Series/Under The Dome

Well here is the thread for the TV series adaption of Stephen King's Doorstopper Under The Dome.

First up who here works in a tannery or slaughter house? I got into a debate with my little sister on if bifurcated cows look like that.

I've seen bifurcated specimens before. Generally those were preserved and bloodless, though.

I can't quite remember what that bit of the show looked like, but I think I would expect there to be more spurting blood? Apart from that I guess it was fairly realistic.

If it's supposed to be a regular town getting cut off, does it seem a bit like they stacked the deck with crazy before it even started? I mean, you've got the guy who murdered someone in the opening (which I missed), the crazy stalker boy, and the vague conspiracy.

That's what I figured, fresh gore would obscure the cartoonish 'white bone sticking out look' people think it would look like.

Yeah no kidding about the town being filled with crazy. They're worse than the people on the lost island.

You don't see Barbie killing the doctor. It starts off with him burying a body and it only comes back to him when he start staying with the dead man wife. Knowing Hollywood she'll forget about her husband and hook up with him in the end >_>

edited 1st Jul '13 5:43:43 PM by joeyjojo

Or knowing King she'll stab him.

Beep Beep Barbie!

So, didn't I watch a cartoon version of this a few years ago with the cast of "The Simpsons"?

Oh that recap is unfortunate.

"Until we were cut off from the world by a mysterious Dom—*EXPLOSION*—"

The way the actress pronounces "Dome" and the large brown explosion makes me laugh.

Edit: lol cow. Never stop being funny cow.

edited 2nd Jul '13 4:02:31 AM by Nicknacks

x5: It's based on a Stephen King book and you weren't expecting a town full of darkness, depravity and just plain nutso?

@re: cow

Might be a coincidence, but I'm pretty sure it was a Shout-Out to the art piece mother and child divided. In which a cow and a calf were bisected and preserved in four tanks of formaldehyde.

edited 2nd Jul '13 6:32:36 AM by joeyjojo

If anything, it's a reference to the woodchuck in the book. Except more cinematic.

I prefer my theory. >_>

So, I watched the first episode. Why has no one thought to dig under the dome?

They try in the second episode, but it's made clear it goes really deep in the book, likely contiguous and gapless. It's not spherical in the book though, it contours to the the town's borders, on the show it seems it is a sphere, above and below ground.

edited 4th Jul '13 11:12:38 AM by occono

So are the boundaries of the town a perfect circle too? I assumed that the reason why King made it conform to the boundaries of the town was because a perfect circle would have included territory and citizens from other towns who wouldn't have been quite so easily controlled by Big Jim.

In the show or the book?

In the book, it's shaped to the borders, which it's explicitly said aren't a circle, the book gives a map of the town. IIRC it's horseshoe shaped somewhat.

In the show we see a map in episode 2 and it shows the dome is circular, but I can't remember what the town was shaped like and whether it was missing bits or covering other towns.

edited 4th Jul '13 2:52:24 PM by occono

I don't know how much sprawl is in Maine but there is presumably enough distance between the towns for a perfect circle not encroaching others territory. King making it conform to the Borders seems more like his way of telling the reader the dome was no natural phenomena.

My gods of these characters are retarded. Your ex boyfriend is jealous because he saw you with other man. How does telling him you screw him going to help?

I was in hysterics when the reverent accidentally burned that the sheriff's house down. The good lord works in mysterious ways indeed.

Telling him you're screwing someone means he's gonna go looking for said someone, and maybe make a few suspicious comments about how you belong to him, which might make someone come looking for you. Long shot? Hell yes. But it's gotten Barbie curious about what's going on. Once he realizes she's missing (her brother is that kid he saved, remember), he might start looking into it.

I think you're putting more thought into it then the writers.

I did like the scene where he comes in and tells her he killed Barbie and she doesn't believe him since she has 'known him since he was a child knows he's not capable of such evil'. At which he smiles and said she must still love him.

It was touchingly sweet and creepyly manipulating .

edited 5th Jul '13 6:01:29 PM by joeyjojo

So anyone still watching the show?

Yep

It's good so far for me

Though I'm annoyed at the Bury Your Gays death in the last ep

I know right? To be fair it was a bit of a Forgone Conclusion.

edited 8th Aug '13 5:01:52 AM by joeyjojo

Perhaps but it didn't make it any less silly.

Anyways I'm still wondering what's with the dome

Not really. She got sick and died. Happens all the time.

Yes the dome is apparently there to protect a smaller dome

King you are now taking the piss.

edited 8th Aug '13 5:47:55 AM by joeyjojo

The smaller dome is interesting though

I wonder what it means...

I have to read the book to tell you. Which I have but haven't read because it's really really big.

edited 8th Aug '13 7:04:13 PM by joeyjojo

I actually looked up what the dome was on wikipedia's plot summary of the book

It's quite cruel though I wonder how it'll be changed or accomated to the show