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Under the Dome TV Series
Vanity | 7/12/2013

Posted on 07/12/2013 12:48:30 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle

Under the Dome - Are there any good guys in that town?


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To: bigtoona
"the diversity thing"

I've noticed that more and more corporate ads feature people of every ethnicity and age group, each of them saying just one word or phrase as the camera shifts to the next one. I find it very annoying. Allstate has had that black actor for years, Sleep Country has its Mary Tyler Moore type Caucasian female, and Progressive has "Flo." Why do some companies think they have to include EVERYBODY in their ads?
41 posted on 07/12/2013 1:25:25 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: RabidBartender

Happy, happy, happy!


42 posted on 07/12/2013 1:25:56 PM PDT by pgkdan (Marco Rubio can go straight to hell!)
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To: DManA

I haven’t read the book, so I don’t know what happens.


43 posted on 07/12/2013 1:26:27 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

I really liked the premise, the idea of a group of people being secluded as if in a fishbowl away from the rest of society.

The storyline however goes adrift into various conspiracies, a kidnapping, etc. I’m somewhat interested in some of the characters, curious to see what happens to them since I’ve invested about 3 episodes of my time into it.

In a way this one reminds me of another series that was on ABC. I forgot the title, but the storyline was that everyone on Earth had an unexplainable black-out for a few minutes. Drew me in, much the same as Under The Dome, but I missed a few episodes and then it was taken off the air.

I’d argue each of these stories would be better served as a movie/made for tv movie.


44 posted on 07/12/2013 1:28:09 PM PDT by Made In The USA (I'm not yelling, just... just talking enthusiastically..)
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To: techcor
One of my favorite Defiance characters is Sukar and I'm glad the nanobots are apparently going to keep him (and apparently others) coming back.

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There are supposed to be 7 Votan races but I've only spotted 6 so maybe the 7th are the nanobots.
45 posted on 07/12/2013 1:33:17 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Maybe that is why they were ‘domed’ — so they would no longer contaminate the rest of society.

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I chuckled at the graphic of the young beef (bull) being sliced by the dome. A bovine’s innards look nothing like what they showed.


46 posted on 07/12/2013 1:34:27 PM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

The Bridge is very good...Danish and USA versions both.


47 posted on 07/12/2013 1:35:38 PM PDT by jodyel
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To: JABit

Totally disagree!


48 posted on 07/12/2013 1:37:10 PM PDT by jodyel
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To: bigtoona

A lot of SKs books have flawed people. Very few “good guys”. Storm of the Century showed everyone had some flaws and secrets. He’s a good writer but must lead a depressing dark life.


49 posted on 07/12/2013 1:38:01 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Re: The Bridge

There is an earlier thread about it. General contention was that it is not worth watching.

I watched it and was surprised. It was okay. The female lead detective is quirky (per a Hollywood review, she has Asperger’s syndrome — lacks emotion).

The subtitling (Spanish vocal to English print) get irritating, but I find that with most subtitling. If I wanted to READ, I would buy the book. It’s TV, for gosh sake, so let the villians, aliens, foreigners speak in English.


50 posted on 07/12/2013 1:40:47 PM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: Persevero

“I am not watching any programs with homo crap in them.”

Agree. I watched the pilot and didn’t catch the lesbos. I thought the black one was the case worker or something. Started watching the first episode today and saw them introduced as “partners” and talk about “their” daughter. I’m sorry, they cannot have a daughter. I quit watching Lost when they decided it was necessary to throw in a little homosexuality. I have nothing necessarily against homosexuals, I just don’t like it thrown in my face.


51 posted on 07/12/2013 1:46:56 PM PDT by suthener
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Joe: “No Bill, it just doesn’t make sense. 90% of his books are made up of filler and almost always crap out at the end.”

There was a King miniseries years ago. A killer goes around killing locals in a small town. He keeps saying "give me what I want and I'll go away." But he doesn't tell them what he wants, and no one asks -- until the final episode.

It was a total waste.
52 posted on 07/12/2013 1:47:34 PM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Saw the first 20 minutes of the bridge and got the distinct impression that a crime drama was being wrapped in propaganda piece for immigration. The Bridge has a line going through it delineating USA from Mexico, the body literal divided between the two nations, half of the victim white American and half Mexican, thus two victims.


53 posted on 07/12/2013 1:50:39 PM PDT by qman (The communist usurper must go!)
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To: TomGuy
"A killer goes around killing locals in a small town. He keeps saying "give me what I want and I'll go away." But he doesn't tell them what he wants, and no one asks -- until the final episode."

It was called The Storm of the Century. Don't quit your day job to become a movie critic.

54 posted on 07/12/2013 1:53:23 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
In the book the "outside" tries several approaches to breach the Dome. Also in the book there is at least a plausible plot line but the Series seems to be a basket full of cliches thrown up on the screen.

Cliche 1. Out of Town Lesbian Couple shown to be kindhearted and good.

Cliche 2. Redneck Male Townies hassle kindhearted lesbian couple.

Cliche 3. Christians shown to be idiot rednecks.

Cliche 4. Young White male shown to be a rapist and possible serial killer.

Now the book has "some" of those elements BUT they are balanced out by characters of the same makeup and proclivities to be the exact opposite.

King gets the rap that he is anti-christian wherein if you read his stuff and interviews you will find he is anti hypocrite-christian and is himself a believer but distrustful of most organized religions. BUT so far in this TV series we are only seeing the hypocrite-christians. Its sad really because the book is decent. My only gripe about it is that it is a heavy-handed attempt at a global-warming morality tale and the ending is a bit weak.

55 posted on 07/12/2013 1:53:37 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Crusher138

I have read and enjoyed every book Stephen King has written (except this one). However, as I’ve said before, every gun owning or religious character in his books are nuts. In his mind there is no such thing as a normal gun owner or a normal Christian. He has always been a total lefty and if I’m not mistaken always records robocalls for the dem candidates.


56 posted on 07/12/2013 1:53:52 PM PDT by suthener
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To: qman

Yep.

Too bad The Bridge is pro-amnesty PC propaganda. I nearly turned it off when they ‘conferred Constitutional rights on illegal alien invaders’.

The general premise is good, and I like the weirdness of the female lead.


57 posted on 07/12/2013 1:57:55 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: TomGuy

LMAO! Is that the one where he takes the kid or something? I think I seen that. I really don’t get why this guy gets so much praise or attention, there are a ton of writers out there who just blow that guy right out of the water in terms of writing. It’s like a freakin’ cult or something. I remember reading Dreamcatcher and I got halfway through it before I couldn’t take it anymore, it was freakin’ torture reading that thing. Instant ZZZZZZ. And of course....They had to make it into a movie.


58 posted on 07/12/2013 1:58:17 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: Steve_Seattle

Deputy Esquivel is a hero—what do you mean, she’s not to bad?


59 posted on 07/12/2013 2:01:21 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
"I remember reading Dreamcatcher and I got halfway through it before I couldn’t take it anymore, it was freakin’ torture reading that thing."

Well, to be fair, he wrote that one when he was totally trashed on painkillers and whatever, after being run over and left in a ditch to die. I had a hard time getting through that one too.

However, The Stand still stands as one of my favorite books of all time, despite his lefty politics.

60 posted on 07/12/2013 2:03:21 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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