The First Crisis

I've read the books and I've seen the show, and I think the books are great (well the original trilogy, less so the sequels and prequels) and I'm very much enjoying the show. I'll be bereft after the season finishes, so long to wait!

Reading the comments it's interesting that someone can write a long post explaining in some detail why they like the show, and get a majorly 'unhelpful' rating, while someone can write something to the effect of 'this show sucks' and somehow this pithy response is rated very helpful indeed.

Clearly there are a lot of people on here with axes to grind. I'd say to anyone looking in who hasn't seen the show yet - don't let 'em grind their axes on you, watch the show and make your own mind up.

It's not perfect, some of the dialogue is a bit clunky, some of the action scenes are a bit rushed and maybe overcomplicated, and there are a few points where you think, well that wouldn't happen. Grist for a nitpicker's guide mill perhaps, but there's a sweep, an overarching story, and some great imagination at work to realise this. And Asimov's story is always there behind everything.

At least give it a chance. This is series one. I'd say as season ones go, this is a pretty good one.

Like everyone I was also waiting for this TV Series eagerly. I had only read Wikipedia of the novels to understand the story line. Therefore, all the flashback and future story shown in episodes I knew will combine together. I saw lot of negative ratings and comments, even from people who have read the actual novels. I don't understand why they disliked the modern approach or expected tv series can cover so many novels in a linear timeline, within just few episodes. I totally love the way story has been covered, future elements added, important characters shown. I started to get influenced from negative comments and I am very happy to say that this episode made me happy and I dare negative commentators to stop watching in case they don't understand what is sci-fi 😁

We see the threads of crisis bring everyone together on Terminus. Having changed the plot, it looks like we proceed on something like the book.

Meantime on Trantor, the story of Brother Dawn has some unexpected twists.

And may feed back in the final episode into the odd religious experience of Brother Day.

So I thought I'd venture to the very end as the VFX and costume department truly deserve the recognition, not forgetting Lee Pace and Jared Harris. However the rest is just awful, the acting from Harvey and Llobell is just horrible, the writing is incoherent and woeful, anything that needs a narrator usually means struggling badly. So who does give theses 10/10 scores?

This show is starting to be amazing. Quite a bit of cringe in this episode, but overall it's blossoming into something fantastic and epic.

Whoever wrote the script for this show should definitely feel good about achieving something great, especially because the show does not mimic the book and yet it is still great.