re: Doing a Chernobyl rewatch

Are yall talking about the HBO series below? There's several..

I just re watched the whole thing last month.

Incredible.

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This was long before my time but man, I can't even imagine what it must have been like following this story when it happened.

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I was in my early 20s when it happened and I really didn't understand how bad it was until I heard they had measured slightly increased radiation levels in streams in South Carolina a few weeks after the event.

That's when I realized, holy shite, that must have been a really, really bad event

I just started my first watch of this series after seeing a clip on TikTok. Just finished the second episode and....spoilers...



When the flashlights go out on those three guys, and they're down there radiating to death, unable to accomplish their mission, knowing they're going to die anyway in the dark (I'm assuming). I hope episode 3 shows that one of these guys has some kind of back-up light, or a flare, but holy hell what an awful way to go. I'm hooked.

Just finished it and can say it's one of the best series' I've seen in years. I passed on it as it didn't seem like something I'd really be interested in but this forum sold me so kudos. That's one of those shows that just stays with you.

But I also want to point out how amazing the visual effects were. Never once was I taken out of it due to bad effects or CGI. I don't keep up with awards and such but if this show didn't win at least multiple, then heads need to roll.

The bad of the series is blaming the rods, they could not go into details of the faults of the design of the reactor.

The tips of the rods are longer than the show implies and are partly in the reactor all the time. The fault was the design, which was known about long before the Chernobyl reactor number one was built.

The building of the reactors at Chernobyl is on the cheap and one of the major causes of what ends up happening.

The number of accidents before Chernobyl is not low, there are near Chernobyl type events and the problem with the gas built is known even back in the 1960's.

The Soviet Union knew the faults with the design, yet due to lack of funds and money going into the pockets of higher ranked bosses, the USSR kept building more of these cheap reactors.

Why built one modern reactor for x money when you can build 4 for the same money. The more money you saved in building cost the more money went into the higher level officials pockets.

What happened at reactor number 4 was only a matter of the time bomb the Soviet Union built to go off. Cheap cost, cheap design and the push to build more, and more due to the needs of the fast-growing power grid, the limits were reached that night and the growing monster of the system met the limits of human design for a quick fixs to keep the system in play.

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When the flashlights go out on those three guys, and they're down there radiating to death, unable to accomplish their mission, knowing they're going to die anyway in the dark (I'm assuming). I hope episode 3 shows that one of these guys has some kind of back-up light, or a flare, but holy hell what an awful way to go. I'm hooked.

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Have no idea how you didn't start the next episode after that I would have been lying in bed awake for an hour thinking about what happens next.

The series pretty much described everything you just said though. They blamed the rods but the rods were like that because they were cutting cost. Also mentioned how they have a number of other reactors out there with the same problem.

Though they didn't mention prior accident. That would have taken away from the impact of the cover up though so for story telling reasons I can understand why they didn't do that. Although I doubt the previous accidents were blown reactors.

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The Last of Us had me hooked about halfway thru the first episode then went to a pile of crap, may try watching this one

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The two aren't even comparable. At all.

Chernobyl is head and shoulders above The Last of Us.