I find that I'm watching it in very much the same way I watched Terra Nova, which I stuck with until the end. Not only does every episode contain a few moments that are so ridiculous as to be entertaining, it serves as a really solid education in how not to make a TV show.

It wouldn't even be so bad if they didn't play every piece of mythology like a huge revelation and then act as though we may not have understood it.

Yet again, this show's idea of science and inquiry is "totally random analogies".

In discussing how visually amazing the Jesse carousel shot is, let's not forget that the sound design in that scene was also freaking incredible. Warped metal singing a little song…

Forget a scientific background — just a single rational mind would do nicely at this point. Anyone with the vaguest grasp of what careful, methodical investigation means would be king of that stupid town. The problem is, I don't think the *writers* have a goddamn clue what science or investigation is — they think a…

"There's two sides to that coin, Jim."
"Yeah, and I'll have your head."
"But I'm already on your tail."
"If I had a quarter for every time I heard that…"
"Penny wise, pound foolish, Jim."
"Don't try to nickel and dime me on this, Barbie."
"Oh yeah? Well… now YOU'RE in a snowglobe!

OK, I'll be the first to ask: when are we getting an Under The Dome / Venture Bros. crossover?

Yeah, last week I thought the dome was fuelled by bad drama, but now I'm starting to think it's fuelled by clumsy symbolism.

you didn't think propane was the ONLY trick Big Jim had up his sleeve, did you? Next season is Jim's hypercaffeinated supersoldiers versus Barbie's ragtag team of drowsy rebels

Heh, goddamn. Just imagine the feeling of being a creator of this show, knowing the scene you've got lined up at the end of this week's episode, while watching the end of Breaking Bad last night…

There's more to where Walt ended up than just the obvious boredom — it's exactly where he started, in the car wash. More than that, his last act upon storming out in the first season was to… knock down all the air fresheners.

At this point I think it's pretty clear that the dome is a life form, this is its protective nest, and its young feeds on predictable drama to grow and hatch.

"Maybe the real action isn't at the perimeter…"
"Then where would it be?"
"I don't know. I feel like circles have another important feature, apart from their perimeter — almost the opposite in fact — but I'm not sure what it is. Maybe an analogy about atoms will help solve this riddle."

It was really weird how they revisited the alien sex shop, and basically just repeated the Human Horn scene but with fewer jokes. The whole time I was waiting for some sort of meta "we've done this before" comment to happen… did I miss it?

"How big is Chester's Mill, anyway?"

You'd think the townspeople — even, perhaps especially, the diabetics — might actually all agree that keeping the only doctor(ish) alive is important. The trope of the selfless doctor is *really* stupid when the doctor's survival is important to everyone else's.

This is my new favourite imaginary scene ever.

Nah — I mean don't get me wrong, that episode was *awesome*, but if it was true fanboy candy, it would have given us the Archer universe's version of Stormy too at the very least.

The lack of funny protest signs is, in a way, the detail that makes it clear how lazy this episode was. Otherwise you could maybe think it was a sincere swing and a miss (though I'm among those who think a D might be a bit harsh, it's definitely not a great episode).

Agreed. I know Zack said he still wasn't sold on the physical acting, but I thought the shush itself was perfect, even if the seizures are still terrible. It perfectly conveyed the absolutely terrifying feeling that there is something else in the room with you, as it were (if anything, the big disappointment was the…