S03.E08: Breaking Point

[formerlyfreedom]

Big Jim, Julia, Joe, Norrie and Hunter join together to form a resistance against Christine, who is mobilizing residents to work on a massive excavation project in the caves underneath the town. Also, Hunter uses his tech skills to contact the outside world.Big Jim, Julia, Joe, Norrie and Hunter join together to form a resistance against Christine, who is mobilizing residents to work on a massive excavation project in the caves underneath the town. Also, Hunter uses his tech skills to contact the outside world.

 

 

[zibnchy]

So sneaking into town is defined as driving right up to the Town Hall, parking at the handy charging station( wait...what?), and barging on in. I so wish there had been a drawer labeled "Schematics".

 

And didn't Hunter just break his back, like, 2 days ago, dome time? Shouldn't he still be writhing in agony? Did they rub goo on him to heal him?

[Free]

And didn't Hunter just break his back, like, 2 days ago, dome time? Shouldn't he still be writhing in agony? Did they rub goo on him to heal him?

 

Injuries mean nothing on this show, even before the bs magic goo was dropped in this season.

 

ETA: From that cheesy, overdramatic scene, I assume we were supposed to feel sorry for Norrie losing token mom.  But really it's just them getting rid of yet another minor character they forgot to do the last 2 seasons like Ben in the premiere.

Edited August 7, 2015 by Free

[ottoDbusdriver]

And we're back to where we left off last week --  everything is on fire outside the Dome, but the meteor strikes have stopped.  And Julia is looking out the window of the house on Bird Island as everyone sits down for some dinner.  Julia decides to row back to town to do some recon so Joe and Fivehead join her while BIg Jim stays put with Hunter working on cracking the passcode on the voice recorder that Christine recorded notes.

 

Barbie and Eva are getting it on in the motel room.   Ava takes her shirt off ... again ... and this time Barbie gives in to her passion.

 

Meanwhile, Christine crawls out of the pod in her damp white T-shirt, and proceeds to kiss Sam as Junior restrains him -- ah, the power of oxytocin.  Junior puts Sam in the sleeper hold and knocks him out as Junior suggests they move to his fall out shelter.  As more amethysts start to flicker, Christine realizes that she is not fully healed -- and that she used up most of the energy supply and oxytocin just to get on her feet.  Oh nooooessss !!!

 

Ava starts getting dressed post-sexytime (boy, that was quick.  Taps watch) and Eva looks at herself in the mirror and the reflection is all scrambly like last episode.  I still don't understand how her clothes aren't reflected in the mirror -- or how her reflection (including her clothes) is partially transparent as you can see the room through the reflection (I don't think the writers thought that far ahead).

 

As Barbie states that he feels like a weight has been lifted as Ava kisses him, a bright light strobes outside the motel room.  Apparently the Dome video projection unit is on the fritz as the Dome keeps turning opaque white intermittently.

 

As Julia, Fivehead and Joe drive in the product placement Prius (how is this thing getting recharged ?) as the Dome continues to flicker, now between the burnt wasteland and a regular sunny day.  After stopping the car, a horde of kinship wanders past them in the woods nearby going ... somewhere.  The horde forms around the hole down to the tunnels as Barbie helps Christine out with Barbie helping out.

 

Christine states to the horde that the destruction outside the Dome was not real.  Never would have guessed that. I guess the ejecta from last week was ... premature. </sarcasm>  And Christine claims she projected it on the Dome as a test to bring them closer together, except for the members of the Kinship that killed themselves by jumping out a 3rd floor window.  Christine tells the crowd that they need to dig up the tunnels to get the amethysts so they have some mining to do.

 

Julia sends Joe and Fivehead back to town to find the map she found on Christine's desk while Julia keeps tabs on the mining operation.  And borrows Joe's walkie because her battery is low -- I'm sure that will come back in play later.

 

Turns out Barbie isn't full Kinship as he asks Christine about why they need to dig up the amethysts.  Apparently, the amethysts power the Dome and the egg kept the amethysts recharged (except for the entire time the egg was outside the Dome, but no matter) so Christine thinks that by digging up the amethysts and bringing them to the surface they can recharge them (How exactly ?), and if they don't the Dome will calcify and everyone will suffocate.  Why exactly will it calcify versus just turning off when it runs out of power ?

 

Christine asks Eva if she banged Barbie and Eva confirms it, but Eva is concerned that Barbie hasn't completed his transformation.

