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HBO - Chernobyl anyone?

This show makes the last season of Game of thrones look like a fucking joke. Watching those scenes with the fire fighter and the plant workers was made me say "Jesus Christ" few times.
 
Bme26 said:
I was cringing like hell with that woman who wouldn’t leave her husbands side. By the end when he was about done, it was like holy shit. The pain he must have been in
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Those scenes were so hard to watch. You just want to scream "get the fuck out!!!".
 
Damn. I forgot about the third episode. Just watched it.

How the fuck is the firefighter dude not like....end this shit.

He looks like the sewer monster eel thing from that episode of The X Files
 
Bme26 said:
I was cringing like hell with that woman who wouldn’t leave her husbands side. By the end, when he was about done, it was like holy shit. The pain he must have been in
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i sense a deformed baby coming in last episodes
 
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Watching the episode now, and just put it on pause to post this -

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"We're still wearing the fucking hats."
 
K1levelgrappler said:
Here’s a really good collection of photographs covering the plant and the surrounding town. Tons of good information in here.

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That was a good read, thanks for sharing.

"It’s often stated that radiation has no taste, but the men who absorbed the highest doses at Chernobyl all reported a metallic taste in their mouths immediately upon exposure, so it seems that if the dose is high enough to kill you, you will definitely taste it. While every person’s body reacts slightly differently, the following is a good general indicator of the consequences of extreme doses of radiation.

Once exposed, nausea and vomiting will begin almost immediately, and within a short space of time your tongue and eyes will swell, followed by the rest of your body. You’ll feel weakened, as if the strength has been drained from you. If you’ve received a high dose of direct exposure - as in this scenario - your skin will blanche dark red within moments, a phenomenon often called nuclear sunburn. An hour or two after exposure, you’ll gain a pounding headache, a fever and diarrhoea, after which you’ll go into shock and pass out.

After this initial bout of symptoms, there’s often a latent period during which you’ll start to feel like you’re recovering. The nausea will recede, along with some swelling, though other symptoms will remain. This latent period varies in duration from case to case, and of course it depends on the dose, but it can last a few days. It’s cruel because it gives you hope, only to then get much, much worse. The vomiting and diarrhoea will return, along with delirium. An unstoppable, excruciating pain seethes through your body, from the skin down to your bones, and you’ll bleed from your nose, mouth and rectum. Your hair will fall out; your skin will tear easily, crack and blister, and then slowly turn black.

Your bones will rot, forever destroying your ability to create new blood cells. As you near the end, your immune system will completely collapse, your lungs, heart and other internal organs will begin to disintegrate, and you’ll cough them up. Your skin will eventually break down entirely, all but guaranteeing infection. One man from Chernobyl reported that when he stood up his skin slipped down off his leg like a sock. At high doses, radiation will change the very fabric of your DNA, turning you quite literally into a person other than the one you were before. And then you’ll die, in agony."

I would rather have a bullet in the head than go through that death.
 
Hoof Hearted said:
That was a good read, thanks for sharing.

"It’s often stated that radiation has no taste, but the men who absorbed the highest doses at Chernobyl all reported a metallic taste in their mouths immediately upon exposure, so it seems that if the dose is high enough to kill you, you will definitely taste it. While every person’s body reacts slightly differently, the following is a good general indicator of the consequences of extreme doses of radiation.

Once exposed, nausea and vomiting will begin almost immediately, and within a short space of time your tongue and eyes will swell, followed by the rest of your body. You’ll feel weakened, as if the strength has been drained from you. If you’ve received a high dose of direct exposure - as in this scenario - your skin will blanche dark red within moments, a phenomenon often called nuclear sunburn. An hour or two after exposure, you’ll gain a pounding headache, a fever and diarrhoea, after which you’ll go into shock and pass out.

After this initial bout of symptoms, there’s often a latent period during which you’ll start to feel like you’re recovering. The nausea will recede, along with some swelling, though other symptoms will remain. This latent period varies in duration from case to case, and of course it depends on the dose, but it can last a few days. It’s cruel because it gives you hope, only to then get much, much worse. The vomiting and diarrhoea will return, along with delirium. An unstoppable, excruciating pain seethes through your body, from the skin down to your bones, and you’ll bleed from your nose, mouth and rectum. Your hair will fall out; your skin will tear easily, crack and blister, and then slowly turn black.

Your bones will rot, forever destroying your ability to create new blood cells. As you near the end, your immune system will completely collapse, your lungs, heart and other internal organs will begin to disintegrate, and you’ll cough them up. Your skin will eventually break down entirely, all but guaranteeing infection. One man from Chernobyl reported that when he stood up his skin slipped down off his leg like a sock. At high doses, radiation will change the very fabric of your DNA, turning you quite literally into a person other than the one you were before. And then you’ll die, in agony."

I would rather have a bullet in the head than go through that death.
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fuck that

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Hoof Hearted said:
That was a good read, thanks for sharing.

"It’s often stated that radiation has no taste, but the men who absorbed the highest doses at Chernobyl all reported a metallic taste in their mouths immediately upon exposure, so it seems that if the dose is high enough to kill you, you will definitely taste it. While every person’s body reacts slightly differently, the following is a good general indicator of the consequences of extreme doses of radiation.

