Under The Dome

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Definitely a bit cheesy

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Those reasons as to why the show is different give me hope that we will get a better ending than the book

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blindswelledrat said:

His novels don't generally translate well?
I think some of our best ever films are Stephen King novels personally.
Shawshank, Green Mile, Stand by Me, The Shining, Misery- just to name a few off the top of my head

Stand By Me is one of my all time favourite films, the last scene never fails to bring a lump to me throat. Apparently they are attempting to re-make IT (one of my favourite King books which I am currently re-reading), I enjoyed the original version and thought Tim Curry was excellent as Pennywise, hopefully they will throw enough money at the re-make to give us a worthwhile version.

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TheHeretic said:

Pesty said:

Then the book must have been dire. The ending of the mist is just ste. The second he said only have 5 bullets or whatever I knew exactly what would happen. Just so cliched.

How many times has that ending been done before?

Would like to know the answer to that too, I'm struggling to think of any other film that ends in such a depressing way. The book/short story ended before that scene, although if I remember correctly the gun/bullets hint was quite obvious.