穹顶之下

一个平静的小镇，百姓自治，相安无事。有一天，忽然从天而降一圆形的罩子，就像一堵无形的幕墙，将小镇彻底与外面的世界隔绝。外面的人进不来，里面的人出不去。不仅是水、电、粮食、油气都被切断，甚至所有基本的信息通讯工具都无法与外界联系。这种情况下，小镇会怎么样？小镇居民的生活会怎么样？显然是个很有意思的话题。当然，更有价值的思考是随着时间的推移，整个小镇固有的社会生态是否将不复存在？在灾难和困境面前，人心与人性将发生什么改变？或者说，极端的条件是否会逼出人心里一直被隐藏的最黑暗的一面？
这不是我的凭空臆想，而是恐怖大师斯蒂芬金最新推出的美剧《Under TheDome》（《苍穹之下》）里所讲述的故事。至于故事所隐喻的是什么，可以自由联想。

一开始看到那堵无形幕墙的时候，我曾经以为编剧是要贩卖罗尔斯的“无知之幕”(Veil of ignorance)，以“无知”为条件来设置完全“平等”的选择处境，从而达到“正义”。但是看了一会儿就明白了，故事的设计和罗尔斯的正义论没关系，甚至是反着来的。每个角色从娘胎里就带着自己在身份、阶层和性格方面的差异，他们延续着这些差异被置入封闭的空间里，然后被外面的同类所遗弃，更像高级的外星文明观察人类的实验品，或者说是一群小白鼠。

仅从第一季来说，这个故事和“乌托邦”也没啥关系。表面上看，所有人都是美国精神的信奉者，但是当自然资源日趋稀缺，各种矛盾日益加剧，人的私欲开始膨胀，心怀不轨之徒对权力和物资展开了强烈的争夺；于是社会秩序面临解体，原本薄弱的司法体系也溃不成军。更有意思的是，几乎所有人都在私权与公义之间摇摆，结果是所谓的“民主”却打开了前往“专制”的通道。在这个穹顶之下，最强大的是那种庞大而神秘的“超自然”力量，“它”用自己不可捉摸的意志控制着成年人社会的发展进程；但能够影响“它”的则是小镇上的一群孩子，而从社会家庭等角度看，孩子们又处于最弱势的位置，似乎又给故事里带来了某种微妙的平衡。

该剧的男一号是美剧《泛美航空》里的英俊机长Mike Vogel，女一号则是电影《暮色》里的妖艳反派Rachelle Lefevre。说实话，前者过去一脸的奶油，忽然演个粗犷的汉子，让人很不适应；后者则已经胖到有肥温级别的熟妇范儿。第一季看了十二集，已经出现了美剧的通病：一是穿帮镜头越来越多，二是不断的需要冒出新人来推进剧情。更大的问题是，无论正反派人物在抵达神一样的完美峰值之后，都开始不断犯低级弱智的错误。

或许，该剧最大的价值就在于设计了一个困境实验，能够在政治和社会学上有所启示；缺点则是，它不该是部絮絮叨叨、无穷无尽的美剧，而应该是拍成一部问题和矛盾更集中的电影。

在没有电脑、网络、iPad和手机的小时候，男生们最爱玩的游戏除了打弹珠、拍画片，恐怕就是循着墙角的裂痕，找到一群在路上的蚂蚁，解开裤子，一泡热尿，然后看着它们在热腾腾的海洋里挣扎、翻滚直到随着这一小股暖流消失在某处。又或者，捉住其中一只，放在课堂书桌上，用玻璃杯（更多时间是圆珠笔的透明笔套）罩住这个茫然不知所措的小东西，用上一整堂课的时光观察它的疑惑和挣扎。

这类近乎于无聊的游戏，现在看来真的是乏味的很。但是对于好奇心旺盛的孩子而言，不知不觉间用上帝视角去窥探小小昆虫世界的行为，你无法在残忍和好学间界定一个清晰的关系。

《穹顶之下》作为尚未有中文译作的史提芬金作品，讲述的正是这样一个具有寓意的惊悚科幻故事。切斯特磨坊小镇突然在某天被从天而降的透明穹顶笼罩，被未知力量所隔绝的居民在经历了困惑、恐惧之后，在物资日益紧张的生活中渐渐陷入混乱和绝望。

