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Anybody else watching this tonight? It’s got Jared Harris so I’m going to watch, but I know what it’s about so I will be sad...
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Well? Anyone watch this?
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May 6, 2019 17:52
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Jared Harris was so good in The Terror so I’m excited for this.
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May 6, 2019 19:23
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Telling us what it's about or when and where it's on might help.
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May 6, 2019 19:26
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Rando posted:Telling us what it's about or when and where it's on might help. The title seems a bit self explanatory no? It's on HBO
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May 6, 2019 20:01
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I didn't know it was going to be on tonight. I'll definitely check it out.
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May 6, 2019 20:19
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Basebf555 posted:Well? Anyone watch this? Hard when it hasn't aired
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May 6, 2019 23:22
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Been looking forward to this one. Dunno if I'll see it tonight though; I assume it's released 21:00 EST? That is 03:00 for me, so I might wait till tomorrow instead. What few reviews I've seen have all been very positive. Directed by a Swede btw. So yay us. BigglesSWE fucked around with this message at 23:40 on May 6, 2019 |
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May 6, 2019 23:35
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Couldn't think of a quality meltdown pun OP?
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May 7, 2019 00:16
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Despera posted:Couldn't think of a quality meltdown pun OP? I'll work up an  post tonight after the ep with some history and cast info. 
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May 7, 2019 01:37
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Gonna be good (bad)
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May 7, 2019 02:01
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Lol my HBO just died on me. What the gently caress
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May 7, 2019 02:02
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Strong pre-title open. Looking forward to watching the Collapse of Truth in a different Empire for once.
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May 7, 2019 02:21
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If I remember correctly the USSR tried to act like nothing happened until a nuclear plant in Sweden picked up a shitload of radiation in the air.
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May 7, 2019 03:01
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Whole first ep felt tense as hell, and it'll probably continue for the remaining four. Everyone pretending the situation's under control and everything's fine because they didn't want to admit they're hosed
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May 7, 2019 03:28
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I felt like I was being radiated just watching that episode. Really had a sense of dread and terror.
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May 7, 2019 03:29
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I’m the guy who picks up the graphite moderator with his hand I thought they nailed the weird fire but not fire look of the reactor burning. RIP that guy’s face
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May 7, 2019 03:29
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This was excellent. Really captured the horror of being there and the ridiculous lengths the different party members went through to deny reality. Will definitely tune in next week. Edit: there’s a scene where two engineers stare down into the
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May 7, 2019 03:29
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I like that they decided to show the explosion from a far and not inside the plant.
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May 7, 2019 03:34
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General Probe posted:I felt like I was being radiated just watching that episode. Really had a sense of dread and terror. My synopsis of the episode was basically nearly everyone we see in the first episode (other than the party apparatchiks) is dead. They either die in front of us or will die soon after after the fallout catches up with them. And the reactor is rightfully being portrayed as the staring into the face of death itself. This episode was Sci-Horror-Core. I don't know if that's a thing, but this sure nailed it.
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May 7, 2019 03:42
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Well, the first episode was real good! Lots of appropriate and thorough dread. Not sure how I feel about the accents though? Probably better that having everyone have a lovely Russian accent?
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May 7, 2019 04:58
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Yeah with the accents it felt like a Dr.Who episode from hell.
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May 7, 2019 05:05
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Thought the first ep was real good.
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May 7, 2019 05:15
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"I'm not going up there" "Of course you are" 
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May 7, 2019 05:54
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Here’s a Soviet news report a little over a day after the disaster. It’s incredibly vague and 18 seconds long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuWIIiTLbFM
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May 7, 2019 07:52
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Been looking forward to this since I first heard about it. The show just radiates (heh) dread. It's perfectly safe. The air is glowing.
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May 7, 2019 08:13
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I've always been fascinated by meltdowns and post-apocalyptic stuff, and I love documentaries like a big nerd. I was all 'cool this will be interesting' and watched this tonight. In the middle of the episode I became concerned that I'd accidentally taken a double dose of ADHD meds because my heart was pounding so hard I was afraid I might be having a heart attack. Or a panic attack. Or something attack. I've never seen something as scary on TV in my life. On the face of it, Chernobyl doesn't look like a horror movie, but it will grind you into paste, emotionally. I finished watching it two hours ago and I'm still in fight-or-flight mode. When I looked online and found a bunch of other people going 'holy poo poo what just happened to me' it helped, so here's my contribution to the genre. If this show freaks you the gently caress out, you're not alone.
