I hope in episode 2, everyone from episode 1 dies.
Freakin LOLLLLLLLL
lol - -they will all prob be dead by the end of the next,,,,
Gaaa!
Even the nurse was a dick.
LOL
That's exactly how I feel about "Under The Dome", the most horribly written and acted mess anywhere on TV. I watch only to make fun of it, and I've been hoping all the characters would suffocate for two seasons now.
Here’s my take FWIW, notwithstanding the need to establish the main characters.
Since we (regular fans of TWD) all know that once the virus started everyone is infected, though we don’t really know that it causes any one to die in of itself. But once infected and someone dies, it re-animates the dead into zombies within a few minutes to a couple of hours. So where were all of the zombies? This is L.A. and I’m sure they probably have a death rate of at least 100 people a day. Since they don’t autopsy anyone that fast these people would be turning and feeding and creating mores zombies at an exponential rate. Even the old guy in the hospital bed would have turned by the end of the first day.
Yet the only thing on the news was the guy in the car accident. For weeks the network has been teasing us with the radio broadcast saying there is a nasty flu going around and people in 5 state are affected but they just started the show and had some minor references to people being out sick. But what are their symptoms? A low grade bite will slowly consume the body with a fever until the person dies which is generally about 24-36 hours, but the unbitten in the TWD show no symptoms whatsoever.
I guess that was what was most disappointing, because as TWD fans we know what happens. This show is supposed to be the 5-6 weeks that took place as Rick was in the hospital in a coma. So in the first 3 days there are only 3 zombies in all of L.A.? Pretty slow outbreak. I would like to think they would show a scene from the CDC or something where it represents patient zero and then the government cover-up to keep it under wraps, again because we know that the CDC finds out that it can’t be controlled.
Even if they were going to spent the whole 90 minute first episode developing characters, they should have put more emphasis on the 5 state flu, some “bizarre happenings” news accounts, mixed with them coming into contact with the zombies. Based upon the end of the show last night, I predict that they will still be in some form of denial for the next 2 episodes, they will try to keep their family together for safety, until episode 4 when the SHTF big time, which by then it will be too late to get out of L.A.