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'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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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.
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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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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.
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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....
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