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#1 ·
Under The Dome starts on Monday, 6/24/13 on CBS.

Can't wait. The book was great.
 
#177 ·
But the gun happy law enforcement officers and Hank, the FBI man from Breaking Bad, would be a big deterrent to early raids. :)

Yes, there are more holes in this than a fine Swiss cheese, but I am sticking with it for now.
 
#178 ·
Laxguy said:
But the gun happy law enforcement officers and Hank, the FBI man from Breaking Bad, would be a big deterrent to early raids. :)

Yes, there are more holes in this than a fine Swiss cheese, but I am sticking with it for now.
How can there be holes? You are aware this story we are watching is fiction? :righton:
 
#180 ·
Laxguy said:
OMG! It is!?!
I thought it was CNN.

:hurah:

In any event, even fiction ought to have some internal integrity...
I hear you, but look and watch it as it's meant to be

Fiction
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fiction?s=t

1.
the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, especially in prose form.

2.
works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction.

3.
something feigned, invented, or imagined; a made-up story: We've all heard the fiction of her being indelicate health.

4.
the act of feigning, inventing, or imagining.

5.
an imaginary thing or event, postulated for the purposes of argument or explanation.

Synonyms
3. fable, fantasy. Fiction, fabrication, figment suggest a story that is without basis in reality. Fiction suggests a story invented and fashioned either to entertain or to deceive: clever fiction; pure fiction. Fabrication applies particularly to a false but carefully invented statement or series of statements, in which some truth is sometimes interwoven, the whole usually intended to deceive: fabrications to lure speculators. Figment applies to a tale, idea, or statement often made up to explain, justify, or glorify oneself: His rich uncle was a figment of his imagination.
 
#181 ·
How can there be holes? You are aware this story we are watching is fiction? :righton:


I believe that LaxGuy is referring to plot holes in the story. Even stories of fiction should hold true to the universe they are in.


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#183 ·
The Merg said:
I believe that LaxGuy is referring to plot holes in the story. Even stories of fiction should hold true to the universe they are in.
Yes. We accept the notion of the Dome, that suddenly a township is enveloped by an impenetrable clear dome. We accept that people will do crazy things in reaction thereto, but those reactions have to be somewhat believable. But we don't accept physical properties or actions that are impossible with or without the dome. There's more to all this, but a couple of thoughts.
 
#184 ·
Are people expecting science with their fiction? :)
 
#186 ·
I am all for fictional shows like this but when it is set in what appears to be present day small town America on planet earth I expect at least a rough attempt to respect science. Not just when it suits the plot like a gunshot ricochet off the dome to kill someone. I love sci-fi but for a show like this where Spielberg is involved I expect just a bit more. Was ET real? No, but when something outrageous happened, like a bunch of kids bikes suddenly flying through the air at least it was easily explained away by the fact that ET was an alien. So far no aliens have been involved nor inferred as being involved in the presence of the dome. If so, establish that plausibility early so the viewer can chalk all the crazy sh!t up to strange alien forces.

Is that really too much to ask?
 
#189 ·
jdskycaster said:
Is that really too much to ask?
Hey, it's summer TV. And "Haven" is coming back this fall on Syfy. There's a town everyone could leave, theoretically. But they just hang around waiting to suffer some horrible tragedy. But I watch it. What can I say? :shrug:
 
#191 ·
There is as river in the dome? I remember the bridge but don't recall looking for water.

Under the Dome any water should be stagnant with no fresh water coming in nor water leaving. If water could come in and leave why nothing else.

Next where is the new channel cut by the interupted river as it detours around the Dam created by the Dome.

This is a show I am recording and then using a lot of fast forward or skip to view the few interesting parts.\

TB

P.S. Am I the only one wondering why the FireFox spell checker isn't working? It works over to BleepingComputer.com and they are running the same software as far as I know.
 
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#193 ·
TBoneit said:
There is as river in the dome? I remember the bridge but don't recall looking for water.

Under the Dome any water should be stagnant with no fresh water coming in nor water leaving. If water could come in and leave why nothing else.

