592>>220353648>>220353758the scientist lady was a composite of a bunch of scientists. that's a normal conceit and they admit they did that. the miscarriage stuff is way worse, imo, cause they just straight made that up based on a real woman who had multiple miscarriages before chernobyl even happened
>>220354149>>220354170it was a combination of thingsthe RBMK reactors were an inherently unsafe designthe stupid commie shit they were doing lead to the reactor staff basically making the wrong decision at every step on the flow chart due to commie culture even if the reactors weren't inherently unsafe, they weren't built to spec. eastern yuropean commies country so the builders cut a lot of corners and made mistakesA similar thing happened in the US with three mile island. American plant workers basically made the wrong decision at every step in the flow chart, but because American reactors are a safe design and are built to spec no one died. Same thing with Fukishima. it got hit by an act of God and only like a half dozen people were actually killed by the plant and of them only like 1 or 2 were actually radiation related, the rest were because one of the hydrogen tanks exploded
>>220355331>since you silly boys tried to extinguish the fire with boron and sand 50 billion people might die>if we don't get a heat exchanger installed in under 2 weeks 50 billion people might die>if that woman is allowed near her husband 50 billion people might dieit really does start to get grating after a while
>>220355408>>if we don't get a heat exchanger installed in under 2 weeks 50 billion people might dieI don't even think they used that. one of the things they did in the show that they straight up said would kill everyone involved was something they did and then didn't actually use irl after sending the people into the radiation. I don't remember if it was the heat exchanger or the pumps but they irradiated people for something they didn't end up using. but that's at least something they wouldn't have known at the time>>if that woman is allowed near her husband 50 billion people might diethat's bullshit. they threw all the firefighter uniforms in that basement and it's still filled with radioactive dust, but they washed all of the dust off the guy so by the time his wife got there he was safe to be around.
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>>220355442correct, the heat exchanger was never builtinstead they just pumped the area full of cement and called it good
>>220353695came here to post thisgo for it anon it's fantastic
>>220355348except she wasn't a composite of scientistsshe was a composite of "women" who helped during the crisis, which didn't actually happen irl
>>220355718What do you gain by coming onto the internet to tell such easily disprovable lies?
>What do you mean a table of Commissars has just ordered the graphite control rods as sides?>I'M GOING INSANE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>220355718Wrong.
>>220353546>HBO never disappointsLOLLMAO even
>>220355408The absurd claims indeed keep piling up the further the story goes, like "the entirety of Belarus will become uninhabitable" nigger how much uranium even was in that reactor? Bet you could feed it to the people of Belarus in equal dosages and noone would even get sick.
>>220355331>Like the fact that a lot of media, not just chernobyl, incorrectly portrays how radiation works to make it even scarier than it isGo have a look at the Brazilian version of Chernobylhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt37041021/They make out that the entire Brazil is going to die because some dudes popped open an old xray machine. I guess you can suspend your disbelief for a bit to get the human story, but there is a whole host of Netflix ripoffs that try so hard to recreate this fantastic miniseries but fundamentally miss the boat. Like the Indian one also tries to make the point that the government employees were the good guys and did everything right, completely rewriting the historyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Railway_Men
>>220353583Ironically it was very pro-soviet propaganda, the whole thing was practically Legasov's fault.
