Episode (I don't remember the number) "IN THE DARK"

Today was so wonderful that I almost watched nothing tonight. (that was sarcasm, depressed sarcasm, but sarcasm nonetheless)

A) There's a big hole under the High School.

B) there's a dust storm

C) the pink stars are back

A very information episode.

And there is a Typhoon heading to Hawaii, should be here Thursday. That sounds much better then this under the dome your watching.

River

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:09 am And there is a Typhoon heading to Hawaii, should be here Thursday. That sounds much better then this under the dome your watching.

River

I must admit that the first year was better. Whatever is happening "under the dome" this year seems to be written "avant guard" or "ala carte" . . .

The story is there but isn't coherent yet. There can't be a mini-disaster every week that the characters respond to - think magnetism, red rain, dust, and whatever else hits the town next week.

I have a relative who loves PENNY DREADFUL (which appears on ShowTime) but I got to see the initial episode thanks to the way COMCAST introduced the show. IT has every dark Victorian villain or monster in it -- Frankenstein, werewolves, vampires, various forms of demonic possessions, JAck the Ripper (maybe), and more -- It tired me out to watch the first episode. My relative loves it. But I think it si like a Chinese menu - one from column a, one from column b, one from column c and like James Bond - shake but don't stir.

There's another show out there titled THE STRAIN.

I watched the first two episodes (well all of the first and half of the second) - IT's a gross out of blood and gore. Some of the characters act stupid and others are fantastical geniuses of evil. Some thnk it is the best "vampire" story since Anne Rice. I got bored. Not my thing. IT actually is a new take on vampires. Give it credit for that.

I think THE DOME required a second season and that whatever the writers planned is not as compelling as the first.

But that's just me. I'll finish out THE DOME and see what happens.

It won't be the first TV show that I lost interest in after an initial enjoyment. It won't be the last.

Episode 7 - Going Home

Oh blithering numb nuts

That's all I'm going to say or I might reveal spoilers.

Episode 8 Awakening.

This week opens with an extreme closeup of a huge pink, fleshy knoll.

I was hoping it was Mons Veneris but no such luck. It's the top of Big Jim's Bald Head.

So let's see - there is something outside the dome and we are learning about it.

Why does the alcoholic paramedic's hand shake when he's giving the crazy man a shot of "psycho-normalizing" drugs for funnsies?

Sherry Stringfield suddenly showed up in the show - you remember Sherry as Dr Susan Lewis in ER? She was married to Dr Greene (Anthony Edwards)

Episode 9 - THE RED DOOR

There is a red door. (not the link but still it's a door: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aLOuvRT9wA )

The young hand of one of our heroes is on it from when he was a child.

It never touched an old piano, either. (none of you even have a clue about that joke)

It's all linked together. I see the hand of god -(No that GOD, but Stephen King)

Evil Overlord tip: when you're trying to communicate with the big bad leader, don't listen to the first flunky that shows up at your door - tell him go blow away like a impotent leaf he is and to summon the boss.

BTW - GREEN DOOR (The movie) is cousin to DEEP THROAT. They were the first of the PORN CHIC movies to go big time and introduce explicit movies to American Audiences. It has nothing to do with UNDER THE DOME. What it did have was a 7 minute long money shot. But that doesn't tell us anything about the inhabitants of Chester's Mills.

Yes, Deep Throat a classic. reminds me of all the Linda Lovelace jokes.

Thanks for the memory.

River

I'm glad nobody caught the grand spoiler I put in that post.

Let's say that it's an alice in wonderland moment.

(as for GREEN DOOR and DEEP THROAT - - a) I always thought "Rin Tin Tin Gets In" was better. b) the men always wore socks. I wonder why. c) I"m watching the movie, what do you think? is a story I should tell sometime. d) In terms of cheesy, incredibly cheesy horror movies the best title goes to "Sorority Babes at the SlimeBall Bowlerama" is my favorite. Awful movie, though. e) "Russian Babes of the Hot Houses" is not a porn movie you want to see. Well, unless you want to see that much blubber jiggle and spank. f) The Canadian adaptation of HOGFATHER was on TV last weekend. g) Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles, SyFy channel is going to show a STAR TREK marathon on Labor Day. Like no one has ever seen the movies on Cable before. . . sarcasm alert, h) I"m tired and want to sleep.

Episode 10: THE FALL

I'm anticipating the Stephen King twist.

From reading his novels, King structures the story with an initial horror that begins to affect his characters and takes the reader through the middle part of the story to explain that horror. He usually does his climax in two parts. The first part of the climax is some sort of predicament that affects all of the characters and the second part of the climax ups the ante on the horror.

Let me explain it this way -

In THE SHINING the predicament is being stranded in the resort and the main characters descent into madness and the ax murders. The second part of the climax comes in the hero's vision of the evil that lives in the resort. IT's in the book and rather poorly done in the movie.

Or in CARRIE, which is one of the creepiest stories written - the story is set up with the taunting of Carrie at High School and then the audience's anticipation of something we know to be horrible and nasty. The first part of the climax is the prom. It's a dandy prom. The second part, the revealing the ultimate face of evil is that sign that appears on the empty lot at the very end of the book with the scrawl (do the invisible text thing and highlight it you want to read it)

- "Carrie White Lives in Hell" -

And that is the knife stab into the mind of the reader.

One more example: not a Stephen King Story:

THE ABOMINABLE DR PHIBES: The setup is that Phibes is seeking revenge. The murders are almost comic they are so devilish and evil and just plain entertaining. We see the curses play out one by one and it's really a delight to see all this horror flung around so causally. Then comes time for the final curse and Doctor's son. Phibes explains what the device will do and to illustrate it he removes his makeup and reveals that in the business is called "the face of ultimate horror" and suddenly, the killings are no longer cartoonish but deathly serious.

That is what I'm trying to figure out in UNDER THE DOME. The setup is that the dome came. The predicament now is revealed in this episode THE FALL. Part one of the climax.

NOTE: Don't think you can watch just this episode. You can't There is a learning curve in the prior episodes .

I'm not sure what is going to happen in the next episodes that will reveal something more horrific, some truth (King always uses some twisted version of the truth to ramp up the horror), something that involves the Dome and the Egg and the four hands.

So what is the true horror of Chester's Mills - why is everyone tied to everyone else in the past and in the present?

Gee,

...no political comments about domes...