Is anyone watching Foundation on Apple +?

[CL82]

I started relistening to Foundation and he’s not wrong. The characters are characterless. It has the same problem that the later Dune books have. It’s more philosophical than story.

maybe, but you can’t say you’re reviewing the show when you haven’t seen it.
(Fwiw, I read like the first 10 to 15 pages online, and it wouldn’t translate well to TV.)

 

[CL82]

UConn professor considers himself to be a real world Hari Seldon

He has bad news.

 

[HuskyHawk]

UConn professor considers himself to be a real world Hari Seldon

He has bad news.

Reading that. It's quite interesting. Saw a "prepper" focused article 5-6 years ago, by a different math/historian. He essentially said that looking at probabilities, we were overdue for significant societal disruption, so preparing for it was actually the rational move, not an irrational one.

 

[HuskyHawk]

So I finished episode 3. I thought it was good, and the show is moving in the right direction now. We are starting to get a little action. Note: I haven't read the books (that I recall...I read Asimov back in Jr. High and HS).

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Through 2 episodes. Not bad, but not really grabbing me either.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Episode 4 pretty good. The pace is picking up. Seeing the cracks in the Empire. The guy who plays Empire/Day is really good. Some interesting metaphysical stuff with the clones is coming.

 

[ZooCougar]

The show is a total flop. Apple had no choice but to renew because they don’t have much content. They need to bring in someone to save it.

 

[ZooCougar]

Episode 4 pretty good. The pace is picking up. Seeing the cracks in the Empire. The guy who plays Empire/Day is really good. Some interesting metaphysical stuff with the clones is coming.

Yeah up until that point, Lee Pace had been wasted.

 

[CL82]

Episode 4 pretty good. The pace is picking up. Seeing the cracks in the Empire. The guy who plays Empire/Day is really good. Some interesting metaphysical stuff with the clones is coming.

The show is watchable but it has diverged so much from the source material in the first four episodes it is ridiculous. Anyone who knows Asimov knows the four laws of robotics. The first of which is a robot may not harm a human or through in action allow a human to come to harm.

Spoiler

But in this episode a robot actually murders someone. In Asimov’s story there was just enough play in the laws to keep things interesting, but out right border would destroy the robots positronic brain.That’s a pretty fundamental premise from his writing.