Steven Spielberg Teams with Stephen King for Under the Dome

[Marvolo]

Wait... This is a miniseries? First I'm hearing about it

Yeah, its a summer mini series. Its a new thing CBS is trying. That being said, I'm pretty sure I read they have the option to extend it if ratings are good.

 

[kane9321]

The kidnapping plot is getting silly now its dragging the show down for me. How come her brother is not looking for her..what about her employers...nobody cares about her lol

 

[John Locke]

Yeah. I find it hard to believe that a girl who has a brother and two jobs in a small town where everyone knows everyone, doesn't have anyone who has realized she's missing. Especially after the whole town pulled together to stop the fire. Last night helped with that storyline only really having two scenes.

 

[Maximus One]

Well that's gonna be ****ing stupid. If it doesn't get picked up to series then I guess we will get ZERO resolution by the end of the miniseries. I thought this was already ordered to a 13 episode season though? Seems weird to order a full season of a show if it's supposed to be just a miniseries. It's not really even a miniseries then, it's just the first season. That is just weird. I dunno. Besides TBBT this is the first CBS show I've ever gotten into in the slightest so maybe CBS is just different than other networks. It is kinda weird that I've never watched a single drama series on CBS before though, was Threshold CBS? I watched it after it aired though. Oh well, no big deal. This is about on the level of Bates Motel for me right now, it's quality for sure but it's not gonna really upset me if it's not renewed or whatever

 

[Sawyer]

It's not a miniseries. The creatives have said that multiple times in interviews. This is something they intend to keep going for at least a few more seasons.

 

[Maximus One]

Ok good. I was thinking it wasn't but dude sounded so sure about it lol

 

[Primal Slayer]

Well if the ratings don't even out and it continues to dwindle, this probably wont get a 2nd season with how picky CBS is.

 

[Sawyer]

The drop-off from week to week hasn't been anything major. It still tops the night/week possibly.

 

[Marvolo]

It's not a miniseries. The creatives have said that multiple times in interviews. This is something they intend to keep going for at least a few more seasons.

It has been called a miniseries by many news outlets and sites so the confusion is understandable.

 

[Siby]

When it started on my channel the deep voice said a special miniseries event.

 

[Sawyer]

http://tvline.com/2013/06/24/under-the-dome-season-1-recap-premiere/

NOTHING ‘MINI’ ABOUT IT | “This is not a miniseries,” Baer clarified, referencing early reports. “It’s a 13-episode series.” Continued Vaughan, “Stephen King’s book takes place over a relatively short period of time. But when we first started talking about [to him], he said, ‘When I came up with this idea, I envisioned a town being trapped for years at a time. That’s something that you guys could get to do that I didn’t, and that might necessitate a different ending.” That means fans of the novel can look forward to a completely different conclusion to the saga. “We pitched Stephen a far-out, big-swing [ending] for if we’re lucky enough for this to go several years, and he was so excited about it,” revealed Vaughan.

I think alot of outlets have assumed it's a miniseries just due to the fact that network TV doesn't often do continuing series during the summer.

 

[Marvolo]

Personally j was more open to a miniseries. You can't keep a town trapped under a bubble for years. Its horse****. You can't contain an event like this for years. The rest of the US at every level both civillian and government would get involved. Youd have people snooping, checking it out, state and federal level government bickering, neighboring towns getting suspicious, the whole damn world getting suspicious and trying to intervene, questions of inhumane conditions, family issues, supply issues etc. etc. etc. So the government or any organization behind the event would be found out long before those years were up and it would be brought down. In this day and age its just not plausible that something like this would last for years. There is a reason King didn't have it last years.

 

[Maximus One]

My exact thoughts. I can't believe more isn't happening on the outside of the dome for real. They really should have created at least one narrative outside the dome. We have Joe from Eureka's bf or whatever but I mean actual things happening that tie into it. Like, a CDC officer or a physicist brought in to experiment. Hell there should be an entire team of scientists investigating this on the outside of almost every field. They should have just gone for a completely different King book as a series. I think there's tons of interesting ways you could adapt various works of his.

 

[John Locke]

King says he wants this show to go on for years. He said that when he first came up with the idea he wanted the dome to last for years but he couldn't do that with a book but the series could.

 

[Sawyer]

You guys are writing off alot of possibilities after just three episodes.

 

[Marvolo]

You guys are writing off alot of possibilities after just three episodes.

