Steven Spielberg Teams with Stephen King for Under the Dome

[childeroland]

Yeah, I'm pretty close to checking out at this point.

 

[squeekness]

They better blow me away on the first episode of the next season, that is all I have to say....

And yet I keep reading how this was one of the most watched shows. I'm like ..why?

 

[Teelie]

I wonder that too. I think the fact it has the two Stephen/Steven's involved helps it with the audience but it went so ridiculous that I am curious how much audience it will retain in season 2.

 

[Sawyer]

The Big Bang Theory is one of the most watched shows on TV, while up until the second half of this final season started, Breaking Bad was doing barely over 2 million an episode.

Quality =/= ratings

 

[voyzovrezon]

As far as the stupidity issue I think many of you see it as a audience member and not from the perspective of the character. Phil & Linda have incomplete information on Big Jim and Barbie. Phil knows Barbie as Max's enforcer which taints his view in a negative way. As far as Linda barbie is a stranger in a small town it would be hard to believe she would take his word over Big Jim.

I personally like the direction they have taken and setup the next season perfectly. This season has set Big Jim up as the leader/ tyrant. Next year Julia could(probably)be his opposition creating factions. Junior is already on the fence which is why he didnt pull that lever. There will be some who will follow her like the three kids because the dome has said so. They could probably form a religion around the dome next year we've already seen how people are looking to God answers. The dome and it creators are the new gods and they've chosen those who will lead and spread it's word.

I agree! It's easy to say a character is a dumbass when you get the whole picture.

I didn't know if this season was going to wrap up and a new dome and new set of characters were coming in next year. But now I see it's a cliffhanger. I'm both relieved and disappointed.

I hate waiting a year to see how something ends, but I'm also looking forward to seeing the characters again and how they develop---especially Big Jim. He's becoming more like the Big Jim from the book. The book version also wanted the dome to stay put so he could control his own little world, as the Joker would say.

 

[Golgo-13]

I went from hating Junior to liking him to hating him again!

 

[C. Lee]

I was underwhelmed by the series. I haven't read the book, so I don't know how closely it follows it. There are several things that I found wrong about the storyline that may keep me from even watching the first episode of the second season.

One problem I have -

Spoiler

The mother of all bombs hit the dome....and when people went to check the damage, the dome of course was unhurt (no problem with that)....but it showed devastation outside of the dome....until several episodes later people are at the dome and look at all the pretty trees and grass and houses on the other side....

 

[Lantern Venom]

Sheesh....does anyone in this thread actually like the show? LOL.

Well, I love it. It was one of Stephen's more underwhelming books, so the show has actually improved it in many areas. My biggest criticism is the too-easy reunion of Junior and Big Jim. After all that has gone down between them, they should be much more wary of one another than is actually being presented at this point.

I guess I could nitpick a few other things, but the positives far outweight the negatives. I was initially concerned about exclusion of Piper Libby, but Linda Esquivel seems to be somewhat of a moral-compass replacement. I've grown to like that character very much.

 

[Destructus86]

I think I would be more OK with the show if the annoying kid (the brother of the ****, whatever his name is) would just bite it already.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I think I would be more OK with the show if the annoying kid (the borther of the ****, whatever his name is) would just bite it already.

Yeah, he is a bit irritating, isn't he?

 

[TheBat812]

I was underwhelmed by the series. I haven't read the book, so I don't know how closely it follows it. There are several things that I found wrong about the storyline that may keep me from even watching the first episode of the second season.

One problem I have -

Spoiler

The mother of all bombs hit the dome....and when people went to check the damage, the dome of course was unhurt (no problem with that)....but it showed devastation outside of the dome....until several episodes later people are at the dome and look at all the pretty trees and grass and houses on the other side....

Only one portion of the outside of the dome was affected.

 

[Teelie]

They showed that too. There was this wide out shot and a massive black scar where the bomb hit and everything else was green and normal looking.

 

[Kelly]

The Big Bang Theory is one of the most watched shows on TV, while up until the second half of this final season started, Breaking Bad was doing barely over 2 million an episode.

Quality =/= ratings

So, are you saying that TBBT is not quality, but popular....and BB is quality, but not popular?

Because I happen to think that they are both quality.

 

[Kelly]

Sheesh....does anyone in this thread actually like the show? LOL.

