CHERNOBYL 1X4 REACTION | FIRST TIME WATCHING

[@jacquelinedimattia774]

The way the animals were so excited to see the men & how they were trying to run right up to them before being shot was so heartbreaking...

[@frufruJ]

Their death would be much more excruciating if they were not shot to death. Their fur makes their body surface much bigger, and they would be dying a slow and painful death. There is a story about the exterminators, they found a small furry alien-looking blob by the side of the road. Only when it meowed did they realize that it was a kitten. As sad as it is, death was a relief for these animals.

[@dariojanjic402]

It had to be done. Not only will they suffer from radiation poisoning in time but they would spread it outside the Pripyat zone... No one wanted to do it but it literally had to be done. I don't know if it makes it feel any easier :(

[@efricha]

The contrast between the babyfaced boy coming in at the beginning, and the heavily lined face of a drinker by the end of the episode is the point. Russian speakers hear that song and start crying.

[@Big_Bag_of_Pus]

"Enough! I got the point that you have to take them all out. Geez louise!" If you thought the point of those scenes was to inform you that they had to kill the animals, then you didn't really get the point at all. Those scenes were not about the animals. They were about a kid who had to kill them, and what that did to him. This whole episode is about the sacrifices and the traumas experienced by the ~700,000 people forced to work on the cleanup.

[@Yevgeniy-Incognito]

After episode 5, consider watching a short epilogue. There will be some real footage. They will explain what happened to Chernobyl after an accident and what happened to all the people who were involved in the liquidation

[@hjalnelson9579]

I could probably make myself go spend 90 seconds on an irradiated roof... but I know there's no way I could do the animal control job.

[@proosee]

I encourage everyone to watch original footage of cleaning the roof - it's a real piece of history caught on tape there. The cameraman paid with his life to document it.

[@echinorlax]

The urban legend is the roof parts *WERE* named for actual girls, not just girl names. Three girls were the nieces of the general in the charge of roof cleanup (I assume the one that is talking with Scherbina and Legasov). It was not made up for the series - the parts of the roofs were marked with letters in official documentation and the cleanup personnel was casually referring to them using female names starting with those letters rather than letters themselves. Now, since there were more sections than these three - the number was closer to ten - and all were referred to with different names - the nieces might be a latter addition, the folk etymology of sorts. But it may be also true, that from the all names starting with those letters, these specific ones were picked out with some existing girls or women in mind.

[@MFBloosh]

One thing I'd mention is that the wildlife in and around Chernobyl has flourished, in a way, since 1986. Even with radiation levels that would end most people. It's almost as if nature is telling us that man is more deadly than even the worst nuclear disaster in history... And it took a nuclear disaster, one that cleared out everyone in the area, for the wildlife in the area to be able to flourish.

[@echinorlax]

It's not as simple. First, tremendous job was done over the entire ground, the most irradiated parts of the soil were removed, the rest was covered with fresh or cleaned soil, to make sure the big part of irradiated material is not open to elements, that would spread it anywhere else, accessible only to plants roots. The life has not flourished in the instant - first years were equally deadly to animals as to humans. It is quite possible that most animal life has moved in from neighboring areas, into the empty niches left by local populations dying out. And third, you have to understand what "flourishing" means. It merely means the accelerated mutations (some of which benefit animals, but most do not) and high cancer rates are covered by surplus births - which is how nature has dealt with low survival rates of every species in its history. But yes, the conclusion is while radiation is lethal, it's also pretty random killer and in that it is not different than most environmental pressure factors nature has always dealt with and had a way to deal with - unlike human impact and its systemic nature. How important first factor is was proved in 2022, when Russian forces occupying the Chernobyl zone have damaged the topsoil layer with heavy machinery and entrenchment attempts. Radiation spiked immediately (that's a confirmed fact) and there was a lot of vomiting (that is a hearsay if we want to be precise).

[@Wreath83]

Thanks for your reaction ❤

[@iche50]

You get all the answers and explanations in the last ep.

[@cherylsims5636]

Nice reactions. In the last episode you will finally learned how it happened. Be sure you watch the ending credits.

[@brysonfreeman7226]

Can’t wait for you to watch the series finale of this mini-series (Chernobyl), I’m always still hoping for you to watch the rest of Season 4 of Stranger Things before Season 5 comes out next year, and I think you should watch Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, and Oppenheimer at some point

[@DavidMacDowellBlue]

15:41 That poor young man. You can see what he's doing is shredding his soul. 24:13 The real Dyatlov was nothing like that.

