Chernobyl 02 PLEASE REMAIN CALM PT.2 reaction

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Episode 2 is here and this one hits the feels even harder than the first D: As we see how they are handling the whole thing and how they have to make very hard decisions to prevent an even worse explosion, we can't help but feel heartbroken for these people ):
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[@MFBloosh]

The dynamic between Representative Boris Shcherbina and Prof. Legasov is my favorite part of the entire series. Both actors work brilliantly off one another.

[@kyuujinreacts]

Agreed!! They're both terrific and having them play together certainly helped give the show its success n.n

[@MFBloosh]

@@kyuujinreacts And the fact that this isn't fiction just adds to the fear you get when watching. All the acting is great in this, but those two really kill it, no pun intended. Lol. Great reaction as always guys!

[@Дарьял88]

Girls, prepare your handkerchiefs. After the third episode, I cried for 2 hours...I was in a daze all day

[@cobrazax]

what about episode 4? its lethal

[@zammmerjammer]

I think that scene is so affecting because those are real guys, those are their real names. I think in reality there was no opportunity to volunteer -- they just went in because it was their shift. But I like the change in the TV show to really emphasize that regardless, they acted bravely and selflessly to save millions of people.

[@EbefrenRevo]

They go volunterly for real. Ukranians are not cowards.

[@flyingardilla143]

You're correct - they were told to do the work. It doesn't take away their feat. It is one of a few things the show did to transfer some of the frustration with the soviet system into heroic choices of individuals.

[@toddjohnson271]

Yes, they said they were chosen by the brass.

[@NialasDubh]

Your tearful reaction speaks well for your humanity. You are a decent person.

[@kyuujinreacts]

Thank you n.n

[@fadechillypep1344]

a good fact is that those 3 men lived alot longer than we thought they would, 1 died 2 are still alive to my info

[@eddie3867]

Its hard to watch this..i feel you..i remember we were not aloud to drink milk for a while in 1986 in the netherlands

[@kyuujinreacts]

So many lasting consequences, it's horrible D:

[@eddie3867]

@@kyuujinreacts yes they will be hard to watch..

[@Sisterspike1]

Yeah it was the same in parts of the UK. Dairy farmers were told to to pour their milk away. I was a teenager when all this happened. :(

[@marmichaud]

The horror of a REAL story... can't help to feel helplessness... Imagine not knowing how it finally played out!

[@castielwinchester6222]

Oh.. Crying is very normal during these scenes.. They are just very hard to watch 💔

[@Ken00001010]

I have watched the three volunteers stand up many times, in many reviews. I still cry every time.

[@darchon5]

Love the emotion. I teared up over that scene as well - the idea that those 3 guys had to be entirely selfless to try to save millions, not even knowing if they would succeed, and now their lights have gone out... so powerful, so sad. Awesome reaction and discussion.

[@45banshee]

Things that are based on real events hit harder cause they really happened. 3 men willingly gave their lives to save millions. They are true hero's. Another mini series that came out around the same time as Chernobly is When They See Us on Netflix. Another based on real events that will make you feel many emotions

[@zammmerjammer]

Yes! When They See Us is a fantastic watch. Seriously impactful.

[@jaanaiasbjrn7929]

going into a situation knowing that they'll die shows the duality of humanity. the lack of responsibility and mistakes that caused the tragedy and those that have to pick up and clean up their problems.

[@manuela1986]

I love how you let yourself FEEL this series. I have watched it 3 times already and I still cry and feel kind of emotionaly drained for a few days after. Humanity can be really horibble sometimes, but thankfuly there are always some true heroes that practicaly save us all!

[@kyuujinreacts]

I wasn't expecting to get this emotional right away, but yeah...D: someone told me in the comments that other reactors made jokes while watching this and I just don't understand how that's possible o.o

[@manuela1986]

@@kyuujinreacts true, to me, some were really kind of disrespectful. I must say you two are my favourite reactors to this show. I love how you aknowledge the historical part of it. With some others I got the feeling they were watching it for the drama of the catastrophic event, kind of removing themselves from it. Which I kind of get, I was only born that year in Slovenia, so I dont have personal memories and bad experiences relating the event, but still. When you really think about the magnitude of it and how it still affects people today...you cant help but feel all sorts of feelings. Thank You and keep up the good work ♥️♥️

[@kyuujinreacts]

Thank you x3

[@zammmerjammer]

@@kyuujinreacts I think to some people, everything is television. They really can't separate what is a depiction of actual events versus what is just made for entertainment. There was a reactor I used to really enjoy watching, and he seems like such a chill dude, but watching Saving Private Ryan and he was cheering for people committing war crimes... like... yuck. It really disturbed me to see it and it turned me off his channel.

