Hi Sandy,
I started watching Under the Dome last year with the impression that it was another mini-series based on a Steven King book. I have not read the book, although my son, who has read it, informed me early on that it was deviating significantly from the book. I was disgusted when I realized that it was not a mini-series, but an open-ended series.
I think a lot of people thought it was another Steven King based mini-series, because there have been several of them based on other books of his. They were all mini-series and not series and it may have been that it was planned as a mini-series, but when they realized they had good viewership numbers, they got greedy for more commercial money. I think they duped a lot of people.
I continue to watch it, more for the amusement of seeing how the writers play the game of trying to keep people watching it. It's practically a soap opera now. There seems to be no inconsistency too glaring to keep them from incorporating it in the script. I still wonder how they are going explain the role of the monarch butterflies. Maybe they won't even bother to.
We still have hummingbirds using our feeder, but a few more cold nights like the last two may convince them to fly south.
ZM
