# 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:** 7
**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:** [July 3, 2013, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/121 "2013-07-03T05:21:24Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I think you guys are jumping the gun regarding the fire investigation; I think when people have a chance to catch their breath and compare notes, they’ll start questioning what happened to make Duke’s house burn down. Yeah, I considered that. It may dawn on someone (the policewoman) that his story doesn’t add up. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/122 "2013-07-03T09:40:31Z")
In the panic of dealing with the fire no one is really going to be paying attention to how it got started, their focus will be putting the fire out. People also tend to assume those inside a story have more information than the characters actually. _We_ know how the fire was started, at this point all the characters know is that Duke’s house burned. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/123 "2013-07-03T16:32:52Z")
if the dome had as many holes as this story then they would be alright. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/124 "2013-07-03T17:05:57Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > Yeah, I considered that. It may dawn on someone (the policewoman) that his story doesn’t add up. I thought the policewoman had some kind of look on her face when Jim said that which made me think she didn’t totally believe him. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/125 "2013-07-03T17:44:35Z")
I just went to imdb to check the first name of newspaper reporter Rachelle Lefevre’s husband. Was disappointed to learn it was Peter and not, say, Gordon. Eh, there’s still a chance for a Gordon Shumway to turn up, along with a plot line about missing cats under the dome… ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/126 "2013-07-04T23:13:36Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Maybe it’s just me, but I think Junior hallucinated the “He screwed my brains out” conversation. Because you’re right, it’s not something a character in that situation would do. Especially after being told that she’ll be let go (basically) if she says she loves him. Hopefully this, because I thought her reaction in the first episode was more off than her taunting him in this one. Here’s a guy who you’ve known your entire life and who you’re banging up until this morning when you dumped him. He attacks you and chains you up in a bunker. What’s the normal, human reaction to him first opening the bunker door? “What the hell are you doing? What’s going on? Why did you attack me? Why am I down here in this bunker?” You talk to him like somebody you’ve known all your life. Your second reaction is to try and sweet-talk your way out of the bunker. In the first episode, her immediate reaction is to start screaming bloody murder past him as if he’s some monster she’s never met before. Completely nonsensical. I’d have to say her taunting in this second episode is a little more believable at least. She’s known this guy all her life. She wants to hurt him to get back at him, like lovers do when they fight. Putting up an act to try and get out of there would be _more_ believable, certainly, but the taunting wasn’t as weird a reaction as last episode’s immediate screaming as if she’d never met him before. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/127 "2013-07-06T05:01:32Z")
Late to the thread, but I’d like to bounce back to the cow in ep1 for just a moment. How was it that the cow could be split lengthwise and slide down the dome without leaving a mark, but not 5 minutes later someone left a bloody hand print on it? Or the spray painted door in ep2? ---
**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:** [July 6, 2013, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/128 "2013-07-06T05:44:49Z")
I find it immensely strange that the people outside the dome seem completely uninterested in communicating with those inside. When the kids discover that water can seep through the dome (implication: they aren’t going to suffocate) you’d think the doofuses performing that experiment might be interested in what the kids could show them, but it was like they couldn’t even see each other. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/129 "2013-07-06T21:40:23Z")
Oh my god this show is painful to watch. I never read the book but it really looked like it would be interesting. The teen kidnapper is just stupid. The rough hero/killer is dull. The radio people are boring. The cow looked fake (WHERE ARE THE BONES???). It’s all just a great big stupid mess. I’ll probably keep watching. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/130 "2013-07-07T03:00:31Z")
I’ve seen two episodes on Amazon, and I echo **Rushgeekgirl** …it has its flaws, but I’m going to keep watching. Sigh. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/131 "2013-07-07T03:10:09Z")
Ditto. Nothing better to do with a Monday evening. It hasn’t really impressed me that much yet, though. And I love King’s work. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/132 "2013-07-08T15:31:55Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Was Duke’s home office recently cleaned with gasoline or something? Yeah really. That was a hell of a flammable house. I hope that Angie’s comment about Barbie “screwing her brains out” turns out to be a hallucination because all I could think of was how the stupid bitch put some innocent total stranger in danger. I have a feeling that this show will go the way of “Game of Thrones” for my husband & I. That’s where I start watching it with him but then give up after a few episodes because it’s just too disturbing. Only with “Under the Dome” it will be because it’s just too stupid and nearly every character is a raging moron. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/133 "2013-07-08T16:16:07Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > Yeah really. That was a hell of a flammable house. > > I hope that Angie’s comment about Barbie “screwing her brains out” turns out to be a hallucination because all I could think of was how the stupid bitch put some innocent total stranger in danger. > > I have a feeling that this show will go the way of “Game of Thrones” for my husband & I. That’s where I start watching it with him but then give up after a few episodes because it’s just too disturbing. Only with “Under the Dome” it will be because it’s just too stupid and nearly every character is a raging moron. I gave up on “The Following” for this reason…sigh. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/134 "2013-07-08T16:48:40Z")
to put the show in a better light. It’s not Lost or 24. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/135 "2013-07-09T02:39:21Z")
Nice **Simpsons Movie** reference. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/136 "2013-07-09T03:12:20Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > Only with “Under the Dome” it will be because it’s just too stupid and nearly every character is a raging moron. Clearly you are new to the world of Stephen King. Most of his stories seem to take place in a small town populated by the world’s biggest assholes. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/137 "2013-07-09T04:17:03Z")
Yeah. Like you have just lit the last match to get your out of the dark maze, so what do you do? Why, stand around jawing until it burns out, of course. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2013, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/138 "2013-07-09T04:22:59Z")
Ah, sonofabitch! I just remembered that I forgot to watch tonight’s episode! ---
**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:** [July 9, 2013, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/139 "2013-07-09T05:44:27Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Clearly you are new to the world of Stephen King. Most of his stories seem to take place in a small town populated by the world’s biggest assholes. This may be why I didn’t like the movie of _The Mist_. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/140 "2013-07-09T14:01:47Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > This may be why I didn’t like the movie of _The Mist_. Another good example. A common theme in King books and films is to set them in what appears on the surface to be a small idyllic New England town (often Derry, ME). Of course, on closer inspection, the town is shown to be peopled entirely by stupid, violent, selfish, petty, uneducated bigots, psychopaths, religious fanatics, cowards, philanderers, con artists, criminals and other assorted jerks. IIRC, he often referred to this in the Dark Tower books as a “stupid evil”. In fact, King’s settings seem like a pretty terrifying place to live even before he throws in a mist, It, Tommyknocker, superflu plague, vampire, werewolf, demon, alien or other supernatural horror. Probably why they put that damn dome over the town in the first place. I think he does this for a couple of reasons. One, it’s so much more satisfying when a bunch of jerks get eaten by a mist monster or whatever. Two, it’s a lot more terrifying to be trapped with a bunch of people who would just assume kill you for being a demon because you have all your teeth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483.md?page=8)