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I stopped watching in the middle of episode 3 because most of the characters were borderline retarded and/or unlikeable in the extreme.
Anyone else agree?
I am disappointed at the season 2 announcement--I was hoping for a miniseries with full closure/explanations at the end.
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I stopped watching in the middle of episode 3 because most of the characters were borderline retarded and/or unlikeable in the extreme.
Anyone else agree?
Damn right...they for the most part seem to be egoless bugs or serial killers.
A number of experiments need to be conducted on the inside of the 'sphere' to provide scientists on the outside with data.1. They need to pull signals passing into the 'sphere' from outside and transmit them out of the sphere by LED Laser so they can calculate the signal loss and determine the nature of the field.
2. They need to know the effect on the sphere' of Transmitting signals at the children (the two kids giving off the weird signal).
3. They need to check with a radiation detector (and some nuclear material) to determine whether nuclear particles can pass through the 'sphere'.
They also need to find what hit the church bells (if anything) and the source of the energy propping up the Sphere.
I didn't think they would go so far off the source material. They should have called it something else so that impression wasn't planted firmly in my brain. I really enjoyed most of this book, but most of the characters are changed just enough so that I don't really like any of them.
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I read this novel when it was released a few years ago. I remember it being quite good (except for the last three hundred or so pages; typical in most of King's work over the last 20 years), but I thought it another great example of King getting by with virtual plagiarism--ever notice how almost every novel and story he writes is essentially a rewrite of an Outer Limits of Twilight Zone episode?
At any rate, I remember the novel as mostly a critique of fundamental religion in America. Is this how the TV series is focused?
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There really hasn't been much in the way of religion in the show. There was a crazy preacher guy, but he's been dead for an episode or three, and it was really more a case of him being an individual that was crooked and then crazy rather than pointing the blame at religion.
I'm an atheist and have a distaste for organized religion, but I can at least knowledge that it does do some good things. King seems incapable of admitting that.
Haven't really been a big fan of anything he's written since the 90s began. Although to my mind, he's always been overrated...even the best of his novels could use an editor with the balls to tell him that he needs to cut the page count in half. I actually think he's a better short story writer than a novelist.
I think if the script team wrote a show exactly like the novel, they'd alienate half the American viewing audience. Certainly the religious half.
Yar, I've never been a huge fan of King either.
But the Dark Tower series was pretty darn good, and I've liked some of the mini-series, so I gave this one a shot.
IMO if they'd made the characters a bit more, well, like actual people instead of cardboard, unlikeable caricatures it would've been a good show.
It's a solid premise, and there's plenty of intrigue and mystery to it, but all of the characters are morons, dicks, or both, except the girl that got kidnapped by Crazy Unlikeable Dumbass #2, the police officer woman, and MAAAAAYBE Barbie (mostly because they'd hardly done anything with him yet when I stopped watching).
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It's really hard to critique a show you've not seen, but I think I can glean a bit from the comments posted here--
In the novel, the real story is:
The novel is very character-driven, though the good-guys are generally cardboard good-guys, and the bad-guys are patently, obviously bad with no sense of the post-modern existential bad-because-of-life-and-environment Marvel/DC villain complexities we've become used to seeing in modern entertainment. But there's still a kind of build-up that makes you hate and love the 'right' characters; the characters King wants you to hate and love.
It sounds like the script team kept the end-characterizations, but by leaving out all the traditional Stephen King character-building goodness that keeps readers returning for every 1,500 page novel, we may be left with the sour taste of old world Cartesian dualism that the more astute and discriminating viewer simply can't abide.
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I'm an atheist and have a distaste for organized religion, but I can at least acknowledge that it does do some good things. King seems incapable of admitting that.
That's crazy talk...Religion is depicted as a refuge of the ignorant who wish to continue imposing that ignorance on those they govern. Their religion will be validated when the Dome turns out to be a terrarium and the Egg hatches a 'demon' - the humans being the 'food supply'.
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It's a solid premise, and there's plenty of intrigue and mystery to it, but all of the characters are morons, dicks, or both, except the girl that got kidnapped by Crazy Unlikeable Dumbass #2, the police officer woman, and MAAAAAYBE Barbie (mostly because they'd hardly done anything with him yet when I stopped watching).
There's also the seizure twins. So far they aren't unlikeable.
Ah, I forgot about them. I do like them, but they show up fairly infrequently (compared to some of the others) and haven't done much at the point I stopped.
