From Apple’s “The greatest science fiction work of all-time is finally coming to the screen” posted on YouTube last week:
Based on the award-winning novels by Isaac Asimov, Foundation chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.
Foundation stars SAG Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Jared Harris as Dr. Hari Seldon; Emmy Award nominee Lee Pace as Brother Day; Lou Llobell as Gaal Dornick; Leah Harvey as Salvor Hardin; Laura Birn as Demerzel; Terrence Mann as Brother Dusk; Cassian Bilton as Brother Dawn; and Alfred Enoch as Raych.
Led by showrunner and executive producer David S. Goyer, Foundation is produced for Apple by Skydance Television with Robyn Asimov, Josh Friedman, Cameron Welsh, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Marcy Ross also serving as executive producers.
Cue the video:
My take: Asimov’s novels weren’t on my bookshelf, but for his fans (can I use that word?) I suspect this is an important series. How’s Apple doing?
Cheers!
I have to get my mathematician teacher sister to watch this production. She’ll love it.
AirPods Pro will work better than iPods Pro.
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Visually spectacular. I enjoyed the first episode, but felt the 2nd dragged a bit, although the ending keeps it interesting for next week.
1. The “cutting” in the first episode is too obvious. My guess is a LOT of exposition lies in the cutting room floor. I understand that it made for a tighter first episode, and kept the thrill-seekers watching, but it lacked smoothness. Also, if they had stretched #1 into two episodes, we would have seen more of Hari Seldon.
2. The “slow ship” was, well, slow. I liked the idea of Hari accompanying the crew, but this is ALL added stuff that, to my distant memory, is not in the book, which spends scant time getting to Terminus and setting up the First Foundation. OTOH, the mystery of the Gaal Dornic’s departure intrigued me, although I thought the brutality of Hari’s death was staged and pretty much unwarranted. (I don’t believe the book says how Hari dies.)
BTW, I think I know what is being set up here. I expect it won’t be long until we are introduced to the Second Foundation….
So in summary, a bit too “Hollywoodish” for my tastes, in the first because of the gratuitous cutting, and in the second because of the fluff. But overall, well worth watching, and with the exposition over, we can now move forward.
Isaac Asimov would have been pleased so far….