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

Can't wait. The book was great.
 
#232 ·
Here is my theory after the last episode played.
Jr is going to be the Monarch since his mother painted him in a painting with the pink starts in it 9 years before this all happened.
The girl he had chained up that has the butterfly on her shoulder is going to be his mate / partner, whatever.
 
#233 ·
jimmie57 said:
Here is my theory after the last episode played.
Jr is going to be the Monarch since his mother painted him in a painting with the pink starts in it 9 years before this all happened.
The girl he had chained up that has the butterfly on her shoulder is going to be his mate / partner, whatever.
After this past episode, I wonder if their wasn't a major accident at the drug making facility and they are all experiencing the drug effect? I really didn't like this episode as much as the other past ones.
 
#234 ·
My Q - Why would the Egg Bubble need to be carried? You would figure it could move on its own by some mysterious alien way.
 
#236 ·
So ... if the egg dome is the center of the dome does moving it move the dome? Will the dome recenter on the egg?

BTW: I believe that Jr is the fourth hand ... the two young couples that make up the show.
 
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James Long said:
So ... if the egg dome is the center of the dome does moving it move the dome? Will the dome recenter on the egg?

BTW: I believe that Jr is the fourth hand ... the two young couples that make up the show.
Fourth hand----- must be getting up for a game of Bridge. Speaking of The Bridge, it's on inside of an hour!!

Moving the dome would be a bit messy, more than a few cows would perish, and water and sewer pipes would suffer.... so, I doubt it!
 
#239 ·
oldschoolecw said:
After this past episode, I wonder if their wasn't a major accident at the drug making facility and they are all experiencing the drug effect? I really didn't like this episode as much as the other past ones.
Agreed. There is only so much license for WTF? behavior that I can tolerate, and the whole idea of Big Jim being able to instantly mesmerize an entire town (who just had a major panic riot over supplies acting like a bunch of soccer hooligans two days ago) into giving up all of their weapons might be over the line.

And then there is Linda. As lovely and earnest as she is, she is only the de facto sheriff because the real sheriff is dead. And I never really felt that she has shown that she is up to the job. Last night she fired her sidearm at a lock on a shed housing a gazillion gallons of liquid propane. Really?

Barbie and Jim were worried about things going sideways, but if that had ended the way it could have, we could have actually seen how Under The Dome 2 might happen, which is that Linda blows up enough liquid propane all at once to solve Chesters Mill's dome problem permanently by blowing it into the lower stratosphere like the plastic cork from a cheap bottle of champagne. And then, for next season, the story picks up on the next Stephen King fictional New England burg that the dome lands on after it rockets away from Chesters Mill.

So yeah, getting a little thin. My propane fantasy makes as much sense as anything the writers have come up with so far.

But the good news is that any show is immediately improved by having the exceedingly lucious Natalie Zea added to the cast, although I hope she ends up back on Justified where she belongs. The problem here is that she was unavailable for so long that we are supposed to swallow whole the idea that she has been squatting in a vacant house for the last 8 days, and that her part in this story therefore deserves 10 minutes of boring exposition late in episode 7 or wherever we are, which was enough to literally put me to sleep. Which it did.

I'm glad that they added her, but this story is starting to look more like a high school play improvised on the spot than an actual CBS scripted drama.

And sadly, speaking of CBS, Dean Norris came off a little full of himself on Letterman, to put that nicely. OK, you've been a working actor for years, you're a Harvard graduate, and you have recent notoriety as a key character in two very popular TV shows all at once. Good for you. But really, how about a little humility instead of screaming to everyone that you're the man like some sort of untalented rap artist? I like both his nefarious characters a lot better than him after that after that appearance, and they are both major d***s. The creepy smile? Apparently that's not acting.
 
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It may be a sphere, but that does not seem to be the case, at least for the mini-dome, which now that it is uprooted and moved to the barn, seems to be a dome sitting on top of a chunk of dirt. I'll have to look closer next week to confirm that.

I'm actually starting to like Jr., and I think he might be a pretty good actor. Certainly there is no excuse for some of that behavior, but he is starting to look sympathetic, which is a lot more two-dimensional than most of the folks in this yarn seem to appear. Every other character seems to have but one layer.
 
#244 ·
TomCat said:
It may be a sphere, but that does not seem to be the case, at least for the mini-dome, which now that it is uprooted and moved to the barn, seems to be a dome sitting on top of a chunk of dirt. I'll have to look closer next week to confirm that.

I'm actually starting to like Jr., and I think he might be a pretty good actor. Certainly there is no excuse for some of that behavior, but he is starting to look sympathetic, which is a lot more two-dimensional than most of the folks in this yarn seem to appear. Every other character seems to have but one layer.
It's all an act, I bet JR. is still a Psycho
 
#248 ·
TomCat said:
It may be a sphere, but that does not seem to be the case, at least for the mini-dome, which now that it is uprooted and moved to the barn, seems to be a dome sitting on top of a chunk of dirt. I'll have to look closer next week to confirm that.
I wish I still had the episode on the DVR to help confirm that ... the dirt portion was also a dome shape. It looked like a dark bowl with a clear bowl set on top of it ... the dirt bottom bowl level with the bottom bowl.

We know the big dome extends deep under the earth ... deep enough that the tunnels do not go under it. The big dome could be a glass dome with vertical sides under the ground level ... but for how far down? If it has vertical sides forever it would come out the other side of the planet. If there was a limit on how deep the dome goes then one could go under it.

The mini-dome sphere gives a clue of what the large dome could do. It appears to be very close to vertical at the surface of the earth ... just like the big dome. I'm not sure the height of the dome is the radius of the dome ... but on the mini-dome it seems close.
 
#249 ·
The show isn't called in the sphere. So it has to be a dome. Except it isn't. Because a dome is only 180 degrees. And we know the "dome" goes way past 180 degrees and since it's near vertical at the surface, it has to begin curving inward below the surface. So one thing we know: the show is mis-titled. Ain't no dome.

So Jr. put her in the shelter just to protect her from the dome influence? That's pretty shaky logic. Sounds like the writers thought that up after the fact.
 
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