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Based on the 2009 Stephen King's novel by the same title ("The Simpsons did it!" :P); 13 episodes, the series will start airing on June 24th on CBS at 10pm.

http://www.stephenking.com/promo/utd_on_tv/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Dome_(TV_series)

Official extended trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_J_iF83YUY

- Stephen King and the TV series author, Lost's Brian K. Vaughn, already stated that the ending will be different from the book (yeah well...I can imagine :P). And yes, by the look of the preview alone, (and the backstory of some characters from the casting news) there will be quite a few changes; but, just like in the book, they stated they want to focus on the characters and their struggle during the crisis.

Hope to what ?

Nothing, a leftover from my alzheimer crisis :P (edited)

Interesting.  I thought the book was okay, but it did have some problems.  Including the ending.  But also, he didn't do a very good job with the main character, so I imagine they will tighten that up.

Anyway, I will watch it.  One of those things that might be better for TV than it was for a book.

I hope the show has as much inceptionhorn as the trailer.

Libertarians wet dream!

Hot red head helps.

Everything is better with a hot redhead.

Truth. I semi-watched A Gifted Man and Off the Map for Hot Redhead. Off the Map also had Caroline Dhavernas in it who isn't a hot redhead but I've liked her since Wonderfalls.

Excited!

(NO SPOILERS about the book  or the events of the pilot)

I watched the pilot and I think it was good for a summer TV show. If you are a book reader, pretend it's a story that vaguely resembles the book: names, places, the main plot device, are all there, but everything is mixed up, especially when it comes to the characters' background.

Some dialogues felt a bit rushed and generic: if you're not betting on a huge blockbuster (say, like GOT), you have to immediately grab the attention of the viewers, establishing who's who and so on as quickly as you can, but of course you lose depth while doing that.

Still, I think the writers made a decent job in giving us the sense of community of this place, and hopefully it will only get better (more space to develop the various side stories of the characters) now that the pilot is set aside.

Angie is  :heart:

And yeah, it will be interesting to spot the similarities with the book as the show goes on, but really, they're two ENTIRELY different beasts.

Nice ratings:
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/06/25/updated-nationals-under-the-dome-posts-increases-in-viewers-adults-18-49/189011/

How many times can the same idea be recycled?  A book, you say?  I hope King chokes on something.

Judging from the history of writing?  Infinite.

Show was interesting enough to get me to watch the premiere.  Knowing it's only 13 episodes alleviates most of my fears; specifically that this was going to turn in to your usual HollywoodTV "Well we've got to keep it running forever" series.  Anything more than a season would have been clown shoes.

Enjoyed the Pilot, but it is likely going so typically Stephen King you can almost make a drinking game out of it. I think the only thing out of his repertoire I didn't catch yet is the "Noble (ex)-addict" and the persons with prophetic visions don't seem to have any disabilities.

I assume this dome isn't a dome, but a sphere yes?

Thats presumed, but they haven't tested that theory yet, meaning nobody tried to dig under it.

 :facepalm:

From what I read on another website, during the next episode someone will try to dig under it.

Also, here's a message from Stephen King regarding the (big) differences between the movie and the book. Beware, there are SPOILERS here and there about the book and the TV series, and also about a particular character in the Dark Tower series (nothing major, but you might want to avoid that if you're planning to read the saga) :

http://www.stephenking.com/promo/utd_on_tv/letter.html

Viewers Choices for the 100 things (more or less) learned from CBS’ Under the Dome

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/298993_Viewers_Choices_for_the_100_th

