Of course they just had to completely make up a fictional strong independent wamen who is a mary sue and knows everything about everything to add some woke points to the show. Such a shame that in so doing they take away from the real people who participated in the event as her character is a combination of three male scientists. Can't have anything without filling some unnecessary diversity quota.
shareI totally agree. Yeah sure, Legasov is extremely intelligent and has been predicting/handling every situation nearly flawlessly, but he doesn’t think that firefighters spraying water into the reactor and surrounding area would cause water to build up anywhere. Instead, he needs a woman miles away, who is such a hard worker that she literally sleeps at her desk at night then wakes up and continues to work over the weekend, to wake up and immediately figure out that the disaster happened and travel there to save the day.
I agree with you. It’s also kind of ridiculous because they really tried to make everything as accurate as possible (with some exceptions), they hired actors who look very similar to the real person they’re portraying, made highly accurate sets, followed accurate timelines, made nearly everything as realistic and close to history as possible. Yet they decide to add in this fabricated female character who hugely influences multiple major historical events.
They probably justify doing this by saying “oh it’s easier to follow if we condense these multiple people into just one.” But come on, it’s not like there’re condensing 15 different people, it’s only 3! They could have easily added in 2 more characters and made all 3 of them faithful to history and pay the real people the respect they absolutely deserve.
I’m surprised they didn’t just change Legasov into a female and maybe have Shcherbyna rapeing women and yelling about how superior men are before Khomyuk verbally destroys him and avenges his crimes against women. Or maybe they could have made Legasov totally incompetent and rely on Khomyuk to figure everything out and prevent further damage. Oh! They could also have Khomyuk and a few other women, maybe an Asian lesbian, bisexual African, and a trans, just punch threw the debris to reach the core and gather all of the radioactive materials strewn about then carry all of it onto a super spaceship they designed and built themselves and fly it to the moon where they safely dispose of it. Then on the way back they encounter an evil race of aliens coming to destroy the world but they use their girl powers to destroy the aliens. And finally once they make it back and are hailed as the greatest heroes ever, they give a speech on how women are better than men and how straight white men are responsible for everything wrong, then demand all of the rich give their money away to everyone else. They then create a super government that owns all of the worlds resources, money, businesses, and property, which decides how much everyone is given. The only thing the people need to do in return is listen to the government, do what it says, rat out anyone who questions the authorities or thinks for themselves. So, especially they’d be showing the best way for everything to work and who should control the world.