Funny you should say that: I was just about to post about how much it would suck to be trapped in a town full of presumptuous assholes.
The douchebaggery in that show is astronomical - from the hick at the diner, to the jerkwad at the kid’s house, to the kid’s best friend who doesn’t seem to have two brain cells, to Big Jim and how he treats his nutjob son, to the nutjob himself telling the reporter that Barbie attacked him “for no reason”, to the wacko cop, to the pyro preacher, to the nosy reporter…the only character I actually like is that one teenage boy who seems to have more brains than everyone in that town put together. And Barbie. He’s the only competent person - along with the kid - in that whole vicinity. Plus he’s nice to look at.
I know I shouldn’t be saying this because it’s mean to comment on people’s physical features, but they could have given the redhaired girl a hairstyle that better complements her massive forehead. All I see is forehead when she’s on-screen.
This has officially been renamed Under the Dumb in our house and exists only to snark on. Fucking pathetic waste of a good story that I am obligated to hatewatch just to see what they came up with for an alternate ending that King liked and wished he’d thought of. Only because I can’t wait to see what these horrific writers came up with, after seeing the crap they’ve already changed.
Yup, it’s official - I hate Norrie (and her MegaMind forehead).
So, nothing much actually happened in a whole episode of a 13 episode series (except they shot the bad cop). I think they’re going to have to pick up the pace a little bit.
That’s three people I don’t even want to look at in this series: Big Jim, Junior, and Norrie (I like the “Mega-Mind Forehead” comment, but for me it’s her eyes. She has mean eyes. And her face doesn’t quite go together right).
Oh, and I keep thinking Barbie looks like George Michael.
So far, I think my favorite characters are the reporter (what’s-her-name Shumway, ALF’s long-lost human relative) and the lady cop.
I watched about five minutes of this episode and took it off the DVR. IMHO it’s not even snarkworthy. Supercop Linda falls for the oldest ruse in the book, and Julia has to solve the mystery of the dome because she’s a journalist, that’s what they do, they solve scientific mysteries.
I feel bad for the Entertainment Weekly recapper. The magazine has a relationship with King so they need to be careful.
99% of the comments at EW and TWOP are blasting the show. It probably won’t be cancelled – it’s summer. But if this was a fall show with any competition, I doubt it would last.
Ooh, yeah. I forgot about that. She kinda redeemed herself at the end of the episode, but yeah, hasn’t she ever seen a movie? You never fall for the “sick guy in the jail cell” routine unless you’ve got a partner outside holding a gun on the sick guy while you go in to check.
Of all the nonsensical writing, I keep thinking about the moment when bad boy teenager was about to kick mousy teenage boy’s ass. Suddenly the power cuts out and everybody leaves, the mean boy saying, “This isn’t over.” Because he can’t kick his ass now because the power went out? Wha?
First, he’s the only other cop left inside the dome.
Second, killing her partner was an accident. Although he seems to be cracking up a bit, she had no real reason to think he was going to jump her.
Second and a half - they’ve probably been on the force together for quite a while. There’s going to be a residual level of trust and concern for a coworker, especially one presumably a bit traumatized over just killing a friend.
I think I’m going to give it another two episodes before I take it off the DVR. And I really can’t stand the redhead, forehead and all. She’s such a … man, it’s not even worth the time/energy to generate anything other than “get her off the screen”.
That was really, really bad. Aweful. There were a few moments of “OK”, but those probably amounted to 2% of the show’s air time. Just taking one completely eye-rolling moment: when journalist lady says she only has one more match left to guide them out, she strikes it immediately and then proceeds to have a conversation with a teenager while the match burns out.
One thing I will say for it is that I watched this latest episode on my DVR and immediately afterwards I watched the latest episode of Falling Skies. Dome made Skies seem like Shakespeare in comparison.
This completely threw me off during the first episode. I can’t stand it when an awe-inspiring event takes place and after a few quizzical looks they just accept it and aren’t completely obsessed with it. There’s a freaking DOME trapping you here! How can you go home and make a sandwich, argue with your girlfriend, and basically go about your business?
And the scenes where people on the other side – military, scientists, etc. – showed no interest in the townspeople on the inside were so wrong. The people on the outside would be intensely interested in asking a thousand questions about the inside, wanting the insiders to test certain things, and so on. And those on the inside would want to maintain direct contact – insanely curious to know what’s going on and what the outsiders are doing about it.
But instead, they just walk by each other. Ho hum. Just another day with the dome.
Well, the last 10 minutes of the broadcast glitched out which really effed up the experience. Since buying the episodes off Amazon isn’t in the budget, could someone tell me (in a spoiler box)
what Barbie said to Julia about what her husband Peter was into, and why Big Jim went into the fall out shelter and found Angie, and anything else important that occurred those last 10 minutes?
Barbie ‘confessed’ that he was working as a collector/enforcer for a book in a nearby town, and that Peter was way in debt. He played a voicemail from Peter for her, from 5 days ago, in which Peter said something like, “I have the money but my wife is around so we’ll have to meet at the alternate spot.” Apparently the papers that Julia found at the cabin showed Peter had emptied out their bank accounts and the house was in foreclosure. [Heh. Not much chance of them being able to take possession now.] Barbie said Peter must have decided to run, implying that Peter didn’t show up for their meeting. Considering that Peter had previously sold his car to the DJ guy, that wasn’t all that unbelievable. Julia told Barbie to be gone by the time she got home from the hospital.
The Doctor Lesbian spots the Black Lesbian taking insulin out of the hospital store room – she’s concerned that the DL only has a few days worth, and what then? But the DL tells her the dome won’t last long and puts the insulin back in the fridge. They and their daughter are going to move into, um, nerdy guy’s home.
Nerdy Guy and Forehead Girl had another seizure when they touched, a really short one, but NG makes a ‘don’t tell’ gesture into the cell phone camera so they think it’s a message from the Dome Maker and so don’t reveal it to the mothers.
Sheriff Girl makes Junior a deputy because of his great people skills in talking down the people who wanted to bust out of the hospital.
Big Jim goes home, and finds Reverend Crazy waiting. RC hands over a bag of money, his share of their ill-gotten loot, and says he’s out of the scheme. Oh, and he tells Big Jim he’s in trouble because he screwed with God’s plan to wipe put those sick people.
Then Big Jim goes into his house to make a drink or something, and he faintly hears a girl shouting. He goes outside, down into the fallout shelter, and opens the door to find Angie huddled on the cot, shivering and looking really wretched. They just look at each other silently for a moment.
Did they say it was viral meningitis? There is also bacterial meningitis (which, of course, brings its own set of problems - I don’t think people get completely better on one treatment of antibiotics in a matter of minutes, but I could be wrong).
My take on Big Jim finding Angie in the shelter - he has to clean up Junior’s mess, and she isn’t going to be leaving the shelter.