 

Big Jim tells Hunter that the Apocalypse has been canceled -- and Hunter thinks that now with clear skies her can get a signal.  Except that the skies were just a projection and shouldn't have affected any communications.  WTF ?  Hunter enters his Aktaion passcode on the laptop to access the message the was left last night -- and instead we get a live video call with a woman named Lily Walters that knows Hunter (since his disappearance led to her getting his job).  She confirms that the exterior of the Dome turned black during the "apocalypse" and even the satellites couldn't see inside.  Lily confers with Jim and she is very sassy.  Big Jim lies about Dr. Frank Whaley being alive and asks her for a care package containing explosives and weapons.

 

Cut to Barbie organizing work details at the mining operation to get the amethysts out of the tunnels -- half to dig out the amethysts and half to build a winch system to get the amethysts out of the hole -- as Barbie spots Julia spying on him in the woods.  Julia stashes one walkie at the base of the tree and tries communicating with Barbie.  As these converse, they play cat and mouse in the woods as Barbie tracks Julia as Julia tries to wring some emotion out of him.

 

By the way, everything is still vibrant and green in the woods -- no sign of acid burns on the leaves or freezer burn from the cold.

 

Junior is back to his old ways -- chaining Sam to a bed in the fallout shelter just like he did to Angie way back in the first episode.  Surprise, surpries, the fallout shelter still has power -- after 3 weeks -- since the lights still work.  I guess the bomb they used to blow open the door (which you see all mangled) didn't even nick the fluorescent bulbs.  Christine shows up and starts drawing blood out of Sam's arm for some reason.

 

Hunter and Indy have some quality time together while Hunter relays his tragic life story to Big Jim.  Lily reconnects and tells them the care package is on the way.

 

Julia updates Big Jim and Hunter about Christine and the Dome movies and the mining operation, Big Jim tells her to meet him at the high school -- and leaves Indy to watch Hunter.

 

Joe and Fivehead arrive at Town Hall as the Prius is running out of gas -- but they stop the car right next to the solar panels.  There can't be much gas left because everyone is walking everywhere.  Hey, remember last season when they took buses to transfer everyone from the high school to the tunnels -- where did those buses go ?

 

Somehow the solar panels are channelling power into the oh-so-convenient car charging station that is right beside the solar panels.  I don't think so since the panels produce DC, and they'd need an inverter to change it to AC -- which they never showed them hooking up.  Whatever.

 

Joe and Fivehead search Christine's office and Fivehead finds the maps Julia was talking about first thing.  As they leave the office, Fivehead spots Mom # 2 in the dorms and is convinced that she can convert her back from the Kinship.

 

As Big Jim and Julia inventory the contents of the care package from Aktaion (which are surprisingly dry considering they arrived via the lake), Big Jim tells Julia that they need to blow up the tunnel -- and people will die.  Julia seems completely onboard.

 

As Fivehead tries to get Mom # 2 to break from the Kinship, Mom # 2 starts whistling and draws more members of the Kinship towards them.  Mom # 2 is a tough nut to crack and she tells the horder to take Noe and Norrie to help mining at the tunnels.

Christine finishes taking blood from Sam and gives a pint of her blood back to Sam to make him one with the Kinship -- I guess because her blood is rife with oxytocin and transfusing into Sam will put him under her control.

 

Joe and Fivehead are working in the mines -- they are supposed to mining the amethysts, but everyone appears to be picking at the tunnel walls where there are not amethysts in the wall.  What's the point of that ?  And someone found a whole bunch of oil lamps for the mines -- where is the oil coming from ?  Everyone gets to break for lunch except Joe and Fivehead.

 

The mining crew manage to get one enormous amethyst out of the tunnel before breaking for lunch as Big Jim and Julia spy on them.  As they plan for the attack on the tunnel, 3 guards are left behind by Barbie and Big Jim voices his concern to Julia if Barbie shows up.

 

As Christine finishes pumping her blood into Sam, she lays a big guilt trip on Sam about his shitty life and all the people he couldn't save.  Oh noooess, the shame Sam. The Shame. But Christine forgives him.  Huh ?  And then she unchains him.

 

Julia lights off a smoke bomb in the woods as a diversion, which causes 2 of the 3 guards at the tunnel entrance to run off.  Once they are nearly out of sight, Big Jim stabs the 3rd guard.  Big Jim goes into the tunnels and starts planting plastic explosives on a 15 minute timer.   Um, where did all the oil lamps go ?

 

As Barbie and Junior spot the smoke diversion from the lunch line, they run off.  But instead of running towards the smoke, they run to the tunnel entrance (why exactly ?).  Barbie finds the dead guard and goes down into the tunnels.  As Big Jim watches Barbie go by, he heads back out of the tunnels only to be confronted by Junior.  The explosive timer was under 7 minutes at last look.  Big Jim gets the drop on Junior with his pistol ... somehow.  Did Junior help him up ?  Because Big Jim is a big guy who was recently shot in the shoulder.

