Under The Dome

I never read the book, but I am enjoing the show. I don't care much for the character devolopment, I want to know what where the dome came from, why it appeared and what is the purpose.
 
AlphaBravo said:
I never read the book, but I am enjoing the show. I don't care much for the character devolopment, I want to know what where the dome came from, why it appeared and what is the purpose.
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err, read it rather, better experience. Assuming your reading skill are up to it.
 
Just watched the season 1 finale. Anyone want spoilers? :D It's pretty clear now what's going on. Contemplating reading the book, as I cannot wait another year or so for season 2 and the few months following that to find out everything.
 
I haven't read the book but from what I've heard the people who have were kind of expecting the show to be more of psychological thriller/drama whereas it seems to be evolving into more of a scifi fantasy. To be honest I kind of like this fantasy vibe they got going.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
I haven't read the book but from what I've heard the people who have were kind of expecting the show to be more of psychological thriller/drama whereas it seems to be evolving into more of a scifi fantasy. To be honest I kind of like this fantasy vibe they got going.
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The sci-fi fantasy thing is what gets me excited. I always find myself wanting to figure out wtf is going on.
 
What channel is it on? I've read the book so it will be interesting to see how it matches up to the imagination.
 
Thankfully this heap of schit has finally finished. I got roped into writing reviews for this show and it's by far my low point of the week. I haven't watched a show quite as horrendous as this since I accidentally tuned into the Chinese channel on a Sunday morning a few years back.

The writing is lazy, sloppy, and targeted towards teenagers. There has been no suspense at all. None of the relationships feel genuine - they're completely forced. And the acting. Oh, the acting. It's like watching b-grade actors attempt a soap opera. Even big Jim is an acting let down in this sorry excuse for a TV show. Let's not get started on the story, which so far has had no feeling, emotion, structure, intent, development, logic, smarts...they just didn't bother with it for some reason.

Oh what the hell. Let's address the story a little. What we know so far is that a dome came down. A mentally challenged and immature child kidnapped his girlfriend and then went on to become a sheriff's deputy because fsck it, that's why. All of the other men are inferior. A schit-for-brains reporter who never actually does anything a reporter might do, falls in love with the man who murdered her husband. But she's okay with it. But not. But she is. This riveting spectacle of bipolar disorder takes place over the course of one episode. The guy she falls in love with happens to be ex special forces and is an enforcer for a demented psychopath who is about as believable as the Easter Bunny. We don't see her until a few episodes in because the writers couldn't figure out any other way to introduce a twist. She was hiding. But watching. Sure sure. Big Jim desperately wants power. He gets it, but never really does to be honest. Until the last episode when he tries to hang the guy who's named after Ken's plastic fsck buddy. And nobody questions it. They'll question decisions about spaghetti from the diner, but not the hanging of someone. Because big Jim said so. After his one man kangaroo court. The kids never know what to do, until it's convenient for them to just know it. They just guess and they're always right. There's a mini dome that does schit that's still not explained. There's a very smart butterfly that picks the leader of the town, as butterflies do. Was the butterfly symbolic? Perhaps symbolic of the fact that flapping your arms around with a pencil in your hand will often have disastrous consequences for a script. The new sheriff who was selected because she clearly gave the best blowjobs at the high school she recently dropped out of might as well be acted by a human shaped block of concrete. And her character is so immensely dense that they might have to make space on the periodic table for her initials. And why didn't the kids warn her that she might, you know, die if she touched the dome? Were they secretly trying to do the show a favour and kill her off? Oh, and aliens. We now have aliens, it appears. They only arrive to reveal plot twists that make you want to drive a sharpened shiv through your skull.

And a whole 13 episodes to reveal... nothing. Nothing of importance. They left a cliffhanger the size of the very last step that trips you up while walking down them. And leaves you equally annoyed having actually done so. It is, quite possibly, the worst show on television, on all counts.

