The Leap

This is the best show in the world. I can't wait for season two. 450 million dollars well spent, the show is beautiful, in a few years, when a viewer finds himself seeing it all in one breath 4-5 entire seasons will be catapulted into a new world. The world of Foundation. Thanks Apple.

I waited until the last episode to write a review, though I did read many other reviews after each episode. I wanted to find out if others felt the same as I did, that this series feels like it could be really good, but there are parts of it that either doesn't make any sense, or there's just too much going on all at once.

I have never read the book, so I can't comment as to how authentic and true it is, but as series I find the storyline intriguing. Lee Pace fits his role like a glove, as though born to play it, and holds his end up really well throughout. Without his storyline I may have given up a while ago. I'm glad I stuck it out, because the last few episodes have set up well for season 2, where it seems like things may pick up and stories come together to help make sense of all the broken parts in Season 1.

I admire the ambition of the project and I hope the producers take the audience's feedback and improve on execution, because I would hate to see this show gets cancelled.

A 9 for this episode, but I'd give it a 7 for the whole season that could have been an 8 or even a 9 if not for somew major stumbling in trying to do too much all at once.

As a fan of the novels, I'm very disappointed in Season 1. IF it had been advertised as 'inspired by" Isaac Asimov's Foundation, I probably would have given the whole season a 5 or 6 rating judging it on its own merits.

But, claiming to be "based on" Asimov's work, there are too many deviations. Demerzel as a robot was terrible. I had no issues with it being recast as a woman, same as with Gael and Salvor Hardin. Asimov's works were written in a male dominated society with a male target audience.

I'm issues were the fact that there is no way the original robot who developed and adopted the "zeroth" Law of Robotics would have directly killed someone. Salvor was a Trader, not warrior, who was noted for his anti-violence quote "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.". I'm also having a hard time w/ the Salvor/Gael relationship due to the similar ages of the actresses.

The jumping through time, forward and back made it hard to follow.

What happened to "Psycohistory"? This seems more about the Cleon's and the Empire.

As to the acting, I think the cast did a pretty good job of portraying what the script asked of them. I didn't necessarily like the acting, but it didn't really detract for me. The boring monologs did that for me.

The Foundation writers & producers should watch Amazon Prime's "Wheel of Time" Season 1 and read the books by Robert Jordan to see what "based on" looks like. Were there some changes, yes. But the Producer was very open with why he made that change. It will be interesting to see how much gets crammed into Season 1. There's enough material in each book to make several seasons out of, especially the later books, so there could be 15 seasons or more unless they cut out massive parts of the books. So far, this is much more faithful to the books that Foundation is.

I won't be keeping my Apple TV+ subscription beyond the free 12 months I got last year if this is the crap I get for $5/mo.

I really loved this episode, a great ending to some of the storylines, some harsh but some beautiful, I'm suprised to see some of the reviewers not liking it, but some also thought it was fantastic like myself, i suppose i wasnt so into the more violent episodes, this 10th episode really bought things together though.

Once again the emperors story is the best part of the show. The rest is dross. Lee Pace holds the cameras attention. He carries the show.

The rest of the non Asimov story doesn't stand on its own. Frankly were the entire Foundation to have an accident the show would improve a lot.