what's the appropriate amount of human error to grant fictional characters

So since this year, I've quit making original posts on tumblr, partially in protest of the nippocalypse, partially to practice disengaging from it as a social media platform, and partially because if it does finally go down, I don't want to lose my recorded train of thoughts.
John Mulaney Voice: but then, this week, the strangest thing happened!
To repost, I've jumped into the waters of tumblr fandom, and it's largely been great for meta! Analysis is so much easier than fic :_D I'll drag the creative words out of myself somehow though!

1) gwinny3k asked: I love the idea of Pikalov briefing Tarakanov. Passing his notes! Giving him some tips on how to handle Valery. (Boris is a total comrade, don't worry about him, but Legasov...)
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2) Anonymous asked: re Tarakanov being all "Boris come take yo boy I can't stand a moment longer with him" Legasov seems like the type to overwork, get cranky and frustrated in the morning when everyone just came in but he hasn't left in two days. Stands to reason local military leader shouldn't manhandle the scientists - no matter how very much he wants to - so "Go tell comrade Shcherbina his scientist is about to attempt to call-up General Secretary again." 1/2

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3) Anonymous asked: Well. The way show shown it biorobots are both Tarakanov and Legasov failures. Science has no way to deal with the fallout nor does military technology. It was fantastic that moonrovers worked but both Shcherbina and Legasov clearly expected Tatakanov to have access to some classified technology and while he's came up with some ideas they ended up just opting for killing people because literally nothing else was there. I doubt he held biorobots against Legasov is me point. Not after the Joker.

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4) Anonymous asked: Same anon as re Tarakanov. Wow you have a whole headcanon as to why he doesn't like Valery and I mean you do you but I don't think one needs to be emotionally involved to dislike the show!Legasov. He's weird. He barely drinks. He smokes but that only means he lived through the 60's. His idea of humor is correcting rhetorical statements and he's liable to fly off into unnecessarily detailed explanations when he's nervous. And he's nervous all the time. This is not how Russians are supposed to be.

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5) Anonymous asked: Space race was the shit yo. These men grew up in the 60's. As in were young men then. I don't think there was a soul left in most desolated reaches of Sybir that wasn't cross-pollinated with space fever. If you do a bit of googling you will find yurts build by remote tribes that still have a little shrines of Yuri Gagarin set up. Not to mention space exploration was really a point of national pride. And there was not much to be proud of in the 70's. 1/2

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(nb that I got shirty here and it's not my best showing. I just don't have the extra resources on hand to be an ethics instructor for the internet; I come here to turn my brain down.)

6) Anonymous asked: It's cute how we basically agree re Tarakanov possible attitude towards Legasov after biorobots but from opposite sides and for different reasons. Re Legasov psychology - as a character I don't know if it makes sense to psychoanalyze him. Personally I completely lost my grasp on him three separate times. First with the biorobots. It was really like thunder. Then when it turned out he knew what was up with the reactor before he even sent Ulana out into the world. And the third time when Ulana 1/2
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7) pottedmusic replied to your post “It’s cute how we basically agree re Tarakanov possible attitude…”
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