[@ScarecrowZP]

The alternative name for the series is "It Gets Worse". Also, I strongly suggest - even if not for a reaction - to watch complementary "Chernobyl Podcast" with director Craig Mazin. It's here, free on KZbin. There are no spoilers there if you watch every episode of podcast after every episode of the show. Some details and not-included stuff are astonishing.

[@juliavan8831]

You girls are incredible, love your emotional reactions. And about the series, I want to say that they are almost 100% true. He reproduces those events every minute, and most importantly, real people are shown in the series. The authors of the series very accurately captured the mentality and characters of people living in the USSR.

[@kyuujinreacts]

Thank you n.n Maybe it's knowing that this show comes as close to real as a show can be that makes it so hard to watch, but still, no matter how many years and frustration we have to go through, I'm so glad we decided to watch it D:

[@juliavan8831]

@@kyuujinreacts I advise you to watch a very cool Ukrainian documentary about Chernobyl (there are English subtitles) kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3a2mX5japJkiKc

[@bestistmate]

What you saying is so right about them going into the water and the word Hero can be banded around so lightly . Yet the people of this disaster are true Heroes because it had to be done

[@plabontamuly4150]

Loved your reaction guys, went through the same as well.

[@andyb1653]

The soundtrack for this series was made by recording the sounds of surviving RBMK reactors in operation. They took the recordings and used computer software to play them like musical instruments.

[@bretbret8293]

A little off topic but omg that hair is so good. 10/10

[@kyuujinreacts]

XD thank you!!

[@failuremagnet]

Just as an FYI, the soundtrack of this series is mostly made up of recordings of the same types of machinery in use at Chernobyl and the sounds of Geiger counters (the last scene of this one especially), etc. In other words, what you hear in the background are the actual sounds of Chernobyl.

[@kyuujinreacts]

So we've been told!! It makes the whole thing both brilliant and haunting D:

[@hamoudahmed691]

@@kyuujinreacts it is not very far happening in Chernobyl it is on 1986

[@amydubuque2894]

I was a mess during this whole mini series.

[@tribuneoftheplebs9948]

Buckle up were just getting started.

[@pduidesign]

I remember when this happened. It was pretty damn scary.

[@Georgestella100]

"legally have to tell them", lol, this was the Soviet Union!! In fact the 'divers' ere not volunteers, they were just the ones on shift at the time!

[@maksphoto78]

Two of those "divers" who went in to open the sluice ware still alive today. Still, it was a heroic deed.

[@rikardottosson1272]

I think they filmed a lot of exteriors in Lithuania around the Ignalina power plant.

[@uadevojka]

I hope you will watch this incredible show till the end, because the people portrayed were (and are) real and they earned to be remembered this way💔♥️

[@kyuujinreacts]

Completely agree n.n we just watched episode 4, there's no way we're not finishing this :)

[@maksphoto78]

Dyatlov, Fomin, and Brykhanov were portrayed as selfish villains, which they were not in real life. But I guess an HBO series has to have some drama and angst.

[@NxCmp]

"I can't speak at all". I myself have high levels of empathy. I feel you 100% It is rough, knowing that this ACTUALLY happened. That in the moment they know they are likely not coming back from this. Yes it is sad but it needs to be done. Us 3 or 60,000,000 people. Not 50,000, not 200,000, not 1,000,000, not 3,500,000, but over 60 million people. It is a comfort knowing these men have achieved immortality in the history books. From part 1 I just love the line: "You are dealing with something that has never occurred on the planet before." Meaning umm... I am sorry but we are on our own. There is no handbook for something like this. I don't think you fully understand what is happening here. It's those moments before the phone call in the hotel room Boris begins to comprehend the gravity of the situation. That the work they are doing is a death sentence.

[@zonierzrepubliki8774]

There is a podcast on hbo yt channel about chernobyl where director and producent telling about it

[@hareecionelson5875]

For reference, the Tunguska meteor explosion over Siberia in 1908 is estimated at an energy equivalent of 3-5 Mega tons of TNT. If the water tanks had exploded, it would have been as if a radioactive Tunguska meteor had impacted on the ground.

