UTD: Season 2

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Houdini

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Haha, maybe! ;-D Or she's using some kind of special shampoo and conditioner (which I'm thinking Chester's Mills should run out of by now)--either way it makes no sense! A true mystery!:hmm:

So to all who are dangerously in need of therapy and will continue watching "Under the Dome" into its third season, we say to you: good luck.

If you truly are lucky, Big Jim will murder the entire cast in the season three premiere, and spend the remainder of the episodes befriending the local animal population, eventually courting a comely badger lass.

Now that would be a show worth watching. (starpulse.com comment by Adam Bellotto)

Or you could click your heels together 3 times and say "There's no place like Dome, there's no place like Dome!"

Houdini in Omaha
 

TrueGeneration

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So to all who are dangerously in need of therapy and will continue watching "Under the Dome" into its third season, we say to you: good luck.

If you truly are lucky, Big Jim will murder the entire cast in the season three premiere, and spend the remainder of the episodes befriending the local animal population, eventually courting a comely badger lass.

Now that would be a show worth watching. (starpulse.com comment by Adam Bellotto)

Or you could click your heels together 3 times and say "There's no place like Dome, there's no place like Dome!"

Houdini in Omaha

:lol:

"Big Jim and the Badger," LOL.
 

Mr Nobody

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I'll see out S2 and give the first couple of eps in S3 (should there be one) a fair go. As I said before, I'm employing the 'Walking Dead' Rule...and if I can get through S2 of that, I reckon I can get through pretty much anything. (Seriously, I rewatched the first two, middle two and last two eps and felt like I'd missed none of the actual story at all. From what I heard, Frank Darabont's ideas for S2 would have made it much stronger...though I'm struggling to think of how they could have done otherwise. By comparison, S2 of UTD makes perfect sense and is hurtling along at breakneck speeds.)
 
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I'll see out S2 and give the first couple of eps in S3 (should there be one) a fair go. As I said before, I'm employing the 'Walking Dead' Rule...and if I can get through S2 of that, I reckon I can get through pretty much anything. (Seriously, I rewatched the first two, middle two and last two eps and felt like I'd missed none of the actual story at all. From what I heard, Frank Darabont's ideas for S2 would have made it much stronger...though I'm struggling to think of how they could have done otherwise. By comparison, S2 of UTD makes perfect sense and is hurtling along at breakneck speeds.)

Mr Nobody likes living dangerously. You do realize that most of us who like UTD also like TWD, don't you? :going_down:
 

Dana Jean

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Yes I can just see Big Jim singing "I'm Wishing" and having little song birds perched on his fingers. :)

Houdini in Omaha
And mice sewing him a new pair of jeans.

"Jimmerelly, Jimmerelly
Night and day it's Jimmerelly
Make the fire, fix the propane
Wash the dishes, shoot the hoarder

[Girl mice:]
Do the lying and backstabbing
They always keep him hopping

and he goes around in circles
Till he's very, very dizzy
Still they holler

Jimmerelly"
 

TrueGeneration

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And mice sewing him a new pair of jeans.

"Jimmerelly, Jimmerelly
Night and day it's Jimmerelly
Make the fire, fix the propane
Wash the dishes, shoot the hoarder

[Girl mice:]
Do the lying and backstabbing
They always keep him hopping

and he goes around in circles
Till he's very, very dizzy
Still they holler

Jimmerelly"

;-D:clap:
 

Mr Nobody

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You do realize that most of us who like UTD also like TWD, don't you? :going_down:

Yeah. But liking something doesn't mean you can't think (or admit) that parts of it suck like a Tommyknocker-designed vacuum.
Where TWD was concerned, there were obvious and pretty well-known reasons for it going the way it did in S2 (more eps for the same or less money being just one of them), and IMO, they dropped the ball. Not catastrophically, maybe - when it was good, it was very good - and they recovered in S3 (mostly, and again, IMO), but they still dropped it.
Not sure why UTD's seemed to shift from what it was in S1, but I tore through S1 at a rate of 2-4 eps per night, fighting sleep until sometimes 2 or 3 in the morning. I doubt I'd have done that, night on night, with S2. Tbh, with the two I watched last weekend, I put them on so I could regain space on the recorder as much as anything. I'm still interested enough to watch the rest, but I'm not as gripped as I was during S1 and the first ep or two of S2.
I dunno. Maybe second seasons are now like the 'saggy middle' of an otherwise good, interesting book - or maybe shows are only really intended to run for a single season as a screen against viewer anger or an antidote to what often seems to be arbitrary cancellation. Producers and writers end up getting caught out when the network orders a second run, the quality dips...
 
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Yeah. But liking something doesn't mean you can't think (or admit) that parts of it suck like a Tommyknocker-designed vacuum.
Where TWD was concerned, there were obvious and pretty well-known reasons for it going the way it did in S2 (more eps for the same or less money being just one of them), and IMO, they dropped the ball. Not catastrophically, maybe - when it was good, it was very good - and they recovered in S3 (mostly, and again, IMO), but they still dropped it.
Not sure why UTD's seemed to shift from what it was in S1, but I tore through S1 at a rate of 2-4 eps per night, fighting sleep until sometimes 2 or 3 in the morning. I doubt I'd have done that, night on night, with S2. Tbh, with the two I watched last weekend, I put them on so I could regain space on the recorder as much as anything. I'm still interested enough to watch the rest, but I'm not as gripped as I was during S1 and the first ep or two of S2.
I dunno. Maybe second seasons are now like the 'saggy middle' of an otherwise good, interesting book - or maybe shows are only really intended to run for a single season as a screen against viewer anger or an antidote to what often seems to be arbitrary cancellation. Producers and writers end up getting caught out when the network orders a second run, the quality dips...

I think I agree... (I wish I could write wordy posts, my short simple posts make me look like a dummy :( I am obviously not a writer lol.)

I read somewhere that the deal CBS has with amazon has been profitable enough to consider a third season. Good or bad, I want a third UTD season! :)
 

Mr Nobody

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I think I agree... (I wish I could write wordy posts, my short simple posts make me look like a dummy :(

No. :smile2:

And...with 2 eps still to go, I am now convinced that Julia is, indeed, an alien. Her hair is still shiny. It's also undergone a bit of a 'ginger recharge' (boo, fake gingers! Boooo! :D). She appears to be immortal - or at the very least, come the end there'll be Julia and the cockroaches left (and given Mythbusters' experiments with bugs and radiation, I'm not too sure about the cockroaches).
Alien.