[@donkfail1]

It's relatively easy to fathom the suffering of those dying, fast or slowly, the ones that get severely sick for the rest of their lives and even the suffering of the ones who know, care for and love the victims. But the emotional suffering for those who live through such a horrific event, seeing, doing and deciding what nobody wants to, that will stay with them forever is hard to understand. And it doesn't show, so others won't know unless they are willing to talk about it.

[@ruairiedwards8616]

I feel so sorry for anyone who watches this episode for the first time. Seeing the animals having to be put down is probably one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever seen in television

[@Akopov4]

After the episode 5 there will be photos and videos and brief summary of life of people from from the movie. Interesting fact: i have seen reaction to indian movie RRR on the your channel. Some of the episodes of this movie were filmed in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. In Mariinskyi Palace. Kyiv is located a bit more than 100 kilometers from Chernobyl. Kiev - its Russian pronunciation, Ukrainian pronunciation - Kyiv.

[@dragonweyr44]

Currently not, Chernobyl is in Ukraine and there is a war there currently but before the war, there were tours inside the Exclusion Zone. If you walk in the area, it's fine but it's best to wear a mask so that you don't breathe in dust (Optional) You can't eat or drink anything from there The power plant itself is off limits and There are still people living IN the zone, elderly people who have nowhere else to the go and refused to leave Animals are still there and have been exposed to the radiation for decades But remember, A massive man made disaster happened in India as well about 40 years ago. The Bhopol disaster killed 3,787 people 574,396 more in December 2 and 3, 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

[@truevulgarian]

I have the same reaction to this episode. It's the hardest one to watch of the 5. Imo ep 5 is sthe best.

[@ForgottenHonor0]

An animal liquidator at Chernobyl was interviewed and he described how on one patrol he and some others came across an animal they'd never seen before. It was hairless and its skin was hanging off its bones like clothes too large for its body, they thought at first that it was an alien. Then it meowed.

[@mikecooper7755]

Was that interview in Voices from Chernobyl?

[@KevinLyda]

Numerous times in this episode men in meeting rooms say a thing must be done. It's a sentence or two. In the case of "biorobots," a word. A decision is made and then they move on. And then hundreds or thousands of others must risk their lives and their humanity to make those sentences reality. Anyone who seeks a leadership position should watch this episode. They should not turn away. Not even for a second. And then they should watch it again just to make sure they understand the consequences of their sentences in those meeting rooms. When we choose leaders we should make sure they understand those consequences.

[@jpicard81]

If they didn't "destroy" all those poor animals, would it had made a difference?

[@umasridhar7472]

❤❤

[@Yevgeniy-Incognito]

The soldiers who cleaned up the graphite on the roof were told they either spent 2 minutes on the roof, or they will have to go for 2 years war in Afghanistan. They chose the roof...

[@amcgowan1970]

Season 1? 😂😉

[@kentbarnes1955]

No gonna lie. This is a tough one. The hardest episode in the series. The final episode will give you many answers

[@Megagiant1999]

Hii aish ❤️... Hanu-man movie next pls 😉

[@iKvetch558]

Hope you don't mind me copy/pasting this one from another recent reaction to this episode, Oh boy...episode 4...most folks find this is pretty much the toughest episode to watch...hope it is not too bad for you. Something that does not often get mentioned is that many of the men who went out onto those incredibly radioactive roof sections actually volunteered to go back out more than once in order to save others from having to be "biorobots". Also, that huge revelation that the Soviet State knew about the fatal flaw in the shutdown system and both covered it up and did nothing to fix it, all the while lying to even the plant operators about the safety of the RBMK reactors, is something that could only happen in a totalitarian state like the USSR...where there is no free press or free scientific establishment for whistleblowers to talk to when they know about wrongdoing by the State.

[@N-fu1rm]

Hanuman movie reaction needed from you

[@andywilliams6103]

What happened to your lips hun?

[@bluewizzard8843]

That's a Propaganda piece , Not a Bad one. But it doesn't depict historic realities. Certain figures are horrendously falsy depicted or even interely invented only to show how bad c su leadership and higher ups we're. It's not reality only fiction, it's important to remember that. If ,you want to know what really hapened I am afraid to say a netflix TV show is the wrong medium for that.

[@Big_Bag_of_Pus]

This wasn't a Netflix show.