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Chernobyl 104 | AKIMA Reactions

🕑 Added 2019-11-29 22:36:14 +0000 UTC

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Erasmo

I also wanted to mention whatever I could about the cousins, since you guys seemed to be so confused about some of their actions. As far as I know, the crawling to the shrine in s3e1 was towards Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte, or Santa Muerte for short, who seems to be an idol or a personification of death that has been worshiped even before Catholicism took over most Central, and South American countries; they usually give her 'ofrendas' (offerings?) for health, protection, and safe passage to afterlife. She seems to be even more popular now that in recent time the Cartel started to make worship of her more mainstream among them. I think a lot of people confuse Santa Muerte, with Dia de los Muertos, which has nothing to do with her, but rather is a day of commemoration of loved ones that passed away. I noticed a lot of your patrons seem to be Spanish speaking people, and there is a Pixar movie called Coco that dwells much more into Dia de los muertos; so it'd be nice if you could react to it someday too =]

Erasmo

I also wanted to plead about Breaking Bad needing at least 2 episodes per week; there's so many tiny details about it that go unnoticed on a single viewing, and so many things to learn. For example, ever since episode s2e7 you guys heard a song at the beginning of the episode about Heisenberg; this type of melodies are called "narco-corridos", and are songs dedicated to praise members of the cartel, or high profile criminals dealing with narcotics; so getting your own song in Mexico usually means you are someone big. Moving on, you guys were the only reactors I've seen with a coherent point of view to the end of the episode Phoenix, where Jessie's girlfriend dies, but most people seem to miss that Gus himself said earlier in the episode that "You can never trust a drug addict", but you did notice the very sudden change in character that she had as soon as she was aware of the money, and you guys were right about her in that regardless of Walter saving her that night, she really was going to spend all that money on drugs soon, and either OD, or get themselves killed somehow.

Erasmo

It was mentioned in this episode that the Soviet Union gave the Germans the propaganda measurement of roentgens disclosed; since the Soviet Union gets its power through the perception of power, they can not afford to be erroneous, or lesser than at any cost. Furthermore, I would highly recommend you guys listen to the accompanying podcast episodes for each of the 5 episodes of this miniseries; they share so much more knowledge, and trivia of this horror event that they actually had to tone down in many aspects for the audience.