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Under the Dome, Season 2 Thread

Supposedly they have an endgame in mind (and it's different than the book's), because Stephen King praised the idea and said he wished he had thought of it. And yes, I totally agree that plotting seems completely haphazard.
 
I just got done watching the first episode of the season on my DVR.

This may be the most ridiculous show on TV.
 
I am guessing they dumped living dead girl in the lake with the egg and The Dome brought her back? Sam killed Angie and Melanie too?
 
Julia dumped the egg in the lake at the end of season one.

"Protect the egg."

It's pretty obvious that she is the egg.

Remember Ilya from Star Trek the Motionless Picture?

V'Ger used a corpse as a template for a probe so that the biological vermin infesting Enterprise would be calm while V'Ger figured out how to best exterminate the lot of them.
 
She is the egg, or she was inside the egg.

Sure lyle killed her, but then what did the three of them do with the body?

Did they bury her with the meteor, or did the meteor eat the corpse before they could bury her?

Even if the body slowly decomposed on top of/beside the egg, that's kinda like acquiring a penchant for human flesh.

Do you know about Swampthing?

The Swamp ate a man, thought it was that man, tried to construct a body for itself but it was a little confused after it's birth so that it never remembered that it had been a swamp, and assumed that he had somehow been turned into a Swampthing from a man.

or one of my favourite quotes fom the Critic, actually every line of The Critic is my favourite quote from the Critic.

"When I die, eat my brain and it will give you power."
 
an interesting and engaging evolving and ongoing narrative thread


Huh, I find this to be one of the weakest things about this show, with the narrative being so thinly spread out that the situations the characters get into tend to feel so random and disconnected, to the point that it doesn't feel like there's much of a narrative at all, just random chaotic events supposedly related to the dome. Yet none of them really ever move anything forward, feeling as though it's stumbling along aimlessly.

Another show I want to like, but am consistently disappointed by. I hated the replacement sheriff and didn't care about Angie beyond watching her run around in that shirt, but killing them both in such an off-handed way after I had to endure them all of season 1 is beyond a waste of my time. Plus I guess Angie isn't one the chosen 4 or important to the dome anymore. The same dome that changes it's radius, the number of people inside, where it's centered, and how it works episode by episode to fit whatever boring, open-ended plot they meander around with that week.

I would say the more King involvement, the more this thing is going to spin off into absurdity. I think Storm of the Century was the one and only time I was consistently entertained by a King adaptation on TV. Everything else he touches turns to shit.

The only reason to watch at this point, for me, is the Monarch. My mother watches the show just for Barbie.
 
This series is dumb.

So, goddamn dumb.

Anyone ever see the episode of South Park where Cartman visits the "studio" that produces episodes of "The Family Guy" and it's a bunch of seals in a tank picking out lotto-balls and each one has a person, place and a situation on it? Thus why the show is pretty much a constant stream of. "This reminds me of that time I met [Robert Downey, Jr.] at the [Horse and Steer Trade Show] and we [Had a Cow-Pie Eating Contest] and he [Zapped me with an Iron-Man Palm blaster]."?

I think that's sort of what's happening here. Which is why we get a SECOND priest convinced the dome has something to do with God, The Bible and/or The Rapture and taking unnecessarily aggressive action to prove his belief.

And, of course, the small-town science teacher is a science savant who can turn a radio tower into a gigantic electro-magnet inside of a couple hours under a theory she can revert the dome's sudden electro-magnetic properties.

Oh, and she's also really good at viral research in order to help hatch a plan to weed out the pending overpopulation of the town given the resources they have.

Oh and she's utterly nuts as she's totally okay with killing people who may not be contributive to the town!

Jesus, I hate her more than "Big Jim."

Thank God this show has Barbie and Julia otherwise I'm not sure I could tolerate it on even a "I like watching bad stuff" kind of way. Of course, they had to kill off cop-lady and cute young-girl chick.

But, hooray, we get to keep drably semo-goth snarky teenage around and PoorShow's Wesley Crusher.
 
The addition of her and Eddie Cahill just tells me there is a lack of originality in the writer's room. Sure, they weren't expecting to be picked up for a second season, but could they not have come up with a plan with characters they already had instead of adding two characters to do all the crazy stuff we've seen this season.
 
Sam is a character whose existence they telegraphed way back in the Pilot, so technically the only new characters we've seen so far are Rebecca, Melanie, and Lyle, and it's really not unusual for an ongoing series to introduce new characters. This is especially true when you have a series set in a town of nearly 2,000 people. You're going to run into characters who've never been seen before because it's virtually impossible to show every single inhabitant of the town at any one time.
 
Introducing new characters is a good thing.

Introducing new characters in the same episode that you murder the same number of other characters is morbidly mercenary.
 
I thought that too!

(It's only been one week since the bomb went off, if it's been two weeks since the Dome started..)

But then the blast was not going to grip and cling around the circumference of the Dome.

It'd just be a wedge of devastation growing away from the strike point as the blast blasted away from the Dome.

Unless they dropped the MOAB on the very top of the Dome?
 
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Who is writing Big Jim this season?

He goes from being likable, wanting to make amends one episode to his old pompous self the next.
 
So, it only takes two weeks for the woodlands outside the dome to grow back from a massive fuel-air bombing?

They had that massive firebombing last season--is that the one you're referring to? Because I remember a shot from the air, showing massive devastation around the dome, but all looks nice and green around it now.

can you imagine the emotional impact it would've had for those under the dome to be surrounded by complete devastation?

I really hope they wind up this show this season.
 
I don't think Phil is dead...looks like he got shot in the upper chest area near the shoulder. He's certainly out of the game now.

I think that the MOAB bomb only destroyed part of the area outside the dome. I really don't recall that the damage was everywhere around the dome.
 
"Under the DUMB"

How convent there was a doomsday prepper that had enough food for the whole town for 2 months! At the end of the episode every was happy, getting along, eating.. Jeesh.. and I thought Voyager was bad when the ship looked like new every week. ;)

So Sam, murder 4 teens and the Dome will come down huh? do you have any evidence to back that up or do you just like to murder people?
 
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