There are supposed to be 7 Votan races but I've only spotted 6 so maybe the 7th are the nanobots.
Posted on 07/12/2013 12:48:30 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
Under the Dome - Are there any good guys in that town?
Happy, happy, happy!
I haven’t read the book, so I don’t know what happens.
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.
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.
The Bridge is very good...Danish and USA versions both.
Totally disagree!
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.
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.
“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.
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.
It was called The Storm of the Century. Don't quit your day job to become a movie critic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Deputy Esquivel is a hero—what do you mean, she’s not to bad?
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.
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