'Under The Dome' Ratings

[Dave (imported)]

I did watch SHARKNADO on SyFy.

If I said it was awful, that would be too much praise for the movie.

But some nights I need a good wallow with tornado aimed sharks eating Los Angelinos and through car roofs and a tiny helicopter ending three F4 tornadoes. Violates every law of physics both newtonian and quantum...

There are worse things happening in my house (just don't ask for details. I can see the TV from the throne room.)

[A-1 (imported)]

TV is a wasteland in many cases.

However, that is the fault of diversity of human-kind. Let us face it. There are people WATCHING this mind-numbing programming. (Or should I say MINDLESS?) There can be NO accounting for the depth and breadth of human taste and what they do for entertainment.

Or... perhaps I should say the shallowness and narrowness...?

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

It sounds like Under The Dome is just about what I would expect from something Stephen King is involved with. --FLO--

[A-1 (imported)]

It sounds like Under The Dome is just about what I would expect from something Stephen King is involved with. --FLO--

Yes?

Does he make a cameo appearance in this one, too? I "usually" enjoy a good Steven King movie plot, it is just that this Dome thing is a Dumb thing to me... certainly nothing that should have ever been a mini-series..

[Dave (imported)]

Tonight was Meningitis and secrets night...

With shotguns, broken water pipes, revelations and more secrets

[moi621 (imported)]

I will DVR it and watch Siberia.

[nullorchis (imported)]

the story lacks dimension by not switching to people and events on the outside of the dome. The dome itself just escapes any kind of understandability. The people are predictable. Warehouse 13 mucho mucho better. Reminds me of Waiting For Godot. Still waiting.

[A-1 (imported)]

.............we already wasted too much space discussing this one!!!

[Paolo]

I gave up on King with "The Dark Tower" series. I never even finished it. It just went on and on and on, and the wait for the next book was insane.

As River and I have discussed, no more reading those "work in progress" releases.

[Dave (imported)]

I didn't pick up THE DARK TOWER series.

Stephen R. Donaldson's The ILLEARTH Series burned me for multi-book stories a number of years before and I just refused to start with THE DARK TOWER.

I like a beginning, middle, and end to my novels. Wrap that story up to a climax and give it a point. AS much as I liked THE LORD OF THE RINGS, I thought it was one big story and not three books. I thought it badly needed and editor and a focus but in those days such things were not done to authors.

I think that there is a great danger in THE DOME (TV series) if they want a second year.

We are already seeing medicine shortages in the series and I suspect food is next. The "expanse" of THE DOME does not cover sufficient land, livestock or whatever to maintain a thriving community. Not many days have passed since THE DOME appeared. creating a story that compacted by THE DOME is a challenge that I am not sure will extend to a second season.