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Under the Dome

SixtiesGuy said:
Apparently not everything with Stephen King's name on it is brilliant.
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That's true. Needless to say, King is probably one of the most prolific writers ever born, and his books can be brilliant- recently 11/22/63 and Joyland were great, IMO. , but he can also write some clunkers. For some reason, the films made from his books are oten awful. Again - a few excellent examples (The Shining, Misery, Carrie, Stand by Me), but also a number of clunkers.
 
Lkeller said:
SixtiesGuy said:
Apparently not everything with Stephen King's name on it is brilliant.
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That's true. Needless to say, King is probably one of the most prolific writers ever born, and his books can be brilliant- recently 11/22/63 and Joyland were great, IMO. , but he can also write some clunkers. For some reason, the films made from his books are oten awful. Again - a few excellent examples (The Shining, Misery, Carrie, Stand by Me), but also a number of clunkers.
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Agreed, needless to say it would be impossible to be as prolific a writer as King is, without a clunker here or there.

Let's just say that if Family Guy decides to do another Stephen King parody episode like when they covered Stand by Me, Misery and the Shawshank Redemption, Under the Dome will NOT be included.
 
The problem with shows like this in my opinion is, they just turn into soap operas. All these little stories about the conflicts of the characters take away from the main plot. I was watching the marathon of the Walking Dead a couple weeks ago on AMC. What do I care about these people's personal problems if brain eating zombies are at the door? They spend too much time on that nonsense. Lost started out great but I lost interest by the end of the first season. Too much time spent on never answered questions and on the characters. With Under the Dome the obvious plot is, hey, we're under a dome. What are we going to do about it?! These shows go on too long. Under the Dome could have been done in two hours. Same as Walking Dead.
 
therealjm12 said:
The problem with shows like this in my opinion is, they just turn into soap operas. All these little stories about the conflicts of the characters take away from the main plot. I was watching the marathon of the Walking Dead a couple weeks ago on AMC. What do I care about these people's personal problems if brain eating zombies are at the door? They spend too much time on that nonsense. Lost started out great but I lost interest by the end of the first season. Too much time spent on never answered questions and on the characters. With Under the Dome the obvious plot is, hey, we're under a dome. What are we going to do about it?! These shows go on too long. Under the Dome could have been done in two hours. Same as Walking Dead.
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I agree. Personally, I get real tired of every story needing conflict of some sort. 'Under The Dome' should be about the dome and not about stashing girls in a basement etc. I didn't even make it through the first episode before losing interest - almost the same time period as 'Lost'. If a story seems too stupid to be plausible I am gone because it invariably means the future focus will be on the individual characters and not the story.
 
The show was #1 for the week before last. It's doing well in the money demo too. It's beating 'America's Got Talent' which generally wins these summer months. I have to agree that this is meeting, perhaps exceeding, the expectations CBS had for it.
 
umfan said:
The show was #1 for the week before last. It's doing well in the money demo too. It's beating 'America's Got Talent' which generally wins these summer months. I have to agree that this is meeting, perhaps exceeding, the expectations CBS had for it.
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Take note that "Vegas" was also doing well in the ratings yet CBS pulled the plug on that show.

I must agree that the plot lines are wearing a bit thin on this show. Perhaps "Under the Dome" is just a summer replacement series that will be gone by fall and return next year. That seems to be the working formula in today's television programming. Unfortunately by the time a show reappears most people forgot the last episode or the show entirely.
 
therealjm12 said:
The problem with shows like this in my opinion is, they just turn into soap operas. All these little stories about the conflicts of the characters take away from the main plot. I was watching the marathon of the Walking Dead a couple weeks ago on AMC. What do I care about these people's personal problems if brain eating zombies are at the door? They spend too much time on that nonsense. Lost started out great but I lost interest by the end of the first season. Too much time spent on never answered questions and on the characters. With Under the Dome the obvious plot is, hey, we're under a dome. What are we going to do about it?! These shows go on too long. Under the Dome could have been done in two hours. Same as Walking Dead.
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Straight action may work in a two hour movie, but serialized drama like Under the Dome and Walking Dead require character development. Would people continue to tune in week after week if they didn't have some invest in the characters? They have to portray some people as likable and others as villian so we know who to root for. Would Shakespeare be seen as a brilliant writer if Romeo and Juliet was just about families trying to kill each other instead of star crossed lovers who are in the middle of the turmoil?

Even the fairly recent development of the anti-hero in television drama (such as Tony Soprano, Dexter Morgan, etc) requires that the viewer has some empathy for these characters, even though they are horrible people doing horrible things on the surface.
 
I think the show will resolve itself in this season, on that point we agree.

My comment was that this has to be meeting CBS expectations and they may repeat the process with another work by King or a similiar script in subsequent summer seasons.
 
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