 

For some reason, despite the fact that Big Jim has a pistol trained on him, Junior threatens Big Jim that he will "die right here" if he doesn't tell him where the bombs are.  And for an even more unknown reason, Big Jim puts his gun away and decides to have a heart-to-heart with Junior and apologizes to Junior.  Only it doesn't work and Junior is back to threatening Big Jim.  Big Jim feigns to go back in the tunnels, and clocks Junior knocking him out.  Meanwhile, the two guards are still no where to be seen -- did they run to the other side of the Dome ?

 

The timers now read under 4 minutes --- oh, the tension.

 

Julia tells Hunter to pack up and leave the house with Joe and Fivehead, but Hunter informs her that Joe and Fivehead haven't returned.  As Julia continues walking along a road, she is confronted by Eva who also has a gun.  Eva spouts some crap about the fact that Barbie and her are bonded -- and then they have a lovely little conversation about who loves Barbie the most.

 

Big Jim drags Juniors limp body further into the woods -- wouldn't it be funny if the tunnel exploded right underneath their feet ?

 

Meanwhile, Barbie traipses through the tunnels looking for Julia or Big Jim -- and doesn't spot any of the bombs and their bright red LED displays until there is less than 75 seconds left.  Barbie defuses the bomb, but then still hears the timer counting down and finds a 2nd bomb with only 54 seconds left on the timer. Then he spots another with 51 seconds on it and he starts to panic.  Barbie finally looks around, sees all the red LED displays from the timers and realizes that he is kind of fucked.

 

Joe and Fivehead are still picking at rocks -- with Mom # 2 still watching them (so, no lunch for Mom # 2 either) -- as Barbie tells everyone to get out of the tunnels.  In under 50 seconds, I seriously doubt it.  Mom # 2 tells them to run and get out of the tunnels as one of the bomb timers shows 10 seconds left.

 

As Julia tells Eva that Barbie loves her the most, and Eva shoots in her general direction, the bombs go off. And Barbie manages to get out of the tunnel, but is hit by the blast and knocked on conscious.  As Eva turns towards the explosion, Julia gets up and runs away.  So despite her tough talk, Eva's a lousy shot too.

 

As Mom # 2, Joe and Fivehead try to run out of the tunnels -- towards the explosion, I might add -- they encounter a wall of flame in their way as Mom # 2 gets blown down the tunnel and Joe and Fivehead are knocked over by the blast.  While Joe and Fivehead survived the blast relatively intact, Mom # 2 is trapped under a bunch of debris.  And the explosion has knocked some sense into Mom # 2 and she is no longer under the control of the Kinship.  As the tunnel becomes unstable, Joe and Fivehead run down the tunnels and rocks raing down from above -- but we don't actually see them land on Mom # 2.

 

Julia stares pensively across the lake as she is startled by Big Jim approaching.  And the line of the episode goes to Big Jim.
Big Jim: "Easy Annie Oakley"
Julia: "What happened ?  Are you bleeding ?"
Big Jim: "No, somebody else. Look, as much as I'd like to stick around and watch the people of Whoville cry about their precious tunnels going boom, we gotta get back to Bird Island."

 

Junior has woken up and made his way back to the tunnel entrance as Barbie recovers from the explosion.   These were the shittiest bombs ever -- as Joe and Fivehead manage to make their way to the tunnel entrance and get out.  Fivehead tells Barbie that her Mom # 2 is still in the tunnels so Barbie heads back down -- event though no one told Barbie where Mom # 2 was last seen.  Meanwhile, the Kinship horde has finished lunch and they are only now heading back to the tunnels.  Joe and Fivehead take this opportunity to cheese it and escape.

 

Hunter has some playful banter with Lily about his porn stash on his computer, and he asks her to send him a password-cracking program when all of a sudden alarms go off at Akation, Lily asks if she can send him some files for safekeeping and proceeds to whip out a pistol before she heads out.

 

Joe and Fivehead run out of the woods and onto a road where Fivehead insists that she can't go on any further, because, you know, dead Mom # 2.  And now she has no one.  But lookout, Joe tells her he loves her but the Kinship horde is approaching.  But Big Jim and Julia show up in the now fully recharged Prius, and pickup up Joe and Fivehead and make their escape.

Sam finally gets out of the bed in the fallout shelter, and as he passes the mirror he takes a long pause -- probably because he's all squiggly like Eva.

 

Julia shows up at the lake to tell everyone that she has stashed the car at Sam's cabin.  Big Jim is convinced that emotion is not the cure to the Kinship infection, but Fivehead tells the story of dead Mom # 2.  Joe finally puts it together that Big Jim and Julia set off the bombs in the tunnels -- Fivehead is a little pissed about that. Joe's not happy either as he throws the schematic on the ground at Julia's feet.

