There was some blink-and-you-missed-it plot point in which somehow the lake was poisoned and all the fish died.
Okay, now I understand. But since I was watching the show and missed that point, I think a little scene showing a family struggle with the idea, hoarding resources, hiding a pistol, etc would have been valuable.
There’s the famous one where the power goes out and everyone retreats to a fall-out shelter but it’s not big enough for the neighbors… very intense. But the one I’m thinking of, is the post-nuclear village where one of the men is getting advice from a hidden oracle. The townspeople on that one looked believably malnourished and grubby.
I’ve found the perfect use for Under the Dome: Setting my DVR for the week. It takes about an hour, and while I’m going through all 765 movie channels in the guide I get whatever I’m watching in a tiny little box in the corner that I can half-pay attention to. Perfect!
So while I was doing this for this week’s episode I just let the commercials run. The funniest commercial was for the season box set of Under the Dome on DVD. It comes with all sorts of paraphernalia like the Lost discs used to.
How much respect would you lose for someone if you saw that they had the Under the Dome box set? Man, I can’t even imagine.
Last night was a new low. An underground (literally) food bartering fightclub with attached bar?
What the hell is going on outside the dome? Not once have we seen an airplane or helicopter fly overhead or have seen anyone on the outside try to communicate with the townspeople.
Not that I’ve ever tried it, but for me personally, I don’t think being in a lake with my hands tied would be the end of the world. Swimming to shore would be more difficult, but not impossible. Then again, I don’t really know how far it was, I couldn’t tell from the map or the shots of them boating over to the island.
This show looks like it started as a generic night-time soap opera titled “Chester’s Mill”. Then somebody, who had just read “Under the Dome”, suggested that they put a dome over the town in which all the silly soap opera intrigue was happening and attach Stephen King’s name to it.
Agreed all around. I liked Junior whining about Angie telling on him - well, duh, you psychopath. And of course Junior had to be the fourth hand - it’ll be interesting (I hope) to see how his psychopath tendencies play out with the four of them.
The fight club and the Godmother - ridiculous. I’m glad Barbie came clean - eat that, you hosebeast! Her mom was good at first, then oops! Lost my gun! Isn’t that just like a woman?
I guess if your hands are tied you can tread water long enough to beg for your life but the instant that falls on deaf ears you just give up and sink. I have to believe the woman has a lot of buoyancy and it would be a workout but not impossible to lie on her back and kick to shore.
Big Jim. What a piece of work. What an actor. His acting range goes from lower case a all the way to capital a. Pretty easy part, all he has to do is channel Dick Cheney.
Maxine. Anyone else see her as a clone of Root from Person of Interest? What an unbelievable character.
So the four kids can make the egg turn the barn into a discotheque. Just add music and the rest of the town can dance. At least those that haven’t traded all their limited possessions to bet on fighting. Another riff on the ignorant townspeople meme. Earlier, they didn’t know enough to pull together to fight a house fire without Barbie showing them what to do. Now they suddenly have something to do with their time and do what an outsider tells them to.
I was thinking more of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” The aliens manipulate some lights & cars, and the residents eventually turn on each other.
Well there’s always been a lake, mentioned previously and seen on the map. There was some water supply that was poisoned by frakking, maybe that was the lake. The well was a separate source unaffected by the frakking, and when it was destroyed, the water relocated to a pond somewhere.
I think we need to re-visit Julia and Barbie for a bit - she seemed to get over the Big News pretty easily. If I started dating a new guy, if I find out that he has killed my husband then lied to me about it while we were sleeping together, I think I’d more than frown at him. We might even have an intense discussion about it!
So, let’s recap - nine days ago, Julia was happily married (although now she thinks she may have realized things weren’t perfect). Then her husband disappeared, then she found out he was gambling and about to lose the house and divorce her, then she found the insurance policy for her to get a million dollars on his death, then she finds out that her new live-in boyfriend killed her husband. She’s got a lot going on! (Oh yeah, and she’s trapped in a Dome of Stupidity, too.)
In RE: Under the Dome, Season 2. I noticed during the episode previews Monday that they described there only being two episodes left for the series.
Apparently, though, it is going into a second season. I won’t watch it, but i can’t imagine that there will be any live people left in Chester’s Mills in two weeks.
I am SO frickin’ tired of that trope. Person A has a rifle pointed at Person B, and shoots something off to the side to prove they know how to use it. Then Person B stands up and walks toward Person A, saying “You’re no killer” in some form or another, until the rifle barrel is against his chest, and then grabs the gun away.
Huh? How stupid would someone have to be to allow that? Ok, so you’re not a killer, but you just three seconds ago demonstrated that you can shoot, so how about, oh, say, shooting the guy in the leg? Or even backup up a bit? You’ve got a rifle fercrisakes, it has a range of more than two feet!
They could even have half-cow zombies hopping down the street.
And did Barbie bury the husband inside the dome? What a great soap opera love triangle that would make, as what’s-her-name has to choose between new hunk Barbie and the zombie that sacrificed himself for her.
Anyone else notice that in the first few episodes of this show, there were two sympathetic black characters and two sympathetic gay characters (three characters total, given that Aisha Hinds played a black lesbian) who actually had lines and were featured in more than one episode? And how the last two or three episodes this has dwindled to zero? Not cool.
ETA:
That’s pretty much spot on, given that CBS head honcho has called it “Dallas in the future”. Don’t try to parse that too carefully, since the “future” part doesn’t make much sense (all indications are of this being set in an alternate present, given the Microsoft gear they are always pimping). But it gives you an idea of the soapy element, which has just gone into overdrive with the “new” villain (who was hiding out, except also preparing her fight club, groan). Notice too how everyone has power, clean clothes and hair, etc. Not realistic but indicative of the soapy desire to show “pretty people”.
