Manhattan is Superb.
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Call Snake Plissken? 
You going to kill me, Snake?Call Snake Plissken?
In seriousness though, I don't know what to make of this. It's all anyone has been talking about around here for months--I think New Mexicans are in Breaking Bad withdrawal.
I think the concept is kind of silly. But then I've been a Manhattan buff since I was a kid, and there are three museums within driving distance devoted to it. So excuse me if I find the idea of romanticizing it a little off-putting.
Plus I don't know if WGN can cut the mustard in the long run.
I think the concept is kind of silly. But then I've been a Manhattan buff since I was a kid, and there are three museums within driving distance devoted to it. So excuse me if I find the idea of romanticizing it a little off-putting.
Plus I don't know if WGN can cut the mustard in the long run.
It's 3am. I'm too tired.You going to kill me, Snake?Call Snake Plissken?
Yeah there are a quite of movies about this already. I would of better liked if they made SF variation of this: like in not so distant future Earth is faced with another brake it or make it point and this time it's pollution and dire drop of energy resources so they gather scientists to develop something new like nuclear fusion.
This was one of the best treatments on the Manhattan project, though it covered Oppenheimer's later years as well:
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0078037/
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0078037/
Me too.
Just imagine the first two seasons they could be working on developing nuclear fusion and then in 3rd putting it into use. People going to work shoveling piles of plastics and sending them to fusion power plants where the plastic is changed on molecular level into whatever; people turning deserts into forests and finally stop working to pay the bills but to actually make Earth a better place making them feel like superheroes when they see what their hands can do. We see them launch millions of little space bugs in Earth's orbit to partially cover the Sun whose influence has become very dangerous on wounded Earth. They also decide to send millions of little space bugs in Venus's orbit to cool it down so it can be populated with living beings.
Then in 4th season we would see governments and corporations around the world fading away as they are less and less needed for every day that passes. Not to mention religions because it's patriarchs don't care in what congregation believes in the world that money has almost no value.
And then the series would end with nuclear fusion space probe (which travels 6000 faster then today chemical ones) reaching one of the closer solar systems in 40 years after it's launch and discovering actual intelligent beings on some planet but to everyone's abhorrence they are locked in a very massive and senseless cruel clinch. So the Earthlings leave them alone with best hopes of settling their differences.
Two episodes in, a few thoughts:
1. I'm already sick of seeing the MPs bursting into rooms and accusing people of violating the espionage act. Historically accurate or not, I hope this changes soon.
2. Not sure how historically accurate the whole "competing bomb design" angle is, I need to do a little research on that. I was always under the impression that both designs were developed in parallel for the sake of redundancy, that the gun-type worked with uranium and the core-type with plutonium, both of which were being produced in parallel at two different facilities, just in case.
3. Daniel Stern's character fits into the setting pretty well, some of the others not so much.
4. I hope we see Richard Feynman at some point, he is probably the one Manhattan Project physicist, other than Oppenheimer himself, that most people could name off the top of their head.
1. I'm already sick of seeing the MPs bursting into rooms and accusing people of violating the espionage act. Historically accurate or not, I hope this changes soon.
2. Not sure how historically accurate the whole "competing bomb design" angle is, I need to do a little research on that. I was always under the impression that both designs were developed in parallel for the sake of redundancy, that the gun-type worked with uranium and the core-type with plutonium, both of which were being produced in parallel at two different facilities, just in case.
3. Daniel Stern's character fits into the setting pretty well, some of the others not so much.
4. I hope we see Richard Feynman at some point, he is probably the one Manhattan Project physicist, other than Oppenheimer himself, that most people could name off the top of their head.
No one expects Los Alamos MPs!
There's a making-of/BTS special that came out about the same time as the fist episode you can probably find in the usual places. In it they have interviews with "witnesses" to these events who were the children living in Los Alamos at the time regaling stories about how "fucked upped" it all was.
I rewatched the first three episodes of the Oppenheimer miniseries from 1980 on Youtube tonight. This is well worth your time if you're currently watching Manhattan, search for "Oppenheimer 1980".
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