 

As Big Jim rows the boat towards Bird Island, we get a scene of the Dome making a noise as it seems to uncontract back to its normal size.  I guess.

 

Christine is all mopey about the tunnels being destroyed by Big Jim and Julia, and Julia lies about Julia shooting first.  Christine takes this info and explains to the horde that the Resistance is bad, and that the time has come to kill them all.

 

ETA:  To change Linda to Lily.  My bad.

Edited August 7, 2015 by ottoDbusdriver

[bmoore4026]

Didn't watch tonight's episode, watched Rectify instead, so ottoDbusdriver, your review synopsis was fantastic and entertaining.

 

Linda's still alive?  Are the ones who die under the dome reawoken in the outside world, which wasn't destroyed last episode apparently?

 

I do believe the thing with the bombs happens in the book as well, but with different circumstances and decidedly different outcomes.

[thuganomics85]

I guess I was suppose to side with Joe and Norrie at the end, but all I could think was that had Norrie just left when Joe told them too and didn't keep sticking around trying to get through to Carolyn even when nothing was working, they would have never been captured, and no one would have been in the caves, since it looked like Big Jim and Julia planned to set the bombs when everyone was out on lunch.  So, sorry kids, maybe don't drag your feet next time.  Way to make me take Big Jim and Julia's side, show.

 

Glad Carolyn's dead (hopefully): not because I hated her, but because I just want Aisha Hinds to be free of this show.  Out of all the cast, you could really see in her eyes how much this was killing her, and how such a chore it was to get through.  May you have better luck in your next project.  Which shouldn't be hard, really.

 

So, Eva sleeps with Barbie and yet he's still not fully in the Kinship, yet?  He's resilient; I'll give him that.  Even if he's still acting much dumber then I would have predicted.  And I'm guessing that Sam is now back on Team Kinship too, so that was a bunch of nothing.

 

The return of The Bomb Shelter!  The second best thing on this show, only behind Indy!

 

Hunter finds himself a hacker girlfriend outside of the dome, who apparently isn't what she seems.  Also, it looks like all the events from last week we're a fake-out, and Christine just made it look like the apocalypse was happening, in order to bring her drones together.  Bleh, although that's a good thing for the human race's sake, since we'd be doomed if these knuckleheads were the last of humanity.

[xaxat]

Another strong episode. The writers are committed to bringing the crazy and Dean Norris is delivering. "I got a cripple, two love sick teenagers and a plucky journalist."

 

Although it is kind of sad that thirty seconds of Hunter/New Hunter had more chemistry than all of the other relationships this season.

 

How do product placement contracts work? Did Toyota have to pay an additional fifty bucks to make sure there were beauty shots of the charging station and plug?

[Amgad1]

Hey guys nice to meet you all, I am an actor from Under the Dome, feel free to ask me or contact me with any questions :)

Here's my instagram, https://instagram.com/amgad13/

[wayne67]

This episode was tepid. I don't think I can take another episode of this show. It's not even snark worthy any more just a bunch of stupid people wandering about spouting off nonsense.

[ottoDbusdriver]

Linda's still alive?  Are the ones who die under the dome reawoken in the outside world, which wasn't destroyed last episode apparently?

 

Nope, Linda's still dead.  My mistake -- New Hunter's real name is Lily, not Linda.  I corrected it.

[Accidental Martyr]

Did that guy just instantly die when Jim stabbed him in his lower back? Other people survive gunshots, pieces of metal ripping through their body, etc. but this guy drops dead about half a second after Jim jabs him with a knife. There was barely even any blood on the body and none on the ground.

[Free]

Glad Carolyn's dead (hopefully): not because I hated her, but because I just want Aisha Hinds to be free of this show.  Out of all the cast, you could really see in her eyes how much this was killing her, and how such a chore it was to get through.  May you have better luck in your next project.  Which shouldn't be hard, really.

 

Oh, I thought the dead eyes were supposed to be part of the kinship nonsense, no wonder.

 

Nope, Linda's still dead.  My mistake -- New Hunter's real name is Lily, not Linda.  I corrected it.

 

Hard to tell the difference tbh.

 

I guess I was suppose to side with Joe and Norrie at the end, but all I could think was that had Norrie just left when Joe told them too and didn't keep sticking around trying to get through to Carolyn even when nothing was working, they would have never been captured, and no one would have been in the caves, since it looked like Big Jim and Julia planned to set the bombs when everyone was out on lunch.  So, sorry kids, maybe don't drag your feet next time.  Way to make me take Big Jim and Julia's side, show.

