bunkaroo

Same here. I think I'm done now.

PhantomStranger

The third episode was a slight improvement on the awful second episode, but it is starting to look like just another lame summer show. I guess I was hoping for tighter plotting and less Jericho-like situations, the storyline with Junior should have been excised entirely from the show.

The show should have narrowed its audience focus from everyone possible to certain demos. There is way too much pandering here, spread out over all age groups and every possible identity group.

I will stick around, but I can see why CBS kept this as a summer show.

MikahC

It's even better. They were worried about having enough matches to be able to provide light for themselves to navigate out of the tunnels. With that hanging over their heads, they decided to use the last match to have an impromptu candlelight rap session about nothing. Luckily (of course), they were right where they needed to be and could see flickers of daylight pointing to the way out. You can always tell when you're watching something from creative talent that thinks being consistent and making sense don't matter in situations where it should.

And for goodness sake, if I'm down to my last few matches and will have no light, extraneous clothing is coming off to make a torch. It's not like it's the dead of winter there anyway as everyone walks around with their jackets open.

I'd much rather spend 1 minute each week reading the thread and watch it on DVD if it improves because so far it's a boring unenjoyable mess.

JuryDuty

I don't mind the fact that not everyone is freaking out yet for living under the dome. In Monday's episode they made a point to say only a day and a half had passed in show time. So the characters have only lived with this for two waking days.

That said, a LOT of this show wears on me. It feels so much like LOST...with everyone having deadly hidden motives, lots of secrets and not enough communication. I don't want to sit through hours of this without enough payoff.

The Junior storyline is about enough to make me stop watching. I want the girl he's captured either out of the bunker or dead by next episode please.

All that said, this would be SO much better if they took a Jericho approach where we see how they have to cope without food, water, etc. I think they're planning this, but they're not moving fast enough with it. Jericho started that in episode one.

TGM

after a promising first episode, this series has since shit its pants on multiple occasions.

tellybox

+1 for the tired Junior storyline. Just finish it up already, and move on.

Why is it that every time we get a Stephen King television adaptation of one of his works someone tries to tinker with it, to make it more watchable? This could have been some spellbinding TV, but instead its just a hot mess of a show, with no clear plot line going forward.

Think I might just reread the book again. Some of my favourites from the book are not written into the show (yet?).

bunkaroo

Yeah this at least gave me the desire to read the book so I'll check that out at some point.

PhantomStranger

I don't think King's densely plotted books with dozens of characters translate that well to movies and television, at least if you want to make commercial entertainment. The better adaptations have always been from his books with a tighter focus and a handful of primary characters. Sprawl works on the written page much better.

King also works in a lot of characters and elements in his works that aren't acceptable to the mainstream. It wasn't a shock when they left out the kids having sex plot in the It mini-series.

kenbuzz

I presume then that you're unfamiliar with The Langoliers? Very few characters, tight focus, total shite.

boss429

Yeah, I'll give it one more episode and then I'm out! By the way, those of you that have liked this series so far, Amazon is taking pre orders for this... http://www.amazon.com/Under-Limited-...under+the+dome

Shannon Nutt

Trust me, if they were being more loyal to the structure of the book, this series would be A LOT better. Problem is though, if they're loyal to the book, the show will only run 13 episodes, and CBS wants an ongoing series out of this.

Kdogg

What stops them from following the book this season and then branching out the next season? Different city and different people. I thought that would be the only way to keep it going.

Lifepawn

Watching the last match burn out while she had the perfectly flammable matchbox in her other hand (not to mention clothes and whatever else they had) was so stupid I'm out based on just that. Maybe I'll read the book someday once I can do so without any associations to the badly written/acted characters on this show.

Geofferson

I agree the third episode was marginally better than the second. I liked the shout out to The Simpsons movie (which I don't think was in the book), but that's about it.

Xiroteus

That would seriously be it. This concept for one town does not lend itself to several seasons.

Rob V

If you don't care for Junior

OldDude

No, REALLY stupid is saying "this is the last match," lighting it, then standing there talking while it burns out, instead of walking towards the exit.

Ropes Pierre

I think it is very clever foreshadowing, to show everyone has already lost their damn minds.

we don't know when gas will ever be available again? i know, i will drive to follow junior and then drive back, even though my entire world isn't bigger than the length of this town and i can walk. who wants to take a road trip to the other side of the dome?

Giles

he's the type of character you know that in a King 'movie' he'd meet a great gory demise.

granted it's not King, but Spielberg had it right sense to produce a mini-series formatted show: Taken for the Sci-Fi Channel in 2002 - with a definite ending and set number of episodes (ten).

Joe Schmoe

I enjoyed tonight's episode more than last week's episode about teens searching for a way to charge their electronic devices, but that's not saying much since this show disappoints on many levels. Maybe the chained up girl will now get out of the bunker and that storyline can move on.

DJariya

Ditto. Thought this was a much better episode than the last 2 weeks. Even though it was meningitis, at least now the dome presented some kind of widespread threat to the town.

Also, Barbie kinda told the truth to Julia. At least she was finally smart enough to put 2 and 2 together after finding the map.

Are we finally moving away from Junior and Angie? Hmmm, wonder what Big Jim does? I would be really annoyed if he continues to keep Angie hostage to protect his kid.

OldDude

I was ready to see Angie drown to end the damned storyline, but I guess not.

Dan1boy

I think I'm done with this now. It's not as adult or edgy as I would have preferred. I watched the first two eps. and now it's a chore.

I don't like feeling like watching and/or committing to a show is a 'chore'. Life's too short.

Rob V

Hollywood always thinking their smarter than the source material

Dan

Yeah, this episode wasn't phenomenal, but had its share of creepy moody moments that I enjoyed. The dialog really needs some work, though. Samantha Mathis' character (one of the moms of the teenage girl) had a really stupid moment where she specifically didn't finish a sentence for 'dramatic effect' but it made me want to scream.

I figured when she mentioned that Junior told her about their fight, Barbie would clarify that Junior was the crazy one. She still believes that Barbie started it, doesn't she?

I think Big Jim will leave her there or kill her himself. No way he lets her free, though. That would make HIM look bad because he'd have to explain that his son is a crazy person, and Big Jim has way too much pride for that.

I told my wife that that storyline was WAY more fucked up in the book... but I wouldn't explain it to her. I told her she had to read it.