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Personally I kinda liked the first season. It's better if you forget the original Asimov story and just watch it as its own thing because it diverges from it quite a bit.
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Looking forward to see where they go after that ballsy season 1 ending. Lee Pace will continue to kill it no doubt.
I honestly could not make it through the first... 4 or 5 episodes. Didn't help that I had just reread the series prior to watching and it honestly felt like they went out of their way to completely shit all over the source material.
Idk maybe I'll try watching it again one day.
I’ll wait to see feedback before watching season 2. The empire storyline was fantastic, the scenery incredible and adding diversity and changing genders absolutely needed to happen to make it work for tv. But the whole magic thing, everyone being special and dull storylines killed it. The whole point of Mayor Hardin was that “violence is the last refuge of the incompetent”. So for tv they decide to have her wield a gun for nearly every scene and when that doesn’t work it isn’t intelligence that gets her through its magic precognition. They even reference the quote specifically as if to mock anyone who has read the book.
So instead of having a strong, intelligent, nuanced female lead that would have been incredible viewing (particularly given current events with Ukraine and how intelligence can overcome violence), we have a dull, monotone magician who gets by on girl and gun power. The character and actor deserved so much more than what was delivered.
nice I was just looking for a Foundation discussion lat night and not sure how to find it on Lemmy. The robot has to take orders but also sort of rules. Is that the point? What happened to all the other ones? How is she the only one left? Interesting the elimination of synthetic life is also the story line of starter but I suppose they probably got it from Asimov.
I can’t believe how bad season 1 is. The only reason I didn’t stop watching was the emperor story line. Lee Pace killed it. Most of the actors are TERRIBLE. It was like watching wooden planks act. Instead of developing the story in any meaningful way, the directors chose to focus on disparate and dream-like sequences which appear to have little connection to each other.
This is science fiction of the worst kind. The source material is absolutely butchered. The dialogue is atrocious. The CGI is laughable. The accents are ridiculous. I don't know how I made it through the first season. What an absolute joke.
Huh. I actually rather liked it, and the ways in which it "butchered" the source material were IMO the best parts.
Foundation was a great novel in its day, but it has not aged well and a modern adaptation in another medium is inherently going to require a bunch of changes.