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nickthegun 12 Sep 2015 08:28:22 87,711 posts
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Dirtbox wrote:
I sort of guessed that already. But why make a dome? Some sort of petri dish?

If I may book wanker this shit for a moment:

In the book it's exactly that combined with that Star Trek episode of futurama, where the aliens are, basically Melllvar.

They consider us to be so stupid, we don't even qualify as what they consider sentient, so they can fuck with us with gay abandon.

CosmicFuzz 12 Sep 2015 10:18:22 32,632 posts
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Fawkes, your recap is actually making me want to watch the finale now

Dirtbox 12 Sep 2015 12:35:09 92,599 posts
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killersrquiet 12 Sep 2015 13:55:19 3,192 posts
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I gave up after season 1. I'm amazed they got 3 seasons from this.

Whizzo 12 Sep 2015 13:57:52 44,810 posts
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Amazing, it actually sounds worse than the Falling Skies ending.

wrinkly 12 Sep 2015 14:00:03 3,721 posts
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I was put off right at the beginning when the plane hit the outside of the dome and then fell inside. If they couldn't get that bit right there was no hope for the rest of it.

Dirtbox 12 Sep 2015 14:04:51 92,599 posts
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wrinkly 12 Sep 2015 14:05:29 3,721 posts
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Not if you look at it again, it isn't.

Dirtbox 12 Sep 2015 14:10:02 92,599 posts
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wrinkly 12 Sep 2015 14:10:55 3,721 posts
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Okay, will have another look.

killersrquiet 12 Sep 2015 14:14:21 3,192 posts
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Keep looking dirtbox, 1000 views should convince you

Dirtbox 12 Sep 2015 14:14:59 92,599 posts
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wrinkly 12 Sep 2015 14:17:43 3,721 posts
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Had another look. Plane hits the outside, look at the curve of the dome.

wrinkly 12 Sep 2015 14:18:56 3,721 posts
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@Dirtbox That I might be, but the plane is fucking outside the fucking dome, I tell ya!

wrinkly 12 Sep 2015 14:20:45 3,721 posts
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Oh, and I'm not senile, and I don't smell of wee.

Dirtbox 12 Sep 2015 14:21:26 92,599 posts
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wrinkly 12 Sep 2015 14:28:12 3,721 posts
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Dirtbox 12 Sep 2015 14:30:57 92,599 posts
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wrinkly 12 Sep 2015 14:32:30 3,721 posts
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Obviously.

DFawkes 12 Sep 2015 14:34:35 32,791 posts
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Wrinkly, you're assuming competence on a show where there is very little at any level. There really isn't. The plane was inside the dome, but that didn't stop the effects people rendering it in a way that might suggest the opposite. It was inside. Someone was on a flying lesson and flew over several town landmarks to make sure it was clear.

Edit: Actually having watched that bit again I'm being unfair. It's clearly inside the Dome. Sorry effects people, you're alright.

Edited by DFawkes at 14:38:18 12-09-2015

wrinkly 12 Sep 2015 14:45:14 3,721 posts
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Oh bollocks. Apologies are required.

Anyway, bored with Under the Dome, now watching Game of Thrones. No planes involved.

Edited by wrinkly at 14:48:44 12-09-2015

Dirtbox 12 Sep 2015 15:14:13 92,599 posts
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Darren 12 Oct 2015 13:24:57 9,637 posts
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This series started off so well IMO with the really interesting concept of a dome surrounding a town and trapping people inside it. Although the characters were two-dimensional, the survival situations and the ongoing mystery of what the dome was and why it was there kept me watching.

The series went rapidly went downhill during the second season when it became clear they were running out of ideas. The third season was just awful and I could only watch it while I was doing something else, usually browsing on my iPad. The finale was just terrible and I am just thankful that the series has been cancelled. Season 3 was bad B-movie quality at best with the silly alien invasion storyline (yawn).

Perhaps it would have worked best as a mini-series because the concept was stretched wafer thin as a 10 episode per season TV series.

Dirtbox 12 Oct 2015 13:30:48 92,599 posts
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DFawkes 12 Oct 2015 14:31:11 32,791 posts
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Thinking it ended as it started is a very positive thing to say. It's more positive than I could ever be, and I can find something positive in most things, you big Under the Dome fanboy.

Phattso 12 Oct 2015 14:44:14 27,426 posts
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A combination of three weekends of heavy drinking, therefore three very sedentary Sundays, has meant that I've basically watched all of this in the last few weeks.

Holy shit was that bad. Like really fucking awfully bad. I thought it had been made over a decade ago it had so little going for it, but apparently started in 2013?!

I sat through it mainly out of apathy, usually doing something else at the same time, and what was an interesting premise in the first season was so utterly shat on by ridiculous characters that somehow got MORE ridiculous in the second season, and they'd fucked it so badly that they basically decided to (apparently) re-imagine the entire origin of the Dome vs. the novel and have some sub-Fringe level horseshit to masquerade for a final season.

Needless to say I've quit drinking.

Whizzo 12 Oct 2015 15:05:42 44,810 posts
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It started watchably bad then got to the point where I thought it completely unwatchable, fuck knows how some shows get ever get greenlit let alone renewed.

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