Well, I love it. It was one of Stephen's more underwhelming books, so the show has actually improved it in many areas. My biggest criticism is the too-easy reunion of Junior and Big Jim. After all that has gone down between them, they should be much more wary of one another than is actually being presented at this point.

I guess I could nitpick a few other things, but the positives far outweight the negatives. I was initially concerned about exclusion of Piper Libby, but Linda Esquivel seems to be somewhat of a moral-compass replacement. I've grown to like that character very much.

I really liked the show until about the last three episodes, and then the horrible season finale almost did it in for me....hoping that the first episode brings me back on.

 

[Wolfwood]

Sheesh....does anyone in this thread actually like the show? LOL.

Well, I love it. It was one of Stephen's more underwhelming books, so the show has actually improved it in many areas. My biggest criticism is the too-easy reunion of Junior and Big Jim. After all that has gone down between them, they should be much more wary of one another than is actually being presented at this point.

I guess I could nitpick a few other things, but the positives far outweight the negatives. I was initially concerned about exclusion of Piper Libby, but Linda Esquivel seems to be somewhat of a moral-compass replacement. I've grown to like that character very much.

I like it, but I hope the second season is the last. This isn't the kind of story I want to see dragged on. I was really disappointed when I learned it wasn't going to be a mini-series.

 

[Sawyer]

http://tvline.com/2013/09/24/greys-anatomy-season-10-callie-arizona-divorce-spoilers/

Question: I have to wait so long until Season 2 of Under the Dome! Can you please give me some hint as to what the future holds for Barbie? —Alicia
Ausiello: A tighter, more compelling narrative? That’s my personal hope, anyway. I’m encouraged by something Dean Norris told us Saturday at BAFTA’s pre-Emmy Team Party. “I’m meeting with producers to start sorting it out, but [Season 2] is going to be good,” he said. “We get to reboot the whole thing… I think there’s going to be some changes. They want to beef it up in a lot of ways.” Bonus Scoop: Norris confirms that “Stephen King is going to write the first episode.”

*leans forward with interest*

I have to laugh at their "scoop" "confirming" news that was confirmed months ago.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The show started losing me a bit from then on following the incident where [blackout]Maxine was killed off and Barbie was framed by Big Jim and Linda continued being dim.[/blackout] But nothing really prepared me for the mess that was the finale. So I was fine with most of the season but it left a bad aftertaste.

 

[Teelie]

Rebooting the Dome is their only hope to salvage it so that's not a big surprise.

 

[X-Ray]

Reboot the whole thing? Good. The show needs it. They can use the dome's transformation at the end of the finale as a set up.

And for the person talking about the affects of the MOAB...

The scorched earth is there.

 

[voyzovrezon]

Sheesh....does anyone in this thread actually like the show? LOL.

Well, I love it. It was one of Stephen's more underwhelming books, so the show has actually improved it in many areas. My biggest criticism is the too-easy reunion of Junior and Big Jim. After all that has gone down between them, they should be much more wary of one another than is actually being presented at this point.

I guess I could nitpick a few other things, but the positives far outweight the negatives. I was initially concerned about exclusion of Piper Libby, but Linda Esquivel seems to be somewhat of a moral-compass replacement. I've grown to like that character very much.

I like it too, but not as much as the book. I think Linda is a composite of Libby and the other female officer in the book, just as Coggins was a composite of Rev. Collins and Andy Sanders.

 

[voyzovrezon]

The cast and pink stars

 

[voyzovrezon]

Anyone care to speculate on the fate of Barbie?

I assume it's safe to assume this isn't a spoiler since most on this thread have seen it and it's the final can be found on youtube. But anyway....



Me thinks the pink stars will be some cosmic miracle right in the nick of time. Then what will the next season be like? Barbie running from the law and Big Jim again?

 

[Teelie]

Being in a giant fish bowl doesn't lend itself to very much being on the run so he'll get his name cleared at least enough that he won't have to be in constant hiding.

More likely Big Jim will make up some big ******** to talk his way out of condemning Barbie to death and evade too many questions about himself in the process.

 

[voyzovrezon]

Being in a giant fish bowl doesn't lend itself to very much being on the run so he'll get his name cleared at least enough that he won't have to be in constant hiding.

More likely Big Jim will make up some big ******** to talk his way out of condemning Barbie to death and evade too many questions about himself in the process.

You're probably right. Big Jim was able to talk Linda into believing him.

 

[Teelie]

The IQ in there has dropped considerably so it probably won't take much to fool them.