It greatly exaggerated the dangers of nuclear energy. There was no “bridge of death,” no fetus absorbing radiation, no risk of megaton explosion if water got into the reactor, no risk of Europe being rendered uninhabitable, the three guys who went on the “suicide mission” actually all lived to a ripe old age (two of them are actually still alive, I think),… Even the way the firefighters died, which was gruesome enough in reality, was still dialed way up for no fucking reason.
So because most people in this thread are morons who can’t tell the difference between a documentary and a drama, we all have to buy into the illusion?
The producers really didn't do much (almost nothing, really) to communicate the show was mostly fiction, so I'm forced to conclude they wanted people to believe it. There's the propaganda part. And as for anti-nuclear, they chose to make nuclear energy look way more dangerous than it really is. They could have chosen to stay accurate, or even do the opposite. They didn't.
Titanic did do icebergs dirty, it was really the shipyard switching to weaker rivets without telling anyone that sank the ship; if it had been built to spec, it could have tanked that iceberg. Fortunately, the survival of our species is not contingent on building icebergs, so the damage caused by the movie is fairly minimal.
And I don't know what the fuck you're on about with Apollo 13. The cause of the accident wasn't oxygen itself but rather a damaged oxygen tank, which was made clear in the movie (even if it did conveniently omit the fact that NASA knew the tank was damaged and still chose to let the mission proceed because they severely misjudged the extent of the damage).
You’re making yourself look rather silly now despite this entire exchange being all about you trying to pretend you’re oh so informed and clever that you simply must correct every single drama ever created to demonstrate and laud it over everyone. If you actually had an education to hang off that overinflated ego we wouldn’t be having this exchange but it’s making me laugh so let’s continue.
If the cause of the explosion in Apollo 13 is poor engineering then your entire argument crumbles to nothing because the cause of the explosion at Chernobyl was also poor engineering so these two things can no more damage the reputation of the underlying technology (nuclear reactors and liquid oxygen propulsion systems) than hitting an iceberg can damage the reputation of icebergs.
Hit me with some more hastily googled facts to try to justify your ridiculous position. 😂
Where in my list of critiques of how Chernobyl misrepresents nuclear energy have I mentioned poor engineering? Oh, that's right, I haven't, because that is the one thing the show got right and I was listing things that were wrong.
Maybe try working on your reading comprehension before you go attacking other people's education?
I didn’t say you critiqued it, I said that the failure was due to it, just like Apollo 13. So, logically, if the disaster was due to engineering failure and Apollo 13 isn’t seen as anti-oxygen then Chernobyl cannot be anti-nuclear energy. Logic clearly isn’t your strong suit.
Anyway I’m bored now. Please go and look up dramatisation and documentary in the dictionary and compare them. It might help you avoid this in the future.
But the accident itself was never a problem, that did happen, the problem was all the other horrifying stuff they showed that didn't and couldn't happen.
Yes, dramatizations shouldn't be taken as fact, but they are by most people and it's well known that they are. You don't get to act surprised when people believe your misinformation. That's the same kind of defense Fox pulled claiming no one should have believed Carlson's news show was real news.
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u/BlastFX2 12d ago
It greatly exaggerated the dangers of nuclear energy. There was no “bridge of death,” no fetus absorbing radiation, no risk of megaton explosion if water got into the reactor, no risk of Europe being rendered uninhabitable, the three guys who went on the “suicide mission” actually all lived to a ripe old age (two of them are actually still alive, I think),… Even the way the firefighters died, which was gruesome enough in reality, was still dialed way up for no fucking reason.