• Chernobyl (HBO) Mini-Series V.1 Megathread
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Yup, that part of the article is when I knew the journalist was a hack fraud. It's clearly implied both in the show and the script for that scene that the helicopter is blinded by the smoke and then hits the crane cable. At no point is radiation shown or implied to have caused the crash.
I'm actually going to take back my skepticism of that criticism. It turns out it's true that the helicopter crash happened much later in real life, and I do think the show implied that the crash happened due to the plume of smoke. It wasn't my impression that it was caused by radiation, but definitely that the smoke plume contributed. I'm not going to immediately believe the Forbes story since they're just referring to a "well-researched" book, but I'm a bit more convinced that the events are more dramatized in the show than I thought.
However he seems to be right about the part where the crash actually happened 6 months later. This page claims it happened in October 1986, not the next day of the incident as the series showed.
they brought this up in the podcasts
Podcasts are great because they pointed out most if not all the places where they used artistic licence in the show.
What's interesting is that from what I've read, the real life crash may have actually been caused by the radiation (in a sense. It's suspected that the radiation exposure disoriented the pilot after several flights over the reactor.
Disappointed they never explained that the underground heat exchanger was never used and the coal miners worked for nothing
Found a cool comparison on reddit of the actual reactor lid and how they rendered it in the show: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/216394/14893d4f-16f0-4ba1-87dc-bf3bf34c7205/elena.jpg Neat little trivia: The reactor lid is nicknamed Elena, and the thousands of pipes coming off it are called "Elena's Hair"
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/133431/b112a657-027e-40d8-84b0-dfbd3dfa38e0/image.png
The bromance alone makes this show worth watching.
Here's something you either needed or didn't need to know: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/core-chan
Binged the show since it's all out now. Fucking hell man
https://youtu.be/fBlY0OzDXAM
If anyone is interested in learning more about the physics of what happened to reactor #4, Scott Manley released a video where he goes into a lot of details. It's quite physics heavy, so might not be for everyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3d3rzFTrLg
I saw this everywhere in the Chernobyl threads on /tv/ and I wanted to post it here, but I didn't know if Facepunch was ready for the core waifu.
I really wish people stop sexualizing everything, is cringe worthy at this point.
welcome to the internet, may I take your coat?
We are in 2019, the same we not longer seeing with good eyes joking about women and LGBT issues this could follow the same path.
It's a stupid drawing you an ignore
I think I just had a stroke. Anyone smell toast? Besides Breadman's avatar.
idk how theses has anything to do with some people drawing characters for laughs tbh. if the joke is not your taste, that's cool, but theres nothing wrong or harmful about it. it's a meme just like the other memes about the show, with no hidden bad intent.
No, but oddly I taste metal
Can we talk about how awesome the shot of the open core was in the first episode? It was such a perfect hell-maw. With the sound design and the visual effects, it was just so *chef's kiss*
That shot is an incredible combination of deeply horrifying yet interesting as fuck. I couldn't imagine what it might have been like to be one of the three real people seeing it with my own eyes. By even looking into it - something which had never before been seen on Earth and which hopefully never will be again - you're already dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=Jcvpj1QPp1Q
I feel some sympathy for Dyatlov. Although it's safe to say that he bears a great deal of responsibility for the events, being the lead figure on the ground floor of the incident; I still can't help but feel sorry for him. https://youtu.be/E0ZYZV_f02c?t=110 It's just hard to see someone so withered, regret in his eye. Actually, I think the epilogue was really beautiful; it wraps up this horribly tragic event, but at the same time it offers a few glimmers of hope. Also his final account shortly before his death was just recently translated into English, no doubt as a result of show related interest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8__v9EswN4 Although I think he took the truth with him to the grave, and that his account here is likely an attempt to put a deflective spin on things; he ultimately isn't just the monster we see on the show. Or maybe he was? Perhaps he cracked under pressure? Or later in life he did some soul searching? I doubt the answer is so simple, but it's important, and interesting to hear his perspective regardless. Either way it's just sad all around. Oh, and I've read that apparently earlier in life the guy did work installing nuclear reactors into submarines. During an accident he received a dose of radiation, and experienced some mild radiation sickness. His son later died of leukemia.
From pretty much every account, Dyatlov was a bastard. His attitude to radiation seemed to change after his original exposure and his son's death. The fact he survived being irradiated, seemed to make him think that it was a non issue, and his son's death made him view the atom as something to be mastered and controlled and he would stop at nothing to get to that point.
Very interesting interview with Dyatlov. The way I view it there's not that much of what he says that directly contradicts the official story, it mostly clashes with how Dyatlov was portrayed by this series. I agree it's probably safe to say he is far from the monster he's made out to be. They discussed Dyatlov's attitude towards others and theories about his stance in the podcast, and while I (obviously) don't know him personally I'm inclined to believe the series went just a little overboard with his portrayal as an asshole whose arrogance largely can be blamed for the accident. The effectiveness of the message that the series wishes to convey hinges in part on the ambiguity regarding blame, I feel it could've been pushed more effectively by spending just a smidgen less screen time on Dyatlov being a dismissive dick and more on the inexperience and confusion among the crew as well as the technical faults of the reactor. I.E, a more balanced presentation would've gone to better preserving the ambiguity. Though I guess the portrayal the serie's eventually went with is more accurate to the narrative of the time. As Dyatlov points out towards the end of the interview, in the Soviet union there was never a fault with machines, only its operators. The reports that better highlights the technical faults as a contributor to the accident didn't come until years later.
I think it was said in the podcast that the "I was in the bathroom" line was something he actually claimed during the trial.
I genuinely just think that he was no evil, just someone who had so much ego on his expertise and on the faith that nothing was wrong with the reactor ( understandable on this last part ) that he just refused the reality unfolding around ( which previous experiences marked him ). I think they overdid his character in the last chapter as well.
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