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blue squares posted:I cannot believe I am typing this, but the butterflies' motivations make no sense. Not only that, but butterflies have literally no way of hurting a person. They don't even have jaws to bite you. So maybe they are alien butterflies. See, now it all makes sense.
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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The TV IV > Under the Dome - The Butterflies' Motivations Make No Sense
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Illinois Smith posted:Also: Yes TV writers, I totally buy that these two people were high school classmates in the late 80s. No problem there at all. This show would have been so much better if Dwight Yoakam was just playing Doyle Hargraves. "HEY! HEYYY! I TOLD YOU THREE TIMES ALREADY, THE LAW'S ON MY SIDE! I PLAY CARDS WITH SHERIFF THREE DOG, CHIEF'A PO-LICE! *kicks Dale in the rear end* GO HOME AND PRACTICE BARBIE, YA TUNIN' SONOFABITCH"
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Jul 2, 2015 02:03
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Even reading this thread ahead of time couldn't prepare me for how batshit off-the-rails insane this episode was. None of this poo poo made any sense whatsoever. Welcome back, Dome! I like how Junior got shot in the shoulder, and despite not cleaning/dressing the wound, not retrieving the bullet and partaking in a lot of strenuous activity, it amounted to little more than a ketchup stain on his shirt.
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Jul 2, 2015 14:02
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Tonight's promos are promising EVERYTHING IS REVEALED. Riiiiiight.
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Brocktoon posted:I like how Junior got shot in the shoulder, and despite not cleaning/dressing the wound, not retrieving the bullet and partaking in a lot of strenuous activity, it amounted to little more than a ketchup stain on his shirt. Big Jim really should have kept the hammer he killed Science Lady with, that thing could be the deadliest weapon in town.
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Jul 2, 2015 15:57
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Kammat posted:Tonight's promos are promising EVERYTHING IS REVEALED. Riiiiiight. Big Jim was a good guy all along!
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Jul 2, 2015 17:10
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Paladinus posted:Big Jim was a good guy all along!
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So, alternate reality + special people need to be protected. Big Jim takes the dog to live alone on an island. Forehead girl continues to be terrible. CSI woman is now running the show to make them all "what we need them to be" I assume they're in space or something given the last shot. Never sure with this show.
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Jul 3, 2015 02:39
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For getting shot, that is one clean rear end tshirt on Junior.
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Jul 3, 2015 03:05
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I loving love it when characters say "none of this makes any sense." Are the writers being tongue in cheek or just oblivious? Looks like Jim's a good guy again. blue squares fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Jul 3, 2015 |
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Jul 3, 2015 03:07
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This is rapidly turning into V.
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Jul 3, 2015 03:11
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Of all the people to not indiscriminately shoot. New character begins speaking. I suspect he'll be dead very soon. I wonder what Dean Norris thinks every time he says the word cocoon. Joe the computer geek is now a trapper. I guess he googled how to do it on his magic Windows tablet blue squares fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Jul 3, 2015 |
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Jul 3, 2015 03:17
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Ohmygod this show is so DUMB. How the gently caress did I think Whispering Pines was remotely comparable? That show's a Beethoven masterpiece compared to this thing.
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Jul 3, 2015 03:24
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After the past three weeks, with the snow and the storms and the red rain and whatever the hell, what game would be left to trap? Rats? Mice? That one stray dog?
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Jul 3, 2015 03:28
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"Man, how come no one is talking about how its barely been 20 days since the dome dropped on us? I still don't need to refill my meds"
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Mirage posted:After the past three weeks, with the snow and the storms and the red rain and whatever the hell, what game would be left to trap? Rats? Mice? That one stray dog? Why didn't they think of that during the 5 or more other episodes where there's been a crisis over food?
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Jul 3, 2015 03:36
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I like how they basically copped to ripping off The Matrix, right down to referencing the alternate world as "the Matrix". Also we get another stretchy-arm off scene stabbing courtesy of Marg Helgenberger lol @ this show
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blue squares posted:I loving love it when characters say "none of this makes any sense." Are the writers being tongue in cheek or just oblivious? - Anthropologist lady found the egg, got cocooned and downloaded the Dome juice - Dome slams down - Dome brings Melanie back to life who has been dead in the Lake for 25 years but she also downloaded the Dome juice in the late 80s - Dome uses Melanie to get our main characters who are more or less running the town cocooned but Jim interrupts before it can fully download the Dome juice into them There's still lots of holes in the plot, like how could the kids and Julia all carry the egg around for two seasons without being affected. Or why did the Dome try to kill them with new plagues every day for the last three weeks if all it wants is to assimilate them (though at least some of that that can be explained with trying to lure them down into the cave). On the whole though I actually like what they're doing this season, at least now it's a somewhat clear body snatcher type story instead of the hodgepodge of crisis-of-the-week and PINK STARS MONARCHS 4-8 HANDS OF THE DOME bullshit during the last two seasons. Big Jim keeping the video of egg-hunter lady getting Dome-juiced to himself and loving off to his little island instead of just showing it to Julia is still dumb and convenient. Other stuff: - Oh great, it's another Joe/Norrie/____ love triangle and now Julia and Barbie have one too - So that entire hoarder basement is already down to one crate of cans? - I loving called it, Big Jim face turn after three episodes. I'm glad someone at least remembered that he hammered people to death at the end of last season. Keep working on that short-term memory, townspeople. - I like how three weeks ago everyone came together as soon as Reverend Idiot set that fire at the chief's house. Now the Rennie Estate goes up in a blazing inferno and nobody gives a poo poo. - Joe: WHY DID YOU KILL MY CUTE LITTLE PIG? Norrie: WHY DID YOU TRAP IT IF YOU WEREN'T GONNA KILL IT? Kammat posted:For getting shot, that is one clean rear end tshirt on Junior. ElectricSheep posted:I like how they basically copped to ripping off The Matrix, right down to referencing the alternate world as "the Matrix". Illinois Smith fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Jul 3, 2015 |
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ElectricSheep posted:I like how they basically copped to ripping off The Matrix, right down to referencing the alternate world as "the Matrix". Well, remember that classic episode of Twilight Zone that I'm going to spoil for the audience real quick here? Seriously, though, usage of the word Matrix to mean simulated reality comes from Doctor Who and was since used by many sci-fi writers. 