1. When making an “Emergency Alert Broadcast”, don’t mention the gigantic invisible sheet of glass across the road, just tell people to stop their cars immediately for no reason. That’ll work
2. Just focus on car drivers in your “Emergency Alert”, because no harm could possibly come to others: ATV, motorcycle, or off-roading, horse riders, cyclists, farm trucks. And don’t advise anyone to walk around and check on neighbors or put up warning signs.
3. After trying to talk through the barrier fails, making gestures and touching hands together is the only form of communication possible through a transparent wall, even though it was proven that people on the other side can, in fact, read a note that you show them.
4. After failing to communicate verbally fails, make no further attempt to communicate with the people on the other side. In fact, ignore them completely.
5. Cows are composed of homogeneous red meat with barely discernible bones or internal organs
6. Do not attempt to investigate the barrier, by digging, hitting, shooting, blowing up or whatever. That kind of thing cannot be done on the first day of a disaster.
7. Sheriff’s deputies always look like Jo Lupo from “Eureka”
11. Cars spinning their wheels in the woods make ashphalt-squealing sounds
12. Cars slowing gently to a stop make panic-stop screaching sounds
13. Don’t let a day full of disaster & unanswered questions interfere with your usual firelight-teen-gathering-and-hanging-out on the bridge
15. All external and INTERNAL doors of a shelter must be boltable from the outside. Make sure there is no possible way of escaping from the inside of a shelter.
16. Having a logo on the screen saying “You are watching: Under The Dome”, while you are watching “Under The Dome”, is necessary to avoid that awful feeling that you may have accidentally started watching “Dancing With The Stars”
23. That by the end of the third episode(max), I will have lost all interest in the town’s “dirty little secrets” and “who-is-sleeping-with-who,” and started wondering how long its going to take the writers to start dealing with the main issue. Do they really think they will keep our interest week after week with the afore-mentioned “human drama?”
24. That by the end of the second episode, I can probably get a preview of “coming attractions” by reading the Cliffs Notes version of “Lord of the Flies.”
25. The military doesn’t want to talk to anyone. The dome causes shyness.
32. One little cut on a stranger’s head is suspicious at a plane crash site when some supernatural dome has just trapped you.
35. you don’t cry when you hear that 12 people from your neighbourhood died, you just “oooooooooooooh”
39. That half a small town is a douche bag. (Sheriff is hiding something, car dealership guy makes threats, eye witnesses that don’t want to get involved, kids that want to party when friends and parents have died, husbands that do dirty dealings, contract killers, stalker boyfriends, etc..I could go on)
42. The dome does not act like a magnifying glass and cause fires or alters/distort light filtering through even though it has weird curving angles. Magic
50. Never take flying lessons in a small town in Maine.
51. College is a pyramid scheme.
52. You take all of your fire engines out of town for a parade and leave your town helpless to fires.
60. Out of town folks can find the Sheriff, even though they don’t live there.
61.Never try to manipulate your psycho boyfriend by play acting. Crazy people are far too shrewd.
62.Butterfly knifes and leather coats are all the rage with the kids these days. Each set comes with complementary bomb shelter. That locks from the outside.
63. The most prudent course of action is always to touch the invisible cow killing wall with your hand.
65. For some reason 99% of anything made into a movie or TV show based on a Stephen King novel is terrible.
69. They are having a parade outside of town while everybody is still in town.
70. Cows move so fast they can appear all over the road, seconds after being nowhere in sight.
72. After a plane crashes, it is perfectly safe and sensible to stand in the burning wreckage.
76. The best way to flirt with a strange man is to tell a terrifyingly freaky story about cannibal goldfish in your bedroom voice.
78. Sex in Chester’s Mill lasts less than 20 seconds. (no wonder its a small town)
80. There is only 1 black man in Chester’s Mill.
83. By getting a shock when you touch the dome and yelling in pain you feel the need to touch it again.
87. Intelligent questions will be asked - “If this thing just appeared out of thin air, do you think maybe it’ll disappear too?” Which will be answered equally intelligently - “Yeah maybe.”
92. Domes and pacemakers are incompatible.
98. When you set papers on fire and put them in a trashcan it’s completely normal to be surprised when the curtains catch on fire after you kick the can over to them.
99. It’s understandable to be surprised as to how fast everything in the house catches on fire after kicking a fiery can over to curtains. Obviously the house is coated in gasoline.
101. The dome is a sieve.
103. Never try to set something on fire while saying the magic words “God works in mysterious ways.”
104. DJs who look like Lenny Kravitz are allowed to ask stupid questions like “Well who did then?”, to people who clearly do not know the answer and they will not be told to *beep* off.
106. The room you first set fire to in a house is not necessarily the first room to burn down.
107. Make sure you yell “STOP” 10 times to the digger driver who has already stopped. You just never know what they might do. Those crazy digger drivers.
112. No one gets injured by shrapnel when a propane tank explodes.
113. When finding important documents in someone else’s house, make sure you burn the house down. Don’t take the papers with you and destroy them safely.
117. Watching “Under the Dome” for any period longer than five minutes is a sure sign that the batteries in your remote have died.
119. After telling your sister, “We’re on our own,” you don’t worry when she disappears.
120. Adding “the hell” after every single one of your who/what/when/where/why questions makes you sound tough and no-nonsense.
133. Priests are natural pickpockets
134. Walls burn like they’re soaked in gasoline
135. When stocking up so you can profiteer later, three packs of smokes are enough.
136. While trying to put out a fire that threatens the whole town, drive across town, get the end-loader you don’t have keys for, then instead of digging a fire break around the house, tear it down

