I just noticed: EW has been recapping this series, but there isn’t one for this week’s episode.
I think the poor schmuck assigned to do it has run off screaming.
I noticed that too. I like the EW recaps better than the TWOP recaps.
When everything that happens in an episode is snarkworthy, it probably takes a lot of the fun out of writing it.
I thought they were bombing the dome because it was interfering with the butterflies natural migration, threatening agriculture.
Barbie and the reporter are reminding me a lot of the lady doctor and the dad of the crazy kid on Fast Forward. You just know they’ll be doing the deed in the next couple episodes. Husband? What husband?
It seems that what would have happened logically would be for the government to set up a big screen just outside the dome so that they could type messages to the inside and have those inside conduct eperiments with them. Or that they’d start with flamethrowers or hand grenades before going ballistic.
It’s getting hard to figure out why this sucks- is it the writing, the directing, the acting? This could have been a decent series but not the way they’re doing it.
Once I saw teh effect on electronics and the ‘electrical’ nature of it - I would have tried an EMP type of device - or possibly reversing the polarity of the bridge conductivator.
It was nice to see Father Lurch meet Jesus a bit earlier than he wanted. Pretty cool death scene.
Yeah I figured he was on his way to an untimely death but not like that. And it was unexpected that Jim let the girl go.
I thought that was a clever way out. I agree with everyone here that Jim wouldn’t have let her go, but since the whole town was about to die anyway he figured what the hell. Nice and elegant.
Why choose? It’s all of the above.
I’m stuck watching this execrable show with my family. I feel bad because I’m too snarky and my kid is still enjoying it. I will say that it’s still holding my attention, sort of, but I’m pretty sure that’s just because I want to see how bad the next scene is.
Oh, and BobLibDem, you forgot to add editing. One of the most annoying things in that last episode for me was the idiotic depiction of time passing. Let’s see… I believe it was something like 12 minutes to BOOM when the DJ was still sitting in the radio station “making up a playlist” for everyone.
Then cut to, I think, about 3 or 4 minutes later, and suddenly he’s in the bomb shelter and he’s rigged up a stereo already and is playing music. They then go through an entire Beethoven piece, when suddenly Barbie and whats-her-name have to go find the missing kids.
We’re now less than five minutes from detonation (realistically, all this would have taken at least an hour). but in those five minutes whats-her-name manages to lead Barbie through a warren of underground tunnels to a new exit, get them back to her car, and drive back into town. And now the plan is that in two minutes they’re going to search the entire town, find the kids, and drive them back to the shelter.
Who writes crap like that? Who agrees to put such nonsense on the air? All they had to do was wind back the start time of this little sequence by 45 minutes and it would have been plausible. But someone thought it would be cool to make it all happen in 12 minutes. Absolutely ridiculous.
Also, why exactly is the DJ making a playlist when the bomb is going off in 12 minutes? Either they’re going to be dead or out of the bomb shelter before the first song can finish playing. It made no sense, other than that it gave the sloppy writers an excuse for playing a couple of sappy songs while everyone waited to die.
This show isn’t just bad - it’s a disgrace. Everyone involved with this production other than the cinematographers and a few of the actors should be fired and never allowed to work in television again. I’m open to the idea of dragging them through the streets in stocks.
And yet, I watch. Kill me now.
They had help from the people behind “24”.
Dig an extra grave for me when I give up hope as well.
You know it’s trouble when the show is about a giant, impregnable, supernatural dome over a town and the most plausible thing in the show is the giant, impregnable, supernatural dome.
Ha! That really was terrible. Just terrible.
I know the dome causes electronic stuff to explode, but how could that guy who killed the priest be 100% sure it would kill him? He just kind of pushed his head against the dome and the priest died.
See, in a better show, he would have tried that, the hearing aid would have blown up, and the priest would have freaked out with a, “What in God’s name are you doing?”
Then, they could fight it out in a more brutal way, providing a surprising twist that actually satisfied.
They didn’t even have a shot of them when the bomb hit. There was no sense of anxiety or pressure or anticipation, it was an incredibly anticlimactic sequence.
I also was amazed to see they had a lake, or possibly an ocean coastline. Nobody’s out on the water looking at the dome there?
Okay, here’s my theory for what the Dome is. It’s a test environment for eventually building a city on Mars.
I know they haven’t done so in the show, but does anybody recall if the book established the shape of the dome?
Is it spherical (in which, on the show it would apparently top out at about 26,000 feet as it was said it had a 10 mile diameter) or is it tapered so it is much shorter than that.
I think it would be interesting if the dome is actually a protective device put in place by aliens who know that a large asteroid is headed for Earth and want to save part of the population.
A storm interrupted the signal while my DVR was recording the last episode. it turns out, that was the best part of the show.
In the book it was more of a cylinder.
I just want to know where all the wind inside the dome is coming from.
I think it’s a lake but it certainly looks like an ocean, with the radio station looking like a former lighthouse. It wasn’t in the book IIRC so maybe it will feature in the revised denouement.
Also, this is supposed to take place in Maine, right? I’m pretty sure the car that reporter woman traced to the DJ (which belonged to her husband) had Vermont license plates.
I love the idea that the dome is to protect a segment of the population from an impending disaster. Doesn’t even have to be aliens. Could be some top secret program that the Army doesn’t know about.