Next where is the new channel cut by the interupted river as it detours around the Dam created by the Dome.
Here's the definitive answer: The river is spring fed within the dome. It terminates in a lake which seeps back into ground water and evaporates into rain clouds, and the municipal water plant draws from there in varying quantities. The Dome extends far underground, but not to Moho!

:)
 
#196 ·
Well, at least someone has enough propane to do so! Though once cracked, the egg's contents might multiply its contents so that the omelet will cover the entire floor of the Dome.... And is there enough cheese and sour cream for that??
 
#198 ·
jdskycaster said:
The amount of wind in the dome is a stretch but what bothers me more is the river inside of a completely closed environment. Should have flooded the town or at least a very large area. My daughter and I may watch one more episode but she was ready to throw in the towel after the last one did nothing to improve the plot. Everyone suddenly deciding to raid the stores was just silly. That would have happened in the first hour when everyone realized they were not getting out.
Well, there is always a period of denial when bad things happen, and it lasts about 3 days, give or take. And, this is a compressed story not happening in real time; we may be 6 or 7 weeks in, but the dome came down, at least in TV time, about 3 days ago. Maybe 4. Coincidentally, that is about when denial wears off, which pretty perfectly explains why the looting happened when it did.

But I agree, the looting scenes were pretty boring, and just a grab by the writers at low-hanging fruit; writers often erroneously conflate mayhem to be actual drama. It really isn't, and should not stand in for it, which is why I don"t watch and can't stand medical shows--too easy to wring drama out of medical issues which by their very nature can be pretty dramatic.

Writing, whether in books, articles, or TV and movies, or even blogs and forum posts, needs to expand my mind, needs to put an idea out there that I would not have thought of on my own, that is if it is to be of any entertainment or educational value to me. You either need to work hard at writing, or just be naturally interesting, like Maruuk. Writing typically implies hard work, and real thinking; it is not the same as typing. Looting was too predictable, and this week's script was comprised of a lot of typing, and not much real writing.

Bad writing aside, there is also a healthy portion of good writing in the show, and lots of stuff in this show is not all that predictable, and I honestly can't wait to see what happens next. Combine that with a cast of characters that you in general sort of like hanging with, and you have a summer show that tops the ratings, voila, Under The Dome. I am getting a little alarmed by the body count, though.

And it is a summer, light fare, popcorn show, and they get a little more license in the continuity and believability department than say, Schindler's List. You have to suspend your disbelief that everything doesn't make perfect sense just a wee bit more. Pointing out the flaws of the world is a poor excuse for not being all that concerned about fixing your own flaws []. You can take that to an extreme and be righteously outraged that you are not really seeing real people and real scenery but instead are seeing only dancing LCD or plasma pixels behind a flat glass screen if you like, but really, come on, what's the fun in that?
 
#199 ·
Laxguy said:
Well, at least someone has enough propane to do so! Though once cracked, the egg's contents might multiply its contents so that the omelet will cover the entire floor of the Dome.... And is there enough cheese and sour cream for that??
Now that's funny. :rolling: Some bacon would be good as well. I have to admit that even though a few of the scenes this week were sleepers finding the mini-dome peaked my interest. Absent that I would not be continuing on with this one but now I want to know. What the heck is that?
 
#200 ·
Wow, weak week. Gotta get better next time. Between ridiculously trite (and insufferable) baby birthings and bathos-soaked mommy croaking and silly propane wars and idiotic egg domes, not to mention nothing getting advanced one iota on the dome front at all, it was brutal. Somebody send some Monster Energy Drinks and a tub of Viagra to the writers' room.
 
#201 ·
Maruuk said:
Wow, weak week. Gotta get better next time. Between ridiculously trite (and insufferable) baby birthings and bathos-soaked mommy croaking and silly propane wars and idiotic egg domes, not to mention nothing getting advanced one iota on the dome front at all, it was brutal. Somebody send some Monster Energy Drinks and a tub of Viagra to the writers' room.
It would be nice if the next episode is better but if you look back to the beginning it get's worse with each succeeding episode. I don't know where this show's writers went to get their training on how to write a teleplay but they should definitely ask for their money back.
 
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