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Now people are saying it's one of the best things ever ever made for TV I thought it deserved its own thread. I haven't seen the HBO production yet but have been fascinated by the reactions both praise and criticism since it began airing a few weeks ago. I've also been reading about Nuclear Power Stations world-wide. Seems like there hasn't been one built that hasn't caught fire at one stage or another. I feel like we've discovered these relatively new processes for creating energy but like monkeys playing with fireworks haven't really got a good grip on the consequences. We still don't know what to do with the radioactive waste which lasts for quite a long time - practically forever - and forever is mighty long time. Apparently the lastest thing is to bury the deadly stuff deep in abandoned salt-mines.
Back to the 5 part TV series I'm looking forward to watching it immensely but amongst the acclaim it seems the show does have one critic - The Kremlin, and Moscow will soon be making their own version including a main narrative strand involving meddling imperialist American spies.
Half decent tv by LadbrokeR29 Apr 2016 6:36 I watched the last episode of line of duty and thought that was good. Undercover has finally grabbed by attention. I quite like some of the investigative programmes Stacey Dooley does. However I can't wait for the next series of people just do nothing.
Half decent tv by LadbrokeR29 Apr 2016 6:36 I watched the last episode of line of duty and thought that was good. Undercover has finally grabbed by attention. I quite like some of the investigative programmes Stacey Dooley does. However I can't wait for the next series of people just do nothing.
This thread being a direct response to the Half-decent TV thread rather than a spacky repetition as I consider the show and its themes "deserved its own thread" I think you'll find the Spackman Geiger counter is showing a reading of zero Spacquerels. But let's not fall-out over it.
Threads (1984). There was another unsettling nuclear disaster TV landmark.
This thread being a direct response to the Half-decent TV thread rather than a spacky repetition as I consider the show and its themes "deserved its own thread" I think you'll find the Spackman Geiger counter is showing a reading of zero Spacquerels. But let's not fall-out over it.
Threads (1984). There was another unsettling nuclear disaster TV landmark.
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Threads frightened the life out of me when it came out. The amputations without anaesthetic was gruesome.
Quite apart from the safety and waste storage challenges, there are a number of major issues with them: - The cost only goes up over time - Their water based cooling systems can become blocked, requiring a shutdown - Said systems demand massive amounts of water - They are low carbon energy sources but ironically, rising temperatures mean that as an example river water can now be too warm to be used to cool them. This has recently happened in France and caused shutdowns - Maintenance and refuelling eat into uptime - Their colossal output is a double edged sword: It is so huge that it is very difficult to back up with other energy sources
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
When I saw this post I thought were were playing them on the pre season tour.
Difficult to take a goal kick with seven toes.
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Avanhard Stadium, Pripyat in the 1980s.
FC Stroitel Pripyat.
By 1987 the team had relocated 50km east of the power plant and was now called FC Stroitel Slavutych after the town built to house the fleeing inhabitants of Pripyat.
Edit: Jesus Fcuking Christ. Paul Scholes dick! I wasn't expecting the thread to get that gruesome.
By 1987 the team had relocated 50km east of the power plant and was now called FC Stroitel Slavutych after the town built to house the fleeing inhabitants of Pripyat.
Edit: Jesus Fcuking Christ. Paul Scholes dick! I wasn't expecting the thread to get that gruesome.
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Nuclear disaster isn’t the worst thing the Reds are responsible for.
What i've seen so far the Kremlin doesn't come out of this very well. I'm astounded nuclear power is even an option. Madness.
They don’t come out looking great at all....especially the attempt to cover up the causes post-event. So, the Russians are now making their own version with state backing to show the disaster wasn’t caused by the fact the reactor was built on the cheap (it was), but in fact it was sabotaged by a CIA agent. Of course it was!
This thread being a direct response to the Half-decent TV thread rather than a spacky repetition as I consider the show and its themes "deserved its own thread" I think you'll find the Spackman Geiger counter is showing a reading of zero Spacquerels. But let's not fall-out over it.
Threads (1984). There was another unsettling nuclear disaster TV landmark.
By 1987 the team had relocated 50km east of the power plant and was now called FC Stroitel Slavutych after the town built to house the fleeing inhabitants of Pripyat.
Edit: Jesus Fcuking Christ. Paul Scholes dick! I wasn't expecting the thread to get that gruesome.
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When you've seen one Man Utd dickhead you've seen 'em all.
Chernobyl is indeed superb TV. Gripping (though horrifying) throughout and astonishingly realistic in its staging. I can remember the disaster well and visited the USSR just a year later in 1987. The background details in the TV series - clothes, vehicles, telephones etc. reminded me exactly of what the place was like at that time. If you're so inclined and you like European type cinema, two other great series/box sets on Sky Atlantic are 'Babylon Berlin' based on the novels of Volker Kutscher and set in 1929 and 'My Brilliant Friend', based on the novels of Elena Ferrante and set in 1950s Naples. Both series are due sequels out hopefully later this year.
Chernobyl is indeed superb TV. Gripping (though horrifying) throughout and astonishingly realistic in its staging. I can remember the disaster well and visited the USSR just a year later in 1987. The background details in the TV series - clothes, vehicles, telephones etc. reminded me exactly of what the place was like at that time. If you're so inclined and you like European type cinema, two other great series/box sets on Sky Atlantic are 'Babylon Berlin' based on the novels of Volker Kutscher and set in 1929 and 'My Brilliant Friend', based on the novels of Elena Ferrante and set in 1950s Naples. Both series are due sequels out hopefully later this year.
Babylon Berlin is excellent and already a few thumbs up on the tv thread, great stuff.
Binge watched it all last night and thought it was a very good insight and bloody scary as to how a nuclear power plant was looked after.
If there was a film of how not to implement or adhere to any sort of health and safety or management accountability then this is the one. Amazing that beyond this part of Russia , it was actually 1986 and not 1956
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