The reason Jim could hear Angie was because she opened up the pipe and he heard her screams through the plumbing. I too think Angie is not getting rescued any time soon.
I like this show, but what is it with TV shows and jumping into the outbreak trope right away? At least they didn’t do the usual “amnesia or drunken behavior” virus. Although they did do “unusually forthcoming”.
I do kind of like that they are playing in the grey area a bit. Big Jim and Junior are assholes, but have redeeming moments. And good guy Barbie is being given some jerkass behavior. Junior is even managing to get along with Barbie some of the time. The reverend seems to be just off the wall irredeemable though. And dumb. If it is God’s plan that a bunch of people die, a few antibiotics are not going to thwart his will LOL.
Neither viral nor bacterial was a good fictional choice for an epidemic. Viral is highly contagious but not serious – and antibiotics don’t help; bacterial isn’t as contagious (you need close personal contact) but is more difficult to treat.
At the end last night I whined "but what about the dome??? It really is being given short thrift. I want the towns people to start thinking about things like how long their food will hold out, what the air quality is going to be like if this thing sticks around, etc. Or even to think out loud about what the hey is going on. I had to laugh at the black woman who said “we are obviously under attack.” Yeah, Al-Qaeda found a way to cover a small down with a gigantic dome.
Also, this town of 2000 has an awful lot of amenities: A radio station, fully staffed hospital, a rather large police force and what appears to be a full time city council. I grew up in a town of 2500 and we had a police force of three and only one was on duty at a time.
And while I’m at it, King’s stories almost always seemingly have a big city person or couple stuck in or hanging out in a small town. The overly preachy churchy seems to be common too.
Not to be defending the show, but those things aren’t that unreasonable. A nearby town with a population of 3500 has a radio station, and at last count, eight cops. Another town (pop 3000) has a hospital as well as a medical clinic. And the sign said Chester’s Mill Medical Clinic, so it wasn’t a full-fledged hospital.
What they really got wrong this week was the pharmacy. Someone should have thought to make it secure, or move the drugs to the clinic.
They aren’t doing anything right, really. The show isn’t supposed to be educational – What To Do If Your Town is Covered by a Dome – but a little realism wouldn’t hurt.
And not getting any viewpoint from the outside – that’s important for apocalypse fiction, whether it’s zombies or plagues or alien invasions or whatever.
I heard “meningitis” but never heard “viral.” But regardless, agreed that that whole bit was ludicrously stupid. Even if they called it “magical plot device infection” to be treated with “magical one-dose insta-cure” it would still be stupid, albeit plausible. (Anything short of that and plausible is right out the window.)
However, on the whole I thought this episode was a big upswing in quality. More believable (re)actions from characters, especially background townsfolk freaking out about the dome and spray painting help signs on the dome.
While the speech was eye-rolling, I particularly liked the action during the hospital stand-off. It would have been better had the shotgun toting doorman not been a confirmed sociopath, but ignoring that I thought that confrontation was pretty authentic.
The more I think about it, the more I hate the lesbian couple and Forehead Girl. Do people with diabetes really have other people in their lives who monitor their insulin and food intake? I kinda thought that if you have diabetes, you have to take responsibility for your own health or suffer the consequences. The exchanges the two moms had were just so stupid, both with each other and with other people. Gee, I can’t really tell - is Doctor Mom’s diabetes going to be a plot point at some time in the future? :rolleyes:
Agreed that they’re repeatedly hammering us with the insulin plot point, but yeah my mom does indeed monitor my dad’s insulin and food intake that intrusively, at least when I see them. When they’re comfortably at home alone with their routine who knows, but that’s not the situation the doctor ladies are in anyway.
Yeah, but the one with diabetes IS a doctor. Should think she was smart and informed enough to take care of her own health without the help of the…what is the other one’s profession?
I declare them The Glesbian and the Cresbian. For Glasses-Lesbian and Crewcut-Lesbian.
I’d normally balk at using “lesbian” the primary defining characteristic of a person, but I feel like this show is saying, “Hey, these ladies are lesbians. Did you hear me? Lesbians! Capital L-E-S-B-I-A-N-S!!! LESSSSSBIANS!!!”
Okay, we get it. They’re lesbians. Now could you tell us something, anything, about them that’s a little more interesting than that?
The Cresbian was earlier established as monitoring the Glesbian’s insulin/food. But to be fair, in this instanced we did see that the Glesbian did not eat properly and take care of her insulin properly. In light of that, I don’t think the Cresbians can be seen as intrusive here. The Glesbian needed someone to have her back right there.