Aw, I think this season is an improvement over the first one. Sure it’s still terrible but it’s not nails-on-a-chalkboard bad.
They could’ve run with the survival of the fittest theme/who gets to decide for a couple episodes, that would’ve been real heavy. Maybe too realistic for a show that keeps inserting magic fixes (a survivalist’s stockpile?) The hatch, I mean, locker tunnel could be fun.
It’s a good thing that fire magically went out before it burned down the entire town.
I am no longer watching, but I am still finding the AV Club recaps amusing. Apparently Big Jim has been up and down more times than a teeter totter just the past few eps (as are various other characters and ever-changing alliances), and Joe has stepped up even more his habit of recapitulating the blindingly obvious for the benefit of the blithering idiots they are apparently aiming the writing at.
I was thinking last episode how it’s been around 2 weeks since the dome came down; how many people have already fully recovered from being shot? Barbie was shot, I think, and definitely Julia as well. Are those the only two?
Sherrif DJ Phil was shot during the battle over the well and shot again in this week’s episode. Joe had the nail go through his hand a few days ago. I don’t think Barbie has been shot.
Well Julia dove in the lake and pulled Melanie out, after having rowed out to drop the egg and that must have been at most, a day or two after getting shot. I think it’s about time someone notices that the Dome has a rapid-healing effect. They can totally hand-wave this away with uh, science.
I’m trying to imagine the writers’ room. Do they just put their heads down and pound out the scripts, knowing that none of it is making sense? Do they blame the producers for the lack of an overall plan? Does everyone just think that no one will notice the discrepancies? Are they totally jaded and think that it’s good enough for a dumb summer series if you want quality watch PBS?
Even though I thought the ending of the book was a [huge] let-down, the day-to-day activities and reactions of the townspeople throughout were totally believable/organic. But no one on the show has been back to the perimeter to hold up messages for their loved ones outside. Even if they don’t want to devote a scene to it–not even in the background when some of the main characters are there (as just happened with Melanie’s “hand” test)–they could at least refer to it in the communal coffee-shop scenes.
Right? When they got the emails they freaked out legitimately because internet connection is huge, but they were also partially freaking out because hey, we can finally communicate with the outside world! Erm, you can do that with signs, like you did last season. What was that, six days ago?
Even more implausible than the townspeople never going to the dome is the fact that the rest of the country has apparently given up on them, to the point that they’re no longer even a curiosity worth gawking at. Seriously?
the outside area around the dome is an incinerated wasteland (where people don’t go) except when it’s not.
they are indeed a funny read about a funny show.
Only the side that the bomb hit.
CNN at the very least would be on 24/7 breaking news mode with multiple reporters covering different areas outside the dome.
The townspeople are so nonchalant about the whole thing. That’s what I find so weird. They just calmly hang out at the diner drinking the endless supply of coffee and in general going about their days as if there is no possibility that they could all soon starve to death.
CNN is still looking for that lost airliner…
At least they covered why they have so much food - someone’s weird uncle (?) was a doomsday prepper who conveniently saved enough food for a small army. And coffee.
I liked a similar explanation in Falling Skies - “Where did you get all this food?” “We found a Mormon’s house - they have stockpiles!” “Where did you get the liquor? Mormons don’t drink.” “Jack Mormons do!”
Ding ding ding!
they thought people would think this is Dometon Abby.
Well, I learned one thing tonight: the Dome is permeable. I don’t think that has been mentioned before. It’s a pickup from the book but no one set off a nuclear weapon in the book… Wouldn’t radiation penetrate the Dome if oxygen can get in?
At any rate, the photosynthesis crisis can be bumped back a couple weeks.
The bomb that hit the dome wasn’t nuclear.
That actually was shown in the first season: the military guys had a steady stream of water aimed at the outside, and it kind of sweated through on the inside.
What was the permeability related to in the most recent episode?
that massive heavy blade structure gets hauled up and spins like a pinwheel. air is cleaned within seconds with a high volume of high pressure water (didn’t they try to put out a house fire with buckets?)
a couple of bottles of liquid explosive cleared a hole clean through that cave in with out bringing more down.
Oh thanks, I’d forgotten that. Also had forgotten that bombs?missiles? don’t necessarily mean nuclear.
Last night’s permeability was just a throw-away line from Big Jim about how the dust storm was “clogging” up the Dome and how they better do whatever he was proposing to help him rehabilitate his image.
He also managed to throw Julia under the bus by denigrating her rescue efforts as “spending all day with her lover” while the Very Important Daily Crisis was affecting the entire town. I do hope when she returns to the coffee shop, she announces that they’ve found a tunnel. Just to mess with Big Jim.
Actually, the most logical thing would’ve been to organize a group to prop up the tunnel and clear it by hand. I expect that the tunnel will remain a secret for the time being until it inevitably doesn’t lead anywhere.
they go into this tunnel with no plan. no extra lights.
Barbie, smart trained guy, suspects Sam of attempting to kill him in the tunnel and continues to let Sam follow him. Barbie almost falls into hole, Sam catches him, neither loose flashlights. Barbie argues with a guy he suspects as a killer while stand on the edge of this bottomless hole. They keep their flashlights and a found lantern on the edge of this bottomless hole risking their loss.