Under the Dome

[Laira]

I liked last night's episode. The Domites have finally noticed they're trapped under a giant dome and are acting like normal people, (i.e. panic, concerned about resources).

[forever1267]

So maybe we're adding a Tommyknockers twist?

[famvir]

Hmmm....I'm catching up and the show is starting to get interesting. The bad guys are maybe not, and good guys are maybe not. If they can tone down the maudlin stuff, I might stick around. I do see a little Tommyknocker vibe, which isn't a bad thing. I did just download Dome to my kindle. I loved the first read years ago, maybe time for a redo.

(BTW, I hated the ending in the book. Where ever that are taking this mini-series, if you are playing fast and loose with the book, THIS is where you need to start.)

[Mugsy]

This is the stupidest show on TV, which is saying something. People are trapped under a dome, an unexplainable and seemingly unfixable anomaly, and they just la la la their days away. No plans for food, no concerns about their loved ones on the outside, no organized efforts to check on the (apparently non existent) elderly or young children.

Instead they go to a fight club because they're bored? This stupid woman drug lord wants to own this town by getting them all on drugs and beat the shit out of each other for kicks? They can only make so many trades until their resources run out, what happens then? This group of drug-infused wildlings she has created will turn on her in a heartbeat. And what's the big deal about controlling this town? They're trapped in a dome! It's not like they can parlay this into ruling the world.

And how framing big is this thing, seeing Big Jim cruise along that lake with its convenient island of isolation. Oh, why do I keep watching?

[tabby]

This is the stupidest show on TV, which is saying something. People are trapped under a dome, an unexplainable and seemingly unfixable anomaly, and they just la la la their days away. No plans for food, no concerns about their loved ones on the outside, no organized efforts to check on the (apparently non existent) elderly or young children.

I stopped watching after the first episode, but, wow, that sounds even worse than the book. The book at least had some psychological stuff going on as people reacted to the reality of the Dome, even if the ending was stupid.

[famvir]

Yeah, I think I'm out. Two weeks ago they suddenly figured out that this was a sci-fi show and started to show some cool stuff. Then this week we are in the middle of a C-rate gansta/fight club movie. The only thing that makes sense about this mini-series is that every week it is being written by different writers, none of whom have read the book or has contact with the other writers.

It's a Sophomore level writing class where the assignment is: Write a 15 page adaption based on the title, "Under the Dome," about a 10 square mile Midwestern area cut off from the rest of the world. Listed are the names and occupation of the main characters (but can be changed for narrative purposes). Any genre is acceptable.

Then the teacher put all the chapters together and it became the mini-series.

[famvir]

Nearly two weeks later. Looks like I'm not the only one out. I TiVo and watch with the remote, bypassing the fight club stuff, watching the scifi stuff... But even that is getting boring.

I'm a quarter the way through the book, and the huge disappointment of "the biggest show of the summer" had taken its toll. (I really am finding it difficult to find any connection between the book and the TV show.)

The show is still being written by committee, and hilariously, it does remind me of the of the round robin story telling of my youth. The first person would start the story about the beautiful girl and the handsome stranger, and after a few turns the story would start to firm up with plot turns and character development, and there would always be the guy who would start his turn by saying, "Then a bomb went off and killed the family and the boyfriend. Now, across town, two other guys are playing poker..."

So they spend three/four weeks on this Maxine lady and her mom and her relationship with Barbi, and with Big Jim and a whole ton of time on the narrative of the fight club. Then Big Jim kills her. Just bang, she dead. Her momma dead too. That plot line cut off at the umbilicus.

[Deleted]

Well, I've enjoyed watching it. I think it's been a fun show. Then again, I'm a fan of Falling Skies, which has a similar hokey vibe to it. I guess I'm just okay with end of the world scenarios being silly and nonsensical.

[Witchie]

I'm enjoying it too. I do snark on it quite a bit, but I watch it every Monday.

highondegrassi, who do you think the monarch is? At first, I was sure it was Barbie, but now I'm thinking it's Julia. Or both of them.

[Deleted]

I thought it was a given that it was Barbie. It didn't occur to me that it could be both he and Julia. But in Dome world, anything is possible.