Under the Dome

[Mugsy]

I keep thinking the cop is J.Lo. Which is fine with me, because I love crazy J.Lo but it's odd. Too bad they killed Lapidus; he was a good actor. Do they only have one (sane) cop left now?

They keep asking who's in charge, but if they have a town council (at least they seem to have that one guy; he's a councillor, right?), wouldn't they have a mayor? Or did he go to the other town for the parade?

And where are the children? (Not to sound all Mary Higgins Clark, but seriously) I know this is small town as per Hollywood, but not every single child in town would go to the parade.

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I just read the book synopsis on Wikipedia so the little curiosity I have about this show is satisfied. I know that they said they are changing stuff but I imagine that the reason behind the dome will be similar. The plot doesn't sound terrible but not particularly great either. And the show has so much bad acting and bad dialogue that I can't even care about what is going to happen next. The pilot was promising but the second episode was pretty dull. It just made me think of all the nit picky stuff. Like why aren't the military trying to communicate with the town? They can't talk but they can see each other right? Why not hold up signs? Why is there not more looting? In real life every time there is a storm warning people go crazy buying up water and canned goods. In Chester Mills they find they are trapped indefinitely and one girl shoplifts a candy bar? Why is the little kid whose sister is missing not concerned about his sister? Why did the show put the sister who happens to be one of the few decent actors on the show, in the worst subplot with the show's worst actor? Why did they get an actor who looks like Andy Samberg's dopey younger brother to play the psycho? So many questions for such a mediocre show.

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Yeah, not much makes sense. There were a few scenes where you see people in the background just going about their business like it's any other day. But I don't mind. I've come to expect shows based on Stephen King stories to be silly and cheesy. Like, every time I see that cow split in two it cracks me up, and I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to. There was a similar show on a couple of years ago called Persons Unkown that was about a small group of people trapped in a desolate town where their reactions and behaviors were more realistic. The concept of people being trapped together works better with a small cast of characters. 

[forever1267]

If, by chance, you are trapped in a domed small town while searching for an escape underground in an old abandoned mill, with only the Town Crazy with you, it is NOT recommended to use your last match to have a Meaningful Conversation.

I suspect this show may not have the thrill of the novel.

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I've already given up on it. Sorry Dean Norris, but even you can't make it worth my while.

[Mugsy]

The writing is odd. People are not acting the way most people would if an unprecedented event occurred that cut your entire town off from the world. They can't call, text, email or even hear anyone outside the dome, but they just decide to go to the local diner for lunch? No one in real life would do that, no one.

There's so little curiosity or worry that I would blame the dome for emitting some kind of lethargy drug, but that's over-analyzing (and giving it too much credit, I think). It's just bad writing.

[MrsOldManBalls]

I'll keep watching, but I feel like I jumped into the middle of the story, and I'm missing pertinent info.

[famvir]

Jul 9, 2013 16:16:28 GMT -4 forever1267 said:

I suspect this show may not have the thrill of the novel.

The novel is very good in that Steven King character driven (yes, that) tome length, settle in for a looong ride, kind of way. The best since his accident, I thought at the time. And there is a really big pay off in the novel, which I don't think will have the same oomph in the series. When you wait 900 pages for a beat down, it is very sweet. I think King writes character driven novels that happen to be scarey. Unlike horror writers like Dean Koontz who write plot driven novels. So what is lost in these movies/dramatizations is any sense of the humanity of King's characters. I like the people in his books, I've never liked any in his movies (except The Shining, and imagine that movie with trite dialog and wooden acting by D-list talent.) It is as with all King dramatizations, I wait in great anticipation, then end up turning it off early in abject disappointment. This series is just roundly, suffocatingly disappointing. (And no, I didn't realize I was describing the dome as well as the series in that last statement.)

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Jul 11, 2013 9:39:03 GMT -4 MrsOldManBalls said:

I'll keep watching, but I feel like I jumped into the middle of the story, and I'm missing pertinent info.

Yeah, like why it's windy inside an enclosed dome for instance. I'm assuming some of the more technical, SciFi aspects of the story have been skipped over in favor of focusing on soap opera drama. At some point we'll have to know more about the dome itself and where it came from. That's what keeps me interested.

[ladyjane]

After two episodes I'm done. It failed to grip me so much that I prefer to watch the baking show on another channel - and I normally hate cooking shows.

The only thing I thought was good in this was the chopped-in-half cow.