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@Ghost Viktor and Petra are my jam, especially after watching interviews with the actors.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
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@Ghost Viktor and Petra are my jam, especially after watching interviews with the actors.
Yeah. Viktor and Petra are the shit, too. Man, that finale. I was looking forward to seeing how they were gonna make it through that one thing that happened...
By they I mean Petra and Billy, who I think are a great ship.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
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@Ghost I fell in love with Viktor and Petra initially because of an interview with Viktor's actor, who talked about how he played Viktor actually falling for Petra but then succumbing to peer pressure re: the rats. And then later Petra's actress talking about some of their moments.
That needs to go somewhere!
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"That is how an RBMK reactor explodes."
If anyone knows of television as good as or better than Chernobyl, I want to hear about it right now.
Also, I'm laughing in advance at Game of Thrones getting absolutely swept at the Emmys by a five part series in which the main villains are a bunch of smouldering graphite and Soviet governance.
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"Only 3.5 roentgens? That's the equivalent of getting a chest x-ray."
"He's clearly delirious."
I can't say there are many series or movies that have honestly unsettled me, but that scene, the only time they actually show the reactor on fire, unnerved me.
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@Testament Yeah all that 'watching peoples skin turn color in real time' shit gave me all the skeevies. I blame some Spiderman and Venom novel involving radioactive isotopes i read as a kid for hammering in those dangers.
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@Rinel
It won't be eligible in most of GoTs categories since HBO can submit it as a mini-series (bonus that it actually is one, unlike a lot of what winds up in the mini-series category), tho it's certainly of higher quality than most of GoTs last season, that aside. I'm digging it, even if it's harrowing to watch. I held off because when it initially came out I wasn't in the mood for grim, but now that I've gotten to it it's REALLY good. -
It looks otherworldly and dangerous in ways that are hard to describe without falling back on religion. It's Lot's wife turning back to see the destruction and turning into a pillar of salt, or the burning bush, or the curtain of the Temple being torn in two. All the ancient mysteries and primal fear of something greater than ourselves made manifest in a burning reactor core.
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@Rinel I've been fascinated with Chernobyl in a mildly unhealthy way since I was a teen in high school. The whole concept of what happened just intrigued me to something I still have trouble grasping. I could say the same about nuclear energy(but Chernobyl specifically), and who anything nuclear related really works. Sadly, it often contains concepts and science that are way above my head, and there are times I think should've followed my calling to be a nuclear physicist.
So the fact that this show gets so much of what actually happened right is so cool. A lot of the names and people in the show I had already known about from my study in it years ago, but it's something else to really see it reenacted in such a faithful way.
I still want to see more close up pictures of the number four reactor years later, because I'm all but certain it hasn't been touched or even gotten near. I've never seen photos of it up close after the incident, and I doubt I ever will. And if there are photos of it, I suspect they're likely still classified, locked away in some Soviet-era vault. But even still to this day, I want to know what it looks like after, not just far away aerial shots where you can't see any kind of detail.
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@Testament One thing I heard (but haven't verified) over the radio this morning was the Russians aren't pleased with how Chernobyl was made. The argument was "imagine if Russia had made a mini series about 9/11 and everyone in it had non-American accents".
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@Testament One thing I heard (but haven't verified) over the radio this morning was the Russians aren't pleased with how Chernobyl was made. The argument was "imagine if Russia had made a mini series about 9/11 and everyone in it had non-American accents".
I have not seen the show yet, is that fair criticism?
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@Jaded From the New Yorker, my favourite criticism:
The one noticeable mistake in this respect concerns the series makers’ apparent ignorance of the vast divisions between different socioeconomic classes in the Soviet Union: in the series, Valery Legasov (Jared Harris), a member of the Academy of Sciences, lives in nearly the same kind of squalor as a fireman in the Ukrainian town of Pripyat. In fact, Legasov would have lived in an entirely different kind of squalor than the fireman did.
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@Jaded Its a very british russian disaster. I mentioned it to my wife as the show started. After that, I forgot all about it because the entire thing is an engrossing masterpiece.
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@Testament One thing I heard (but haven't verified) over the radio this morning was the Russians aren't pleased with how Chernobyl was made. The argument was "imagine if Russia had made a mini series about 9/11 and everyone in it had non-American accents".
I have not seen the show yet, is that fair criticism?
Not really. It's a British production, and they use accents to portray class divisions that wouldn't be accessible if they were speaking with a Russian accent. And why is Russian-accented English any less absurd than British-accented English? You could do Russian/Ukrainian and subtitle it, yes, but then you'd miss out on a lot of the nuance.
The show has attracted praise and criticism both from Russians. People are unanimous in their praise for how accurately it physically depicts the Soviet Union. The costumes, buildings, &c. are apparently spot on.
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Lucifer's been renewed for a fifth (and final) season. So, they'll have a chance to end the story the way they want, rather than leaving it on a cliffhanger when it doesn't get renewed at some point.
a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)
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@Sparks noooo i want more than one more season
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Lucifer's been renewed for a fifth (and final) season. So, they'll have a chance to end the story the way they want, rather than leaving it on a cliffhanger when it doesn't get renewed at some point.
It's smart. They already had to save it once.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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Lucifer's been renewed for a fifth (and final) season. So, they'll have a chance to end the story the way they want, rather than leaving it on a cliffhanger when it doesn't get renewed at some point.
It's smart. They already had to save it once.
Lucifer was always slated to be a 5 year run, so they are just getting to finish it up like they always had intended to do.
