As we have come to the end of season 1 of "Under The Dome", do you know what the hell is going on? Cause I still don't. I was hoping Dean Norris (Big Jim) would become the first person in television history to be knocked off on two major shows in one week (RIP Hank). Alas he was not. Without the evil Jim Rennie though, this show is just about a bunch of people stuck in a dome.
Here's the other major goings on in episodes 12-13:
- Angie, Joe, Norrie and Junior are still confused about the vision they had of everyone stabbing Big Jim.
- Norrie's other mom (Carolyn) finally comes down from upstairs and finds the mini dome. I was worried she had gone upstairs never to be seen again (just like Seven on "Married With Children" or Arnold on "The Brady Bunch"). Let that be a lesson television characters. If they try to send you upstairs "till the next episode", you should refuse to go.
- Big Jim kills Dodee and burns down the radio station. He then tells the townspeople that Barbie is responsible.
- The dome was moved to Ben's house where its starts screeching and Ben tries covering it with blankets (cause that works when your pet parrot is upset). Linda tries to touch the dome and gets burned. Too bad Dodee isn't around (cause she's dead) to tell Linda not do that.
- Angie and Barbie hide Julia (so Big Jim cant kill her).
- If the dome was not happy, you all will pay (by sitting in the dark). Or maybe a tornado will pop up or there will be an earthquake. You can never tell with that whacky dome.
- And the butterfly hatches inside the mini dome. You better guard that thing with your lives or the butterfly aliens will come and eat all of you.
- An entity taking the form of Norrie's dead mother Alice says the dome is there to protect them and they must guard the egg in order to earn the light.
- Big Jim has the noose around Barbie's neck in the town square. Julia (who we think is the "monarch") is supposed to bring the egg to him or Barbie will die. She instead throws the egg into the lake. Uh don't ya think that would make the dome mad instead? You're trying to drown the egg. Anyway "pink stars began falling down in lines" so the prophesy is fulfilled. Looks like Big Jim's dead wife and the kids were right all along.
- So to recap, mini dome is gone. Big dome is still there. The butterfly is flapping around somewhere (did everyone forget about the butterfly?). The egg is at the bottom of the lake. And a bright white light is going to blind everyone in Chester's Mill. I'm beginning to this this dome is a giant alien mood ring.
- Season 2 is scheduled for next summer. I predict they will still be stuck in the dome.
From Wikipedia:
Episode 12 Exigent Circumstances:
As Barbie hides in the woods, Big Jim gives a speech to the townspeople convincing them to continuously search for Barbie, with Linda enforcing rules of security. Dodee later reveals to Big Jim, after hearing radio transmissions from the military, that Barbie is being searched for from outside the dome. During the radio transmissions, Dodee remembers what happened to her days ago when she touched the mini-dome. She takes Big Jim to the radio station and tells him about the egg in the mini-dome. She then leaves the room for a moment, where Big Jim hears the people on the transmission discuss past events that occurred in the dome, including Reverend Coggins's murder. Dodee overhears the transmission, realizing that Big Jim was responsible for his death and other past crimes in the town. Big Jim tells her he did it to protect the town, and also wants to make sure the dome does not come down. Dodee then says he hopes for his eventual death, which pushes Big Jim to kill her and burn the station, blaming Barbie for arson. Joe, Angie, and Norrie grow confused over the vision they witnessed earlier, with the three of them and Junior killing Big Jim. Norrie's stepmom Carolyn then discovers the mini-dome, and promises to keep it secret from the town and Big Jim. Big Jim and some volunteers help him break into the barn to find the mini-dome, but find nothing; Joe's friend Ben has hidden the mini-dome in his house. Big Jim then arrests Joe and Norrie for aiding a vigilante, where he tries to interrogate the two in their cells. In doing so, Norrie stabs him in the arm with a knife she hid away. Joe and Norrie are soon released, and make their way to Ben's house, where he has been covering the dome in blankets after a piercing noise from the egg starts. Ben, Joe, Norrie, and Carolyn take off the blankets to find the dome glowing orange and the monarch cocoon beginning to move. Linda then walks upon the scene. Barbie later finds Angie and convinces her to protect Julia, who is recovering in the hospital from bullet wounds. He worries that Julia will reveal Big Jim's lies and will be killed because of it. Angie manages to distract Junior, by sweetly talking to him and kissing him, while Barbie takes Julia's stretcher to a nearby ambulance. Junior attempts to stop him, but Barbie manages to subdue him, and gets Angie to drive the ambulance to a safe place. He is later arrested by Linda for arson and murder of Dodee, with Phil kicking him in the mouth before being taken away. Julia wakes up with Angie helping her recollect, where she begins to worry over what Big Jim will do to Barbie. In his cell, Barbie is encouraged by Big Jim to confess to all the charges put on his record, or have those closest to him harmed. Junior then finds Big Jim and demands the truth from him; Big Jim lies to him, saying that Barbie was responsible for everything he is charged for. Conflicted over his father's trustworthiness, Junior walks to the end of the dome, and touches it, hoping for an answer. Big Jim walks Barbie to the front of town hall, where many angry townspeople wait for Barbie's guilty plea; after a few moments of contemplation, he pleads not guilty.
Episode 13 Curtains:
The monarch hatches, and the butterfly starts flying around inside the mini dome violently and creating expanding black spots where it crashes against the surface. These spots are mirrored in the big dome and begin to expand until both domes are jet black, casting the town into permanent darkness. Joe suggests the four touch the dome, but Linda cuts in, stating the egg is police property, the four choose not to stop her, knowing she will be knocked unconscious allowing them to escape. Junior, Angie, Joe, and Norrie then touch the dome together, the mini dome shatters releasing the both the Egg and butterfly, and at first it seems to hover round their prime candidate for Monarch, Barbie, but finally, they discover that the Monarch is Julia. They receive a visit from one of the dome's people who looks like Alice. The visitor states that they have taken human form to "bridge the divide", and that the reason for the dome is "to protect them". When they ask from what, the reply is "you will see, in time". They also discover that they must earn the light by keeping the egg safe. Barbie then gets captured by Junior. Big Jim thinks that his family are the chosen ones because his dead crazy wife had been painting pink stars and eggs in her last days indicating she had some knowledge of things to come. When Junior confronts him, he admits that he has actually killed the ones he accused Barbie of, but just to save the town. They put Barbie in a noose and then Julia has to choose to save the egg and the lives of the entire town, or save Barbie by giving the egg to Big Jim within one hour. She accepts the responsibility of the title Monarch and chooses the egg ( and the lives of everybody in the dome) and protects it by throwing it in the lake. The egg starts to glow, and the pink stars rise to the sky. Big Jim says the lord is blessing the hanging, the stars continue to rise and remove the dark black "curtain", replacing it with a curtain of piercing bright white light, increasing in intensity until things start to fade to white. Junior seeks guidance from his dad, and Big Jim continues to tell Junior to pull the lever, as the camera focuses on Barbie's face, the episode and season ends.
Grade: 4 Monsters (out of 5). I liked these two episodes more than previous ones. Season 2 is scheduled for summer of next year. I'm not sure this show holds my attention enough to stick it out for another season but we'll see. A lot can change in a year.
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