Red Mosquito

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

contamination wrote:I just finished this. It was good, but I was really dissappointed after reading how much they had changed the story and how inaccurate their depiction of radiation's health effect were. Legasov's speech at the trial didn't happen, people didn't stand on the "bridge of death", the 3 divers didn't die, radiation sickness is not contagious, the helicopter crash happened few weeks later and it crashed on a crane etc.

But why care about facts when you can tell a great story?

Orpheus wrote:Radiation is not contagious, but it certainly does radiate. Did the show imply its contagious, or did it imply that it can be spread from contaminated items, which is true? I'm genuinely asking, can't remember one way or another.

Midnight in Chernobyl is definitely a great read btw, I second that rec.

Rangi Guy wrote:Started watching this last night. So far so good - I love the upbeat vibe it gives me

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:Started watching this last night. So far so good - I love the upbeat vibe it gives me

Wait until you get to the episode with all the cute dogs. It's really uplifting

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.