作为惊悚恐怖大师，史提芬金最擅长的就是将人们从习惯中剥离，然后将其放入极端环境下拷问人性的可能性。类似于《末日逼近》这样的作品，就是在末世中，静静观察期间的人群，看着原有社会文明崩塌下的人类如何在碰撞中产生故事。相对于《末日逼近》开放世界的戏剧冲突，《穹顶之下》一开始就将环境限定在一个极其有限的空间，人物数量样本的减少，注定这样一场人性和社会试验必须以更加激烈的矛盾爆发呈现，才能够在较短的篇幅内从容不迫的结尾。

小说原著中，这个穹顶被描绘成外星青年为了娱乐而放置的隔离罩，就如同我们观察蚂蚁一样，对于渺视着焦头烂额般无头苍蝇似的小小人类而麻木不仁，最终在兴趣消退之后有意无意的进行灭绝计划。

尽管在改编为电视剧之前，这颇让人心寒的结局让读者们强烈抗议，以至于剧集的拍摄开始后已经在很大程度上对原著进行了二次创作，但是这部被寄予厚望的科幻剧还是在张力后劲不足的情节中滑向神棍局的泥潭。

整部电视剧最惊心动魄的场面，无疑是穹顶降临那一刻所带来的震撼，割裂的大地、劈断的树木和房屋、坠毁的飞机和尸体，以及所有因为穹顶带来的奇特视觉瞬间，的确让人记忆深刻。遗憾的是，整部电视剧的噱头和悬念到此为止，每一次前情回顾都要被生切两半的奶牛（？）让人在怀疑编剧水准的同时心生同情。

不管是资源争夺战，还是疫情危机这些全剧寥寥无几的生存冲突中，本局的演员们完美演绎了什么叫做照本宣科和性格脸谱化。在《绝命毒师》中颇受好评的汉克扮演者迪恩诺里斯，仿佛突然间变得不会演戏，《穹顶之下》的big jim从头到尾都挂着一幅“我是坏蛋”的扑克脸，而作为女主之一的蕾切尔除了一头红发让人印象深刻，其余的表演甚至不如在电影《惊天危机》打的一手好酱油；而另一名女主和另一名男主，即那对苦命鸳鸯，莫名其妙的地下室囚禁除了告诉我们什么叫“不做死就不会死”之外，还展示了两人以夸张、呆滞风格著称的表演。
失控的剧本和不走心的表演让整部剧集原本还算有看点的科幻设定变得味如嚼蜡。原本应该拿来拷问的生存冲突，以及理应升华的人性得失，在后半段都快变成家庭言情剧的《穹顶之下》里消失的无影无踪。

我不由赞叹起星空下俯视小镇的外星人，这要是我，可能在第五六集就会怒不可遏的揭开穹顶，一个个捏死这些出工不出力的演员……

  看了第一集还以为又是一部好剧，结果三集后你TM在逗我？
  隔绝题材的剧不少，什么迷失，潜艇队困在岛上之类的，随着大家发现补给进不来会必然出现争夺资源，伴随着秩序崩坏。这种剧最好应该描述的是“众生相”，结果大伙跟傻子一样需要的时候出来一下，而且大个说啥都信。就大家抢药品那会儿表现出正常人性，随着下雨了大家又老老实实连枪都上交了。我默认为小生态系统里能自给自足，但剧里没有描述他们怎么种菜怎么生产的。这种情况下什么警察，议员早就维持不下去了，谁有武力听谁的，结果他们斗智斗勇一直一直到剧终。我还想看看炫酷的像第一集那种汽车撞玻璃上的场景，结果剩下的科幻镜头就一个小蛋。

  种种智商硬伤问题不说了，几个主角看着喜欢不起来，芭比从来不坦诚而且事先老考虑不周事后再补救，外面的人就不管他们了？剧里的人就不能尝试各种穹顶的可能性？还有那个半路出现的很牛的max我还以为是女Boss结果过两集被一枪崩了，她就是出来交代个男主的黑历史的？琳达有脑子吗？大个我看就只会放冷枪，而男主和一帮小孩各干各的，我知道你是坏人但我们就不联合起来对付你。

