'Under the Dome" coming to CBS summer '13
Hopefully the series won't fizzle out toward the end the way that the novel did...
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I'd have preferred a 1 off series, but willing to see how they spin it.
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Great book, decent ending but it seemed a little abrupt. You know? It just wasn't wrapped up like it should've been.
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I think it'd be hard to wrap something up with a bow, nice and neat... after you created this whole other world in your own mind. I mean, you'd kinda want it to continue. Hell of a writer though. There's a reason he's so well known. I've been reading his stuff since I was a kid. |
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Under the Dome's ending was okay. IT still has the worst Stephen King ending of all time.
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The book was great, (although a little depressing). Remember, the turtle couldn't help us... |
The Dome's ending pissed me off because it worked its way up after a thousand pages to the absolute apex then it just ****ing ended. It was building forever then...blammo! Shot to shit.
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Under The Dome was the only King book that I couldn't finish. If the series is going to deviate from the book like mentioned, I may go ahead and watch this.
As for It, I caught the mini-series the other day and decided to reread the book for the first time since the early '90's. I'm about 100 pages from the end. It's insane how good this book is though I remember the ending being a let down. The best ending of a King novel since the early days was in 11/22/63, which is funny because King says in the end notes that his son Joe Hill suggested the ending and he changed it to Hill's recommendation. Maybe Hill should do that for every King novel from here on out. |
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Under was extremely long and so-so. Like every King work it had amazingly memorable characters like Baawwwbbiee and Big Jim Rennie.
I liked it and it's ending was ok compared to a lot of his works. I'm sure you could take that incredible set of characters and create something amazing. We'll see, he's definitely sold a lot of his properties away to be crapped on. Oddly, I felt like Cell was one of Kings more marketable movies in recent years. Really good and fits into a popular demographic. |
This is going to be awful. They should have done 11-22-63 as a miniseries instead.
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My favorite King read is still Salem's Lot but damn they did a horrible job on the mini-series and not once but twice.
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I just got tired of dedicating hours to a book and then he'd spent 20 pages wrapping it up when earlier in the book he'd spend 30 pages sending a character to get a glass of milk. Maybe that's why I wasn't as annoyed the the Dark Tower series; he never really bothered trying to end them. The only times I've ever felt like he did a decent job ending stories is in his short story compilations. Otherwise I feel like he just gets tired of writing, kills some folks and calls it a day. |
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Just a friendly reminder, the premiere's monday.
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Hrm. Maybe it doesn't suck:
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A friend of mine tells me to read Under the Dome but I just can't. |
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Fortunately that's one of the things the TV series is changing. |
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PISSED...ME...OFF! crappy, stupid, far fetched, unrealistic reeruned story. I know I know....it's SK....it's supernatural....so how could you expect realism? I say no way in hell people behave and do the things they did in the book. it was just simply DUMB. and the ending.....ARE YOU KIDDING ME! so thank GOD they are supposed to change it for the TV version. but....even if they improve the ending....if they follow the book very closely, and often times the book gets the shaft like with the Jack Nicholson version of the shining, but if they follow the book closely, this is gonna suck imo. but it's SK....so my stupid ass is gonna sit there and watch it. PS - coolest SK quote I've ever come across. in his book 11/22/63 (a pretty good read) he describes our world as follows... A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark. |
I don't read SK novels - tried but don't like them - at all.
However, I may give this a watch tonight. |
My favorite ones of his are Dead Zone, Salem's Lot and Skeleton Crew. Carrie, Misery and the Shining are also good. I also really liked the Running Man story - I wish they'd remake that closer to the story than that goofy movie they made. It could be a really dark cool movie.
It's probably been 18 years since I read anything of his though. |
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good stuff. |
oh.....Cujo is a great read and a TURD of a movie. they took out almost every supernatural aspect of the story when they made the movie. the book is sooooo much better.
my next bullmastiff is gonna be named Cujo. done deal. |
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anyone remember the show where the coach from the Friday Night Lights series would get a newspaper every morning that was from the future. every episode he'd try to stop something bad from happening, something that was reported in the newspaper from the future. didn't last long.... EDIT - found it. Early Edition His name is Gary Hobson. He gets tomorrow's newspaper today. He doesn't know how. He doesn't know why. All he knows is when the early edition hits his doorstep, he has twenty-four hours to set things right. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115163/ |
I'm cautiously optimistic on this one. Network TV typically fails on these shows that require a real story or they get cancelled. The reviews seem positive. If it's successful they'll likely try to stretch it into way too many seasons though.
The book is long but I honestly think it could be a 2 season show easily. |
anyone think the book was good?
just curious. I've been pretty clear that I thought it was garbage. |
I liked the book.