Once exposed, nausea and vomiting will begin almost immediately, and within a short space of time your tongue and eyes will swell, followed by the rest of your body. You’ll feel weakened, as if the strength has been drained from you. If you’ve received a high dose of direct exposure - as in this scenario - your skin will blanche dark red within moments, a phenomenon often called nuclear sunburn. An hour or two after exposure, you’ll gain a pounding headache, a fever and diarrhoea, after which you’ll go into shock and pass out.

After this initial bout of symptoms, there’s often a latent period during which you’ll start to feel like you’re recovering. The nausea will recede, along with some swelling, though other symptoms will remain. This latent period varies in duration from case to case, and of course it depends on the dose, but it can last a few days. It’s cruel because it gives you hope, only to then get much, much worse. The vomiting and diarrhoea will return, along with delirium. An unstoppable, excruciating pain seethes through your body, from the skin down to your bones, and you’ll bleed from your nose, mouth and rectum. Your hair will fall out; your skin will tear easily, crack and blister, and then slowly turn black.

Your bones will rot, forever destroying your ability to create new blood cells. As you near the end, your immune system will completely collapse, your lungs, heart and other internal organs will begin to disintegrate, and you’ll cough them up. Your skin will eventually break down entirely, all but guaranteeing infection. One man from Chernobyl reported that when he stood up his skin slipped down off his leg like a sock. At high doses, radiation will change the very fabric of your DNA, turning you quite literally into a person other than the one you were before. And then you’ll die, in agony."

I would rather have a bullet in the head than go through that death.
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Euthanasia should really be an option in these kinds of cases. It's basically torture keeping someone alive in this condition.
 
For the longest time I've considered crucifixion the absolute worst way to die.

After watching the 3rd episode of Chernobyl, there's a high chance of my opinion being changed.
 
GearSolidMetal said:
For the longest time I've considered crucifixion the absolute worst way to die.

After watching the 3rd episode of Chernobyl, there's a high chance of my opinion being changed.
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Given the choice I would climb on a cross. Fuck rad poisoning.
 
fuck yes
Stunning Visuals Add Gripping Detail and Drama to Chernobyl

Technicolor’s role in dramatizing the nuclear disaster was to make it look and feel disturbingly real for the viewer.
  • Picture Post for the new five-part HBO miniseries was completed by Technicolor London, with BAFTA-winning colorist Jean-Clément Soret providing the grade.
  • Technicolor’s proprietary VFX pulls software, Pulse, handled the vast amount of data required of today’s high-end episodic content.

“No piece of dramatized non-fiction has ever felt this authentic.” That is the conclusion reached by one Independent reviewer about Chernobyl, a new drama exploring what went wrong during the 1986 nuclear disaster and the human toll it took. Chernobyl is full of gripping detail and stunning visuals that at times make it shift-in-your-seat real for the viewer.

Technicolor provided Picture Post with color finishing by Jean-Clément Soret for the new five-part miniseries event from Sister Pictures, part of a co-production with Sky and HBO. With the show shot in UHD on an Arri Alexa camera, the amount of data handled by Technicolor London and Pulse, Technicolor’s proprietary VFX and DI pulls software, was vast.

“These types of shows often are done by the same people as feature films – be it the writers, DOPs, editors or colorists – and there are now bigger budgets than previously, so we have the opportunity to reproduce high-end content for all genres,” Soret explains – referencing the fact that today’s episodic content requires the same attention to detail and quality as big-screen features.

With a brief to be respectful to the aesthetic of the era of the Soviet Union in the eighties, Soret had the chance to use the archives as inspiration. “We wanted to improve on the color palette from the archives whilst making it look high-end, so we were treading a fine line between the temptation of desaturation,” says Soret. “This was particularly true of sunny exterior scenes, where we were careful not to make them too warm, instead keeping them quite cold to enhance the effect.”

He adds: “Obviously with the subject matter, it had to be a bit scary, so you avoided warm tones. There are lots of scenes lit with sodium lighting and neon, which we didn’t want to make too flattering. It would have been very easy to put a wash of green or yellow on all the scenes, but we resisted that to keep it inside a certain realism.”

Chernobyl is available to watch weekly on Sky Atlantic in the UK and HBO, with episodes also available on-demand. https://www.technicolor.com/news/stu...rama-chernobyl
 
cabear said:
great episode, the miners were boss as hell.
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They were. I don't know why they hired Lord Commander Mormont to play Miner #1 and only gave him a single line.
 
I wish it was longer than 5 episodes. It's been really incredible television so far and also very scary. I would love a similar series on Fukushima.
 
rj144 said:
Euthanasia should really be an option in these kinds of cases. It's basically torture keeping someone alive in this condition.
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That's what I said to my wife, why keep someone alive when their bones are dissolving and you cant even help with the pain.
 
Last episode was brutal to watch. They really displayed the horror with that level of radiation exposure.

For anyone interested. HBO has a podcast every week on their YouTube channel with the writer of the show discussing the current episode.
 
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