  总之，一个本该有囚徒困境，科幻题材的剧能拍成看了想睡觉的青少年斗坏人也算本事，这题材编剧写不了，

自从电视上对该剧的大力宣传开始，笔者一直怀着期盼的心情，等待着一见其真容。打着科幻悬疑和斯皮尔伯格的招牌，确实吸引了我脆弱的小心脏。开播那天守在电视前，刚看了十几分钟就发现不对了，这罩罩，这小镇，你确定这不是辛普森的真人版？？
好吧不论如何，第一集的悬疑戏份十足，加上美剧一贯的不接着看就憋死的风格，此剧还在可接受范围之内。可是一星期之后的第二集，让我的智商面临了一次不小的挑战...不仅剧情毫无进展，各路正反派又无所不用其极地秀着下线。本集结束时笔者终于再也忍不住，冲进了维基，想了解下原著的精髓，或者找找和辛普森的血缘关系。看了简介方才恍然大悟，这导演和演员真是冤啊，这种剧本简直是剧组的期末考卷啊，能pass就是奇迹啊！

废话说了一大堆，我想不少朋友都是冲着剧透来的，我在这里只说下原著的梗概（英文基础好的朋友可以直接看后附的原文），不排除剧集会在剧情上做出改动，不过从前两集的状况来看，希望渺茫啊。

首先这个罩罩从哪来的，对，你没有猜错，那是外星人啊外星人，而且是一群青春期叛逆的外星人，至于为什么要弄一个罩子把小镇罩起来，我想大家都知道那种透明蚂蚁窝吧，没错，就是因为好玩...外星少年们觉得好玩...

至于罩子对剧情有什么影响，非常不幸，没了..那就是个罩子，其他剧情完全只是发生在罩子里的，关于所谓人性的故事，故事大概是这样的，议员在发现罩子之后，就想夺取小镇的的控制权，在他控制下的部分人们开始反抗，最终战胜邪恶。。至于那丙烷，是议员用来做毒品的（meth，应该是冰毒之类的），是的，这就是小镇所谓的秘密。最后的最后，那个毒品工厂爆炸了。。放出了许多有毒气体 毒死了大部分人，之后在女主角，就是那个记者的说服下，外星人少年们同情了他们，把小蚂蚁们都放了。。。。这就是全部的狗血剧情，悬疑？科幻？各位看官智者见智吧。。

