I vedenti e i visti

I tried to go on on watching this mess of a screenplay, hoping that it would get better. Actually it is going down to unbelievable levels of stupidity. They wanted to make it better than the book, but they did so bad. They finally reduced to ashes the most interesting character of science fiction literature, the mule. No mistery, no surprise, everything is exposure of boring facts. I don't care at all about any of these characters, simply because they are terribly fake and artificial. I hope this is the last season and all the incredible artists the contributed to the visuals, go working for something else, written with the proper respect for the audience.

I loved reading Asimov's Foundation. A wonderfully clever and complicated story. But one thing Asimov did was to tell a lot of the story himself, as the writer. I was always wondering how they would achieve an adaptation. A narrator seemed a silly proposition, but that was my only solution. What they have actually done as a solution is tell a different story. Or, as of this episode, jumble the entire Foundation up and pull out a different narrative.

I have mixed feelings. I really wanted a good adaptation of Foundation. What we have is some smart story telling that I am very much enjoying.

Certainly, some of the characters are the same. And some of the key features of Foundation come through. I totally get why book readers are upset. But I also think it is worth seeing this for what it is and giving it a chance. My intuition is that this jumbled Foundation could still well deliver over a number of seasons. Asimov's writing, especially in Foundation, Robot, and Galactic Empire, was told from an historical perspective. Each work inhabiting the same universe but at different times. He did, eventually, bring everything together into a whole in Foundation and Earth. It looks like the writers of the TV Foundation series are drawing in aspects of Galactic Edge and Robot into Foundation and retelling the story from a new historical perspective. We will have to wait and see.

The bottom line is that if you are an avid book reader, as I am, let's see where this goes. If you've never heard of Asimov before and like Sci-Fi, this is a great example of hard science fiction.

Well, this one will sort out those who have read to the end of Asimov's story, rather then just the original trilogy long, long ago.

Really didn't see that coming, but a properly bold move to Chekhov Gun *you know where* (and if you don't don't sweat it).

Meanwhile we have some properly spiteful palace intrigue (and I fear that power play will not end well for Poly and Constant). The implications of Sareth discovering Demerzel's true nature (which, to be fair, was properly Chekhov gunned in the last episode) are truly fascinating, and I suspect this will be at the root of covering one of Asimov's biggest retcons. And that's as far as I can go without spoiling.

Fascinating and ambitious storytelling, so obviously the NotTheBookers will despise it.

As of this episode I can confidently say that the show no longer can be considered to be based on the foundation series of novels, while characters have the same names as ones from the books, take on completely different roles to their counterparts and have no similarities to characters from the books.

While this episode was interesting and kept my attention as a fan of the books I have to express that there is a trend towards complete originality on the part of the show, every single character in this episode either does not exist in the books or is dead for generations, while some of the characters introduced in this episode may be based on characters introduced in the sequel books to the original foundation trilogy written in the 80s they are separated by centuries and are significantly different to the point that they may not even be based on said sequel book characters.

Are the books the same lame as this TV Series? The TV Show is a huge cringe. Actors are mostly bad; I really can't stand Ella-Rae Smith's acting. Overconfident, overacting, with absolutely amateur performance. Even her walking is tremendously overthought. Way too much. Annoying. The story is okay, that is why I gave 5 stars, but the whole show is getting harder and harder to watch and much harder to enjoy. I am not sure why everything is such a low quality these days, but I really miss the 90's where everyone was experimenting and when absolutely masterpieces were born. These days everything feels like under the bare minimum.