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Hi Yogi.

What do you think to it so far?

It's based on a Stephen King story is it not?

Yes, I think it is a Stephen King story.

Tbh, I don't usually watch stuff like this but it is intriguing.

I want to know if they will run out of oxygen or is the dome permeable, also the food and water supplies. If no water is getting in !!!!

Well, it seems to be porous - remember the boys touched where they were hosing it down on the other side.

So how did they work out it was a dome, I don't remember that happening, or them doing anything and having had time to discover it yet.

I like it! all sorts of weirdness and skullduggery.

I started watching it when it was originally aired. I liked the first episode, but by the 3rd one I had given up.

I've watched to episode 10..... I'm still finding it interesting. It's like all these individual stories making up one big story. Interesting and I'm dying to find out where the dome came from what everyone has to do with it

Episode 2:

Half way through the programme atmospheric conditions made it unwatchable on my tellybox.

I'm watching it too, I read the Stephen King story years ago, it was a good story as I recall and quite believable.  I hope it will be better than most of these which often go on for weeks barely making any progress.

I used to read Stephen King. Not sure why I stopped...

...but I am enjoying this show. I'm 2 episodes behind since we moved, but I'll get caught up this week. 

the book was great, this seems loosely based on it... shall still watch tho but 

So I did not catch up on the portion of last weeks Ep that I missed. But will push on with tonights regardless.

Mmmm, this is starting to get a bit familiar to me. I've seen these types of situations played out before in programmes like Lost et al. People with secrets that we know will be strung out for as long as possible but will obviously some form of impact, others displaying problems which we get glimpses of. People who we start of thinking are good, but are bad, people who are hiding or running from past problems. 

i dont usually watch this type of thing im not good at scary, but i have to keep watching this, ive never read a stephen king book.

I havent watched the series, but friends are saying its hard going.  I read the book a while back and that wasnt an easy read, but keep watching folks cos I think its worth it.  Its Stephen King to a tee ~ keep em guessing

reading some of the reviews they say it gets off to a very slow start and then gets better

That's exactly how the book was Pengy.  Its definitely worth persevering as it does eventually get you gripped.

I find it hard going too.  Kind of seen it all before.  Reminds me of that other series about a mid west town after a nuclear exchange - although it's not quite as dull as that.

Stephen King's characterisations rarely depart from generic homespun mid town, mid west, good ole boys and girls with small town pasts, drink problems, estranged inlaws and infidelities.  Kind of like a Bruce Springsteen song.  I don't think King can be bothered to write characters that are out of his comfort zone, which makes his characters one dimensional (apart from their secrets) clichés that I find it difficult care about.

Do they have electricity if a dome's cut off their village, where's their food coming from?  They all walk around in that program in a state of minor concern like they've run out of biscuits, when in reality the situation would be far more grave.

I would imagine the hysteria in the C4 program "Blackout", last night, is far closer to what would actually happen in that situation.

yep, sounds like the routine

They've tried to address the electicity issue by some of the homes having their own generators (not unrealistic in that sort of town). I do think they're over-simplifying the potential problem though...

Food wouldn't be an issue short-term. My understanding is that the book only covered events over a few days though, whereas the TV series will cover a much longer period. I therefore wonder how realistically the series will handle the food problem long-term. TBF, they have already dealt with problems caused by medicine shortages.

I do understand your problems with the show, though. I'm still watching, but only just, and if I'm still not "hooked" after the next couple of episodes I'll probably ditch it...

OK, giving it another episode tonight, now to be accurate.

The Stand, Shawshank, The Green Mile, Haven[the Colorado Kid] Cat's Eyes....There's been a few that turned out alright

Enjoying this but haven't seen tonights. Interested to find out how the girl in the bunker storyline pans out after epi 4's cliffhanger.

I haven't seen it either, Muf. I was catching up on the last two episodes of The Great British Bake-off.

fully caught up now

I was going to answer your previous post about the girl in the bunker, but checked myself and thought 'spoiler alert'.

So have I - just a few hours ago!

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Good no spoilers

Is it on tonight?

Haha. Funny, I had no problem reading your post, Muf.

It's on here tonight!

Half way through already - Episode 5 on my TV

I loved the book (like all of them), but I find that life's too short to follow this on TV. It's a week apart and I find I can't stand up the characters in a line as I do at the beginning of a book so that I can cross reference and go back.

Ready and waiting!

Anyone (apart from those who have read the book) got an inkling yet?

*Warning*

I'll try to keep as vague as possible here, but some of the following may still constitute spoilers for those who have read the book:

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I  haven't read the book (and have no plans to), but I've read a synopsis of it, and some of Stephen King's comments re the TV series. From what King has said, the TV writers "have completely re-imagined the source of the Dome". This is a shame IMO, because from what I've since read, the source of the Dome in the book is exactly what I thought was going to be the "solution" to the TV series right from the start!

Apart from that though, much of the TV series is apparently pretty faithful to the book - in particular the reason for Big Jim stockpiling all that propane. 

The main changes are largely due to the writers wanting to keep the story going for a while: the events in the book only covered a few days...

So....to whom do we think the fourth hand will belong? I think it'll be Junior.

That's my best guest too. The whole scene with the 3 young 'uns sitting around the "egg" certainly gave the impression that the "4th hand" would belong to another young(ish) male.

I haven't really given this a lot of thought, but one idea I've had ever since Joe and Norrie kissed while the world outside the Dome exploded was that the Dome (or whatever's behind it) is setting up a sort of Adam & Eve / Garden of Eden scenario. Pairing Angie with Junior would make some sense in that case (the Dome may see them as a natural couple, even if Angie doesn't). But then again, the "4th hand" may turn out to belong to Joe's best mate Ben instead - which would blow that theory out of the water!