[@MattMajcan]

also here in american most people, young people anyway, only know of chernbyl from call of duty, but otherwise they would never have even heard of it. I even asked my 65 year old mother about it and she just said that she doesn't really remember and just knew there was some kind of accident.

[@endorphinzz]

Damn near everyone cried during a lot of scenes in this miniseries. It's devastating.

[@MattMajcan]

the way chernobyl was handled and the way covid was handled by a lot of world leaders is pretty similar.

[@toddjohnson271]

Chernobyl was a real catastrophe....covid was a globalist money and control grab.

[@hamoudahmed691]

Thank you so so so much ❤❤😔😔 really it is very nice reaction i love your chanel thank you both of you 👍👍

[@ThatSomethingGuy]

This is such an amazing series. Watching people react to it is awesome. So many times, people have this expression which can only be described as "Poleaxed." Oh, but it gets worse.

[@Ian-lx1iz]

You WILL go into this series. You will go into these reactions, because you have to ...because no-one else can. If YOU don't ...then MILLIONS will have to watch this series themselves, and face utter devastation. And I have to tell you this now: after this reaction, you will only have THREE more ...episodes to live through. lol (Great work, guys - you're the only ones qualified to react to 'Chernobyl')

[@kyuujinreacts]

XD my friend just told me that the last 3 episodes are even more intense!! This is gonna be hard o.o

[@snake0911]

If you guys like this show, may check out Ken Burn's Vietnam documentary. It hit me to the bones. I glad I watched it alone because it was impossible to hold back tears.

[@onskates56]

I cry at that same spot every time. The gift they are giving to their countrymen is beautiful.

[@AlanCanon2222]

I don't know if the three who went into the water actually carried a geiger (radiation) counter with them (as shown in the episode), but if they did, one motivation might have been to get a real, direct reading, to add to the pile of accumulated data on the severity of the accident.

[@lawrencegough]

If Soviet police turn up and order you to pack one bag and get on a bus the normal reaction is to expect you’re being deported to Kazakhstan or Siberia. Like the Volga Germans, Crimean Tartars, Chechens, etc. So in this case it’d be a relief to think it’s most probably just something to do with the reactor explosion.

[@lussdoru3108]

Well, not in the 1980-s

[@bethferback5454]

I had never heard of the Volga Germans until I started a geneology search based on a question my 90 year old grandpa had. I never knew but am forever grateful my ancestors emigrated to America when they did.

[@maatstaf6399]

I'm waiting for the next episode, its been over a week and I thought you uploaded this every Monday.

[@kyuujinreacts]

Yes we do n.n the next episode was pushed back to next Monday, though, because we had some issues with processing our videos :/

[@maatstaf6399]

@@kyuujinreacts Still waiting for the next episode reaction. At this point i do hope that when you do upload you upload 2 episodes now.

[@kyuujinreacts]

I'm just waiting for it to clear some copyright claims, so it shouldn't take too long

[@arismaiden6457]

You re making a great point there. Fictional vs true heroism. The series here portrays brilliantly how real heroes are always sacrificing themselves for the greater good. And most times the are ordinary people, who are caught in dire situations and they just "do their job", with no glory or even recognision of their huge services to mankind... Truly, this is the beautiful side of people, and it makes you emotional of course. For me it makes me both sad and proud at the same time, but above all it makes me grateful and optimistic. Long live to all everyday heroes: those engineers in Chernobyl, the firefighters in California and Australia, the rescuers in the mines of Chile, the doctors and nurses all around the world today battling tha pandemic

[@derwildewesten6700]

What about the firefighters in New York that had to go in the world trade center? They surely knew that this is fu...dangerous. It was not fair, too. There are lots of such examples in the world...

[@duncanb9752]

This is a very special drama. Beautifully well made and gut wrenchingly depressing to watch.

[@DavidMacDowellBlue]

08:42 I looked up how much 400 Rubles was worth. That was enough to buy a car. If nothing else that would have set off alarm bells. But of course, these men work in a nuclear plant. They already have a damn good idea of how dangerous this is. 10:30 Heroes. So many heroes just walking into the fire, because "it must be done." 12:16 That level of radiation can kill batteries. Each episode gets MORE powerful. Just a friendly warning. Episode Three rips the heart out of your chest. Episode Four is if anything even worse/more powerful. Prepare yourself for that one. Like, a lot. Four and Five are also amazing. Five will explain what happened remarkably well.