 

Yup, 5head was also 1 of the people responsible for her mom's death when she foolishly pulled that stunt and got them captured like a moron.

 

This episode was tepid. I don't think I can take another episode of this show. It's not even snark worthy any more just a bunch of stupid people wandering about spouting off nonsense.

 

It really is a "breaking point".

Edited August 7, 2015 by Free

[Julie23]

How many episodes are left in this series? Because I'm reaching my breaking point with stupidity.

1. Joe & Norrie (mostly Norrie) - Trying to "convert" or "uncovert" as it were, your mother whilst in the midst of robbing the grand queen poobah. Dumb & dumber.

2. Julia - running aorund in the trees in plain sight "spying" on the domeites and trying to talk Barbie out of his coma. Give up on it, he is a goner. Plus, he has now slept with evil eva, so just stop. Desparate and dumb.

3. Big Jim - the dumbest bomb placement ever.

4. The writers for continuing to write the worst dialog ever

5. Me. Still watching. I blame the fact that this show has reduced my brain cells and therefore my capacity to turn off the TV.

[Primetimer]

Norrie tries out her hypothesis that yelling at people until they can't help getting mad at her will cure Droneitis. If she's right, the crisis should be over real soon.

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[Free]

How many episodes are left in this series? Because I'm reaching my breaking point with stupidity.

 

5 more episodes for the season.  As for the series?  Who knows how long they'll try to drag it out.

 

1. Joe & Norrie (mostly Norrie) - Trying to "convert" or "uncovert" as it were, your mother whilst in the midst of robbing the grand queen poobah. Dumb & dumber.

 

If they didn't get involve token mom might've still been alive tbh.

 

2. Julia - running aorund in the trees in plain sight "spying" on the domeites and trying to talk Barbie out of his coma. Give up on it, he is a goner. Plus, he has now slept with evil eva, so just stop. Desparate and dumb.

 

Remember when the dome/butterfly 'chose' her as the so-called leader?  XD.

 

5. Me. Still watching. I blame the fact that this show has reduced my brain cells and therefore my capacity to turn off the TV.

 

Must be the dome's plan all along.

[Big Mother]

I apologize for probably posting in the completely wrong thread, but I could no find a thread for general questions on the show. So if this is in the wrong place, please ignore and/or delete.

 

i have not watched the first 2 seasons, but I read up on it so I have a pretty good picture of the backstory. But i'm confused about one thing, and maybe someone can help me out: How is it that this town of Chester's Mill is only populated by a bunch of young single people in their 20's and 30's? There are no children, no families, no old people. Were they all killed off in the first episode (I havne't watched it), or was this seriously a town of only young single people and 2 teenagers? I'm a little confused.

 

Also, any self-respecting town should have a police force, fire brigade, hospital, doctors... I don't see any. Again, I might be missing large chunks of the backstory, so maybe someone can help me out.

 

Thanks all!

[ae2]

I apologize for probably posting in the completely wrong thread, but I could no find a thread for general questions on the show. So if this is in the wrong place, please ignore and/or delete.

 

i have not watched the first 2 seasons, but I read up on it so I have a pretty good picture of the backstory. But i'm confused about one thing, and maybe someone can help me out: How is it that this town of Chester's Mill is only populated by a bunch of young single people in their 20's and 30's? There are no children, no families, no old people. Were they all killed off in the first episode (I havne't watched it), or was this seriously a town of only young single people and 2 teenagers? I'm a little confused.

 

Also, any self-respecting town should have a police force, fire brigade, hospital, doctors... I don't see any. Again, I might be missing large chunks of the backstory, so maybe someone can help me out.

 

Thanks all!

 

Completely valid question, which means with this show there is no logical answer to it. :)

 

Just sit back, shut down your brain, and enjoy the mind-numbing disaster that is Under the Dome.

[Julie23]

"5 more episodes for the season.  As for the series?  Who knows how long they'll try to drag it out"

 

Oh Hell No! I don't think my intelligence can take a hit on the destroyed brain cells from another season!

[Desperately Random]

5. Me. Still watching. I blame the fact that this show has reduced my brain cells and therefore my capacity to turn off the TV.

 

That's me too. Every week I wonder why the hell I'm still watching this show. Although, I do have fun laughing at the numerous plotholes. horrible dialogue, huge lapses in continuity (for characters and the storyline) and the overall ridiculousness that has become the hallmark of UtD. Also, Barbie is so darn pretty but I have to admit his suddenly shedding IQ points every week is getting annoying.

I guess that's why I know I'm going to stick with this show until the bitter end. I did the same thing with The Following.

