Suicide pact! I mean, watching this stupid show until the end and coming here to make fun of it pact! 
Well we’ve only had synthetic insulin since the 80s. Before that we got it from cows and pigs. So there’s a solution. You can also do a pancreas transplant from the diner lady.
I’d like to see what the outside world is doing to help besides throwing missiles at them. Visible light penetrates the dome, so right there, it should be possible to set up both an Internet connection and a power transfer system. They should also be declaring martial or emergency law of some kind and sending instructions.
Actually the show is entertaining enough for what it is, but I think it is even more interesting thinking about how to handle similar situations in real life. Maybe they should make UTD into a role playing or board game.
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It would be sociopathic to not make a distinction between one person and mom. Most people care more about their mothers than random strangers, which is why I think it’s a normal human reaction.
I have a tendency to stick with shows that are awful because they have an interesting premise. I guess I’m hoping some day they’ll realize it and make use of it? I don’t know. This show is painful but somehow I’m still watching.
It makes me lament just how stupid network TV thinks its audience is. The gulf between what the networks think the average IQ of their viewers are and what HBO/AMC/FX type stations think is pretty huge.
Random example: they break into the house and steal the insulin, and they encounter the little kid. It’s pretty obvious he’s going to be the diabetic. Fine. Then the kid says “I even do my own shots” and here’s the part where you let your actors, you know, act, and have a reaction. Show their change of heart. Instead, just in case this scene was way too subtle for us to understand, she says “you… have… diabetes”
No shit? I wouldn’t have figured out why she changed her mind to steal the insulin if you hadn’t told me what was going on there! That was some super subtle shit, it would’ve just flew over my head.
You get used to shows like Breaking Bad and it’s amazing how amateurish this sort of shit looks. It might as well be a high school play.
I’m kind of tired of shows that come up with a somewhat unusual premise, mostly ignore the actual features of that premise, and then act like it’s all about the characters and their interactions - especially when the characters are boring as shit anyway. They started to deal with the actual implications of the dome today with the rioting, but I’m afraid the rain is going to mean that everything is just fine again and that’s resolved.
Oh, and the two moms running in from nowhere 5 times an episode shouting “NORRIE!!! NORRIE!!!” is worse than “WAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLTTTTTTTTT!!!”
I have no idea why I’m watching and now wasting my time posting about this stupid show. Something about it makes me compelled to watch it and then get angry.
Yeah, she’s pretty stupid. No survival instincts at all.
But damn it’s fun watching her run all over the place in that outfit she’s in.
That’s a good description. It’s like watching the local Jr. High B-team play football compared to an NFL game or something.
It is a good description. I don’t understand why shows like this are just so damned stupid, either - “Revolution” is the same deal - I wanted very much to like it, but it is just so dumb that I gave up after a few episodes. You watch something like the BBC’s “Sherlock,” and your tolerance for characters doing stupid things for stupid reasons just seems to disappear.
I’m waiting to see if she runs through a forest and gets caught in a trap and threatened by a cougar. Nothing THAT ridiculous would ever make it to TV.
So the psychiatrist, who probably hasn’t even observed a surgery (of any kind) since medical school is going to perform transplant surgery on herself? :rolleyes: We know they’re out of gloves & gowns; do they even have any anaesthetic left?
And let’s not forget she’s the only physician in town. Granted her speciality probably isn’t all that useful, but she’s still valuable enough to merit limited medical supplies more than anyone else.
Except that she doesn’t actually use her physician skills or help people. She walks out of the clinic when it’s full of people and in desperate need of a doctor to wander around and scream NORRIE!!!
Beef, you’re killing me in here. I’ve actually laughed out loud reading the last few of your posts.
EDIT: Another example of the dumbing down for us stupid Americans was when she told the clinic lady she was a psychiatrist. My immediate reaction was “Hey, there you go, an MD!” Of course the next line of dialogue had to explain that she has an MD. ugh.
Now, that’s not fair - sometimes she doesn’t take insulin and doesn’t tell anyone and goes into diabetic shock (as the only doctor in town).
Maybe the terrarium owners are pumping stupid gas into the Dome. 
Except, like I said before, the symptoms she showed weren’t from not taking insulin and having high blood sugar but from having too much insulin resulting in low blood sugar. If she hadn’t taken insulin she would probably be vomiting from ketoacidosis.
Sorry, I should have said “diabetic shock,” since the writers don’t have a clue about diabetics.
…or meningitis according to what others with knowledge of the disease have pointed out.
My current favorite stupid - the ignitable lake water.
Sure, the dome could well have ruptured a methane pocket, which is now bubbling into the lake. I imagine it could even kill fish, if they swam through the area.
And I don’t know enough chemistry to comment on whether it is likely to go into suspension in the lake water (or if suspension (maybe solution?) is the right word).
I’m pretty damn sure, though, that if it is outgassing enough that a glass of water poured out of a jug can be lit with a match and burn like Everclear®, then pouring it through some sort of aerator should make it perfectly safe to drink.
Alternatively, the way it flamed up they could probably run their generators on it.
Not to mention that water can be pumped in from the outside. Slowly, sure, but there’s plenty of surface area.
Heck, why can’t insulin be pumped in? It’s not a small molecule, but no one has thought to try.
In fact, most likely, just about everything can be pumped in–water, sugars for nutrition, vitamins, medicines, natural gas, etc. And internet, via light beam.
Wow. You guys are still watching this? I gave up after the third episode; the stupidity burned too much.
How many Flash Forwards and The Events can a person stand?
Now there’s an idea! Turn the show into Cabin in the Woods…
OK forgive my ignorance, but there’s a meme going around with the whole frakking controversy, with videos of people setting their faucets on fire. What is the reality of that situation?