So here I thought this show was going to be a mini-series and would thus have some kind of end when this run was over.  It was really the only chance the series had to be any good, since it's the kind of premise that will get very old, very fast.  But no, let's milk this thing. (http://tv.yahoo.com/news/cbs-under-dome-renewed-second-season-153355398.html)  There is absolutely no chance this show will have any kind of satisfying ending now.  It's too bad because I like Dean Norris.

Fuck.  I was only watching this train wreck so I could see the crash at the end.  Guess I can stop now.   :uhrr:

I saw the first episode and bits and pieces of a couple more because my sister was watching.  I gave up on it when I saw the red velvet cowcake.  I don't know who Dean Norris is but if I ever liked him, I probably don't anymore.  Do actors not question the silliness and inconsistencies in scripts?  Maybe that's why I see so many actors that I THOUGHT I liked suddenly turn into dumb asses who deserve my derision.  You can't blame everything on just the writers.  People should know better.

Ok, now I know who Dean Norris (guy from Breaking Bad) and I thought he was okay but I'm good with liking him less now.

We got through 2 episodes of this before we had to stop because we were in danger of causing brain damage to ourselves from facepalming so much.

Same.  I think CBS is overestimating how much of their audience remained viewing only for closure and to see how it paralleled the novel.  Now that I know none's coming I can take it off the DVR.

clownshoes.

Under the Dome(s)^TM - Human Drama in a hundred small US towns

I'm seriously annoyed.  I'm watching it solely to see it end.  A second season?  How is THAT going to work short of just dragging everything out FOREVER...?

NUtD: Miami starring Danny Bonaduce and Kelsey Grammer.  You heard it here first.

So it's actually pretty close to the book then.

I'm reading the book now instead of watching the show. I found it in a Goodwill in hardback for $2.50.

There's a chance I got ripped off.

You are being a bit harsh.  The book is very consistent with King's style.  The resolution is never the point with him.  It is all about how humans are fucking shits to each other in a crisis for the most part.

I'm halfway through. The characters just aren't up to par with some I've seen in other crisis books of his. The Stand, The Dark Tower, The Long Walk, etc.

It's better than Dreamcatcher though. Yeesh.

Agreed, but as someone that does the small town thing, it was easy for me to point to people in my community as ones I could identify as characters from the book. We certainly have the guy(s) that like to think they're the big fish in the small pond, and boy are they assholes.

Season 2 premier last night. Wow. I think we may have actually hit a new low in utterly absurd ignorance of physics.
On top of that, looks like they decided to kill off
Not impressed.

I get magnets and batteries confused all the time.  The floor around my fridge is covered in AAs. 

I finished the book last year. If the show holds anything like the book I'm not sure they can put it on TV without fans firebombing the network.

Agreed, the book was absolute utter rubbish. King's writing took a bad turn a long time ago - I think the only book of his I've read recently ($1.50 at a book recyclers) and remotely enjoyed was Hearts in Atlantis  and even then I didn't think it was on par with his early work. The Dome had an interesting premise but then he lost the plot completely and while I forced myself to finish it ($1.50 remember) I just didn't give a shit at the end. Watched the first episode of the TV series- they captured the book completely.

Now that Revolution has been mercifully cancelled, this show is the dumbest drama on network television.

I watched the season premiere with low expectations, but I was surprised... that they were not low enough.  Horrible story, horrible science, horrible acting (from people capable of much better acting), and horrible story paths.  I'd like to see this show canceled now so that these actors can find new roles in better shows.  Regardless, I'd hoped that they'd refocus in season 2 in a better direction.  That is clearly not happenning, so I'm going to let the door hit my butt on the way out.