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Post by Marv on Jun 20, 2019 9:35:14 GMT
Way too heavy-handed with the anti-Soviet propaganda. A lot of the characters come off as cartoonish caricatures. Would be interesting to see a Ukrainian- or Russian-written and produced version. My other main criticism is that the way they tell the story, the audience is left to believe that there were only two senior nuclear scientists (Legasov and Khomyuk) working on disaster management and the investigation into what went wrong in the first place, one of whom in the beginning was largely doing the latter investigation more or less on her own and in secret—super conspiracy-like. The idea that there would have been only two senior scientists working on managing the disaster response is utterly preposterous. They used the female scientist as an amalgamation of the dozens or so of real scientists that were working on it. They did it for simplicity sake in developing characters. They state as much in the last episode.
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jun 20, 2019 11:02:52 GMT
Way too heavy-handed with the anti-Soviet propaganda. A lot of the characters come off as cartoonish caricatures. Would be interesting to see a Ukrainian- or Russian-written and produced version. My other main criticism is that the way they tell the story, the audience is left to believe that there were only two senior nuclear scientists (Legasov and Khomyuk) working on disaster management and the investigation into what went wrong in the first place, one of whom in the beginning was largely doing the latter investigation more or less on her own and in secret—super conspiracy-like. The idea that there would have been only two senior scientists working on managing the disaster response is utterly preposterous. They used the female scientist as an amalgamation of the dozens or so of real scientists that were working on it. They did it for simplicity sake in developing characters. They state as much in the last episode. And that was a mistake. It's not believable that for a problem that threatened the wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people in the USSR & neighboring countries, the authorities would have assigned only two scientists.
So it made the story seem unreal.
As movie viewers, we're used to seeing global disaster films where there is a hero with one or two assistants who save the fate of humanity. But this wasn't supposed to be a sci-fi flic. It was supposed to capture a major real-world historical event. What the filmmakers should have done was show that there was a team of scientists involved throughout but then focus the story on the two scientists who had the greatest dramatic impact for the narrative.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jun 20, 2019 11:06:25 GMT
Way too heavy-handed with the anti-Soviet propaganda. A lot of the characters come off as cartoonish caricatures. Would be interesting to see a Ukrainian- or Russian-written and produced version. My other main criticism is that the way they tell the story, the audience is left to believe that there were only two senior nuclear scientists (Legasov and Khomyuk) working on disaster management and the investigation into what went wrong in the first place, one of whom in the beginning was largely doing the latter investigation more or less on her own and in secret—super conspiracy-like. The idea that there would have been only two senior scientists working on managing the disaster response is utterly preposterous. 1. Russia sucks that bad now, so it's not too shocking they sucked in the 80's. Heck, that idiot Trump's administration behaves the exact same way, they just can't control the media or people's views. Further, they showed plenty of good people in Russia even if there was nothing worth praising bureaucracy wise and it's silly to defend that which we have know is true regarding the USSR. 2. It's a dramatic work, not a documentary and there has never been a biopic made that doesn't stream down the cast to make it easier for the audience. Unlike most, Chernobyl made that clear in discussion of the show, the podcast, & I think they showed pictures of them in the final episode.
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Post by hi224 on Jun 21, 2019 11:51:08 GMT
They used the female scientist as an amalgamation of the dozens or so of real scientists that were working on it. They did it for simplicity sake in developing characters. They state as much in the last episode. And that was a mistake. It's not believable that for a problematic for that threatened the wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people in the USSR & neighboring countries, the authorities would have assigned only two scientists.
So it made the story seem unreal.
As movie viewers, we're used to seeing global disaster films where there is a hero with one or two assistants who save the fate of humanity. But this wasn't supposed to be a sci-fi flic. It was supposed to capture a major real-world historical event. What the filmmakers should have done was show that there was a team of scientists involved throughout but then focus the story on the two scientists who had the greatest dramatic impact for the narrative. A Russian is being made where supposedly it's about a conspiracy produced by US intelligence. As you can see they weren't too happy about how their country was portrayed as well.
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Post by Leo of Red Keep on Jun 22, 2019 8:39:35 GMT
Statements from witnesses about the series:
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Post by Leo of Red Keep on Jun 22, 2019 11:52:59 GMT
An interesting watch too:
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Post by Leo of Red Keep on Jul 5, 2019 7:03:37 GMT
5 Reasons Why You Should Watch "Chernobyl"
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Post by northernlad on Jul 25, 2019 14:49:41 GMT
Yes! I found a topic about it here!
I just finished it last night! Something so very apocalyptic about this show...so horrifying and creepy! I loved it...and I feel weird saying that. How can I love something that was very true and horrifying? I don't know but the show creeped me out and I'm a horror fan...so... I guess that's why I got so into it. Very creepy story!
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