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Post by famvir on Sept 11, 2013 13:54:46 GMT -4
I generally love cheesy summer scifi offerings, I'm just too closely aware of/really like King's book. It's also a stretch when a character in the book named Dodee, for example, who is in her late teens, mentally a little slow, waitresses at the diner, her mother flies the plane that crashes into the dome, and who herself gets strangled by Jr early in the book....morphs into a late 20's Asian woman who runs the radio station. I mean, if you are going to change EVERYTHING about a character, why not just call her Toby?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2013 14:01:34 GMT -4
Does the Barbie character resemble the one in the book? Barbie reminds me of Larry from The Stand. One of the reasons I stopped reading King's books a long time ago was because it seemed like his characters from different books were too similar to each other, and I started to get bored with them.
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Post by mrspickles on Sept 11, 2013 14:51:16 GMT -4
Does the Barbie character resemble the one in the book? Barbie reminds me of Larry from The Stand. One of the reasons I stopped reading King's books a long time ago was because it seemed like his characters from different books were too similar to each other, and I started to get bored with them. But Baby, can she dig her man? |
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Post by famvir on Sept 11, 2013 14:56:34 GMT -4
Ah... Good question, yes and no. Yes, Barbi is a stand up guy, a reluctant hero. In the book he is an ex army office/drifter/fry cook at Rose's diner, and when the Dome comes down, the PTB on the outside commission Barbi to be the US military presence in the town. In other words, to be in charge. Big Jim wants to be in charge, and starts to kill people and frame Barbi. No Maxine, no sordid past, no fight club. See, King writes about everyday people on everyday situations, that react like ordinary people would in extraordinary situations.
Regular 12 yo kids and a psycho clown. Regular mom and kid and rabid dog.
Regular small New England town cut off from the world.
I haven't reread the whole book, read it last 5 years ago, so I'm going on memory, but the four kids/magical powers, the monarch, the fight club, Maxine, who gets killed and where, the switching from good/bad guy, none of it happened in the book. The big dealio in the book was the meth lab. That's it. The rest of it is the breakdown of society when you have Lord of the Flies with adults. The people are fighting for food and medicine and water and finally air itself. That's enough story for me, for 1,000 pages of book for me! But the guys who made the mini series seem to think it needs to be spiced up a bit.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2013 17:35:40 GMT -4
Stephen King addressed the differences between the book and the show, and I think changing it up the way they did was a smart move. Those who liked the book could still watch the show without being spoiled and those who like the show but didn't read the book can still enjoy reading it if the show peaked their interest. This explains the presence of the kids and the monarch on the show. They are a part of the source. It sounds like the show went more in a scifi direction while the book was more sociological/character driven. |
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Post by famvir on Sept 11, 2013 18:23:26 GMT -4
I can only laugh when one of the creators of The Dome mentions the lessons of Lost when they put it together. I have seen Lost, my friend, and you are no Lost.
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Post by forever1267 on Jun 30, 2014 13:37:03 GMT -4
Starting tonight, we are back Under it. CBS has made a handy dandy guide to who is doing what to who on their website, and the Master Himself, Stephen King, wrote tonight's episode. They've already said it will be a game changer. Let's just hope it's a big change for the better. Love struck deputies, anyone? |
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Post by Laira on Jun 26, 2015 12:23:34 GMT -4
It's baaaaack! The plot got even more convoluted.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2015 13:02:45 GMT -4
And so it goes for SciFi shows that try to milk it for more than a couple of seasons. Shows like Fringe, which somehow managed to become less convoluted as the seasons went on, are a rarity.
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Post by forever1267 on Jun 27, 2015 15:53:51 GMT -4
They seem to throw every plot point they can think of to see if it sticks, and they all stick, so they use all of them.
I'm watching it right now, and they seem to have flash forwarded, backwards, and sideways upside down, all within the same scene possibly.
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