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Nymzee said:
Sci-fi series Foundation just landed on Apple+ today. Meant to be really good. Based on a novel by Asimov.
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It's been years decades actually since I read the books.
I remember being Impressed, very impressed, hooked even and couldn't wait for the next ones.

But, like I said, it was decades ago, I'm a different person in a different world...and neither of us probably any the better.
Anyway I'm waiting for it to drop near me.
So I read a review or two.
One was a news blurb puff piece.
This is the end of the other...

Foundation doesn’t want to be Foundation. It wants to be the heady, thoughtful, revelatory first season of Westworld, so it pontificates about politics and religion and souls, but it doesn’t have the depth to say anything important. The TV series also wants to be Game of Thrones with its political maneuvering (most of which is invented wholesale for the show.)

But once Hari Seldon’s spaceship takes off, those imperial politics have virtually nothing to do with the Foundation. It also wants to be a sci-fi action show and has pew-pew laser fights.

It’s so busy trying to be all of these things that it doesn’t have the time to be Foundation. For people who don’t know or care about the source material, the result is extremely pretty but not particularly compelling sci-fi.

This last bit is the key...

For people who know or are fans of Isaac Asimov and his work, I feel compelled to warn you that if you watch the show you will see a scene so enraging that you will tear your TV in two with your bare hands; then you’ll realize how utterly unnecessary the scene was, and tear it into four.

I'll give it a try of course and hope for the best...
But.
 
Foundation is interesting and has the potential to be incredible. The setting gives a massive amount of room for imagination to run wild (I love the idea of the layered planet) but I found myself becoming bored at some of the standard interpersonal relationship stuff that we've all seen hundreds of times over by now. Two episodes in and I'm desparate for it to start becoming more interesting and engaging soon.
This prime-counting math prodigy character becomes stale very quickly. We get it, you're smart. Please stop mumbling numbers.
 

degsy said:
It's been years decades actually since I read the books.
I remember being Impressed, very impressed, hooked even and couldn't wait for the next ones.

But, like I said, it was decades ago, I'm a different person in a different world...and neither of us probably any the better.
Anyway I'm waiting for it to drop near me.
So I read a review or two.
One was a news blurb puff piece.
This is the end of the other...

Foundation doesn’t want to be Foundation. It wants to be the heady, thoughtful, revelatory first season of Westworld, so it pontificates about politics and religion and souls, but it doesn’t have the depth to say anything important. The TV series also wants to be Game of Thrones with its political maneuvering (most of which is invented wholesale for the show.)

But once Hari Seldon’s spaceship takes off, those imperial politics have virtually nothing to do with the Foundation. It also wants to be a sci-fi action show and has pew-pew laser fights.

It’s so busy trying to be all of these things that it doesn’t have the time to be Foundation. For people who don’t know or care about the source material, the result is extremely pretty but not particularly compelling sci-fi.

This last bit is the key...

For people who know or are fans of Isaac Asimov and his work, I feel compelled to warn you that if you watch the show you will see a scene so enraging that you will tear your TV in two with your bare hands; then you’ll realize how utterly unnecessary the scene was, and tear it into four.

I'll give it a try of course and hope for the best...
But.
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just finished Foundation S1 E1 and I’m sufficiently intrigued to continue, but also to read the novels.
Albeit given what you posted above maybe I should wait for the first series to finish now? It tend to frustrate me when adaptation veer too far from the source, esp if there are significant variations.
 

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