Under the Dome

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I'll be curious to see how they p

I would imagine that they still urinate the same way that people outside the dome do. Are you suggesting that some sort of radiation from the dome itself causes a mutation of some sort?


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I would imagine that they still urinate the same way that people outside the dome do. Are you suggesting that some sort of radiation from the dome itself causes a mutation of some sort?


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Funny guy. I don't know how that post ended up not including the end of my sentence. :) But I am still in a bit of a post-15 hour drive jet-lag fog, so who knows, maybe I really was suggesting that it would be interesting to see how they p! :) Or not.
 

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Okay, but without the entire concept of the dome, there would be nothing much for the characters to react to in this podunk town except a guy with an obsession with propane. Oh wait a minute! We all ready had that show in the past few years. It was animated and it was called King of the Hill.:D
 

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One could also view it as the town being magically transported to an island and cut off from the rest of the world... Oh wait that was Lost... A similar concept the character interactions by being forced to be together is an ancient plot device...
 

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Just watched the second episode. They are drawing bits and pieces from the book, but I think making it a pretty decent series. I still would prefer just a 13 episode "mini-series" faithful to the book, but it is not bad. And King is involved in the production, so in some ways he is helping guide a re-telling of his own story.
 

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One could also view it as the town being magically transported to an island and cut off from the rest of the world... Oh wait that was Lost... A similar concept the character interactions by being forced to be together is an ancient plot device...

Or Gilligans Island?:D
 

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Okay, but without the entire concept of the dome, there would be nothing much for the characters to react to in this podunk town except a guy with an obsession with propane. Oh wait a minute! We all ready had that show in the past few years. It was animated and it was called King of the Hill.:D

I tell you whhhat...
 

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I am ready to delete it if it don't start getting better a few more episodes and Jericho was much better than this!! :)
 

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I am ready to delete it if it don't start getting better a few more episodes and Jericho was much better than this!! :)

I do not think Jericho is a fair comparison.

But I agree it isn't great, but my criticism is I wanted them to create a mini-series of the book, not drawing piecemeal from it in ways that simply don't make a lot of sense to me. Yet, there is nothing else on, so I'll keep watching.
 

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From what I read today somewhere on the net , this show is a 13 part mini-series . So it should be wrapped up by the end of this season. OF course if the ratings stay up , we might see Dome 2 next year in a big city like New York or L.A. or Chicago. See how the city people deal with being trapped in a city with no way out. But the coolest place that the dome could be shown is in Washington,D.C. , where most of the people in congress live in a bubble already, so a dome wouldn't be much different for them.:D
 

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From what I read today somewhere on the net , this show is a 13 part mini-series . So it should be wrapped up by the end of this season. OF course if the ratings stay up , we might see Dome 2 next year in a big city like New York or L.A. or Chicago. See how the city people deal with being trapped in a city with no way out. But the coolest place that the dome could be shown is in Washington,D.C. , where most of the people in congress live in a bubble already, so a dome wouldn't be much different for them.:D

But it is not a mini-series FAITHFUL to the actual book it is based on. Not like the Stand mini-series, or IT mini-series. I don't count Haven, because it was based on a novella, The Colorado Kid, and was much better off as being loosely derived from it.

They could have easily made a 13 episode mini-series of the book, and done it quite well. I only hope when 11-22-63 is given the tv treatment, they are more faithful to it.
 

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Last night's episode was interrupted by the local news station for 20+ minutes apparently because of weather alerts. You should see their Facebook page -- people are pissed ! The station's consolation ? They'll re-run the episode .... next Sunday !
 

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I do not think Jericho is a fair comparison.

But I agree it isn't great, but my criticism is I wanted them to create a mini-series of the book, not drawing piecemeal from it in ways that simply don't make a lot of sense to me. Yet, there is nothing else on, so I'll keep watching.

I am just saying Jericho was better imo :)
 

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Not a bad episode...still holding my attention. My thoughts: Big Jim is a Big Creep; Junior is an even creepier version of Senior; Barbie and Julia are packing their collective baggage and taking a short trip to dysfunctional Relationshipville; after only a couple days, Sheriff Linda is now the only cop left in town; I didn't know two people could faint and wind-up lying side-by-side while ranting "The pink stars are falling in lines"; I thought it was pretty funny how The Simpson's Movie playing on the loop at the teen gathering.
 

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