Edited August 7, 2015 by Desperately Random

[Hobo.PassingThru]

I should have put this in the "I'm over Under the Dome" thread but I admit that I checked out about three weeks ago.

 

It started out with me forgetting the show was on that night. And, I swear, I am sure I checked the forum. So, I should have known better, but, I just conveniently forgot. Then I watched it on Friday. Well, not all of it.

 

Then last week, I started to watch it and just stopped after Barbie hightailed it to some previously unknown  location to watch the meteors. (In the episode, did anyone wish upon a falling star the the dome would vanish?)

 

I didn't bother last night and won't bother to watch anymore. I'll still read this forum and otto's opulent recaps. But, I don't know how long I'll care.

 

There was an episode last season where the actors were like robots and just walked around spouting lines with the most awkward timing. They'd walk 5 feet and say something. They'd walk another five feet and their companion would reply.  That was the worst episode I've seen. Since then, the show's nutty and gets nuttier but I can't watch it regularly.

 

Oh what the heck. I could bother looking over the weekend. It won't hurt to take a taste. Just to remind myself how bad it is, right?

 

Aaaaaaag!

I'm not over Under the Dome! I've changed my mind! Can't a fella be entitled to change his mind! There's nothing wrong with that!

[Free]

There was an episode last season where the actors were like robots and just walked around spouting lines with the most awkward timing. They'd walk 5 feet and say something. They'd walk another five feet and their companion would reply.  That was the worst episode I've seen. Since then, the show's nutty and gets nuttier but I can't watch it regularly.

 

You're going to have to be more specific, you just described most episodes in this series.

[Actionmage]

How is it that this town of Chester's Mill is only populated by a bunch of young single people in their 20's and 30's? There are no children, no families, no old people. Were they all killed off in the first episode (I havne't watched it), or was this seriously a town of only young single people and 2 teenagers? I'm a little confused.

 

Also, any self-respecting town should have a police force, fire brigade, hospital, doctors... I don't see any. Again, I might be missing large chunks of the backstory, so maybe someone can help me out.

 

Well, if you remember in the very first episode of Season 1, the reason most of the town isn't there is due to a big parade (4th of July?) in the next town over. The fire trucks were in the parade and most of the cops were working security, probably.  There were a sheriff and three deputies left back in town. The only doctor was Peter, but he had an unfortunate habit that Barbie  was sent to deal with, which is why Dale and Julia seemed so weird from the jump. There were some nurses and a candystriper,  the late Angie, but apparently no other doctors in town on the day.

 

Also there have been nigh-Biblical, one episode plagues and folks go on murder sprees of nameless extras periodically, so that may have something to do with the "survivors" and their seeming age range. Anyone older, except for Big Jim, has been killed or ignored. Anyone under 12 has conveniently been ignored, died ( anyone remember the insulin crisis of S1? Or was it S2?) or they were out-of-town.

 

Then the characters with a modicum of smarts were viciously de-smarted and then, eventually, killed/ murdered. Chances were higher if you were a POC, but  hey, Angie's actress had two big movies hit this year, so it's not necessarily a bad thing. (I personally miss DJ Sheriff Phil and Dodie, but that's me.)

 

I caught the episode from Carolyn and the kids in the tunnel to the end. I saw nothing that would make me watch this live anymore. In deference to Amgad1, it's not the cast, imo. They do what they can with the lines given to them.

 

Is it wrong to hope that the Dome calcifies? No matter where the calcium is coming from? I'll send milk if it'll help.

[Free]

Is it wrong to hope that the Dome calcifies? No matter where the calcium is coming from? I'll send milk if it'll help.

 

Nope, must be the dead cow's revenge.

[wayne67]

Nope, must be the dead cow's revenge.

 

That dead cow is the reason I watched this show for so long. A moment of WTF'ery in the first five seconds that's so laughably bad that you can't help but laugh. Also Joe and Barbie are pretty... I admit I'm shallow but this episode took the cake, Christine is all like I purposely manipulated you to do my will and they all stand around looking like sheeple. It makes me wonder why she bothered explaining it, it's not like these people ever thought much about who they followed from day to day, they just followed whoever talked loudest/ longest despite their previous crimes or back story and that was back before the mind controlling goop inside them was a plot point.

 

Norrie is officially the worst partner for sneaking into a place.

 

Am I a bad person for wondering how Carolyn who was face to face with a firey explosion didn't suffer any burns ? Not that I need her to be hideously burned but some burns would have sold the moment more. I spent most of that scene wondering how she looked more or less fine for someone dying from something...

Edited August 8, 2015 by wayne67

[opus]

Sam, to Junior, who's keeping him chained up: "Junior, this isn't you."

