Under The Dome

[rasto]

New show started in America last night, based on the book of the same name by Stephen King. A town in America suddenly gets cut off from the rest of the world by an impenetrable dome. Apparently Channel 5 are showing it over here in the Autumn.

I read the book and enjoyed the first 95% of it but felt that King kind of gave up at the end and wrote a bit of cop out ending, hopefully they will change this for the TV version. From what I have seen of the trailers (and casting) they have captured the feel of the book and it's characters. Like The Stand, the book covers the breakdown of society really well, so I hope they get this right.

[rednotdead]

Excellent. Enjoyed the book so look forward to this. If it's as good as the TV adaptation of The Stand then it should be ok.

[GTIR]

I've already seen this years ago.
Didn't a bloke do a death wall type ride on a motorbike and throw a bomb through a hole at the top of the dome?

It then shattered.

[rasto]

rednotdead said:

Excellent. Enjoyed the book so look forward to this. If it's as good as the TV adaptation of The Stand then it should be ok.

Did you like the ending of the book ? I found it really disappointing, it almost felt like he had reached his word count and just couldn't be bothered to come up with something more imaginative and less clichéd

[rednotdead]

Thinking back it was a bit wet, but then so was the ending of The Stand. One of my all time fav King novellas is The Langoliers but the film was a 'straight to video' piece of ste.

[Grandad Gaz]

rasto said:

Did you like the ending of the book ? I found it really disappointing, it almost felt like he had reached his word count and just couldn't be bothered to come up with something more imaginative and less clichéd

Have to agree. The ending made me wish I hadn't bothered with the previous 900 odd pages!

[P-Jay]

GTIR said:

I've already seen this years ago.
Didn't a bloke do a death wall type ride on a motorbike and throw a bomb through a hole at the top of the dome?

It then shattered.

I'm sure I've seen that. Think the dome caused them all to suffer with Jundice

[rasto]

GTIR said:

I've already seen this years ago.
Didn't a bloke do a death wall type ride on a motorbike and throw a bomb through a hole at the top of the dome?

It then shattered.

This dome has no holes in it, they are completely cut off from the outside world.

[Zod]

They can't dig under the dome?

[rasto]

Zod said:

They can't dig under the dome?

Nope. Don't want to say too much more at the risk of spoiling it - but they do try some pretty extreme things to get through it.

[anonymous-user]

GTIR said:

I've already seen this years ago.
Didn't a bloke do a death wall type ride on a motorbike and throw a bomb through a hole at the top of the dome?

It then shattered.

Was a bit duff.

[Smiler.]

anonymous said:

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Saved by Jebus

[rasto]

Definitely a bit cheesy

[rickf_uk]

I was sure I'd heard the trapped under a dome story before ( and not just the one with the big yellow guy) as a radio play a while ago. After a bit of digging it turns out that a UK author called James Follet was plowing this particular furrow back in the year 2000. Big force field over village / lord of the flies party theme.

I do hope that Mr King has given Mr Follet a nice big credit!

[Killer2005]

rasto said:

This dome has no holes in it, they are completely cut off from the outside world.

Wasn't that the Simpsons movie?

[vx220]

rickf_uk said:

I was sure I'd heard the trapped under a dome story before ( and not just the one with the big yellow guy) as a radio play a while ago. After a bit of digging it turns out that a UK author called James Follet was plowing this particular furrow back in the year 2000. Big force field over village / lord of the flies party theme.

I do hope that Mr King has given Mr Follet a nice big credit!

According to Wikipedia King had been working on it since the 70s...

[Halb]

King's endings do sometimes sorta suck though don't they.


This sounds ace however.

[DavesFlaps]

Grandad Gaz said:

rasto said:

Did you like the ending of the book ? I found it really disappointing, it almost felt like he had reached his word count and just couldn't be bothered to come up with something more imaginative and less clichéd

Have to agree. The ending made me wish I hadn't bothered with the previous 900 odd pages!

Me too. Just finished the book a few weeks ago and was really disappointed with the ending.

Nonetheless, I'll give the TV series a go.

[blindswelledrat]

rasto said:

I read the book and enjoyed the first 95% of it but felt that King kind of gave up at the end and wrote a bit of cop out ending, .

Exactly the same. I loved the book and it was one of my favourite of his until the ending.
However, for a while I had been wondering how on earth he could have ended it satisfactorily and even afterwards I have not been able to think of any kind of ending which would have been acceptable. Curious as to how they might do it.

[ali_kat]

Watched E1 last night

As a fan of the book, I'm unimpressed with changes made, no spoilers but they have changed people/details that are IMHO fundamental to the story

However, take it away from the book & it looks like it could be ok.