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[-] duckduckohno@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

You can't just leave it there and not elaborate what the inaccuracies were.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 months ago

The reactor's kill switch worked fine, but another reactor reacted to it
None of the Soviet's spoke fluent BBC english at the time
All the scientists were squashed into a single organism called "supafrique" who was the main antagonist
The level of radiation blasted into the atmosphere was greatly exaggerated by captain planet
Superman sealed up the hole in less than 10 minutes
Chernobyl is actually pronounced "Churro-nob-yell"
Everyone who was underwater and worked to kill the reactor actually gained telepathy later on
It was actually hard to write this list. This was a great tragedy.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

his hand had 8 fingers

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Here's a podcast from the show writers on the compromises and consolidations they needed to do for the mini series.

https://youtu.be/rUeHPCYtWYQ

[-] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Check out this YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@thatchernobylguy2915

[-] nyctre@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's a historical drama, not a documentary, tho. Like complaining about vikings or gladiator or whatever.

[-] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

You are indeed correct, some artistic freedom is definitely expected from that kind of series. But relying on Russian propaganda sources and making Legasov a hero doesn't qualify as artistic freedom but misinformation. Also the representation of the soviet reality was at least inaccurate - my dad who was raised in the former soviet block summarised it as "representing how Americans think it was not how it truly was".

Chernobyl is a good and very interesting series and it's good that it raises at least some awareness about the catastrophe. But imo it could be more technically and historically accurate without losing its attractiveness.