Its just not plausible if it continues beyond a certain time. If the government is involved then the administration would be flayed and the dome would come down by force if necessary within a year.

If the government isn't involved then they would investigate its properties and effects. Until they know its effects and how to bring it down they would declare an ongoing state of emergency and shut down all air traffic within a thousand miles until they knew. That alone would hits a lot of wallets which always gets **** done in this country. Every resource of investigation would be used to determine its origin and who's behind it. At most it would take a year with that kind of manpower. No administration would let a town die under a dome or be stuck for years without trying everything. Its political suicide.

Then you have the civilian side which would be doing its own reporting and investigating. The economy would suffer. All the nutters would come out of the wood work. Etc.

Point is something would be done long before even a year had passed. This concept just doesn't work stretched to years unless I'm to believe the entire outside world is incompetent to the infinite degree.

Now if its alien in origin then I can see it being possible. Even then the outside world would have to find a way to get food to those in the dome which defeats the purpose of the dome in the first place.

 

[TheBat812]

Uh...

Spoiler

the government is NOT in control of this thing. That has been established. The point is that they are completely cut off from outside connection, no matter how much they or anybody on the other side wants to communicate with them beyond writing they can show through the wall. That leaves the entire town in its own world, which is the point of the book - to see how a community would react to complete isolationism.

I love that the book only allows for it to be a week, but it's pretty cool that they can stretch this out for however long they deem necessary for the story. And they can still make it last for only a few weeks that just takes a few seasons if that's what they want to do. Doubt they'll stretch it out to over a year though, for reasons the book covers. But who knows.

 

[Marvolo]

Uh...

Spoiler

the government is NOT in control of this thing. That has been established. The point is that they are completely cut off from outside connection, no matter how much they or anybody on the other side wants to communicate with them beyond writing they can show through the wall. That leaves the entire town in its own world, which is the point of the book - to see how a community would react to complete isolationism.

I love that the book only allows for it to be a week, but it's pretty cool that they can stretch this out for however long they deem necessary for the story. And they can still make it last for only a few weeks that just takes a few seasons if that's what they want to do.

If they do make it a few seasons I hope they do what lost did. The first 3 seasons covered 3 months. This way it doesn't seem like the dome has been up for an implausible amount of time and the show gets a decent lifespan.

 

[John Locke]

The first four season of Lost took place 108 days (excluding the flashforwards). Season 4's 14(?) episodes took place in a week. So if they do follow that format it could work. Hopefully they do follow that format. If this thing does go about four seasons, average of one and a half days per episode with 13 episodes per seasons it would be 78 days under the dome.

 

[X-Ray]

The kidnapping plot is getting silly now its dragging the show down for me. How come her brother is not looking for her..what about her employers...nobody cares about her lol

Yeah. I find it hard to believe that a girl who has a brother and two jobs in a small town where everyone knows everyone, doesn't have anyone who has realized she's missing. Especially after the whole town pulled together to stop the fire. Last night helped with that storyline only really having two scenes.

The character is so dull & forgettable that only two ***** (Junior & house party bully) remember her.

Wait, only a week passes during this crisis? Interesting. Too bad it looks like they're expanding it for the tv series. 3 episodes in, 2 days covered thus far.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I did find it a bit odd that Big Jim couldn't find more than two old men and a total stranger for his posse.

 

[Marvolo]

The first four season of Lost took place 108 days (excluding the flashforwards). Season 4's 14(?) episodes took place in a week. So if they do follow that format it could work. Hopefully they do follow that format. If this thing does go about four seasons, average of one and a half days per episode with 13 episodes per seasons it would be 78 days under the dome.

That would be ideal.

How much time passed in the book?

 

[MadVillainy]

Disappointing episode. Not horrible by any stretch but it had a lot of stupid moments and the "manhunt" was very disappointing. Also so much of the teen dialogue is SO bad. Im not that far removed from the kids' age and I have never heard kids talk like they do, especially that Asian kid and his lame attempt at humor

And please end the Junior story. It's bad.

 

[Sawyer]

I remember rolling my eyes when one of the girls used a slang term for something that was CLEARLY made up by a middle-aged man thinking he had a knack for modern teen dialogue. I can't remember what it was, but it was bad.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I dunno, sounded about right to me. People at that age (or at least, the implied age) are rather insufferable.

Then again, being in my late 20's, I may be more like a middle aged dude than a teenager.

Note I still say "dude". Damned 90's.