FIRST TIME WATCHING: Chernobyl S1E3
Added 2021-12-22 17:01:03 +0000 UTCHey guys!
It's time for another episode of Chernobyl! In this one I begin skipping the episode recap because I had a lot of issues with it buffering. I figured it'd be easier for folks to stay synced just starting from the top of the episode each time.
Can't wait to hear your thoughts in the comments below! Thanks so much for your support here on Patreon and ✨stay golden!✨
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Original Series: Chernobyl
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People exposed to extremely high doses of radiation can spread radioactive particles through contact with their bodily fluids. I recommend reading the information provided by the CDC on this subject. These are very extreme cases though and the risk is likewise extremely minimal. In the case with Lyudmilla Ignatenko and her baby it's far more likely that the radiation damage was caused from the initial incident than contact with her husband as the show implies.
MightyHobo
2022-03-09 22:25:37 +0000 UTCAlso, on the issue of what is dramatised and what isn’t, this show, for whatever reason, seems to portray radiation sickness and contamination from radioactivity as some kind of disease that can be passed by touch. This is just not true. In fact, had all the men been taken to Hospital No.6 been washed down, from what I’ve read, as long as you are still wearing something to protect yourself, it would’ve been quite safe to touch them.
Jack Mellor
2021-12-24 13:23:50 +0000 UTCSo a couple things: The painting you wondered about is a painting called Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, and it depicts Ivan the Terrible, the man who declared himself the first tsar (Slavic term for a monarch) over all Russia, clutching his dead son after killing him in a fit of anger. I don’t know if it has any symbolic or metaphorical reference in the scene it appears but it’s widely regarded as one of the most famous and yet controversial paintings in Russia. It’s been vandalised and damaged numerous times over the years by iconoclasts (people who destroy icons, images and other monuments often for political and religious reasons) and individuals who believed the painting to be inaccurate in its depiction. Second, you mentioned here whether some of this was dramatised. For example Lyudmila (Vasily’s wife) was indeed pregnant during her husband’s hospitalisation. Her actions during the hospitalisation are debated. The real Lyudmila wasn’t consulted on the show, and while she praised the attention to detail, she was hurt by some of the things depicted. She has since been hounded by press since the show aired. Also, the miners working underneath the reactor digging the tunnel did indeed get completely naked minus the hat and shoes. And since the disaster, Shcherbina was correct about few if any of the men who worked to clean up Chernobyl received much in the way of any help from authorities. By 2006, the 20th anniversary of the disaster, it had been estimated that a fourth of these men died before the age of 40. That’s around 2,500 lives lost, which to this day do not appear on any official list of Chernobyl dead.
Jack Mellor
2021-12-24 13:20:43 +0000 UTCAbsolutely sobbed at this episode... I'm a nurse and just could not stop the flow of tears thinking about taking care of these poor people who are clearly in unstoppable & excruciating pain :( everyone is saying the 4th episode is the worst and I'm a little scared lol. I think I'll wait a few days until the next one, I hope you're doing okay Natalie!!
Julia
2021-12-24 02:58:38 +0000 UTCat the time the proximity to the people with radiation sickness was thought to be contagious. later we discovered that after they are disinfected proximity doesnt matter. today plastic would still be used but only to protect the open wounds from being exposed to infection.
Michael
2021-12-23 09:30:51 +0000 UTCOh dear, the next episode is gonna destroy Nat
Tiger Chu
2021-12-23 07:44:27 +0000 UTCFun fact. All these men in the hospital have been decontaminated therefore radiation cant spread from person to person in close prox. The plastic housings they were surrounded by in reality were used to keep their immune systems safe since, well they really didnt have one anymore. In reality his wife was more a danger to him then he was to her and thats why she was told not to go beyond the plastic. He was in fact in no danger to her at all..
LightsCameraJake
2021-12-23 04:10:39 +0000 UTCNext year I'll be going to Kiev for 9 days and Kiev is only 62 miles from Chernobyl. Having watched this series with you, I'll be curious to see how the explosion affected Kiev then and how it continues to affect it today. I'll be sure to post my experiences here.
Rex Crossley
2021-12-23 01:19:53 +0000 UTCGreat acting from everyone. But Jessie Buckley is a gem and Paul Ritter is unrecognizable.
