It’s also the same cow that curiously appears and disappears from the same scene with Barbie when they show the dome coming down. They’ve replayed this scene a lot.
In one version, there’s a herd of cows getting surprised, no cow bisection. In another version, it’s the same herd of cows, but with one added CGI-cow getting cut in half.
Butcher’s Delight breed of cow.
To me, in any science fiction, even the “personalities of the characters” aspect is harmed by characters’ lack of curiosity about the particular story’s particular odd phenomenon.
It makes it all kind of fake and pointless (and in my view, lazy writing). If this actually happened, there would be at least some people who would be completely focused on the question of What The Heck This Is.
The only sort of story that can get away with inattention to the whats and whys and hows of the Odd Phenomenon, is (perhaps) allegory. And this series, at least, is certainly not being presented as if it’s allegory.
If a writer wants to focus on what would it be like for people in a town suddenly cut off from the outside world, that’s fine. But is it about real(istic) people or not? Because real people have curiosity. In a town of a few thousand, quite a few people would be spending all their time trying to find out as much about that dome as possible. If the writer doesn’t want to make those people the focus of the story, fine, but it’s just poor writing to not even mention them. To ignore them makes it harder for me to engage my willing suspension of disbelief. It wouldn’t take much (in the way of written words, and even less visually) to show that there are people under the dome experimenting with the dome, talking about what the heck it is, where it came from, why it’s there, etc. By including them, even in passing, it gives the whole scenario that much more three dimensionality. Lord knows the characters in the TV show are pretty one-dimensional as it is.
Anyone interested in starting up a thread about how we Dopers would do things if whatever town the latest doperfest was held in got domed? I’d do it, but I’m not sure how “what if” threads are managed - loosely and humorously in Mostly Pointless, or with pragmatic considerations and cites in Great Debates, or perhaps as a role playing exercise in the Game Room?
I know you probably want to start a new thread, but THIS thread makes for an interesting read. It’s one of my favorite threads. It’s not quite UTD, but very similar. (It’s about how prosperous would a Dopers only society be.)
This would be a great premise for a plane crash on an uncharted island somewhere. The writers could even throw in some weird shit like arctic animals that don’t belong in the tropics or crazy E/M phenomena.
I still don’t understand why the government would care about the Dome affecting butterfly migration and magnetic fields. Can someone please explain Barbie’s comment about that?
I’m no agriculture expert, but I thought the explanation given was that butterflies are important for crop pollination and that disrupting their migrations could have an adverse effect on agriculture.
cite?
In the book only the first touch results in a shock. Then the character is “immune” to further shocks (King’s term).
This show is really good cheese. I don’t know why, but I keep watching. OK, Dean Norris is probably 80% of it.