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May 7, 2019 08:21
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I wonder if they’re going to visit the Elephant’s Foot? Numismancer posted:I've always been fascinated by meltdowns and post-apocalyptic stuff, and I love documentaries like a big nerd. I was all 'cool this will be interesting' and watched this tonight. I think what makes it truly horrifying is that it’s something that happened. And it happened only 33 years ago. And these are actors playing real people who experienced one of the most terrifying things wrought by man. Those technicians who saw that the RBMK reactor had exploded with their own eyes, despite their training and expertise telling them that such a thing is supposed to be scientifically impossible, must’ve been scared beyond all words, because they knew that they would be dead in a matter of days. The rest of the world didn’t even know the full extent of the disaster until weeks later. It took a nuclear science lab in Sweden detecting unusually high levels of radiation in the atmosphere before journalists started asking questions. That downward shot of the reactor meltdown looked like the gates of Hell itself. Gonz fucked around with this message at 08:41 on May 7, 2019 |
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May 7, 2019 08:29
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can exposure to radiation cause immediate bleeding (ie, the dude who held the door open)? I was under the impression it took a few days for the body to destroy itself #funquestionstoask
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May 7, 2019 08:37
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Eau de MacGowan posted:can exposure to radiation cause immediate bleeding (ie, the dude who held the door open)? I was under the impression it took a few days for the body to destroy itself #funquestionstoask The amount of roentgens that guy was exposed to was astronomical. At levels that high, the cell walls of living things begin to hemorrhage in under 30 seconds. Edit: For example, a dose of 500 Roentgens over the course of an hour is fatal. Here’s what those numbers were in the immediate aftermath of the disaster:  counterfeitsaint posted:So was that metal or a chunk of graphite the fire fighter picked up to examine? The one who's hand melted later. Graphite. Probably part of the exploded control rod channel system.  Gonz fucked around with this message at 08:59 on May 7, 2019 |
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May 7, 2019 08:40
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So was that metal or a chunk of graphite the fire fighter picked up to examine? The one who's hand melted later.
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May 7, 2019 08:43
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When that column fire trucks headed to the fire it seemed like they were going to battle some Cosmic Horror that was unleashed by the Necronomicon. Rarely has anything looked more futile and hopeless.
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May 7, 2019 09:06
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Gonz posted:I wonder if they’re going to visit the Elephant’s Foot? The dead man walking aspect of nuclear accidents has always been one of the parts that made it so drat creepy for me. The one that always stuck with me was the so called 'demon core' that ended up killing two researchers in two different accidents. In the latter, the idiot scientist was holding a hemisphere of beryllium over the core with nothing but the head of a screwdriver keeping it from closing and going supercritical. His hand slipped, and there was a flash bright enough for an observer with his back turned to notice it, even though the room was very well lit. The scientist in question pulled the top off within a fraction of a second, but in that mere instant he had taken on a lethal dose of radiation. He'd been friends with the first scientist the core had killed, and had visited him in the hospital the day he died. Apparently his words immediately following the accident were "Well, that does it." He died nine days later. His injuries were described as being similar to a three dimensional sunburn throughout his whole body. Just the idea that your hand slips for a quarter of a second and you now know you're dead, that you have perhaps a week to live is just disconcerting as all hell.
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May 7, 2019 10:11
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Chernobyl has always been one of those things that really facinates me so I am going to have to give this a watch but I do worry that shows like this only serve to bolster the Nuclear bogeyman. Global Warming is a huge planetary crisis and Nuclear Energy might be the only way that we can actually cut significant amounts of carbon emissions while also managing to keep up with ever escalating energy demands. Anything that serves to scare the public (who are largely very uninformed) away from nuclear energy might potentially be doing far more harm than good at this point. I was watching some videos put out by the plants decommissioning team recently detailing about how they are planning to dismantle the remains of reactor inside the New Safe Containment and its honestly fascinating. I really hope that my worries about the show are unfounded but considering how some of you have described the first episode I am not very hopeful. At least its great TV I guess.
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May 7, 2019 11:27
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it seems to be far more interested in the ideas of systems and accountability as the cause rather than nuclear power itself, its barely taken more than 30 seconds to actually explain or examine what went wrong and what could have been prevented rather than simply portraying what happened from the moment of explosion
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May 7, 2019 11:45
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yeah - it's an interesting narrative choice, since there's some drama/etc. you could extract from how the test was conducted leading up to the explosion a track from the score's been released: https://open.spotify.com/track/093xBiIj8cSuWL3Dof7HOr?si=VO3bt4J1T_O-mygrwyCFeA
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May 7, 2019 11:54
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First episode is fantastic. First time in a very long time that I've really wanted to binge-watch something and not being able to. Production design is great, photography is great, acting is great (very good choice to let people just speak like they come, and not ham it up with russian accent), the sense of dread is gigantic. I for one like that they don't go in with too much detail to the actual, factual circumstances. Letting us see the despair of the characters as they slowly realise that the "impossible" has happened is very, very effective drama. Also, reading about it on wikipedia, it seems like the build up to the actual accident is a very complex and techincal affair, dunno how well one could portray that outside of a genuine documentary. BigglesSWE fucked around with this message at 12:26 on May 7, 2019 |
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May 7, 2019 12:16
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May 7, 2019 13:29
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Good show so far, really liked episode 1. Jarrad Harris is great and I hope we see a lot of him in this miniseries. HBO are also doing a companion podcast, here is episode 1 with the creator of the show Craig Mazin and hosted by Peter Sagal of NPRs 'wait wait don't tell me' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUeHPCYtWYQ (1 hour podcast)
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May 7, 2019 13:35
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These guys are so loving dead, and they know it. At least they got to see a truly remarkable sight.
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May 7, 2019 13:48
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