The Genetic Dynasty storyline is entirely original and it’s easily the best part of the show, one of my favorite sci-fi concepts ever. Lee Pace is just so fucking good as Empire in all seasons. Demrezel is also right up there as the best character in the show.
Just can’t get enough of this.
Season 3 is streaming rn and it’s amazing so far. Absolutely phenomenal performances from Lee Pace and Laura Birn. I highly recommend watching it if you like sci-fi.
I also really enjoy this series. Lots of good acting and fun concepts. I have not read the books so I can’t fault any changes that were made.
okay well spoiler but what you should have gotten was basically Historical Materialism: The Show, where
spoiler in case the show adapted more of the book than i thought idk i stopped watching mad and angry like a nerd after a few episodes
Hari Seldon essentially codifies Marxism and mass psychology and an insane amount of math to make an actual predictive model of the universe (or at least the general mass actions and politics of galactic civilization). He uses this to trick the empire into setting in motion the rise of the titular Foundation, creating it in just such conditions that he’s calculated are juuuust right to shorten what he predicted to be over ten thousand years of galactic barbarism, warlords and factionalism and death on a scale that would make a Warhammer nerd weep (or cum idk) to a period of just a few hundred as the Foundation will find itself poised to reassert itself politically and technologically and become essentially a new Empire and re-stabilize the galaxy
The first book presents a series of crises, i.e. the Foundation needing to trade and interact with its neighbors who are at present more technologically and economically powerful than it and, in the waning influence of the distant and apathetic empire, it finds itself potentially subject to their authority. People have to figure out, how do we deal with that? So they slowly make their neighbors dependent on their technical expertise and trade and in doing so subvert their neighbors and force them to bend their knee in turn when they declare war on the Foundation for its riches only to find their warships don’t work anymore. Or iirc another instance where a prolonged seige turns off the treat pipeline, forcing them to come to terms with the Foundation. Stuff like that.
And every fifty or hundred years the vault, which instead of being something where everybody is like HUH WHAT’S THAT WEIRD ALIEN THING is known to be a time capsule with a hologram of hari seldon, opens up and the vault opens up and a hologram plays where Seldon is like “haha! According to my super marxism, i expect you’ll find yourself to be dealing with [whatever crisis] after having just [done thing to avert crisis and further the political development of the foundation as a force in local politics]. Well, good luck! The math says you’ve probably got this!”
And then like more stuff happens after the first book but that’s basically how it goes
And SORRY TO BE A NERD but i just love all of that and I’m really mad that’s not what I got on the TV because iirc the show runner wanted to do their own sci fi story instead and just idk did that while saying it’s Foundation and i’ll die mad
Had a feeling something was missing because the way the crisis were spoken about to be distilled like this I thought hmmm maybe reading the book will be better
lol why did you add a comma in the sentence you quoted
definitely the second one
I second this opinion, and, having read the books, I can easily say you’re not missing much, and most of the changes were for the better.
The responses I got here were very funny
It’s a complete inversion of the book.
If I’d read the books, I might fault the tv series for that.