CHERNOBYL EPISODE 3 - Full Length Reaction!
Added 2024-04-17 16:00:14 +0000 UTCHere's the full length reaction to Episode 3 ("Open Wide, O Earth") of Chernobyl! Enjoy!
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I have to address the story of Vasily, the firefighter who the story focuses on, and his wife Lyudmilla, played here by Jesse Buckley in a wonderful performance. Their story here is generally true. Craig Mazin tells it and several other stories as they played out in the book Voices from Chernobyl, in which victims (including Lyudmilla) told their stories. It is important to note that despite his exposure to massive amounts of radiation while on duty, Vasily was not radioactive himself, nor were any of the other victims. The firefighting gear they were wearing and their skin were covered in highly radioactive dust and debris (as seen in the last episode when hospital workers were dumping their clothing in a storeroom. Once the victims bodies were washed, little radiation would remain, apart from any debris they had inhaled or swallowed. This is to say that despite the implications in this episode, Vasily presented no hazard to Lyudmilla or to her unborn child through the air or through direct contact. But he was in medical crisis with exposed sores and without a working immune system. Exposure to Lyudmilla was very dangerous to Vasily. The danger to her unborn child was entirely due to exposure to direct radiation from being in Pripyat when the plant exploded -- the same exposure that Legasov and Shcherbina are exposed to (though she left town to follow her husband to Moscow in the days after the accident.
james repka
2024-04-18 03:03:06 +0000 UTCHappy Wednesday, Addie. Your Chernobyl quest continues with the next two episodes. This show is also on my watchlist, alongside Band of Brothers. See you tomorrow for either another poll or for your April Q&A.
Alex Tan
2024-04-17 16:28:24 +0000 UTC
