Man..When they were on the roof cleaning it off, i got nervous as hell.
When dude got stuck, i said yeah hes done.
When dude got stuck, i said yeah hes done.
You seem to be overly nitpicky.I liked that idea of that scene, the slowmo was just a bit much on top of everything else.
Oof, I remember that story from the book.Oof...
Podcast bit of a scene they filmed, but didn't air, for similar reasons of not showing that dude's face in the earlier episode...
Involving the Animal stuff. "They ran out of bullets, and needed one more" is about all I'll say.
It's been shared a couple of times in this thread already, but here's actual footage of the roof cleanup effort:
I thought the same. Big hanging scraper thing. But then the helicopters would fly directly over the core and fuck everyone inside up (like how the bio-robots were told not to look over the edge into it).Did they really have no better idea than bio robots? How about you attach a scrapper to a helicopter and scrap off the debris into the hole?
I think the intensity of Roentgens went up by proximity to reactor. If the helicopter was suitably high they can do 2 min sorties and switch out pilots. Better than sending 3000 men into agonizing death.I thought the same. Big hanging scraper thing. But then the helicopters would fly directly over the core and fuck everyone inside up (like how the bio-robots were told not to look over the edge into it).
Hard episode to watch. Feel a little guilty enjoying this show so much given the subject matter. This show is quickly climbing my all-time ranks with BOB and The Wire. Really love Stellan Skarsgård's performance and I can't believe it took me so long to recognize him.
I haven't read anything like this. One thing to always keep in mind, particularly in the first 5-10 years after the accident there was an incredible amount of misinformation, both intentional propaganda and just plain wrong, made up, or assumed information.I remember when I was young I watched a documentary about the clean up. Of men going up to the roof and not all coming back. One thing always stuck with me, one talking about how men were falling apart.
Are we to assume that the 3000 or so people cleaning the roof died shortly in painful, agonizing deaths?
Lol are we actually having armchair experts in here going "why didn't they just do x instead?" regarding cleanup of one of the biggest man made disasters of all time?
I really don't think they could risk something that imprecise. A scraper would spread irradiated debris and particles with it as the helicopter pulled away. Not to mention the danger to the chopper crew that close to the core and the fact that they'd just be wacking pieces of graphite off the roof by swinging a scraper with a helicopter.Did they really have no better idea than bio robots? How about you attach a scrapper to a helicopter and scrap off the debris into the hole?
Holy shit I just read up on him and his brother is Josef Fares??? The infamous rant at E3 2017?BTW Fares Fares was really good as the lead liquidator in the trio with Pavel and the other guy. He's a fun but campy actor between A Way Out and season 2 of Westworld so I didn't know he had the chops for that. Funny and intense all at once. Good on him.
Given what we've seen, that poor guy's foot is rotting off, right?Jeez, the rooftop cleanup scene was tense as hell. The camera keeping on the one guy, the geiger counter spiking up and down as he gets closer to the edge, getting stuck and him noticing the shoe after getting back inside was really well done. I liked how in the after-show notes it has the line from Legasov about how under no circumstances should people be sent up there, nice little reminder after his desperation pushed him to suggest it.
Given what we've seen, that poor guy's foot is rotting off, right?
A perfectly fitting tagline for this show.
BTW Fares Fares was really good as the lead liquidator in the trio with Pavel and the other guy. He's a fun but campy actor between A Way Out and season 2 of Westworld so I didn't know he had the chops for that. Funny and intense all at once. Good on him.
Haven't seen episode 4 yet, but glad to hear it's great as usual. Pleeease nail the final episode, pretty pretty please.
I am incredibly ignorant when it comes to Russian actors so take it as nothing more, but possible actor unions are a factor here. With it being a joint production with HBO and Sky.The only thing preventing this from being a 10/10 is the British accents. Was there really no way to get Russian speaking actors? It's the same thing that drove me nuts in The Hunt For Red October.
The first three episodes struck just the right tone, but episode four veered a bit into comical misery porn territory with the dogs. The first few scenes were devastating but the bit at the end with the puppies just pushed it over the edge. Sometimes less is more (an ethos the show has adhered to very well up to this point).
Humans are cheaper.Did they really have no better idea than bio robots? How about you attach a scrapper to a helicopter and scrap off the debris into the hole?
I hate to break it to ya, but some puppies were definitely liquidatedThe first three episodes struck just the right tone, but episode four veered a bit into comical misery porn territory with the dogs. The first few scenes were devastating but the bit at the end with the puppies just pushed it over the edge. Sometimes less is more (an ethos the show has adhered to very well up to this point).
Ehhhh i think the animal/pet lover in you is blinding you. What we saw did happen and in even worse ways based off the podcast of the episode. Hell, they could've even displayed the shots actually hit the animals and then whimper to death in front of our eyes. After the nightmare of decaying flesh that was the last episode I say the pet scenes are relatively tame.The first three episodes struck just the right tone, but episode four veered a bit into comical misery porn territory with the dogs. The first few scenes were devastating but the bit at the end with the puppies just pushed it over the edge. Sometimes less is more (an ethos the show has adhered to very well up to this point).
I thought the same. Big hanging scraper thing. But then the helicopters would fly directly over the core and fuck everyone inside up (like how the bio-robots were told not to look over the edge into it).
I don't see how the offscreen killing of puppies is any worse than other things we've seen. Do you think that type of scenario didn't play out given that they did go around exterminating animals? It was yet another shitty thing that needed to be done.
I hate to break it to ya, but some puppies were definitely liquidated
Ehhhh i think the animal/pet lover in you is blinding you. What we saw did happen and in even worse ways based off the podcast of the episode. Hell, they could've even displayed the shots actually hit the animals and then whimper to death in front of our eyes.
The first three episodes struck just the right tone, but episode four veered a bit into comical misery porn territory with the dogs. The first few scenes were devastating but the bit at the end with the puppies just pushed it over the edge. Sometimes less is more (an ethos the show has adhered to very well up to this point).
Can someone with more spare time than me take this and shop Dyatlov over Homer and Akimov over Grimes?All the Dyatlov memes coming out of this show has been amusing to watch.