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I was really excited when Falling Skies first came out but that show just dragged on and on with much of most of the episodes not really having anything happen. I have that fear of this show even though when I first saw previews in the theaters I was pretty excited for it. |
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Agree with you on the ending of The Mist, too. |
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Could be. It's a long-ass book. It wasn't my favorite King novel by any stretch. But I was really drawn into the world. And I loved the characters (even the ones I hated). But King's always been good at that stuff. |
I've said a number of times (in other threads) that I really like the book until the last 100 pages. Then it's just a disaster.
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I liked episode one a lot. So far so good.
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Haven't gotten around to reading the book yet. Liked the first episode tonight though.
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Is the production value better than Jericho?
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King books always better than movie/miniseries...still nice to see something other than reruns...
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Much like me playing chess, his endgame sucks. |
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however....if you've never seen The Shining mini series with Steve Weber playing the father.....it's really really good and follows the book to a T. I liked the first Dome episode. still hate the book though. |
That was okay, but the damn crazy teen angst shit almost killed the whole hour for me. I can't handle 13 weeks of that.
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speaking of which....any a you's that read the book.... I can't remember....
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That's why I said "crazy teen angst".
I haven't given the book a second look, so I'm not sure I remember everything, but I don't think Shumway was married, and Dale Barbara definitely didn't kill anyone as I recall. (None of that bothers me...) I think the main thing is that the actors portraying Junior and Angie just sucked.
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This was bad.
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I'm a huge SK fan. I have all of his books and have read many of them more than once. Yeah most of his endings leave a lot to be desired but I think he writes like the Brothers Grimm, it's the story itself that's important not the happily ever after part. That being said the book ending to Under the Dome was quite stupid. I think where he gets in trouble is that he's writing away and suddenly realizes that he has a page limit on his stories so he has to hurriedly wrap them up.
The first episode of Under the Dome will have me watching the next. I knew that CBS wouldn't want necrophilia in this episode and am not surprised with the direction that was taken. Will probably watch the entire miniseries or as long as it airs. |
Wait, at the end was Lapidus shot or did his pacemaker explode out of his chest?
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Pacemaker exploded. At least that's what happened in the book.
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It was okay and I'll keep watching but it suffered from some of the same things the book did, like how some people became insanely evil the instant the dome came up. I'm not a fan of how they've changed Barbie, either. He was the only decent character in the book, imo.
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when I saw that Fahey was the sheriff I was like......ahh man! they really gonna waste him on one episode?? so when he was initially in close proximity to the dome and didn't touch it I thought, hey, maybe they will let him live! because they GOTTA tweak this story somehow or it's gonna be a turd like the book.
nope. he touched it. I was like.... <object width="16" height="16" class="hark_player"> <param name="movie" value="http://cdn.hark.com/swfs/player_16x16.swf?pid=ltvxqhshtv"/> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/> <param name="allownetworking" value="all"/> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/> <embed src="http://cdn.hark.com/swfs/player_16x16.swf?pid=ltvxqhshtv" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" width="16" height="16" wmode="transparent"></embed> |
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it'll be interesting to watch Hank from breaking bad and see how he behaves. |
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I'm fairly certain he did not do this in the book.....right? |
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hahahaha I looked in the spoiler rather than the body of the post. oops. |
I watched it lastnight, not bad. Loved the cow getting split in half lol
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Here is a letter from Stephen King on the T.V Series
http://www.stephenking.com/promo/utd_on_tv/letter.html |
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I loved this "(besides, plenty of readers didn’t like my solution, anyway)" amen brother....amen! LMAO |
that redhead is so damn hot.
those soldiers are apparently so damn GAY! (you guys see last night - you know what I'm talking about? I'da probably saved the day cause I'da put a frankotank shaped hole in the dome getting to her nekked ass!!! :hump: ) that preacher is so damn dumb. I keep wondering if necrophilia is gonna show up...... |
The writing is pretty poor. I feel sorry for Hank, coming from Breaking Bad to this.
Most of the characters are just cardboard caricatures at this point. |
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But man, "Junior" is awful. |
This... show... is... awful. Just awful.
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Hot redhead. Otherwise, horrid.
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lady cop, to the crazy cop holding a pump shotgun - "Put down thay rifle!"
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It's on CBS...of course it's safe and boring.
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ahh....there it is....the turdfest that was the book is truly rearing it's ugly head in this most recent crapisode.
cause hey......yeah we are gonna die down here if we don't find a way out...but let's shoot the shit while my last match burns out. oh...by the way....how much stuff you think there is around us, including clothing we are wearing, that is readily available for burning? ah the hell with it...let's talk! |
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I was very disappointed in many things about it...the hedge animals are just badass, yet left out in place of a stupid hedge maze.....but the ENDING was just so ****ed up in the movie I about blew a gasket. they simply took a ton of incredibly heart felt emotion...and threw it in the trash. the book & Steven Weber ending just makes you want to cry man! it's so ****ing AWESOME.
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