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How did Dean Norris literally go straight from the best-written show on TV to the worst-written?
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Paladinus posted:Well, remember that classic episode of Twilight Zone that I'm going to spoil for the audience real quick here? Oh, this is absolutely true and The Matrix is a super derivative (and entertaining) movie. I would love to give the writers that much credit, except that Exposition Joe literally said "(This is) like that movie 'The Matrix'" and then called it the Matrix again in the next scene. Illinois Smith posted:Exposition Joe finds out about the body snatcher plot, exclaims "my god, this is just like The Faculty. Now this is something I'd expect to see. In fact, I demand it. Make it happen, writers. ElectricSheep fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jul 3, 2015 |
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Jul 3, 2015 17:43
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Hey instead of taking the boom box out of the house to party let's just move the weeks-old dead body instead! That was just so, so weird. I mean I know the entire show is poo poo, but that was my biggest head scratcher this episode for some reason. At least the other weird poo poo seems to advance some sort of plot thing.
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Crusty Nutsack posted:Hey instead of taking the boom box out of the house to party let's just move the weeks-old dead body instead!
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Illinois Smith posted:- I like how three weeks ago everyone came together as soon as Reverend Idiot set that fire at the chief's house. Now the Rennie Estate goes up in a blazing inferno and nobody gives a poo poo. Binary Logic fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Jul 4, 2015 |
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Jul 4, 2015 10:30
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I didn't miss it, just forgot that there were more people in the pods than our main characters.
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Am I the only person bothered by the budding romance between Missus Forehead and Hacker McGeek? She's 16 for God's sake. 17 if you count the matrix year, which you shouldn't on the account of it being stupid poo poo. The guy's probably in his mid-twenties (old enough to buy alcohol, so at least 21) and so far he's got her drunk once and they've almost had sex, which is by any standard not quite right.
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Paladinus posted:Am I the only person bothered by the budding romance between Missus Forehead and Hacker McGeek? She's 16 for God's sake. 17 if you count the matrix year, which you shouldn't on the account of it being stupid poo poo. The guy's probably in his mid-twenties (old enough to buy alcohol, so at least 21) and so far he's got her drunk once and they've almost had sex, which is by any standard not quite right. No, it's definitely creepy and a clear indication that the writers don't think. That guy went from generic hot tech geek stock CBS character to sexual predditor.
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clown shoes posted:No, it's definitely creepy and a clear indication that the writers don't think. That guy went from generic hot tech geek stock CBS character to sexual predditor. What alternate reality are you living in, where computer geeks can't be creeps and pervs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXpf-Lt9zKc Or for 'real world' examples just visit E/N for some eye-opening revelations. Binary Logic fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Jul 5, 2015 |
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Jul 5, 2015 10:54
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I haven't watched season 2 yet and it sounds like there's a lot of retarded poo poo I missed, gonna have to do a hate-binge soon I guess.
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I like how the show brings up a housing shortage then immediately brings up the food house which should be empty otherwise, but fail to connect the two. Also everyone is living in tents while being surrounded by buildings that should be empty, like just because something is an office building or store you can't use it as housing I guess.
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Jul 5, 2015 23:34
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The way Dean Norris delivers "Sounds pretty strange" is how he should read every line.
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Jul 6, 2015 02:25
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Kammat posted:This is rapidly turning into V. You shut your dirty mouth! V had Anna. Anna was amazing. Ergo V was amazing. This show has nothing in terms of redeemable qualities. Unless you like butterflies whose motivations don't make sense.
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Caryna posted:You shut your dirty mouth! V had Anna. Anna was amazing. Ergo V was amazing. This show has nothing in terms of redeemable qualities. Unless you like butterflies whose motivations don't make sense. The dog is pretty good so far. Maybe too good for this show.
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Illinois Smith posted:- I loving called it, Big Jim face turn after three episodes. I'm glad someone at least remembered that he hammered people to death at the end of last season. Keep working on that short-term memory, townspeople. Uh... that was a YEAR ago in cocoon time to those people.
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So why did the new alien lady kill the old alien girl, after she just told her to kill the reporter lady, and was in the process of doing so?
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Jul 6, 2015 17:59
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Caryna posted:You shut your dirty mouth! V had Anna. Anna was amazing. Ergo V was amazing. This show has nothing in terms of redeemable qualities. Unless you like butterflies whose motivations don't make sense. False  This is the sole redeeming quality.
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Jul 6, 2015 19:33
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This show is incredibly stupid and plot-holey, but I continue to watch it anyways. Thanks, thread for telling me that new episodes are on. And yes, I agree that it's like V as well. I hope this one doesn't get canned, too, though... I'm hoping the dog is an alien too... At least that would be somewhat of a (good?) twist.
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This is the best response to characters and storylines not making sense I've ever seen. Just make it so nothing needs to make sense, because it's all happening in five different timelines/alternate realities! That's not a plothole, that's on purpose!  And I loved that Barbie says in the intro "maybe it'll take us to an alternate dimension" when nothing has happened yet and there's no indication that that might happen. This goddamn show.
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