Audience to TV: "No, that's pretty much how we first met him"

[Free]

Sam, to Junior, who's keeping him chained up: "Junior, this isn't you."

Audience to TV: "No, that's pretty much how we first met him"

 

It was pretty much deja vu from the start of the series of him kidnapping and locking Angie down there.

 

Am I a bad person for wondering how Carolyn who was face to face with a firey explosion didn't suffer any burns ? Not that I need her to be hideously burned but some burns would have sold the moment more. I spent most of that scene wondering how she looked more or less fine for someone dying from something...

 

No, but I guess they needed that for the forced, 'emotional' moment before they dump yet another minor character like they did with Ben in the premiere.

[Texasmom1970]

So now we are going to watch to see who wins Barbie over. Will it be Ava with alien powered cooch. Or Julie with her long, flowing magical locks. Sick of those three and their soap opera drama!

Best relationship on this show is the love Big Jim has for his dog Indy. When he threatened he would throw Hunter in the lake if anything happened to his dog, hee!

[Free]

So now we are going to watch to see who wins Barbie over. Will it be Ava with alien powered cooch. Or Julie with her long, flowing magical locks. Sick of those three and their soap opera drama!

 

It's just awful, if Barbie is that dumb enough to keep going along with Christine and her cult at this point then no, he doesn't deserve to be saved.

 

Best relationship on this show is the love Big Jim has for his dog Indy. When he threatened he would throw Hunter in the lake if anything happened to his dog, hee!

 

The only one that actually matters.

Edited August 8, 2015 by Free

[izabella]

I kept looking for Angie's shoes or some sign of her having been in that shelter, but no.  Not even a moment of nostalgia from Junior where he remembers the girl he loved so much he locked her in a shelter because the Dome was making her "sick".  You know, the good ole days of 3 weeks ago.

Edited August 8, 2015 by izabella

[Blue Plastic]

Well, that was boring.  This show can't afford to be boring on top of its extreme nonsensical whackiness.  I did laugh at Jim's "Whos in Whoville" comment but that's not enough to keep me going.  They need to pick up the pace and keep it snappy.  At this point I'm just watching in the hopes that somebody wipes the floor with Christine.

 

I wish they hadn't killed off both of Fivehead's moms.  :(

 

That was an awful big hunk of "amethyst" they managed to get with amateur miners using handheld picks.  Is that really possible?  I know nothing about mining so maybe it is but with this show...

[needschocolate]

Well, last week they actually mentioned things that happened in the first season, leading me to think that maybe they now have writers who have seen the show, but they went back to their old ways this week with Christine explaining that the firestorm destroying everything was faked to bring everyone together.  That has to be one of the stupidest explanations ever on a show filled with extremely stupid explanations.

 

There are only 6 people against Christine, 7 if you count Barbie not being fully infected.  Everyone else is so completely under her control that they start jumping out of buildings if she leaves for a few minutes.   The only known way to snap her followers out of it is by having them feel emotion,  So, Christine's decides to bring everyone closer together by having them think the world is ending.  That was a pretty risky move on Christine's part.    I would think that the fear of the world ending and everyone on the outside dying would be enough to snap quite a few of the drones out of their stupor. She even threw in children on the outside of the Dome trying to get in, which almost maybe Barbie human again.  Plus, they are willing to kill themselves for the kinship, how much closer together does she expect them to be? 

 

This week's writer(s) seemed to do a little fine tuning of the emotion thing too.  Hunter tells Jim, he says that he snapped out of it when he relived the worst moment of his life.  Norrie's mom snapped out of it when she thought her daughter would die - which is right up there with the worst things that could happen to a parent.  Joe is not part of the kinship due to his grief over Angie - now, he didn't seem to care that much about Angie when she was around, but I can buy that, to a young guy like Joe, grief over losing his sister could be the strongest emotion he has felt, even if it took him two weeks to feel it.  So, this means that the most emotional moment for Norrie was when Sam didn't show up for his meeting with Joe.

[Totale]

Quoting stupid lines from UTD is like eating peanuts, it's hard to stop.  I liked when Joe called Julia on the walkie and said something like "I've got the schematic, copy that".  I can see the writers not knowing that "Copy that" is a response, not a command, but nobody on set pointed it out? And didn't Joe give Julia his walkie before she sent them to the heavenly-powered Prius charging station, anyway? Then Julia calls Hunter just before the bombs go off and tells him to get hisself, Joe and Norrie out of the house, but is surprised to hear they aren't there.  There's only the one rowboat, how would they have gotten there?

[LoneHaranguer]

 

Well, last week they actually mentioned things that happened in the first season, leading me to think that maybe they now have writers who have seen the show, but they went back to their old ways this week with Christine explaining that the firestorm destroying everything was faked to bring everyone together.  That has to be one of the stupidest explanations ever on a show filled with extremely stupid explanations.