[@MattMajcan]

And also you said that they've changed the way they do things now.. but have they? I'm not so sure about that. If something like this happened today would Putin come right out and admit it to the world? I really doubt it.. the sad thing is that a lot of governments around the world are probably still acting this way today, who even knows what kind of terrible things have been successfully covered up.

[@derwildewesten6700]

My question is, what would Trump do if such a dangerous thing would happen in the USA? Hopefully we will never find out. In the year 1986 there was no world wide web, so it was a little bit easier to keep it from the world and to prevent a panic. If this would happen today i think there will be much more fear and panic, because everyone now knows what a dangerous thing such an accident can be.

[@tribuneoftheplebs9948]

German general Von Moltke said something that I think applies to how your feeling and im paraphrasing here, "Eternal peace is a dream and not even a good dream for in war mans highest virtues come to the for honor duty loyalty bravery and sacrifice. Without war we would drown in materialism. " Now i dont believe that neccessarily true about war in particular but seeing people put in impossible and horrific situations and still rising to the moment and doing the right thing can be an uplifting and life affirming thing.

[@tofu3035]

Damn, this was so good 💖👌

[@pencilquest9409]

Great video, gals.

[@kyuujinreacts]

Thank you x3

[@Chill-Vibes]

It’s ok to express your emotions🙏🏿❤️😢🥺

[@loucololosse]

Beau travail! Continuez comme ça! ;)

[@douglas2938]

HBO miniseries... Not even once with a dry eye. 😂

[@ImamSyafii-st4ps]

the casting of emily watson is so genius. somehow she managed to embody what will be revealed in the finale ever so perfectly. what a trailblazer.

[@feedog9326]

You think this was bad. Have this going on at the same time there was building one hear in south Texas.

[@EbefrenRevo]

If i am alive and well today is because these heroes.

[@nerissacrawford8017]

I am a European and I thank them for the chance of being born. And being born in a liveable environment.

[@nickrose83]

Oh no... if you're crying now... I think anger is exactly the intended feeling the first episode is supposed to elicit so don't apologise. After that though, they expertly replace anger with abject horror and despair. Get them tissues ready.

[@bigl9478]

Hey do you guys have the show footage in your Patreon reactions for Chernobyl? I want to watch the full length/early reactions but I have no way to synch the videos.

[@kyuujinreacts]

Yes, we do include the footage n.n just like here on KZbin

[@StepnieW]

Great reaction. Bravery and sacrifice are beautiful and sad at the same time. You should react to HBO's 10 part miniseries Band of Brothers. It's a great story of bravery and sacrifice.

[@thronesfanatic3330]

The ignorance is terrifying,this series is a hard one to watch. Every episode is hard to watch but it’s done so well you can’t help wanting to know more...

[@6891x]

More than 50 years ago? Um... Less than 35 years, actually.

[@kyuujinreacts]

(we mixed up our dates 😅)

[@Andy_U]

Hiya. Google Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania 1979. "There, but for the grace of God...." Stay safe. All the best to you.

[@skv17091991]

That girl on the left look much more interesting than a "Hitler" on the right)

[@kyuujinreacts]

Wow that seems a bit exaggerated 🤔

[@Tony-rz4ks]

the world would have been different if they failed.

[@Grnademaster]

This is what communism and socialism entail. You will see the nature of the government system operating behind the curtain. Some form of this has been in power over its people for the vast majority of the time that civilization has existed on this planet. The freedoms we supposedly have in the United States and a few other countries are extremely rare, if you context it against the expanse of time that societies have existed. If someone thinks the United States is immune to falling into this kind of brutal, oppressive government, then you please need to remove the veil that has been pulled over your eyes. But I get it, it's not easy. I've only just recently removed mine.

[@vkdeeno]

rampant capitalism is seldom better don't be fooled.... oil companies cover oil spills, governments do blood for oil wars, assassinations lies fraud corruption it all happens and the ordinary ppl suffer the consequences

[@Grnademaster]

@@vkdeeno Oh yeah I hear you. All we do here in the US it seems is stick our military's guns in any country's face that doesn't want to trade for oil in US dollars. Since we just print money out of thin air (you can thank Nixon and the Vietnam War for that), the only way to keep the dollar strong against inflation is to force other countries to trade their oil purchases with it. The US is an oil empire, and it will fall someday. The only question is, what will it become after that.