We're still recovering from a packed week at Comic-Con, but we haven't stopped bringing you goodies! Take the Under the Dome panel, which furnished us with lots of juicy titbits about what's coming up in the rest of the season. In case you couldn't make it to Ballroom 20, we've rounded up the most important gossip from the event - courtesy of the show's cast and executive producer Neal Baer...



1. Expect to lose more characters before the season is out...

"No-one is safe under the dome," Baer said. "We have on the ceiling of our office what we call heaven and we have everybody up there and we have Dodee and we have Angie and we have Linda and we have Reverend Coggins and then we have a few more that will be coming this season. We have kept the body count down a little bit at the beginning of the season so we can rev it up for the end."

But Alexander Koch suggested that they might not all be gone for good. "You never know," he teased. "You never know when somebody's going to go and you never know when they could come around again... You saw Jolene [Purdy] last year made a great appearance [as Dodee]."

Baer agreed: "She came back to haunt Dean [Norris], Big Jim, so when you're dead you're dead but it doesn't mean you can't be an avatar at some point and come back. So there are no set rules. We said goodbye to Angie and Linda but there are certainly possibilities that one of them might be back."

As for newer cast member Eddie Cahill? "I read the script going, 'Better him than me'," he joked.



2. We're about to see some people get out of the Dome.

We got to see a clip of Barbie falling down a huge chasm during the panel - and it could mean that he's about to escape the dome. "One of our characters might get out of the dome this season," Baer confirmed, while Mike Vogel added: "A lot of people said, 'How do you maintain a show under a dome year after year after year after year?' They've come up with a really exciting and interesting way of broadening the scope of our world so I think everyone's in for a treat when that happens."

But Rachelle Lefevre pointed out that the dome isn't the only problem being faced by the characters. "Whether you're under the Dome or you find a way out, whatever those experiences are, the problems, the difficulties of the relationships, the psychopathy, whatever it is will follow you wherever you go," she said. "And we hope that whatever happens with the show you'll want to watch those characters still wrestle with those demons and still wrestle with those relationships."

Oh, and Baer promised that the tunnels will be "really interesting and really cool", saying: "How we find them, where they lead to, what they mean - it opens up a whole new vista of storytelling for us." And Lefevre told us that the outside world will play a big part this season in general: "You will get your first glimpse in a small way of what the impact of the dome has been and what people around it are doing about it and how they're reacting to it."



3. We'll find out a lot more about Angie's death.

Like what was in that locker? "Like we said last year when we said we'd find out what Big Jim's propane was and that Barbie killed Julia's husband, we gave all the answers," Baer said. "We set up new mysteries and we will definitely find out what's in that locker. This year."

Meanwhile, Koch hinted that there is "more conflict and fighting and attacking each other" coming up - "Revenge might be taken", he teased - and Colin Ford promised that Joe will be "angry" too. "I think he wants to know who did it," he said. "I think the whole season, Joe kind of undergoes this transformation period between being a young man to being an adult. I think that Barbie is a huge role model to Joe. I think he provides this example of heroic behaviour as well as just bravery. Being able to - despite all the bad situations that are going on - just find the good, or if you can't find the good just move on because that's what we have to do in this situation."

As for Koch, he explained that finding out who killed Angie is Junior's main priority at the moment - "The mother stuff is kind of on the back burner, because he can't really deal with that until he gets out of the dome" - but warned that there's more drama ahead for him. "More misfortune and bad stuff is going to happen to Junior," he said. "As it does to everyone on the show, but Junior specifically keeps getting the s**t end of the stick, I guess. So yeah, you'll see more painful stuff headed Junior's way."



4. Big Jim and Junior probably aren't going to have an easy relationship any time soon.

"I keep trying but he's a tough kid to raise!" Norris joked. "He didn't have a great father. I think that's part of our story, is the difficulty of trying to raise a psychopath. It's complicated... He loves him and yet he knows that he's got some problems so I think that's kind of the thing that fuels our story arc, is trying to maintain a father-son relationship while we both have some psychological issues." Lefevre joked: "That's the pot calling the kettle psychopath."

5. The Sam-Julia-Barbie love triangle is going to carry on being complicated, probably.

"Sam stepped over his bounds in the last episode that aired and had taken a shine to Julia and made a play for her and was very politely rejected but nevertheless took a shot," Cahill joked, as Lefevre asked him not to make it "weird".

