"Under The Dome" TV series

[zxcvbob]

ripoff of the Simpsons Movie?

[TommyGunn]

Based on a book.   No idea where the author got his idea from.

[Fitz]

Based off a Stephen king book of the same name

[Marnoot]

ripoff of the Simpsons Movie?

That's the first thought I had when I saw the promo 

[Stand_watie]

That's the first thought I had when I saw the promo 

"...Simpson's did it, Simpson's did it!..."

[RoadKingLarry]

"...Simpson's did it, Simpson's did it!..."

I didn't do it, nobody saw me, you can't prove anything.

Either way I've got the DVR set to record it. I'll give it an episode or two to see if it is worth the time waste.

[freakazoid]

Read the book and loved it. Hopefully this stays true.

[HankB]

From the coming attractions, it looks like a clear dome drops over a small community, trapping everyone inside.

Aside from the Simpsons movie, wasn't this concept used previously? Maybe not with a dome, but isolating a small community has been done before. (Maybe an old episode of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits?)

[Jamisjockey]

The Truman show.  Except everyone was actors except Truman, and he didn't know there was a dome over the town.

[Fitz]

difference is, this dome appeared out of nowhere (wasn't dropped in the book, as i recall. just was suddenly there.) and seemed to be supernatural in origin. Disappeared wihtout a trace and no explanation, IIRC

[mtnbkr]

There was some sort of explanation, but I won't reveal it due to spoilers...

Chris

[Fitz]

Pm me. I forgot

[RoadKingLarry]

Didn't suck out loud. I'll give it a few more episodes.

[RevDisk]

There was some sort of explanation, but I won't reveal it due to spoilers...

Chris

Eta kuram na smekh?

[CNYCacher]

Eta kuram na smekh?

klaatu barada nikto!

[TommyGunn]

Watched my DVD recording of the pilot this afternoon.
OK.
This has some promise. 
The guy who kidnapped the gal and is keeping her in an old bomb shelter .... he needs a serious attitude adjustment.
And the guy who buried the woman's husband and befriended the wifey .... has some 'splainin' to do....
I wonder if the book is worth reading....King can be hit or miss........

[BlueStarLizzard]

I thought it started out alright. I'm willing to keep going with it at this point.

The dude who put his girl in the bomb shelter has some 'splaning to do, too. He and his dad are involved in this mystery up to their little necks.

I will note that it's got one thing very similar to "OMG! Something SUPERBAD happened in a little town in BFE!!" It seems like they've peppered this town with every "type" of person with insane Drama potentional. But I guess without the soap opera aspect, people would get bored.

[Perd Hapley]

I will note that it's got one thing very similar to "OMG! Something SUPERBAD happened in a little town in BFE!!" It seems like they've peppered this town with every "type" of person with insane Drama potentional. But I guess without the soap opera aspect, people would get bored.

Are there furries?

[RoadKingLarry]

....King can be hit or miss........

Most of King's stories can be summed up with: All/most of the characters die horribly. The ones that don't die horribly are either physically or emotionally scarred for life.

[BlueStarLizzard]

Are there furries?

No, but we have a biracial lesbian couple with a teenage daughter trapped in a small flyover country town when they were just driving through, so I'm guessing that will be the start of some story arcs. Oh, and the daughter apparently has some JD style behavior issues and was heading for some kind of camp.

So, there's your obligitory minority presence on this show.

Affermitive action on tv is annoying and preachy.

[wmenorr67]

So far it has stayed true to the book.

[Gewehr98]

So to learn more about the book version, I went to Wikipedia. The entire story's synopsis is there.

If the television series stays true to the book, then it's really easy to figure out how it's all gonna play out.   

[TommyGunn]

Political undertones

Speaking to Time magazine and The New York Times Book Review regarding the novel's politics, King said:

"I was angry about incompetency. Obviously I'm on the left of center. I didn't believe there was justification for going into the war in Iraq. And it just seemed at the time, that in the wake of 9/11, the Bush Administration was like this angry kid walking down the street who couldn't find whoever sucker punched him, and so turned around and punched the first likely suspect. Sometimes the sublimely wrong people can be in power at a time when you really need the right people. I put a lot of that into the book. But when I started I said, "I want to use the Bush-Cheney dynamic for the people who are the leaders of this town." As a result, you have Big Jim Rennie, the villain of the piece. I got to like the other guy, Andy Sanders. He wasn't actively evil, he was just incompetent—which is how I always felt about George W. Bush. I enjoyed taking the Bush-Cheney dynamic and shrinking it to the small-town level. The last administration interested me because of the aura of fundamentalist religion that surrounded it and the rather amazing incompetency of those two top guys. I thought there is something blackly humorous in it. So in a sense, Under the Dome is an apocalyptic version of The Peter Principle."

Oh just fluffing fantastic -- it has POLITICAL UNDERTONES!!

I wonder if Steven King has any reservations about Obama's ... "competency."   

[Perd Hapley]

Affermitive action on tv is annoying and preachy.

Yes, but we will all learn an important lesson. 

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