Ah, good point. So Big Jim knows that Junior knows, and Junior knows that Big Jim knows that he knows…
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I think we’ve diverged so far from the book that it’s completely moot at this point.
They sure are in Stephen King books!
That might be how it goes - Big Jim drowns Angie and covers up his tracks, so Junior doesn’t know that he knows. I think you’ve got it figured out!
I am thinking being found by Big jim has not significantly improved Angie’s situation. compounding this is the fact that Big jimis trying to set himself up as leader of DomeTown and can not afford to be caught with a young girl chained up in his bomb shelter, so he has to find a way to cover Junior’s and his own asses.
That could work. It puts Big Jim firmly in the Evil category, and makes Junior go more crazy.
I think the network was uncomfortable with what King wrote about Angie and Junior but didn’t want to ditch the subplot entirely.
I’m re-reading Stinger by Robert McCammon (1988). The book’s not perfect – he’s got teenagers going into rages fueled by marijuana. :dubious: But when this town was encased in a force field, the first thing the mayor does is get people together to talk about what’s happened, take inventory, lock up the liquor store, etc. They also have a huge fire that started in a junk yard (tires burning) and the air is getting bad. No electricity, no water, in a hot Texas town in summer. And aliens. 
What I liked about Stinger and think they should have done in Dome is spend some time getting acquainted with the town and its people. It helps you care about what happens to them.
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That’s one place where this series is really failing - I don’t care about any of the characters at this point. Barbie was supposed to be the likeable hero, but he’s just kind of a dick too as far as we know (and a hired hitman, to boot).
No, he is not a hit man although due to crap writing I can see how people make that mistake. He is an enforcer - basically a bill collector that does more than just call you at odd and inconvenient hours i.e. threatens you with physical harm. He killed Dr. Shumway because the guy started a fight, NOT because he set out to do that and he certainly wasn’t hire to do that. Or was I the only one who saw the bit in the first episode where he’s shouting into the phone that things went all wrong?
In a similar vein, in the book Island in the Sea of Time, when the “event” happened, the people on the suddenly displaced island started formally assessing resources and making plans, and also had town meetings. Doing so just seems so obvious.
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You’re right; they did specify enforcer. Still, that doesn’t really make him a great guy. I did get a chuckle out of his listing his former occupations - “Short order cook, etc…”
From the live blog at Comic-Con (HitFix):
3:12 p.m. “We’re going to give you more secrets that will then be uncovered,” Baer says of the finale, teasing that the complete first season will be released on DVD in November. He promises there are lots of Easter Eggs. “It ends with a hell of a cliffhanger, so if we’re not lucky enough to come back for another season, you guys are just screwed,” Vaughan says.
All the more reason to quit watching now.
This is why TV is losing viewers. I want a complete story with a beginning and an end. I don’t want to be endlessly dragged along with idiotic twists until the series is canceled and the finale is never shown or hastily thrown together.
Well, that sucks. I was really hoping this would just be one season with 13 episodes and it would all be wrapped up at the end. I really have no desire to stick with this for longer than that.
Yeah, this show isn’t good enough at this point to be anything but a bit of summer fun for me while there’s nothing else on, either.
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Angie’s out of the shelter (when everyone else is going TO a shelter)? I didn’t think it would go that way.
That’s it… I’m out. Very unusual for me, by the way, I’m loyal to a fault. But this series sucks.
If the meeting place was at the bridge, why did they let everyone off the buses at the butterflies?
This may be a stupid question but…
Why did they want to bomb the dome?
Using explosives on the dome to see if anything happens isn’t a bad idea, really, but why start with the MOAB instead of something a little more dainty?
The people inside are ok for the time being, so it wasn’t a last-ditch effort to save them. The dome, as far as we know, wasn’t hurting anything outside of it, so why bomb it into oblivion? Why not wait until there was a need to try something drastic?
Why force all the visitiors to cramp up in the one spot? There’s nothing but space to either side.
And why aren’t the people on the outside getting shocked when they touch the dome?
How much did MS pay for that product placement, do you suppose?
Why was Ms. Police Chief so determined to keep everyone away from the dome, when she immediately ducks under the tape – twice! – and not just approaches the dome but dome-kisses her husband?
Are we supposed to believe everything is now okay between Junior and Angie?
Are we supposed to believe that the government would decide to explode the dome because some monarch butterflies landed on it??
Are we supposed to believe that the government would A) reach that decision within five hours of the butterflies appearing and B) be ready to carry it out within 12 hours???
This show is not just bad, it reeks.
So why can’t I stop watching???
I didn’t understand that either. Also, why choose a narrow bridge as the meeting place? Why not choose a nice open field? Loved the cops do as I say not as I do instructions not to touch the dome.
Luckily it looks like next week the towns people come to their senses and start looting.