body count in Under the Dome (spoiler alert)

[hfojvt]

I just noticed last week that people seem to be dropping like flies in the TV show Under the Dome, many of them dying by homicide.

So I made this list (approximately in order)

homicides

Doctor by Barbie
cop (by reckless accident)
his murderer in self defense
Reverend (by Jim)
Rose (by one of the Dundees)
Dundee (by cop)
Dundee (by Junior)
farmer (by Jim)
5 in Big Jim's Water War
plus one more

then there are the other type of death by accident or disease

plane accident (2)
truck crash
person cut in two (owner of the dog)
Sheriff by pace maker going out
teacher by flu
and a dozen or so nameless others
plus the cow gruesomely cut in two by the dome.
Doctor by heart attack

There's been a fair amount of other violence, much of which seems somewhat reasonable with the breakdown of society caused by the stress of the dome, but both Jim and Junior are so far getting away with their crimes of muder and kidnapping.

And what about the seed? Is this force behind the dome likely to be benign? It's already caused a lot of damage.

[femmocrat]

1. I love this show!

I have never read a Stephen King book or seen one of his movies. I just watched the first one because of the previews and got hooked. It's a perfect summer show.

You are right about all the deaths. I wonder where they are burying everyone. Wasn't the Preacher also the town undertaker? I was wondering that because they buried Alice right in the front yard!

[hfojvt]

2. it certainly is mysterious

another thing I noticed, which is typical of stories and TV shows, is that Chester's Mill has perhaps 500 people or maybe even 1,000, but the show that we see is centered around less than twenty main characters. The other 480 or 980 are basically just extras.

As far as Stephen King, I liked some of his books - The Stand, and It, but not so much other books like Cujo. I was not really motivated to read all of them like I was with Dean Koontz for a time. (his later work seeming weaker and more derivative).

I just bought a DVD of The Green Mile and had forgotten how awesome that movie was.

[Arcanetrance]

3. I thought the cop only wounded the other dundee I will have to go back and recheck that

[hfojvt]

7. well in the TV world

a shot by the good guys is always fatal.

They didn't show any of the screaming, and hand-cuffing and taking him to the hospital that would have happened if he was only wounded.

You've got it recorded?

[Arcanetrance]

8. Yeah I dvr most things I like to watch due to my schedule

[Jenoch]

4. I am almost embarassed to

admit that I watch this show.

The story line from last night's epidosde is especially moronic. If are running out of food for the entire town, they are going to starve before they would be able to grow enough food of some kind to sustain the entire town.

[hfojvt]

6. depends what time of year it is

and from the beginning episode, there should be some cattle and/or milk that they can eat and if there are chickens and pigs under the dome, then they can have some ham and eggs presuming that somebody knows how to butcher animals.

A food shortage though is a real problem that a town would have in this scenario and so is a water shortage.

Somebody having monopoly control over a vital necessity is also a real problem. The crops have already been planted, so if they are 51 days into the growing season, then they can perhaps harvest peas and beans and such fairly quickly. (I am neither a farmer nor a gardener, although I have tried from time to time.)

But without a money system, what are the non-farmers going to give the farmers for their efforts? Perhaps some free labor for the harvesting, but amateur help is sometimes more trouble than it is worth. So should the farmers just be civic minded and give away their food?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. The show is entertaining but the book was better.

That's usually the case.

[hfojvt]

9. so were there more bodies in the book or less?

What about explosions?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. The book's plot unfolded more gradually

and was not as unremittingly violent as the TV show. There were bodies but not all the time. There was one really big explosion toward the end.