后附百科的原文 供大家参考
At 11:44 AM on Saturday October 21 of an unspecified year after 2012 (evident by mention of a faded bumper sticker for Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign[3][4]), the small Maine town of Chester's Mill is abruptly and gruesomely separated from the outside world by an invisible, semipermeable barrier of unknown origin. The immediate appearance of the barrier causes a number of injuries and fatalities, and traps former Army Captain Dale "Barbie" Barbara—who is trying to leave Chester's Mill because of a local dispute—inside the town.
Police Chief Howard "Duke" Perkins is soon killed when his pacemaker explodes after getting too close to the barrier. This removes the last significant opposition to James "Big Jim" Rennie, used car salesman and the town's Second Selectman. Big Jim exerts significant influence within Chester's Mill, and seizes the opportunity to use the barrier as part of a power play to take over the town.
Big Jim appoints one of his cronies, the incompetent Peter Randolph, as the new Police Chief. He also begins expanding the ranks of the Chester's Mill Police with questionable candidates, including his son, Junior Rennie, and his friends. Junior has frequent migraines caused by an as-yet undiscovered brain tumor which has also begun affecting his mental state; unbeknownst to Big Jim, Junior was in the process of beating and strangling a girl to death when the barrier appeared, and has killed another girl by the time Rennie places him on the police force.
Elsewhere in Chester's Mill, Julia Shumway, the editor of the local newspaper, is phoned by Colonel James O. Cox, who has her carry a message to Barbie to contact him. When he does, Cox requests that Barbie act as the government's liaison in an effort to bring down the Dome, as it has come to be known. Because of Barbie's talents as a former bomb factory hunter, Cox gives him the task of locating the dome's power source, which is believed to be inside the Dome. Cox is also able to foresee the small town political ramifications of such a situation. By virtue of a Presidential order, Barbie is reinstated in the U.S. military and promoted to full Colonel. Barbie is also presented with a decree granting him authority over the township. However, smalltown politics being what they are, this action is not well received by Big Jim and his misguided band of renegade police officers.
As Big Jim covertly encourages and orchestrates unease and panic among the town to build up his grab for power, Barbie, Julia and a number of other townspeople attempt to stop things from spiraling out of control. After crossing Rennie's path on several occasions, Barbie is framed and arrested for four murders. He is accused of killing Reverend Lester Coggins, who laundered money for Rennie's large-scale methamphetamine operation, and Duke's widow Brenda Perkins, who were both murdered by Big Jim, as well as the two girls Junior killed. While Barbie is in jail, other residents track the source of the Dome to an abandoned farm, and the device is strongly indicated to be extraterrestrial in origin. The restrictions issued by Rennie become more severe and the police force grows more abusive, galvanizing the town and eventually leading some residents to break Barbie out of jail, killing Junior seconds before he can murder Barbie.
The semi-organized resistance flees to the abandoned farm, where multiple people touch the strange object and experience visions. They not only conclude that the device was put in place by extraterrestrial "leatherheads" (so named for their appearance), but that specifically they are juveniles who have set up the Dome as a cruel form of entertainment, a sort of ant farm used to capture sentient beings and allow their captors to view everything that happens inside.
On an organized "Visitors Day"—when people outside the Dome can meet at its edge with people within—Big Jim sends Randolph and a detachment of police to take back control of his former meth operation from Phil "Chef" Bushey, who is stopping Rennie from covering up the operation as well as hoarding the more than four hundred tanks of propane stored there (Chef wants it all, explaining, "I need it to cook"). Big Jim underestimates Chef's capacity for self-defense and meth-induced paranoia; he, as well as the now-ostracized head selectman Andy Sanders (whom Chef has introduced to meth use) defend themselves and the meth lab with assault rifles. Many are killed in the ensuing gunfight and Chef, who is mortally wounded, detonates a plastic explosive device he has placed in the meth production facility. The ensuing explosion, combined with the propane and meth-making chemicals, unleashes a toxic firestorm large enough to incinerate most of the town.
More than a thousand of the town's residents are quickly incinerated on national television, leaving alive only the twenty-six survivors at the abandoned barn, an orphaned farm boy hiding in a potato cellar, and Big Jim and his informal aide-de-camp, Carter Thibodeau, in the town's fallout shelter. Big Jim and Thibodeau eventually turn on each other over the stores of food and water (and Big Jim's worry that Thibodeau may act as a witness against him if they survive); Big Jim stabs and disembowels Thibodeau, only to die several hours later when hallucinations of the dead send him fleeing into the now-toxic environment outside. The survivors at the barn begin to slowly asphyxiate, despite efforts by the Army to force clean air through the walls of the Dome.
Barbie and Julia go to the control device to beg their captors to release them. Julia is able to make contact with a single female leatherhead, no longer accompanied by her friends and thus not caught up in their peer pressure. After repeatedly expressing that they are real sentient beings with real "little lives", and by sharing a painful childhood incident with the adolescent alien, Julia convinces the leatherhead to have pity on them. The Dome raises up slowly and vanishes, allowing the toxic air to dissipate and finally freeing the town of Chester's Mill.

因为穹顶之下有小说原版，一向等待剧情无能的我，跑去看了原版，但是好长嗄。所以偷懒去wikipedia看了小说概括。看完一时兴起，把它翻译了出来。这种行为很不好。纠结了一下，还是决定放上来，给其他等待无能的童鞋观看。这么做原因如下，这是原版概括，来自于wikipedia,不但无法保证准确性，而且搬上电视，剧本也做了大量的修改。剧情肯定会有很多不一样的地方。这篇翻译，某种程度上只是提供了未来剧情开展的大致方向。希望不会毁了观赏乐趣所在。

