I will say I did like Big Jim Domeurdering the annoying preacher.
Ugh, I know, right? It was waaay too obvious. In a situation like that, the last thing I’d want to do is sit there flipping through apps and menus and hoping that the thing doesn’t suddenly decide it wants a restart.
Paper and a marker may not be the highest technology, but in this case, they are the right technology to do the job.
Maybe Sharpie would have paid up.
That really is the biggest question. 
I can’t figure Big Jim at all. He kindly lets Angie go (which is all we know at this point), then cold-bloodedly murders the Preacher.
Beat you to it by a couple weeks - see post #142:
This has officially been renamed Under the Dumb in our house and exists only to snark on. Fucking pathetic waste of a good story that I am obligated to hatewatch just to see what they came up with for an alternate ending that King liked and wished he’d thought of. Only because I can’t wait to see what these horrific writers came up with, after seeing the crap they’ve already changed.
Because she knows she doesn’t have any electronics on her that are going to explode, she doesn’t know that about the dozens of people flocking to their loved ones.
I don’t believe so.
No, they said that “many insects’ behavior is affected by changes to the magnetic field”, so we’re supposed to deduce that the dome has altered the magnetic field around it. Something that Barbie responded to with, “well, the government/military definitely won’t put up with that for long…”.
Well, they did hint at the fact that the magnetic nature of the dome may be fucking with the environment outside the dome in a very bad way. (The butterflies showing up out of season.)
Sure a bomb will fuck up the environment too but only temporarily and in a confined space. (Relatively speaking)
That’s generating a lot of anger over at TWOP – Junior being treated with any sympathy, after what he did.
The show is an insult.
Would a MOAB cause the devastation we have seen outside the dome? Looks more like a baby nuke.
The answer is no. A MOAB bomb delivers about 10 tons of explosive power. Basically enough to level the concrete building they were all hiding in. Nuclear bomb yield is measured in kilotons (1000s) or megatons (millions). Or the sort of energy that would level trees as far as the eye can see.
In fact, why would they use a thermo-baric bomb on a impenetrable dome anyway? Those sort of bombs are most effective when used in confined spaces. I would think a deep penetrating bunker buster would be more appropriate. And did they even try shooting it with a tank?
I like how the dome is not frictionless, even though it appears to be made of nothing but electromagnetic energy. Like paint and blood and butterflies and whatnot sticks to it.
Well, the preacher obviously betrayed whatever business arrangement they were working on, went crazy religious and threatened to expose him to the people.
Angie never really did anything to him. I assume he just figures worst comes to worse, it’s her word against Juniors and he can just paint her as an ex-girlfriend who went “crazy lying ho”.
I too thought it looked like a nuke had been dropped outside the dome.
People were acting like this is some type of solid dome that was going to come crashing down on them. In my eyes it has to be some type of force field and not a solid object. Or did they think that the MOAB itself was going to destroy the entire town and kill them all?
There are so many inconsistencies in the show that I can’t take it seriously any more. I’ll still watch though.
Yes.
at least there haven’t been any polar bears.
They reasoned that if it succeeded in destroying the dome, then the residents would be collateral damage.
We know it’s a force field, because we’re watching a science fiction show. But if it was really happening to us, what would we think it was? Probably that it was some kind of military technology, a new kind of carbon-nano-glass. And in the real world, anything that’s solid can be shattered. It’s a reasonable expectation that a big enough bomb could cause it some damage.
Ugh, this show is so frustrating. Part of the appeal for this show was that it was advertised as a miniseries and would wrap things up.
What I don’t understand is why start at bombing the dome? And why start with the biggest bomb possible? I wish we had seen the scientists doing more tests. I would have expected they try to cut through it, or try some resonant frequencies to make it shatter, or various other sciencey things before they resort to the MOAB.
My thinking was that either the dome would come crashing down and that would be bad, or it’s some sort of force field that the bomb breaks through and hits the town, which would also be bad. Any way you look at it, a big-ass bomb hitting anywhere close to where you are sounds pretty scary, and would make you want to run for cover.
The “visitors’ day” stuff was weird too, with how it was on the bridge, and it didn’t seem like that many people. I know that Chester’s Mill isn’t huge, but it didn’t seem like many of the population were out there. Also, it was just a waste of time for the lesbian’s daughter’s father to be there. That was just annoying.
Though nothing is as annoying as Junior. I fastforward through most of his scenes. When he was at Angie’s house with the gun, I desperately hoped she would get the gun and shoot him. But that hope didn’t stop me from fastforwarding through that scene.
Despite all it’s faults, I’ll probably keep watching. There were some cool moments, like the butterflies on the dome, and then when they all flew away and you could see the military outside of the dome. And seeing the effects of the bomb outside of the dome compared to the pristine interior.
And while most of the actors are just okay (and a few are terrible) Dean Norris is really good as Big Jim. He deserves a better show than this, but I’m enjoying him on Under the Dome.
As Barbie and Julia were looking at the shattered landscape outside the dome, the results of the bomb’s detonation, IIRC green trees in the background (and inside the dome) showed a middling-strong wind/breeze blowing through them. And previews of next week seem to indicate it will be raining inside the dome.
Obviously, this show has deviated from the book in so many ways that the above mentioned events shouldn’t raise an eyebrow by now. But it certainly seems to argue that the book’s dramatic climax event cannot possibly happen on this show.
I, too, am only hatewatching at this point. le sigh
We know from a previous episode that the dome is semi-permeable. i.e. when the kid put his hand against where the soldiers were spraying water, it came back wet.
Maybe the local science teacher can help them escape the dome using osmosis?
And so too in the book is the dome semi-permeable, but at a much, much slower rate. Water from a brook running through the town dams up as it attempts to enter the dome, with only the merest trickle penetrating. Air is the same way, the “exchange rate” between inside and outside so slight that the dome is all but a closed environment. A strong wind and rainy weather inside the dome indicate a different dome, with different properties.
Still, trying to compare the book and the show is very much a case of apples and oranges.
I wouldn’t say Mrs. Mahaloth and I are hate-watching, but we’re definitely disappointed. We haven’t even read the book. We are constantly thinking of ideas and saying to each other, “This show isn’t smartly written enough to do that.”
They should have just gone balls-out nuts and made a wild and ridiculous show, killing off a ton of people, etc. It’s just lame and contains way too much “forced drama” as we call it.
You may be giving the writers too much credit. I expect the dome’s properties to change from one episode to the next depending on what the writers think looks cool.
I agree. The failing of this show is that the creators don’t seem interested in investigating what happens when people are trapped by a supernatural dome. Instead, they want to make a stupid soap opera which could take place in any other situation where people are trapped (snowstorm/flood/etc).
“Terra Nova” also had that problem. Instead of being a show about how people would really react to time travel and dinosaurs, it was a show about teen angst and people doing dumb things. The setting of the TV show was essentially a generic background used to drive the soap opera plot when necessary.
Anybody else starting to whish they switch perspective entirely and show everything from the POV of the scientists and military trying to figure out what the Hell the Dome is and what’s going on in town?