It's just that the villains piss me off. Not in a "That guy's so EVIL! I'm both mad and eager to see what he does next!" but in a "This guy gives Snidely Whiplash a run for his money in the mustache twirling evil department, and he's got about 1/4 of the brains" sort of way.
And they get a LOT of screen time, unfortunately.
I also kinda gawked at the fact that
Maybe I'll pick it up again at the end of the season and watch it all in one go, who knows.
Buh... what? A second season? I thought it was just a mini-series with some answers in the end. But no? I'd have to put up with these rotten unlikeable characters - with no payoff?
/looks stuff up/
Gah.
<stops watching/deletes from PVR>
It's really hard to critique a show you've not seen, but I think I can glean a bit from the comments posted here--
In the novel, the real story is:
** spoiler omitted **
I didn't get that impression at all. In the novel
The season ending was a huge let down for my wife and I. I think it was rushed into production due to getting a contract for a 2nd season. Now I get to wait until next summer to see how they resolve everything.
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I find it dull. Also I can't get over the fact that it's the premise of the Simpsons movie.
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I find it dull. Also I can't get over the fact that it's the premise of the Simpsons movie.
The Stephen King novel, published in 2009, but began in 1972.
The Simpsons Movie, released in 2007.In addition, before The Simpsons Movie came out, there was also the graphic novel Girls, [url]http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Complete-Collection-Joshua-Luna/dp/1607064 669/[/url], where one of the main events that happens is that a town is isolated from the rest of the world by a transparent dome. Published in 2001.
So this is once instance where "the Simpsons did it" mantra falls flat.
I stopped watching in the middle of episode 3 because most of the characters were borderline retarded and/or unlikeable in the extreme.
So, you're saying it's a lot like Walking Dead?
I stopped watching in the middle of episode 3 because most of the characters were borderline retarded and/or unlikeable in the extreme.So, you're saying it's a lot like Walking Dead?
But this show doesn't have Darryl. =)
I find it dull. Also I can't get over the fact that it's the premise of the Simpsons movie.The Stephen King novel, published in 2009, but began in 1972.
The Simpsons Movie, released in 2007.In addition, before The Simpsons Movie came out, there was also the graphic novel Girls, [url]http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Complete-Collection-Joshua-Luna/dp/1607064 669/[/url], where one of the main events that happens is that a town is isolated from the rest of the world by a transparent dome. Published in 2001.
So this is once instance where "the Simpsons did it" mantra falls flat.
All that's super, but you see I didn't know about any of that.
But you see, I saw the Simpson movie before The Dome.So from my perspective, Homer did it first.
Also, regardless of all that it's a really dull show.
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The season ending was a huge let down for my wife and I. I think it was rushed into production due to getting a contract for a 2nd season. Now I get to wait until next summer to see how they resolve everything.
I was sooo angry. The series was promoted as being self-contained, with all major character arcs wrapped up by the final episode (they never promised the problem of the dome would be resolved and I wasn't really expecting that, even before a new series was announced).
I won't be returning for the next episodes. I still can't accept Junior's story arc in any version of reality, nor the way that Linda would start an affair with a strange man only a few days after her husband goes missing, then continue the relationship with barely a hiccup, thanks to a timely discovery of important documents! Sheesh! How strange that the dome itself is the least unbelievable aspect of the show...
None of you guys remember an episode of The Outer Limits titled "A Feasibility Study"?
I remember a B-movie from the 1950s where weird crab-like creatures are running around a mountain town, and nobody can escape because a giant "jar" has been lowered into place around it.
As to the show, I've enjoyed it in a so-so way. I really dug the book, so all the divergences and differences have been a disappointment to me.
I saw the first episode and the season finale. If a show can’t even do a good (and interesting) season finale, it’s not worth watching. This show just seems to drag pointless drama on and on. I wish it was a mini-series, at least then you could count on it coming to some conclusion.
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SO season two will be about mega-engineering as the Government build a giant tree spade to dig out the 'sphere' and launch it into space...before it becomes a problem.
Well that can't happen if the government's still shutdown. Man it's even effecting the dome.
But seriously, I too hoped for a miniseries with a conclusion, I'll watch next season because it's a new twist, having read the book I find some of the characters less repulsive, and new ones make my eyes roll in disgust. LOL
All-in-all a good show.