下面贴上wikipedia上的原文，以作spoiler alert。同时欢迎大家比对指正。

Synopsis：
At 11:44 AM on Saturday October 21 of an unspecified year after 2012 (evident by mention of a faded bumper sticker for Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign[3][4]), the small Maine town of Chester's Mill is abruptly and gruesomely separated from the outside world by an invisible, semipermeable barrier of unknown origin. The immediate appearance of the barrier causes a number of injuries and fatalities, and traps former Army Captain Dale "Barbie" Barbara—who is trying to leave Chester's Mill because of a local dispute—inside the town.
Police Chief Howard "Duke" Perkins is soon killed when his pacemaker explodes after getting too close to the barrier. This removes the last significant opposition to James "Big Jim" Rennie, used car salesman and the town's Second Selectman. Big Jim exerts significant influence within Chester's Mill, and seizes the opportunity to use the barrier as part of a power play to take over the town.
Big Jim appoints one of his cronies, the incompetent Peter Randolph, as the new Police Chief. He also begins expanding the ranks of the Chester's Mill Police with questionable candidates, including his son, Junior Rennie, and his friends. Junior has frequent migraines caused by an as-yet undiscovered brain tumor which has also begun affecting his mental state; unbeknownst to Big Jim, Junior was in the process of beating and strangling a girl to death when the barrier appeared, and has killed another girl by the time Rennie places him on the police force.
Elsewhere in Chester's Mill, Julia Shumway, the editor of the local newspaper, is phoned by Colonel James O. Cox, who has her carry a message to Barbie to contact him. When he does, Cox requests that Barbie act as the government's liaison in an effort to bring down the Dome, as it has come to be known. Because of Barbie's talents as a former bomb factory hunter, Cox gives him the task of locating the dome's power source, which is believed to be inside the Dome. Cox is also able to foresee the small town political ramifications of such a situation. By virtue of a Presidential order, Barbie is reinstated in the U.S. military and promoted to full Colonel. Barbie is also presented with a decree granting him authority over the township. However, smalltown politics being what they are, this action is not well received by Big Jim and his misguided band of renegade police officers.
As Big Jim covertly encourages and orchestrates unease and panic among the town to build up his grab for power, Barbie, Julia and a number of other townspeople attempt to stop things from spiraling out of control. After crossing Rennie's path on several occasions, Barbie is framed and arrested for four murders. He is accused of killing Reverend Lester Coggins, who laundered money for Rennie's large-scale methamphetamine operation, and Duke's widow Brenda Perkins, who were both murdered by Big Jim, as well as the two girls Junior killed. While Barbie is in jail, other residents track the source of the Dome to an abandoned farm, and the device is strongly indicated to be extraterrestrial in origin. The restrictions issued by Rennie become more severe and the police force grows more abusive, galvanizing the town and eventually leading some residents to break Barbie out of jail, killing Junior seconds before he can murder Barbie.
The semi-organized resistance flees to the abandoned farm, where multiple people touch the strange object and experience visions. They not only conclude that the device was put in place by extraterrestrial "leatherheads" (so named for their appearance), but that specifically they are juveniles who have set up the Dome as a cruel form of entertainment, a sort of ant farm used to capture sentient beings and allow their captors to view everything that happens inside.
On an organized "Visitors Day"—when people outside the Dome can meet at its edge with people within—Big Jim sends Randolph and a detachment of police to take back control of his former meth operation from Phil "Chef" Bushey, who is stopping Rennie from covering up the operation as well as hoarding the more than four hundred tanks of propane stored there (Chef wants it all, explaining, "I need it to cook"). Big Jim underestimates Chef's capacity for self-defense and meth-induced paranoia; he, as well as the now-ostracized head selectman Andy Sanders (whom Chef has introduced to meth use) defend themselves and the meth lab with assault rifles. Many are killed in the ensuing gunfight and Chef, who is mortally wounded, detonates a plastic explosive device he has placed in the meth production facility. The ensuing explosion, combined with the propane and meth-making chemicals, unleashes a toxic firestorm large enough to incinerate most of the town.
More than a thousand of the town's residents are quickly incinerated on national television, leaving alive only the twenty-six survivors at the abandoned barn, an orphaned farm boy hiding in a potato cellar, and Big Jim and his informal aide-de-camp, Carter Thibodeau, in the town's fallout shelter. Big Jim and Thibodeau eventually turn on each other over the stores of food and water (and Big Jim's worry that Thibodeau may act as a witness against him if they survive); Big Jim stabs and disembowels Thibodeau, only to die several hours later when hallucinations of the dead send him fleeing into the now-toxic environment outside. The survivors at the barn begin to slowly asphyxiate, despite efforts by the Army to force clean air through the walls of the Dome.
Barbie and Julia go to the control device to beg their captors to release them. Julia is able to make contact with a single female leatherhead, no longer accompanied by her friends and thus not caught up in their peer pressure. After repeatedly expressing that they are real sentient beings with real "little lives", and by sharing a painful childhood incident with the adolescent alien, Julia convinces the leatherhead to have pity on them. The Dome raises up slowly and vanishes, allowing the toxic air to dissipate and finally freeing the town of Chester's Mill.

