Agreed, but their conversation made it seem like they’ve known each other since they were little kids and have become fuck buddies. Her reaction in the bunker seemed more like the reaction if they just met the night before and had a one night stand.
With someone you’ve known all your life, surely there is some way to try and appeal to them; emotionally, rationally, psychologically, whatever. She immediately started screaming past him to other random people she hoped would hear and come save her, as if she knew this guy she’s known forever and who she’s been having sex with was some monster. So why’d she sleep with such a monster in the first place?
I got the feeling she was just bored. Especially after her conversation with Barbie.
Also, I think she probably deluded herself into thinking he wasn’t a total monster, but realized she was quite wrong after getting abducted from her house.
Great. Knowing that, I was cringing while I watched the first episode and everyone was mentioning generators.
Ugh XD I don’t know if I can watch this. I can’t stand shows where it’s constant tension. Like, something bad’s gonna happen, but I don’t know what or when or how bad it’ll be. It just makes me a nervous wreck.
Me too, but so far, it’s easy for me to say “it’s just a TV show”. The characters aren’t fleshed out yet, so I don’t really care what happens to any of them.
I’d like to see Angie get out of the fallout shelter, but that’s because I don’t like enclosed spaces, not because I care about her. If the place had a window, I’d be fine with her staying there until the end.
This was my complaint about the book. Two-dimensional cookie-cutter characters, especially “Big Jim”, which is why I waited to see what others thought before watching it. Looks like my time investment will be limited to what I already put into the book.
I started watching the first ep on cbs.com but I didn’t make it all the way through. The actress playing Shumway would make a good Granuaile if they ever do an *Iron Druid *series, though.
I have my dvr set for zero recordings now*; every time I turn on the tv in the evenings, it’s wall to wall reality dreck. Heck yeah I’m going to watch this show!
*I’m going to program in “Under the Dome,” so then it will be set for one recording.
The changes make good sense. Things went to hell too quickly in the book, so stretching out the time under the dome helps a lot. So does changing the source of the dome.
The letter from Stephen King actually is reassuring, that there is a method to the madness and they aren’t just screwing things around for the sake of it. I think there are many of us who just got burned by “World War Z” where they shouldn’t have even been allowed to use that title for the movie, and we’re cautious now.
Darn, Barbie stopped too early with the Junior beat-down… of course, if someone kills that annoying prick who will rescue Angie? She’s annoying, but not enough so to deserve death.
Starting to feel bad for the lady police - seems all her friends are dying stupidly.
I also have a feeling Big Jim is going to see Barbie as potential competition and wonder if he’ll arrange an “accident”.
And why aren’t the military guys watching all the drama taking notes? Well, maybe they are, but I’d think they’d have some trying to figure out what’s going on inside as well as trying to figure out what the dome is.
As someone else said, seeing Big Jim as shorter than most everyone around is slightly jarring. Especially since, while reading the book, I pictured Big Jim as Chuck Mitchell, the title character from the movie Porky’s.
As for the show itself, there are enough differences from the book to keep me watching, for now. I’m sure I’ll have to swallow a whole lot of characters not sharing important information, though, as this seems to be “the thing” in TV shows these days. Ugh.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think Junior hallucinated the “He screwed my brains out” conversation. Because you’re right, it’s not something a character in that situation would do. Especially after being told that she’ll be let go (basically) if she says she loves him.
It would even make the awkward fishbowl line from the first episode make more sense. She never said it, it was a hallucination.
Has anyone even searched the entire perimeter? What about triangulating the centre, where the source of it may be located? How about a town meeting? I can’t believe these lunatics have gone so crazy so quickly, while the rest of the anonymous townsfolk are just ambling along like nothing’s happening.