This show had potential, but the execution felt more like the execution of a prison inmate then anything else. And I was the prison inmate. How on earth people can get into this show I don't quite know. Watching it felt like some sort of masochistic, self flagellation ritual. The writers will no doubt spend the better portion of the next 3 weeks wiping oil from their pizza faces in between deciding what types of register to use to abuse their audience with in season 2. Thankfully I won't be a part of their script terrorism. I'll be tuned in to China's favourite children's shows if I have to...
 
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jingaling said:
What channel is it on? I've read the book so it will be interesting to see how it matches up to the imagination.
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Unfortunately is doesn't live up to the novel, which is surprising because Mr King himself is involved in the series.
After watching episode 13 last night I concluded that this series is actually a load of hogwash! I won't bother with season 2.
 
RazedInBlack said:
Unfortunately is doesn't live up to the novel, which is surprising because Mr King himself is involved in the series.
After watching episode 13 last night I concluded that this series is actually a load of hogwash! I won't bother with season 2.
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Perhaps we should not have read the novel first. It wouldn't be the first time a series doesn't live up the to the original writing.
 
DJ... said:
Thankfully this heap of schit has finally finished. I got roped into writing reviews for this show and it's by far my low point of the week. I haven't watched a show quite as horrendous as this since I accidentally tuned into the Chinese channel on a Sunday morning a few years back.

The writing is lazy, sloppy, and targeted towards teenagers. There has been no suspense at all. None of the relationships feel genuine - they're completely forced. And the acting. Oh, the acting. It's like watching b-grade actors attempt a soap opera. Even big Jim is an acting let down in this sorry excuse for a TV show. Let's not get started on the story, which so far has had no feeling, emotion, structure, intent, development, logic, smarts...they just didn't bother with it for some reason.

Oh what the hell. Let's address the story a little. What we know so far is that a dome came down. A mentally challenged and immature child kidnapped his girlfriend and then went on to become a sheriff's deputy because fsck it, that's why. All of the other men are inferior. A schit-for-brains reporter who never actually does anything a reporter might do, falls in love with the man who murdered her husband. But she's okay with it. But not. But she is. This riveting spectacle of bipolar disorder takes place over the course of one episode. The guy she falls in love with happens to be ex special forces and is an enforcer for a demented psychopath who is about as believable as the Easter Bunny. We don't see her until a few episodes in because the writers couldn't figure out any other way to introduce a twist. She was hiding. But watching. Sure sure. Big Jim desperately wants power. He gets it, but never really does to be honest. Until the last episode when he tries to hang the guy who's named after Ken's plastic fsck buddy. And nobody questions it. They'll question decisions about spaghetti from the diner, but not the hanging of someone. Because big Jim said so. After his one man kangaroo court. The kids never know what to do, until it's convenient for them to just know it. They just guess and they're always right. There's a mini dome that does schit that's still not explained. There's a very smart butterfly that picks the leader of the town, as butterflies do. Was the butterfly symbolic? Perhaps symbolic of the fact that flapping your arms around with a pencil in your hand will often have disastrous consequences for a script. The new sheriff who was selected because she clearly gave the best blowjobs at the high school she recently dropped out of might as well be acted by a human shaped block of concrete. And her character is so immensely dense that they might have to make space on the periodic table for her initials. And why didn't the kids warn her that she might, you know, die if she touched the dome? Were they secretly trying to do the show a favour and kill her off? Oh, and aliens. We now have aliens, it appears. They only arrive to reveal plot twists that make you want to drive a sharpened shiv through your skull.

And a whole 13 episodes to reveal... nothing. Nothing of importance. They left a cliffhanger the size of the very last step that trips you up while walking down them. And leaves you equally annoyed having actually done so. It is, quite possibly, the worst show on television, on all counts.

This show had potential, but the execution felt more like the execution of a prison inmate then anything else. And I was the prison inmate. How on earth people can get into this show I don't quite know. Watching it felt like some sort of masochistic, self flagellation ritual. The writers will no doubt spend the better portion of the next 3 weeks wiping oil from their pizza faces in between deciding what types of register to use to abuse their audience with in season 2. Thankfully I won't be a part of their script terrorism. I'll be tuned in to China's favourite children's shows if I have to...
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Agree fully with all. Hanging Barbie, and everyone is just standing there with DUH expressions.
And agree x1000 on the bold part. 13 episodes to reveal fck all. Aliens.. wowieee. seriously...
 
