CHERNO E4 FULL REACTION
Added 2025-02-06 04:35:55 +0000 UTC
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1) I’m a doctor and no the baby radiation thing isn’t real, but likely the mother believed it in that mythical way people do (ie “X person suffered so I could live”), though it’s a little annoying they have the scientist saying it. Anyway. 2) inflation is not the same in different countries, so that converter + time back thing doesn’t quite work. Russia’s economy went wild with a change from socialism to capitalism too, with rapid inflation and deflation periods. I can only speak for Belarus (I’m from there) but there were times where it went from like 0.5 rubles for a carton of milk to 2000 rubles for a carton of milk within the span of 5 years, and then the following year the country takes two zeros off all prices to cause rapid deflation again to make a carton of milk 20 rubles. Hard to compare to US where the dollar is stable and we pretty much only get a stable 1-10% inflation every year (I think— I’m not an economist).
Tatyana Zinger
2025-02-08 17:18:53 +0000 UTCI'm a lawyer...another kind of Dr. lol And also find the radiaton absorving baby hard to swallow (the argument, not the baby).
Χριστόφορος
2025-02-08 03:18:35 +0000 UTCUntil men can carry children, they really shouldn't assume to understand the affects of pregnancy or the choices people make regarding it.
Teth
2025-02-07 08:34:24 +0000 UTCThere's a nice example of religiously-fuelled compassion and logic. 🙄 I have a soul, therefore I have no empathy.
Teth
2025-02-07 08:31:05 +0000 UTCOk , Chernobyl Time! Great comments so far guys! Looks like this one's gonna be rough. S'ok , I can take it! Let's get the Checklist done and go! Fatty rolled and ready - Check - Smokes and Zippo - Check - Special for tonight - 1 bottle of freezer cold Belvedere Vodka - Check. (Bought it special for the last 2 episodes. My personal favorite , and just shots w/a water back) Alright *Raises and offers shots zahzdah-ROHV-yuh! Peace
Madmanmarz1981
2025-02-07 05:21:56 +0000 UTCI have seen a couple reactors , both men and women , just have total meltdowns with domesticated animals being snuffed in movies and TV , yet , as you said , not much if any thing for people. My Ex got all weepy in GOT when the 1st dragon died. I honestly had to LMFAO! "It's a CGI Fantasy Creature. " : ] (BTW , Not at all why she's my Ex.)
Madmanmarz1981
2025-02-07 04:59:42 +0000 UTCIt’s the trust our pets place in us, and with dogs especially it’s their optimism, that makes that scene so traumatizing. I also felt it was used by the filmmakers as a way of introducing the Afghanistan war and how it becomes necessary for soldiers to normalize killing. When my nephew was training with the Marines for deployment to Afgabistan, he was driving a military vehicle in a forest somewhere in the southern U.S.. A deer appeared at the side of the road, and my nephew was ordered to hit the deer. It wasn’t fully in the road, mind you, and the vehicle could easily have missed the deer, but my animal-loving nephew was ordered to run it down. Part of breaking his will, I suppose. Because if he had hesitated to follow one insane order, he might hesitate in a fatal moment. So that whole part of Chernobyl made me cry for more than one reason: the animal victims, and the human victims who were armed with vodka to numb the horror.
Susan B
2025-02-07 03:44:50 +0000 UTCAnimals are soulless. I'd have no problem doing it. I'm surprised you feel empathy for them. I would never put an animals life above my fellow humans in any instance
Slimsycentaur37
2025-02-07 01:48:39 +0000 UTCAnother reactor I watch, yes I cheat on you, but when she got to dog scenes she cried her eyes out. Not when the men were melting in the hospital, but we all have relationships with our pets so it seemed more real. Every time a dog shows up in a movie or show she is watching, she always says a dog, he's a good boy. This episode destroyed her.
TigerMyth
2025-02-07 01:09:54 +0000 UTCI’ll bet you know women, including just in this forum, for whom a medically necessary late-term abortion was the tragedy of her lifetime. If there are women who terminate pregnancies “so they can keep partying,” I’ve never met one and I’m nearly 70 years old. Please keep in mind that referring to a woman’s choice in that casually dismissive way is always going to reach the eyes or ears of someone who has suffered an unfathomable loss.
Susan B
2025-02-06 18:13:39 +0000 UTCBarry Keoghan (young recruit for the pet-shooting squad) is an amazing actor. I think he won Best Supporting Actor for his role as Dominic in The Banshees of Inisherin, and then after years of being cast as the “shy quiet weirdo” he shattered expectations in Saltburn, where his character uses the “shy quiet weirdo” facade to - how can I say this without spoilers - to surprise people. 😬
Susan B
2025-02-06 16:58:32 +0000 UTCAbout the baby absorbing the radiation, that is what the mother, Lyudmila Ignatenko, who wrote the book that her story is based on believed. She believed that her dead child saved her life. It's hard to explain to a grieving mother that she is scientifically wrong. At the time of this event it was believed that the firefighters were radioactive. That is wrong. After being decontaminated they were perfectly safe to be around, they weren't giving off radiation, it's just that their DNA and bone marrow was so messed up they couldn't be saved. (What was dangerous was their clothes and the radioactive particles clinging to them and their skin immediately following their exposure.) But at the time, the nurses, (who were never trained for this) took extra steps just incase they were radioactive. Lyudmila ignored these, in hindsight, unnecessary and cruel precautions. After her daughter died she blamed her death on the radiation she was exposed to by her husband, due to survivor's guilt and to give her daughter's life and death meaning. When in reality her baby developed birth defects from the surrounding radiation for her own exposure at Pripyat, even if she never saw her husband again, the damage was already done. But as I said, for years she believed and told people that her child saved her. Remember that this is set in 80's USSR, the average persons understanding of radiation is very limited as well as medical professionals as THIS event is what was researched (and other accidents) to give us our modern understanding.
Twiska Brand
2025-02-06 11:50:52 +0000 UTCThis might be be the toughest episode. I mean the sheer scale of "bio robots" who were exposed through the cleanup efforts is staggering. On the other hand you have the kindness of that older soldier taking that younger man under his wing and telling him to wait outside. Some of the soldiers secretly went up on the roof several times in to spare others. I wish they hadn't said Ludmilla's baby absorbed the radiation because that isn't true. I assume they wanted to include it since it's what some people thought at the time.
Teth
2025-02-06 11:27:04 +0000 UTCAssuming for copyright?
Flora Smith
2025-02-06 10:23:46 +0000 UTCTagging wouldn't be bad either ...
Teth
2025-02-06 10:14:35 +0000 UTCWhy not type 3 extra letters in the title so people can actually find this reaction in the future? ;)
Dasypodidae
2025-02-06 09:51:24 +0000 UTCThe Ludmilla pregnancy story is one of the plot points that they actually stuck to reality. Maybe the baby didnt absorb all the radiation but she did survive and she did live on
David Melo
2025-02-06 07:07:26 +0000 UTC
