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Habbaku

#41970
June 05, 2019, 09:13:40 AM
The official Chernobyl podcast should cover the veracity of that scene in detail. I'll report back when I've finished it.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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The Larch

#41971
June 05, 2019, 09:33:18 AM
Quote from: Josephus on June 05, 2019, 08:10:11 AM
Quote from: The Larch on June 05, 2019, 06:25:27 AM
I finished Chernobyl yesterday. Last episode's trial scene with Legasov's deposition lambasting the Soviet system seemed a bit too Hollywood for me.

I wonder whether that's based on truth or not. I don't think so, but the tapes he left after his suicide were and in the end did lead to Russia retrofitting the rods.

Apparently neither him nor Scherbina were even present during the trial.

Josephus

#41972
June 05, 2019, 01:09:00 PM
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Oexmelin

#41973
June 05, 2019, 02:35:29 PM
It resonates well with the one about Game of Thrones - about our inability to tell sociological stories.
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Tamas

#41974
June 05, 2019, 03:01:04 PM

The Brain

#41975
June 05, 2019, 03:07:36 PM
Quote from: Tamas on June 05, 2019, 03:01:04 PM
Quote from: Josephus on June 05, 2019, 01:09:00 PM
here's a good essay on the series Chernobyl in New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-hbos-chernobyl-got-right-and-what-it-got-terribly-wrong

This is a really bad article.

It does seem a bit weird.

QuoteIn effect, Plokhy argues, it was the Soviet system that created Chernobyl and made the explosion inevitable. Glimmers of this understanding appear in the HBO series, too.

Glimmers? The entire series is about the Soviet system causing the disaster (and the poor handling of the disaster).
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Habbaku

#41976
June 05, 2019, 03:10:11 PM
Quote from: Oexmelin on June 05, 2019, 02:35:29 PM
It resonates well with the one about Game of Thrones - about our inability to tell sociological stories.

The whole story is sociological. There is no 'inability' here to tell a sociological tale.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Admiral Yi

#41977
June 05, 2019, 03:13:13 PM
I wasn't crazy about the New Yorker article.  Either brave individuals bucked the myopic bureaucratic system to save the world, or the myopic bureaucratic system itself saved the world, in which case the author of the piece should have told us how it did that.

KRonn

#41978
June 05, 2019, 07:57:58 PM
A new series, NOS482 started Sunday. It looks interesting, some kind of thriller type show. I liked the first episode and I'm going to watch more episodes and check it out.

Josquius

#41979
June 06, 2019, 01:35:36 AM
The first ep of good omens was pretty good.

I don't like pratchetts writing. But it tends to translate well to TV.
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Josephus

#41980
June 06, 2019, 09:18:38 AM
Quote from: KRonn on June 05, 2019, 07:57:58 PM
A new series, NOS482 started Sunday. It looks interesting, some kind of thriller type show. I liked the first episode and I'm going to watch more episodes and check it out.

Think it's based on a book by Stephen King's son.
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HVC

#41981
June 06, 2019, 03:09:47 PM
Russia think HBO's Chernobyl is fake news, goona make its own show.

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/06/chernobyl-tourism-spikes-hbo-russia-plans-series-1202147828/
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Duque de Bragança

#41982
June 06, 2019, 03:16:42 PM
Quote from: HVC on June 06, 2019, 03:09:47 PM
Russia think HBO's Chernobyl is fake news, goona make its own show.

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/06/chernobyl-tourism-spikes-hbo-russia-plans-series-1202147828/

It will be hard for them to shoot it in Ukraine though.

Syt

#41983
June 06, 2019, 03:18:44 PM
I don't feel like the Russians have issues shooting in Ukraine. :P
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Duque de Bragança

#41984
June 06, 2019, 03:21:09 PM
Quote from: Syt on June 06, 2019, 03:18:44 PM
I don't feel like the Russians have issues shooting in Ukraine. :P

:D

We are not talking about shooting down a plane though.  :P
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