Spoiler alert? Really?
You came to this thread expecting what exactly?
 
DJ... said:
Thankfully this heap of schit has finally finished. I got roped into writing reviews for this show and it's by far my low point of the week. I haven't watched a show quite as horrendous as this since I accidentally tuned into the Chinese channel on a Sunday morning a few years back.

The writing is lazy, sloppy, and targeted towards teenagers. There has been no suspense at all. None of the relationships feel genuine - they're completely forced. And the acting. Oh, the acting. It's like watching b-grade actors attempt a soap opera. Even big Jim is an acting let down in this sorry excuse for a TV show. Let's not get started on the story, which so far has had no feeling, emotion, structure, intent, development, logic, smarts...they just didn't bother with it for some reason.

Oh what the hell. Let's address the story a little. What we know so far is that a dome came down. A mentally challenged and immature child kidnapped his girlfriend and then went on to become a sheriff's deputy because fsck it, that's why. All of the other men are inferior. A schit-for-brains reporter who never actually does anything a reporter might do, falls in love with the man who murdered her husband. But she's okay with it. But not. But she is. This riveting spectacle of bipolar disorder takes place over the course of one episode. The guy she falls in love with happens to be ex special forces and is an enforcer for a demented psychopath who is about as believable as the Easter Bunny. We don't see her until a few episodes in because the writers couldn't figure out any other way to introduce a twist. She was hiding. But watching. Sure sure. Big Jim desperately wants power. He gets it, but never really does to be honest. Until the last episode when he tries to hang the guy who's named after Ken's plastic fsck buddy. And nobody questions it. They'll question decisions about spaghetti from the diner, but not the hanging of someone. Because big Jim said so. After his one man kangaroo court. The kids never know what to do, until it's convenient for them to just know it. They just guess and they're always right. There's a mini dome that does schit that's still not explained. There's a very smart butterfly that picks the leader of the town, as butterflies do. Was the butterfly symbolic? Perhaps symbolic of the fact that flapping your arms around with a pencil in your hand will often have disastrous consequences for a script. The new sheriff who was selected because she clearly gave the best blowjobs at the high school she recently dropped out of might as well be acted by a human shaped block of concrete. And her character is so immensely dense that they might have to make space on the periodic table for her initials. And why didn't the kids warn her that she might, you know, die if she touched the dome? Were they secretly trying to do the show a favour and kill her off? Oh, and aliens. We now have aliens, it appears. They only arrive to reveal plot twists that make you want to drive a sharpened shiv through your skull.

And a whole 13 episodes to reveal... nothing. Nothing of importance. They left a cliffhanger the size of the very last step that trips you up while walking down them. And leaves you equally annoyed having actually done so. It is, quite possibly, the worst show on television, on all counts.

This show had potential, but the execution felt more like the execution of a prison inmate then anything else. And I was the prison inmate. How on earth people can get into this show I don't quite know. Watching it felt like some sort of masochistic, self flagellation ritual. The writers will no doubt spend the better portion of the next 3 weeks wiping oil from their pizza faces in between deciding what types of register to use to abuse their audience with in season 2. Thankfully I won't be a part of their script terrorism. I'll be tuned in to China's favourite children's shows if I have to...
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Pls send a link to the reviews as i think your review above is very biased on the fact that you personally hate the show.
 
RazedInBlack said:
Unfortunately is doesn't live up to the novel, which is surprising because Mr King himself is involved in the series.
After watching episode 13 last night I concluded that this series is actually a load of hogwash! I won't bother with season 2.
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Yup, and with a heavy weight like Spielberg, co-producing, I'd expect much more.
 
Batista said:
Pls send a link to the reviews as i think your review above is very biased on the fact that you personally hate the show.
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Reviews are based on personal opinions of shows. That's kinda how they work...
 
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