I just finished Dan Simmons' Hyperion books and now I want to strangle him.  Some 1700+ pages and "love is all you need" is the central thesis.  Love is great, but it is most definitely not all you need to live!

I think King was forced to write that letter.  He can't go and trash the series.  He (and Spielberg) are exec-producers.  He wins both ways.  If the show sucks, more people will discover his book and he looks like a genius.  The language of his letter makes it sound like his hands were tied.

Does King not realize that the majority of people who tune into "Dome" week after week are, indeed, people who have read the book, and want to see the concept visualized instead of TV writers offering a different and altogether less interesting perspective of the story?  If you're going to make changes to the story,…

Nobody is always rich…some-times…hold on, hold on, hold on!

something about sisters, daughters, sons, fathers bullshit cock-up-the-nose…

…something, something, something dark side…something, something, something com-plete..

You son-of-a-bitch!  You made me feel again!

… and at the end there's cantaloupe.

Nobody poops but you.

Howard doesn't have the clout, but say if Cameron, Spielberg, and Jackson were to get together, it could definitely get made.

I got the first rumors from the Wikipedia  saying it was to be a mini-series produced by Spielberg for HBO, and I thought that was a great idea and then it winds up with CBS and my hopes were dashed.

Another flaw in the logic of the series.  I hope I'm not spoiling anything but communication was possible in the book, thus it cranked up the suspense even more.  The book was not without some ridiculous flaws, but it was a furious page-turner.  I think I finished the thing in a week!

If they had a "Prometheus"-sized budget for the visual effects, they could pull it off.  Goes without saying if Ridley Scott were attached to direct, I'd be there opening night.

There's a great line from the Hitchcock movie "The Trouble With Harry" - "Blessed are those who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed."

That last sentence sounds like the perfect tag-line for the show:

It's weird that this show is so successful.  I guess as talent doesn't necessarily equal success, the reverse is also true.

I did put a spoiler warning in there.

Well then, what's the point?  Why not give it another name (call it "The Simpsons movie by Stephen King" or "Popular Slut Club") change all the character names and make them advertising executives, put them on an island with zombies and make it inexplicably reality-based?

Reading the book, I had the indication the story takes place in the space of a week.  Why a weekly series?  Why not a miniseries, or (gasp) a theatrical film?  Changing things around to pad out a book to a series is one thing - using the dome as a spring-board for a different narrative - but surgically removing all…

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