It's not like she could say "oops, looks like we're getting another season after all, so we have to postpone the end of the world" (just speculation).

[Free]

It's not like she could say "oops, looks like we're getting another season after all, so we have to postpone the end of the world" (just speculation).

 

That's what the producers did with this show, that's why they have to keep making things up each season.

[KaveDweller]

Quoting stupid lines from UTD is like eating peanuts, it's hard to stop.  I liked when Joe called Julia on the walkie and said something like "I've got the schematic, copy that".  I can see the writers not knowing that "Copy that" is a response, not a command, but nobody on set pointed it out? And didn't Joe give Julia his walkie before she sent them to the heavenly-powered Prius charging station, anyway? Then Julia calls Hunter just before the bombs go off and tells him to get hisself, Joe and Norrie out of the house, but is surprised to hear they aren't there.  There's only the one rowboat, how would they have gotten there?

 

Julia took Joe's walkie, but Norrie still had hers.  That's what Joe must have been using.

 

I agree about everything else you said.  The part where Julie was surprised when Hunter said Joe and Norrie weren't there made absolutely no sense.

[Jordan27]

Well, the hijinks from the Dome continue....

 

Julia (To Norrie and Joe): "Christine has a schematic.  It's connected to the crystals.  (They are instructed to get it out of her office.)

Why is this important?  Important enough to get them captured by the Amethyst Cult?  How do they even know what a schematic is?

 

Barbie(To Ava) " I thought I saw a deer."  Ava: "You could have shot it and had it for lunch." 

How is he supposed to shoot a thought?

 

Joe(he sees smoke):" What is that?  Fire, no smoke.   

There are quite different Joe.  He has the worst written dialogue in TV.

 

I like how Joe and Norrie kept working in the tunnel when there was no one watching them.  Dumb, dumb. 

 

Barbie tells all the cult members that they are going to build some contraption(don't remember the name) to get the amethyst out.  They all act like they understand and rush away to get supplies to start the build.  How do they know what he is talking about?  And then it's built after the next commercial break.  It would have taken all day to get it built.

 

Norrie collapsing in the road with Joe just as the cult is closing in on them.  She decides she has nothing to live for now that both Moms are gone.  People in this town under duress are always focusing on their feelings and emotions and therapy.  In a real situation, people would be concerned about their problems and worry about mental health when cult members with amethysts are trying to turn them in Whoville citizens are taken care of.

 

...and last, but not least...if the meteor shower was fake, who were those people who died outside the dome that Barbie was screaming at last week?  Were they fake?  And why?  If Christine did it, how did she know Barbie would be at that exact spot?

 

Home Sweet Dome.  The best show to snark at on TV. 

Edited August 11, 2015 by Jordan27

[Hobo.PassingThru]

 

How do they know what he is talking about?

The pulley and wench system? It was a ladder and some sticks and rope or something.

 

I call BS on them finding a chunk of amethyst that big and just not breaking it apart to make moving it easier and quicker. Actually, it looked like a violet colored trashbag over a paper mache "rock". So, yeah, quadruple out manpower to haul that bad boy outta the cavern, under the dome.

 

Somehow when others are telling them what to do, Chester's Millions all become extremely resourceful. Otherwise, they'd get stuck in tents that are burning on every side except the exit flap.

Edited August 11, 2015 by Hobo.PassingThru

[Dobian]

So Aktaion hires some college girl named Lily to be in charge of their computer network and communications with the dome.  She looked like she was passing the time until the rave started.  Is this a summer internship program?

[EDTV]

I've been binge watching this series... pilot episode was good then it all started getting really silly but like everyone else I kept watching.

 

I've actually enjoyed season 3 though, if you just accept the silly premise and the awful dialogues, like i've learned to, then this season has been pretty fun. I think it should have been like this from the beginning instead of wasting 2 seasons on the silly egg, four hands, monarch thing, when it seems irrelevant now.

[ByTor]

if you just accept the silly premise and the awful dialogues

THIS!  I do have plenty to say about some of the insanely stupid things that happen, but it doesn't stop me from genuinely enjoying the show.  Also, I am of the opinion that the book was absolutely horrendous (tied with Lisey's Story as King's worst, IMO), and I actually find the TV series to be better.

[Camera One]

It look me this long and consider watching this episode, since there's nothing else on at this time of the year.

 

Great, now the only remaining character I care about is dead.  

 

Why didn't Big Jim plant an explosive on that giant amethyst too?   I guess they will spend another episode destroying that one.

 

I had a few laughs reading everyone else's comments but that's pretty much all this show was good for.