       在2012年之后的某一年的十月二十一号早晨 （书中清楚地提到了某辆车的保险杠前一张已经退色的奥巴马2012再选广告宣传贴纸），11点44分，一个在缅因州叫做Chester’s Mill的小镇，忽然被一个不知道从哪里来的可怕的隐形半渗透膜状的屏障给罩了起来，断绝了和外界的一切联系。这个突然出现的屏障导致了一系列的伤亡事件，同时困住了前陆军上尉Dale Barbara ( Barbie)，他本来因为本地的一个争执事件而正准备离开这个镇。
　　
　　警齤察局长Howard Perkins (Duke) 很快的因为接触到了屏障，而使他体内的心脏起搏器爆炸而死亡。他是市政委员 James Rennie (Big Jim)在镇上的最大阻力。Big Jim 在Chester’s Mill 有很大的影响力，而且把这次的与世隔绝当作一个可以接管整个镇的机会。


    Big Jim 指派了一个和他有裙带关系，但没什么能力的 Peter Randolph 来当新的警齤察局长。同时，他还开始扩编警齤察队伍，这些靠不住的人中包括了他的儿子Junior Rennie， 和他的朋友们。Junior 常常受到头疼的困扰，只是那时候他还不知道这其实是脑瘤引起的。同时脑瘤还影响了他的精神状态。他不仅在屏障出现的时候就开始殴打并勒死一个女孩，之后杀了另一个女孩。Big Jim对此情况一无所知，还在那之后让Junior加入了警齤察的队伍。
　　
　　在镇上的另外一边，本地报纸的编辑 Julia Shumway, 接到了来自陆军上校James O.Cox的通讯，他要Julia告诉Barbie与他联系。当Barbie 和上校联系上后，他要求Barbie充当政府的联络员，以便可以一起努力把这个现在被称作穹顶的屏障给消除。因为Barbie以前是寻找炸齤弹工厂的探侦员 （a former Bomb Factory Hunter）, 所以陆军上校Cox给了他在镇上寻找形成穹顶能量来源的任务。上校同时还预见到了这样的突发事件会给小镇带来的政治风波。凭借总统的指派，Barbie恢复了在军队的任职，并且还被提拔成了上校。Barbie还得到了关于准许他有不受小镇权限限制的法令公文。然而这项决定却遭到了Big Jim和他的那些被误导的随扈的阻挠。

   一边Big Jim在偷偷地鼓动和精心策划，利用居民们的不安和慌乱来达到他夺权的目的。而另一边，Barbie, Julia 和其他的一些镇上的居民在尝试阻止事情急剧的失去控制。在几次阻挠了Big Jim的事情之后， Barbie被栽赃诬陷了四起谋杀案，关了起来。他被控告谋杀了帮Big Jim的大型安非他命组织洗钱的牧师Lester Coggins, 原警齤察局长Duke的老婆Brenda Perkins(这两个人其实都是Big Jim杀害的)，还有两个被他儿子Junior杀害的女孩子。当Barbie在监狱的时候，镇上的一些居民追踪到了穹顶的源头在一座废弃的农场。农场里的装置强有力的指明穹顶的源头是来自于地球以外的。Big Jim对镇上居民的管制越来越苛刻，警齤察们滥用职权，这些都促使镇上的一些居民愤而起来帮助Barbie越狱，并且就在Junior谋杀Barbie的时候，救下了Barbie,杀死了Junior。
　　
　　这个半组织抵抗者团体逃到了废弃的农场。农场的很多人都触摸了那个奇怪的装置，并且感受到了幻影。他们不仅得出这个装置是被外星人给放在这儿的结论，并且这些外星“皮革头”（leatherheads）（这个外号从他们的外貌而来）还是一些年轻人，他们把穹顶的设置当成某种残酷的娱乐，就像是一个玻璃观察罩，捕捉有感知的生物以便捕捉者观察这之内发生的一切事物。

