# Under The Dome: New Summer Mini-Series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 8, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483 "2013-06-08T18:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/41 "2013-06-25T02:02:22Z")
It’s on! It’s on! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/42 "2013-06-25T02:10:16Z")
Well, I’ve never seen THAT before! (Cow split right in half, lengthwise.) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/43 "2013-06-25T02:29:56Z")
Okay, every single detail is different. I hope that’s going to be a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/44 "2013-06-25T02:36:44Z")
I don’t understand why the writing is so crappy. Why don’t they get a good writer to do this - it’s a good story! It doesn’t help I’m watching it on some fancy LG TV on vacation, and it has that weird visual quality that makes it look like a rehearsal. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/45 "2013-06-25T03:06:53Z")
I thought Stephen King’s story was great - I’m not sure why they felt the need to change everyfrickinthing. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/46 "2013-06-25T04:14:15Z")
Someday I’ll watch a King movie/series without having read the book first. It’d be nice to not have any foreknowledge. Even if changes are made, it’s not fresh. I’m claustrophobic, so the girl in the fallout shelter is bugging me. Not sure if I’ll keep watching. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/47 "2013-06-25T04:46:17Z")
I gave up on this show back when it was called “Jericho”. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/48 "2013-06-25T05:03:30Z")
Weird - it’s apparently showing on Amazon Prime this Friday; typically CBS shows are the slowest to go online. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/49 "2013-06-25T06:03:44Z")
Did anyone catch the reference to _The Prisoner_? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/50 "2013-06-25T11:49:32Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Oh yeah, and _The Green Mile_. Still, that’s only FOUR against eleventy billion! > > 🙂 I’d argue THE DEAD ZONE is better than all of those, except perhaps the Kubrick. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/51 "2013-06-25T11:58:44Z")
Maybe we can have a thread about this where nobody mentions the book, just to avoid potential future spoilers and to not be very annoying for those of us who haven’t read it. I liked it okay. The Junior lunatic was a bit too crazy too quickly, he seemed to turn into a freak over a period of three hours. Was also distracted by casting Not-Kathy-Bates and Not-Jo-From-Eureka. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/52 "2013-06-25T12:14:08Z")
Spanish Moss in a small town in Maine? I musta missed that region when I lived in Maine… ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/53 "2013-06-25T13:22:44Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Maybe we can have a thread about this where nobody mentions the book, just to avoid potential future spoilers and to not be very annoying for those of us who haven’t read it. > > I liked it okay. The Junior lunatic was a bit too crazy too quickly, he seemed to turn into a freak over a period of three hours. > > **Was also distracted by casting Not-Kathy-Bates and Not-Jo-From-Eureka**. I know, right? I had to look up Not-Jo just to be sure - same look, same character type, even the same voice! Not-Kathy-Bates I recognized as Hoyt’s momma from True Blood, but yeah, it’s close. I only saw the first few minutes, but to me the casting on Junior looks all wrong. He doesn’t look like a good ol’ boy at all, and can’t bring the menace when he looks so much like Andy Samberg. When reading the book, I always pictured Junior as looking like [Ellis](http://left4dead.wikia.com/wiki/Ellis?file=Ellis_photo.png)from Left 4 Dead 2. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/54 "2013-06-25T13:32:32Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Well, I’ve never seen THAT before! (Cow split right in half, lengthwise.) [I suspect someone on the production team is a Damien Hirst fan](http://www.friendsreunited.com/damien-hirst-mother-and-child/Memory/03383fec-f908-41f9-b2dc-a00a005028af) I’m innocent of having read the book, so I guess I won’t be jarred too much by plot changes. Despite looking like, well, a TV mini-series, most of the dome FX come off pretty well. I especially enjoyed the truck encounter. Not sold on most of the characters and acting, however. Not sure I can explain this adequately, but most everyone comes off as a stock Stephen King Novel character, and rather two-dimensional. Also, yes, the setting looks more like Georgia than Maine. I won’t let that bug me too much. ---
**Author:** ![toast\_pakora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@toast\_pakora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toast_pakora)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/55 "2013-06-25T13:50:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Altho the second version DID get the hedge animals right That has _always_ irked me about the Kubrick version. The topiary animals that moved ever so slightly out of the corner of your eye were incredibly frightening. A maze, no matter how symbolic, was such a cliche. I read UTD over Labor Day weekend a couple years ago and have forgotten it entirely (_except_ the ending, thank you very much) so deviations from the original plot can’t bother me. I’ve also not seen any King adaptations except for the aforementioned Kubrick. I was going to skip this as well but I have a fondness for Jeff Fahey thanks to LOST. Unfortunately… I enjoyed the set up last night. It’s always interesting to watch how people react. I liked Jericho as well. Not sure if the writing will hold up in later episodes (Flash Forward). I’ll watch it if I remember to turn it on but it won’t be must-watch. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/56 "2013-06-25T14:09:04Z")
I thought everything happened too quickly, but it’s short-attention-span American television. We had sex, murder and political corruption all in the first 5 or 6 minutes. Gotta’ grab 'em quick or they’ll change the channel to a show with psychic pets, angry chefs or jewelry on rotating turntables. Not only did it seem like every development was coming at us at light speed, but the character types were really efficiently incorporated. In that family that was just passing through town we had an inter-racial lesbian couple with a troubled teen daughter. All those potential plot points in one car. The need for speed made the residents of the town seem like pretty adaptable folk. Nobody seemed too overwhelmed by the incredibly impossible situation. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/57 "2013-06-25T14:19:36Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > [url=“[http://www.friendsreunited.com/damien-hirst-mother-and-child/Memory/03383fec-f908-41f9-b2dc-a00a005028af](http://www.friendsreunited.com/damien-hirst-mother-and-child/Memory/03383fec-f908-41f9-b2dc-a00a005028af)”]. . . > Also, yes, the setting looks more like Georgia than Maine. I won’t let that bug me too much. It was shot here in North Cackalacky. Wilmington, to be precise. I don’t expect to see any mountain ranges in the background! ---
**Author:** ![statij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@statij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statij)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/58 "2013-06-25T16:33:13Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > …but most everyone comes off as a stock Stephen King Novel character, and rather two-dimensional…. I think this means they’re doing an accurate representation of the book, because this is exactly how I felt reading it. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/59 "2013-06-25T16:37:43Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Well, I’ve never seen THAT before! (Cow split right in half, lengthwise.) Never been to a Texas barbeque, then? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/60 "2013-06-25T16:41:02Z")
I enjoyed the book but wasn’t really thrilled with the first episode of the series. I’ll probably keep watching it because it’ll become a habit, but if it doesn’t get better I might fall asleep. I particularly didn’t like Junior–I guess they did a good job of making him creepy, but he was _too_ creepy. Somebody that messed up would have stood out a long time ago in a town that small. It’s been a while since I read the book–I thought Barbie started out as a drifter working as a short-order cook at the diner, not as some kind of killer burying Shumway’s husband in the forest. Didn’t quite get what was supposed to be up with him. Also, the cow was weird. It was like it was entirely made of muscle. Where were the guts? Not that I particularly wanted to see cow guts strewing around, mind you, but that cow had some _strange_ interior anatomy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483.md?page=4)