Under The Dome

[Jason The Great]

I just started this tv series and it sucks like .....!!!:mad:

I mean it had good casting , but it lacks a good story. I read a few chapter of its book , written by Stephen King and it was better than the show.

Did you watch it?
You like it?

[James Dean]

No because the idea is pretty old and already used. A city under a protected bubble or force we've already saw that. The Simpsons Movie did it, and a few other things did it to. I saw the first episode and didn't like it.

I don't know about the book though. I like Stephen King but I didn't read that one. Perhaps the book is better?

[DeadEyes]

Haven't started watching it but I want to, I'm curious and well, I got a crush on Colin Ford, hehe.

[Karkat]

Books are usually better than the movies/tv shows they spawn.

[JamesSuperBoy]

I prefer books -

[president1234]

I liked it D: lol I'm just not a reader anymore, I get bored at times with it but I liked the concept.

[dame]

Read the book & watched the show, both are pretty good imo.

[Dalcourt]

I read the book...and watched the show now and then...both had there positive and negative moments, so I'm quite undecided on it which is better.

[SethfromMI]

i have amazon prime so i might watch it at some point

[phuckphace]

I read the book, it was tl;dr and full of corny political moralizing from King. the ending was anti-climactic and that's annoying after you've spent a month slogging through all 9001 pages.

honestly not surprised to hear that the show sucks too.

[Emerald Dream]

I read the book, it was tl;dr and full of corny political moralizing from King. the ending was anti-climactic and that's annoying after you've spent a month slogging through all 9001 pages.


This, in a nutshell. I read the book, and I actually thought the first 90% of it was good. The ending, however, was so unbelievably craptacular that it ruined the whole book. Not going to exactly spoil it for anyone who wants to read it, but the ending to this book had absolutely nothing at all to do with the rest of the story.

I haven't watched an episode of the show because I was afraid they would do the same thing with it. I am actually shocked that they are planning on doing a third season of it. I mean, really...with the actual plot of the book (which I am going to have to assume they really strayed greatly from), isn't this beating a dead horse at this point? How much can you actually do with it without being incredibly repetitive?

[DeadEyes]

I'm just not a reader anymore, I get bored at times with it but I liked the concept.

I'm not much of a reader either, that's when I get bored, when reading.

The ending, however, was so unbelievably craptacular that it ruined the whole book.

Well, that's not much of an encouragement to watch it, haha.

But,
everytimes I see the adds on TV and it's a sequence of a scene with Colin Ford, it makes me want to watch it anyway, hehe.

[phuckphace]

*spoilers ahead*


I don't know if King is just getting old or it's some combination of that + all the coke he snorted back in the 80s, but the quality of his writing seems to have really taken a turn for the worse within the last decade. the whole plot of Under the Dome is an example of what I mean...King spends the first thousand or so pages giving us all the banal details of who's the scumbag (the rednecks, of course) who's having sex with who and who's dying violently by wrecking their vehicle into the dome, and at the end we find out that it was a teenage alien using an alien Apple TV to fuck with one tiny little town in Maine. I understand that King was trying to make a political point or two with the story, but you can do that with a more compact, plausible and well-written story too.

11/22/63 was far more interesting to me for obvious reasons. I thought that book was hilarious because you can tell that King was trying to delicately balance his nostalgia for the 1950s and 60s with his fear of being called racist (it's harder than you think). enjoy the utopia, dear readers, just not too much!

[Starling City]

I binge-watched the first season in June and I liked it, but I haven't watched any of the second season. It's kind of hard to watch at some points: occasional bad acting, unbelievable plot points, etc. However, it's one of those shows you watch regardless because it's ultimately entertaining, lol.