Dene Benham
2021-12-23 00:55:21 +0000 UTCAlso to this day the fireman's clothes and gear are still in the room as they were left.
Jayson Phillips
2021-12-23 00:10:33 +0000 UTCMan I was 15 when this happened.
Jayson Phillips
2021-12-23 00:08:50 +0000 UTCSounds a little odd. Because you can't catch radiation from another person. Once they've been stripped of their clothes and their body washed, they aren't radioactive at all. But the belief that you could get radiation from another person lead to a different real-life tragedy. Many sick and orphaned children from Chernobyl had foster parents reject them because they believed they would contaminate their own homes and families.
Jomero
2021-12-22 23:31:12 +0000 UTCMost of the stuff seen in the show were accurate but there were of course some degree of liberty to make it more dramatic. You questioned whether the storyline of the firefighter and his wife were real and unfortunately it was :/ "A firefighter named Vasily Ignatenko and his wife, Lyudmilla, were scheduled to leave for Belarus the morning of the explosion, but their plans were curtailed when Vasily rushed to the power plant at about 1:30 a.m. He promised to wake his wife when he got home, but his severe radiation poisoning forced him to be taken to the hospital. When Lyudmilla visited her husband, she was ordered not to touch him she recalled in the book "Voices from Chernobyl." Lyudmilla was pregnant at the time but lied to the radiologist to see her husband. Lyudmilla eventually gave birth to her baby, who died after four hours. "
Danishprince
2021-12-22 22:05:02 +0000 UTCJesus, she's watching a TV show not battling cancer
Tay Schumaker
2021-12-22 19:49:15 +0000 UTCthe painting is 'Ivan The Terrible And His Son Ivan' by Ilya Repin, showing the Russian Emperor Ivan The Terrible holding his dying son Ivan who he had hit in the head following a fatal argument.
Luke Smith
2021-12-22 18:39:18 +0000 UTCNatalie I commend you for watching this, I know it’s rough. You are stronger than you know, and it is unbelievably important that everyone at least be aware of the accident and how important it is to keep it from happening again.
JediLounger
2021-12-22 18:20:15 +0000 UTCHi Nat for this new touching reaction, this episode is not easy, those who did the makeup did a great job, it makes you sick just to look at it 😰 I understand your feeling and I share your opinion about the way to leave, as maybe a majority of people, no one want to leave this world in a such painful way, radiation is really at the top of the list of the scariest things that exist 😨 I'm already dreading tomorrow's reaction... I hope you're fine, take care, be safe and stay golden! 💛
Calo Grsf
2021-12-22 18:18:47 +0000 UTCHey Nat! Clearly this was a tough episode for you to watch, but please do remember that while this show is relatively historically accurate, according to radiation specialists and nurses who were in the hospital at the time, the makeup on the people in the hospital was way overdone. And people burned badly by radiation aren't that harmful to other people visiting them. The three divers from the beginning also survived into the 21st century! One died in 2005, and the other two were still around in the past few years!
Daniel Pierce
2021-12-22 18:18:11 +0000 UTCNat: "He's 25?! He's a child." Me being 25: "That's mildly rude." But I get it lol
Molecule
2021-12-22 17:47:52 +0000 UTCNatalie got ahead in her schedule so that she could take time off over the holidays. Today's video was uploaded over a week ago, so she has more than likely watched the next episode, maybe finished the series.
Darryl Low
2021-12-22 17:21:14 +0000 UTCGeez guys. Can her fiance like prep her for the next episode atlest. Please don't let her go in blind.
Jesse Ortiz
2021-12-22 17:07:14 +0000 UTCHappy Wednesday, Natalie! 😊 I'm finally caught up on watching the first two episode reactions for this new show. I'm downloading this one right now so that I can watch it tonight. Looking forward to watching this later this evening. Have a great day today! 😊 Until the next video, Stay Golden! 💛
Randee Carreno
2021-12-22 17:04:33 +0000 UTCBetween your thumbnail today Nat and some of the chat on discord, I don't think I'm ready for this week's episodes. This show just absorbs you and totally pulls you into all the lives of everyone there on the ground. In the final scene with the coffins and the cement being poured, were we witnessing the start of the cover up, literally. Heart wrenching reaction today Nat 💛
Darryl Low
2021-12-22 17:03:36 +0000 UTC
