I'm a couple episodes behind on the show, but, man this is the most ridiculous show on TV.
Under the Dome, Season 2 Thread
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I'm a couple episodes behind on the show, but, man this is the most ridiculous show on TV.
If it's too dangerous for everyone to leave through the magical portal in the cave under the locker in the school that's in the middle of the dome that was shown to be forest last season (ie, a week ago in show time), why is it that Lyle was able to get out and move freely until he got busted for being mental, and Sam is still out moving about freely, and Barbie was out moving about freely until his old stealin' buddies assaulted him and he contacted his evil dad and Mr. Special Forces badass set off an obvious trap and approached the dome in open ground where he was caught in under five minutes?
Is it just that Barbie knows that everyone else in the town is as stupid or crazy as him and Lyle and will be caught in minutes, because otherwise it seems like getting out isn't all that dangerous. EvilCorp has apparently got one nerd watching the CCTV feeds part time, and even he helped Barbie, so what's the problem?
Is it like the Nexus in Generations where they say it's impossible to get there in a ship, except you know, Guinan and Soran and the other El Aurians got there in a ship the first time, and Kirk got there in a ship... I mean, if you don't mind the ship exploding after you're in an eternal bliss (and why would you?) going there in a ship seems like a much easier option than blowing up a star and committing genocide. Or just rent a shuttle and spacewalk into the thing. But I digress... The tunnel seems like a viable option to escape the dome here.
Is it just that Barbie knows that everyone else in the town is as stupid or crazy as him and Lyle and will be caught in minutes, because otherwise it seems like getting out isn't all that dangerous. EvilCorp has apparently got one nerd watching the CCTV feeds part time, and even he helped Barbie, so what's the problem?
Is it like the Nexus in Generations where they say it's impossible to get there in a ship, except you know, Guinan and Soran and the other El Aurians got there in a ship the first time, and Kirk got there in a ship... I mean, if you don't mind the ship exploding after you're in an eternal bliss (and why would you?) going there in a ship seems like a much easier option than blowing up a star and committing genocide. Or just rent a shuttle and spacewalk into the thing. But I digress... The tunnel seems like a viable option to escape the dome here.
I can't even rationally explain why I'm still watching this show as is, and you want us to go back and rewatch to count the days? To hell with that, sir.
I love that Julia and Barbie act like an old married couple already when they just met. Like a few episodes back when the girl from the past arrived and Barbie said "You brought her into OUR house?" I was like, dude, you just moved in yourself last week, and you guys have already had two breakups that apparently lasted about half a day each. And now they have secret lover's email code and everything.
Big Jim and the science teacher from Hell tried to mass murder a quarter of the town with a biological weapon two days ago and Julia convinced everyone to get over it (except the pig farmer, because losing your livelihood means more to these people than almost losing their lives). She moves on quickly. 
It's appropriate that Hoyt's mom from True Blood is on this show too, because she left one sociopathic town where everyone gets over horrible shit in a day and went right to another.
It's appropriate that Hoyt's mom from True Blood is on this show too, because she left one sociopathic town where everyone gets over horrible shit in a day and went right to another.
The first season is on Netflix Streaming, I really wish I had the energy and "give a damn" to watch through it to see how many days have passed. Because, if it's only been a couple weeks or so it really does seem like a ridiculous number of things have happened and that people's moods, motivations and entire personalities have shifted a lot.
So, what, inside of a few days maybe a week or so we've had TWO local church leaders go nuts and see the Dome as some-kind-of sign from God?
So, what, inside of a few days maybe a week or so we've had TWO local church leaders go nuts and see the Dome as some-kind-of sign from God?
It's like 17 seasons of '24' !! LOL
It's completely obvious that the writers realized too late that killing off the TV version of the minister Lester Coggins happened too soon, because he's a rather pivotal character in the book. So they brought in the previously unseen Lester 2.0 in Dwight Yoakam's Lyle.
The events of the book are hypercompressed like this as well, with people way too quickly turning on each other, IMO. The whole thing happens over only nine days (timeline with SPOILERS). But the difference there being despite being his usual lengthy tome, King didn't try and squeeze in multiple seasons worth of material into that nine day period. A lot of shit went down, but not nearly as many reversals of personalities and changing character traits. Junior is a fuck up, rapist, murderer and pretty much stays that way. He doesn't magically get redeemed and become the town's good guy cop after everything he did.
Maybe the passage of time within the dome itself is wonky, creating a scenario where time isn't really advancing as quickly as it should. Since everything is sealed off, technically this would create a vacuum.
Then Barbie should have been gone longer than he was from the perspective of those inside the dome, and the countdown to the MOAB bombing shouldn't have been the same inside and out. Also, they communicate visually with the outside world normally. There's no time differential.
So.... they took a book that lasted over the course of nine days and are trying to make a series out of it?
That's like if 24 took their day-long story and stretched it over a series. (Each season being the events from a certain character's perspective.)
That's like if 24 took their day-long story and stretched it over a series. (Each season being the events from a certain character's perspective.)
Like the first four or five episodes of season 2 lost where we kept rewinding to the beginning and seeing the story from a different characters perspective... Or the New testament of the Bible?
Lost
I guess the show is like watching a trainwreck, everyone want to see were it when it will crash. LOL
Either that, or, everyone is tuning is for Rachelle Lefevre! (btw, maybe its me, but did she gain a little more weight this season?)
Oh, I know. Just kind of thinking out loud. Nothing much is making sense at this point though. The show is obviously stretching things to the point of implausibility. There's no logic to anything in this show, no structure. Things just happen for the sake of it.
It's horrible. I'm still watching. I keep telling myself I won't tune in, but then I see it on my DVD and I'm like "why not?!" Leaving the dome through a tunnel was where I really just gave up on any sense for this show.
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