So I don’t know why I get excited about these things. The last series I had high hopes for was wheel of time. I was very disapointed with it. It was a nice enough fantasy series but it messed up the authors story and world while having to much of it in it to be an independent things. Foundation is even worse. While watching I was thinking it was maybe like stories that took place in the Foundation universe. Like stories between but even then with the whole cloned emperors. It was more like stories in a alternate foundation story universe. I feel like it was kinda dunified. Not in the sense of sandworms and spice but in the sense of people with special powers and all sorts of wierd sects and they really stressed the whole ai war thing. I almost feel maybe someone read the amber series with walking the spiral. Thats a stretch Ill admit but I wonder. Thing is the dune movie that did so well came out after this series started. I hate so much that these movie and show runners seem to be like. I can tell this authors story better than these silly authors can. ugh. Most of the series revolves around stories around stuff they added. Only the framework of the original stories seem to be present. Im only in season one but Im not sure I can handle watching it through to the end.
I’m still boycotting Peter Jackson over Tom Bombadil. Fans forgave it because battle of Helm’s Deep was expanded from 5 pages to 2 hours of awesome action and they skipped on most of the poems so that people could stay awake through the movies.
There are merits to Apple adaptation of Foundation that Isaac Asimov couldn’t ever do in the books. Like how much eye candy Lee Pace is. Have you seen his abs? And that voice. I want to have children with him and I’m a guy.
yeah but foundation is so far from the story that its simply not the story. I think a lot of commentors are right that basically the wholely made up empire story is good. It would have better to have done it as its own thing and take out the foundation and any named things like harry seldon and psychohistory. Like terminus does not need to be anything more than a far imperial colony and pretty much it would all work out. Heck you could do a substory that someone from the colony framed the other two worlds to get the whole rebellion started.