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  1. According to the Wikipedia stuff he was an acting Senior Engineer but had very little experience in the job - it showed her just how little they valued knowledge esp. of the RBMK reactors - the more you knew about them the more dangerous you were to the State, because you knew what was wrong with them.
  2. Holy cow it's an intense and compelling show so far. You know what happens, but it's all the details that you don't know that makes it so gripping. I love the Stellan Skarsgaard guy - he was a faceless bureaucrat in the first episode, now he's had his oh god I'm gonna die realisation, and he's doing what has to be done. I loved his talk to the pipe workers - true or not, he showed us the heroism required to go in there to a certain death, for others. That poor Alsatian running alongside the bus just cut me to bits. I didn't know about the risk of a huge further nuclear explosion. What a bullet dodged for the rest of the world. Those poor men when the torches sputtered and went out. The Central Committee stuff is intriguing. How can so many idiots get so high up in government. All covering their behinds, until Gorby pulls the rug from under them and they're done. Heh.
  3. Very powerfully done episode. Hope the rest is as compelling. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to stick it, as I can remember a lot of the horrible details from real life, but it sure draws you in. The weird detachment from reality is often a symptom of disaster shock. People just cannot accept what is happening, so they deny it over and over, to themselves and to others. The worrying part of this is that these guys were top nuclear scientists and should have been able to react professionally during an emergency. That they didn't is a pretty good indication of why the accident happened and why it was managed so badly afterwards. I felt very bad for the pregnant wife, and all the others out there playing in the ash, and exclaiming how 'pretty' all the lights were. The death toll supposedly wasn't that huge - initially. Thousands have probably died over the decades though I imagine. You got that right. CYA and personal gain are not unique to any kind of politics. Look at the Challenger Disaster just a few months earlier!
  4. Very powerful and moving. I loved the episode, and great work from everyone. The hard realities were not whitewashed and no tidy solution was presented. Valerie was wonderful and so was Gran. I would like to see more of Sister Hilda. She intrigues me. Sister Frances baptism by fire proved to be a bit anticlimactic. What happened to going on your hands and knees to back in bed spit spot and here comes baby? The difficult birth just suddenly got easy. Weird.
  5. Noooooooo!!! Alara was my favourite character. How could they do this to me? I like Pat Warburton, he was the NASA rep in The Dish with Sam Neill. But that was years ago.
  6. Human nature being what it is, both sides will have people after power and wealth for themselves, so knowing what is available over there gives them an edge over their contemporaries here. This is one of the themes I find most interesting about the premise of the show.
  7. Lady Mary Crawley. Beloved by Julian Fellowes, detested by nearly all the Downton viewers. Grace however is just being made out a clownish stereotype to further plot points and justify behavioural rules in other characters. Lady Mary was a pet of the writer so everyone else had to be sacrificed so she could be the focus.
  8. One of the reasons I watch this show is that there seem to be quite a few, if faint, Fringe cues. I had to stop myself from yelling out: "It's the PATTERN, ffs!" when they started to question why the Callings were happening hehe.
  9. I really like her brows! Wish I had them. Mine are miniscule.
  10. The old guy who the Uncle-killer was attacking was dressed just like Walter Bishop. Looked like him a bit too.
  11. I think Charles is aware of the shortcomings of his upbringing, and has sincerely tried to break the cycle with his own children, especially after Diana's death. The boys do seem close to him. I never had much time for Charles before watching The Crown, but now I can see how horrible his schooling was and how it affected a sensitive boy like him. I too, think he is decent at heart, but like Philip his genes sometimes come out and betray him. He seems to have a need to prove himself just like his father and aunt Margaret. This is a very good point you raise. I hadn't realised they had censored pictures of Charles being affectionate towards his sons. Doesn't surprise me tho, media always, always have an agenda. Anyway both William and Harry have turned out ok it seems, and that can't all be down to Diana.
  12. Which I suspect is the point of the thing. Yes, you can be hideously damaged by something in your early childhood, but it is possible to get past the scars and stop the cycle, for some people at least.
  13. So what is David Melrose's story? Was the same thing done to him as a child? Don't get me wrong, he's a vile person who ruins his son's life for whatever perverted reasons he comes up with to himself, but people aren't born this way. What makes him so cruel and so horrible. As for Eleanor, she must be terrified of her husband to refuse to protect her son. I'm guessing this also refers back to David's childhood. It seems self-reflective.
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