    在一个“探访日”，也就是穹顶外面的人可以和穹顶内的人在边缘见面的时候，Big Jim 派遣Randolph和一只警齤察小分队从Phil Bushey (Chef) 的手中重新夺回他对安非他命工厂的控制权。Chef之前阻止Big Jim 对安非他命工厂的掩饰，以及在那儿囤积了超过400罐的丙烷的事情。Big Jim 低估了Chef自卫的能力，以及他由安非他命所引起的妄想症。Chef和现在已经被驱逐的前首席市政委员Andy Sanders (他也在Chef的引导下使用安非他命)，一起用步齤枪来防卫他们自己和安非他命工厂。随之而来的枪战造成了很多人员的伤亡，在Chef也受了致命伤之后，他引爆了放在安非他命制作厂房的塑胶炸齤弹装置。结合了丙烷和制作安非他命时所用的化学物质，这场巨大的释放毒气的爆炸几乎把整个镇变成了一个火葬场。

   上千个镇上的居民很快地被烧毁殆尽的画面在国家电视台播放着，只留下了在废弃农场里的26个幸存者，一个藏在土豆窖里的农场孤儿，和躲在镇上的防辐射尘避难所里的Big Jim 和他的副官 Carter Thibodeau。 他们最终因为食物和水而开始攻击对方（而且Big Jim担心Carter在他们幸存后会变成指认他罪行的证人）。他刺死了Carter，并且肢解了他的尸体。但几个小时之后，Big Jim就被Carter的幻象引出了避难所，接触到了有毒大气后，也死了。而尽管穹顶外的军人千方百计的想要往里输入新鲜空气，在农场幸存的人们还是慢慢地被有毒气体窒息。
　　
　　Barbie和Julia 来到控制装置前祈求外星观察者能够放过他们。Julia与其中的一位女性“皮革头”联系上。这位外星人没有同龄人在左右，也就免于受到来自他们的压力。Julia重复地表达了他们是一群真实的有感觉的生物，并且也只有小小的一段生命时间。在与这位年少的女外星人分享了一次Julia童年惨痛的经历之后，她启发了这位外星人的慈悲之心。穹顶慢慢的升高并且消失，有毒气体驱散，而Chester’s Mill也最终得到了解放。

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感想：

1.Dale感觉不像是概括中中所呈现的那么黑白分明，至少现在他涉及一项真正的命案，虽然到底是怎么回事还没有表明。
2.Angie不像书中所呈现的那么无关紧要，将会发生在她身上什么事情，很值得期待。
3.还有女副警长感觉也会在接下来的剧情推动上起到至关重要的作用。按照概括来看，她基本上要在狼堆里生存。

暂时就先这样。拍砖头的童鞋轻一点。我退下了。

ps.对翻译组的人们致以崇高的敬意，这么一小篇东西，翻译完还挺耗费心神。他们常年干这个，真不容易啊！

　　《穹顶之下》根据史蒂芬·金的同名小说改编，斯皮尔伯格担任监制。讲述美国一个不知名小镇被神秘力场笼罩，任何物质包括电磁波都无法穿透力场，小镇一夜之间陷入与世隔绝的状态。当诡异现象来临之后，剩下的看点就是小镇中心怀鬼胎的居民了。该剧节奏明快，线索清晰，人物之间既有矛盾也有合作，看点十足。
　　该剧虽然收视率不俗，但观众评价褒贬不一。有人对剧中的一些细节挑起了毛病：“飞机撞到罩子，残骸怎么会掉在罩子里？既然大家可以呼吸，为什么不能尝试和外界沟通？要知道，声音是通过空气传播的。”科幻题材在美剧中一向受青睐，但真能善始善终的却不多，大多数剧集都是神一样的开头，神经病一样的结尾。在原著小说中，产生穹顶的原因居然是几个外星小孩所为，他们把这个穹顶当玩具来玩，看着穹顶之下的人类的种种活动，他们觉得很有意思，直到生还者极力恳求，他们才把穹顶解除。
　　如此结局，当年就让很多读者哭笑不得，如今翻拍电视剧，很多观众都对书中的“烂尾”结局担心不已。对此，《穹顶之下》编剧表示，绝对不会延续小说的故事，电视剧将有新的发展。但是除掉外星人和神秘力量，还有什么能造就这样一个谜团一样的“穹顶”？政府？军方？如果把从与自然力量作斗争转成同人类自己作斗争，那也不免有《灭世》(Revolution) 的嫌疑了，不论怎样，甩掉原作中的烂尾结局是编剧们在《穹顶之下》第二季中要面对的重要问题，相信众多美剧迷们也会积极支招。但愿这部迎来了“神一样”收视率的美剧，不要迎来一个“神经一样”的结尾。
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