"We've really only been under the Dome for about a month and so one of the things that was a little bit tricky was conflict between Julia and Barbie, introducing someone else who might be like-minded and sort of find a way, but I also lost my husband a month ago," she pointed out. "You want to play carefully in that realm and try to keep it a little bit realistic even though we are a sci-fi show."

"You call it tricky, I call it slutty," Norris joked, as Lefevre grinned: "I didn't say I wasn't having a good time!"



6. We're going to find out who's sending those emails - and you can get involved online.

"Joe spends most of the show running around with a tablet trying to get emails so he can respond to his millions of Twitter followers but he can't get email in there," Lefevre joked. "That's why he's not tweeting you back ladies, stop asking me why he's not tweeting you back. He doesn't have email under the dome!"

But jokes aside, Baer promised that we'll find out who is tweeting Joe, and urged us all to go to houndsofdiana.com. "In episode three Joe and Junior got emails," he said. "But who's sending that? We have a digital character who's working out of houndsofdiana.com - so you can go to it and follow the tweets. Then we're going to actually maybe meet that character in episode eight. So that's pretty cool, to start with a digital character and then find out he's really a flesh and blood character we can introduce as well."

There's more, too - Ford and Mackenzie Lintz have shot vlogs for the website as Joe and Norrie: "It's usually little experiments that Joe and Norrie are doing on a small scale that have a larger meaning for the Dome or what's going on in the Dome... it gives you a little insight into a happier setting of Chester's Mill and the fun experimenting and figuring out what's going on with the Dome." (By the way, as for whether Joe will leave Norrie for Melanie? "I think that Norrie was Joe's first love and I don't think you can ever really run away from your first love so I don't think he will," Ford said. Aww.)



7. This season is about "dividing lines".

That's according to Lefevre, who suggested you're #TeamJulia or #TeamBigJim. "There's a push-pull for the town and I think it's really a competition between someone who wants power and is having trouble getting it and someone who doesn't want it and is having it thrust upon them," she said. "I think Julia is a reluctant leader but she'll do whatever she has to do to look after people, and he's not the way. So whatever conflict that creates."

8. We're going to find out a lot more about Barbie.

For one thing, Vogel suggested we'll see more of what makes Barbie "tick" - "He may have some violent tendencies in how he gets there, but he really is there for the people and there to defend the defenceless." That's not all, though, as we're also going to find out some surprising things about his background.

"We get to come face to face with Barbie's father this year in a new and open world, and we find out that he in fact could have been a trust fund baby," Vogel revealed. "Which shows why he's kind of pushed away from that lifestyle, why he went into the military to make a difference from the life that he was used to, the life that he was raised in. And we find out some other familial secrets as well towards the end of this year that I think are going to surprise a lot of people."



9. We'll also get a little insight into baddie Sam.

"For those of you that have been tracking the mythology with the Hands and whatnot, I can't tell you what, but there are reasons behind Sam's actions and motivations that tie very closely into the dome and its whys and whens," Cahill promised, as Baer joked that he's "not just a crazy psychopath". "He's not just throwing axes around for fun!" Cahill laughed.

10. The show is a "parable for our times".

"In this season in particular we look at how all of these guys have not really taken as good a care of Chester's Mill as they might," Baer said. "You've seen the caterpillars that have been munching on everything, and the blood rain, and pretty soon Big Jim has to come and do some saving of his own for some big climate changes that are coming. Our show is really about how do you get along when resources are scarce? How do you work things out, and can you have a democracy if resources are limited? And how can you keep getting along when we're under a lot of pressure and we're running out of fuel and things like that? It's a parable for our times without telling people what to think - we just show what our characters do."

11. The cast members know who they'd take under the dome with them.

Bit of a bonus this one - but it was a fun fan question. Who would the stars take under the dome? Ford went for his "best friend Garrett" ("Garrett, if you see this, I love you!"), Cahill opted to tie his kid to his wife and take both, Koch chose Norris - only for Norris to pick Britney Spears! Lefevre switched from her dog to Clive Owen, and finally Vogel picked Chuck Norris: "Isn't that the answer for everything?"

What are you excited about seeing in future episodes of Under the Dome? Let us know below!

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