Ok, I take back what I said last week about this having any potential for entertainment at all. At this point, at least for me, this has crashed to the ground like so much blue ice from an airline toilet. Splat. Nothing to look at, folks, time to go home. The whole point of something like this is to retain the influence of the author, and the show's director and writers have gone completely in the opposite direction, effectively creating a brand new story of their own. And it SUCKS. I don't know if I'm in the majority or the minority on this, but I wanted to see a STEPHEN KING story. If I wanted to watch a stupid show with a stupid story by some nobody writers I've never heard of, there are a lot of other options out there. I spent a year looking forward to STEPHEN KING. I don't get even the slightest hint of King in what I'm seeing. Tell you what, as soon as one of these weak ass, unknown shit-gurgitators who call themselves writers writes an 1,100 page bestseller, I MIGHT consider their right to stand in the presence of someone like Stephen King. I'll never acknowledge their right to REPLACE him. In conclusion, all I can say is that the network must have King over a very painful barrel for him to be a producer of the show and allow this to happen. If he's actually involved in the direction this farce is taking, it may be all over.
After I posted this, I found a little note from The Big Guy himself regarding the monstrous changes between the book and the tv adaptation. Here's the link...
Read Stephen King's letter about all the changes here... Basically it states that he fully supports the changes, citing some gibberish about the book still being there on the shelf, unchanged, if you ever want to read it so no harm, no foul. In a nutshell, he said that pretty much everything about the book has been changed for the tv series, including the cause of the whole mess and that it's going to be months long instead of a week. He did admit that his one concern was that they keep the concept of a DOME alive in this new version. Way to go, Steve, for drawing a line SOMEWHERE.
