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If you watched the series Chernobyl I highly recommend the Titans of Nuclear podcast's five dedicated episodes expanding on the misinformation it contains.
Nevertheless, excellent miniserie.
When did dramatized tv become misinformation? It wasn’t a documentary…
Misinformation, not disinformation.
Also, many if not most people take “based on a true story” on TV at face value. Therefore it's important to point out the inaccuracies.
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Since idiots reference it as if it were a documentary.
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Couldn’t hide my disappointment at the end when they were like [strong female character] was created from the stories of over fifty different scientists…
That's how many historical movies and contemporary shows work though. Like, we all know CSI techs aren't clearing rooms like SWAT in real life. But the story is far easier to follow if we keep it to a few characters the audience knows.
For sure. And ultimately they gave credit where it was due, which is nice but it was a bit jarring. I think that means the filmmakers did their job well and crafted a character I could identify with.
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Did we bring 'pointing out comedy homicide' over from reddit? Because a giant reaction face to point out a joke is peak that.
It's a great show but it's also all bullshit pretty much, it only follows the broad strokes of the real story.
If we're talking about the HBO show, then calling it a documentary is just straight up wrong in the first place.
It's a "based on real events" TV drama that never claimed to be a rigorous retelling of the catastrophe.
There are a ton of immediate differences to reality that anyone even vaguely familiar with soviet history would notice.
I really wish they made that clear though, the show tries very hard to make you believe that's the real story.
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It was never supposed to be more than the broad strokes though. Even those were largely unknown in the West.
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Ever since my father told the teen me that "based on a true story" doesn't mean it's a documentary I stopped watching those things altogether, since then I only engage with historical fiction if it's so out there it's obvious it's not real.
That's a pretty narrow way to cut yourself off from a LOT of great storytelling.
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Chernobyl still is one of the best shows I've ever watched. Not a documentary but it doesn't try to be. It tries to be good historical drama and it is. Very gripping.
Yeah, that wording is so misleading. "Inspired by real events" is the more accurate wording, but I feel like I haven't seen anything with that in ages.
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Some works will outright lie about it. For example, the TV show and movie Fargo specifically tell you it’s a true story, and even that names have been changed but ‘the rest has been told exactly as it happened’.
To me that’s weird. It doesn’t really add to the end result in my opinion, but would breed distrust when people discovered it was wholly fictional.
Still, even with things that are meant to be accurate portrayal of an event, it’s always good to check the facts. Hollywood just can’t help but fiddle with reality to tell a more interesting story, even when it doesn’t need it.
The wood chipper scene in Fargo was inspired by a thing in Connecticut.
That’s about as accurate as it really is.
are we talking about the HBO show? The one that's not a documentary?
yeah, i too like that documentary.
The real Children Of The Atom.
You can't just leave it there and not elaborate what the inaccuracies were.
- 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.
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Hand generated by LLM, of course.
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