Personally I kinda liked the first season. It’s better if you forget the original Asimov story and just watch it as its own thing because it diverges from it quite a bit.
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Looking forward to see where they go after that ballsy season 1 ending. Lee Pace will continue to kill it no doubt.
I agree! I enjoy it in the same way I enjoy the Hitchhiker’s Guide movie. Is it the same story? No. Is it still good? Absolutely
I just got done watching Silo and I really enjoyed it and now I’m looking for something new! Maybe I’ll give this a shot
I never read the original, but the series is quite engaging. Looking forward to S2!
Unfortunately I didn’t enjoy the 1st season, just like other commenters here. A preliminary reason could be that the story is very different from the book, which is one of my most favourite sci-fi books ever. But even simply seeing this series as something different from the book, if found it too cheap: the characters are half-stereotypes, the events are what you’d expect, usual blood and sex to attract viewers…
Should go without saying, just my personal opinion and tastes. I’m happy that others enjoyed the series and I hope it’ll made them curious to read the books.
Honestly, I’m just rewatching The Expanse (6th time) instead. 🤌🏼
That’s a great idea, cheers!
The only parts of the show I enjoyed was the segments about the Emperor(s), which was a completely new invention of the show. It felt like somehow the writing A-team had snuck off to make some kind of weird original scifi thing, while the B-team was writing the “main” Foundation centered plot.
Putting aside any love for the books, I found the Foundation sections to be bad on their own terms. I stopped watching when the gang did a Call Of Duty mission into a ghost ship.
I love the books. I’ve read the original trilogy three times, as well as heard the BBC radio dramatization (from the 1970s). My anticipation for this series was sky-high.
Halfway through Season One I stopped watching, baffled in an uninterested way about how they dropped everything that had the original Foundation spirit, I recognized the names of most characters and some planets, but everything in between was crammed with Goyer’s self-important posturing, insistence on mystery boxes and artificial cliffhangers.
The books will live on, they are immortal. The series, not so much, it will age quickly and badly.
Thank God we also have Villeneuve and Dune right now.Agree 200%!
That episode with the middle emperor proving himself. Fucking amazing TV
I found that there were two stories, one with with emporers which was really compelling and another story with the Foundation which was really dull which is why I give it an overall rating of 5/10
When Alexander Siddig (Dr. Bashir) showed up for like five minutes I was like “Wait no! Don’t go!” as his scene was ending.
I actually get the feeling this started out as a totally different series about an empire of clone rulers existing over millennia, and they struggled to sell it so they reworked it into a hodgepodge adaptation of bits from every major asimoverse book combined and time-shifted into one series.
I get that feeling a lot. Season 1 of Star Trek Picard makes way more sense if you think it started out as some kind of Blade Runner fan fiction that was clumsily smashed into Star Trek.
I’m surprised by the pushback (although I haven’t read the books and thus did not have any preconceived notions). I loved season 1 and have watched it multiple times. I love shows that builds a world, and this one does so epically. I also am intrigued by the immense time scales involved. I also thought the pacing of the mysteries introduced was very good (I’ve been a bit disappointed in Silo for that reason). Anyway, I can’t wait for season 2!
I’ve been waiting for this for what feels like years.
I really tried, but I definitely gave up on S01 when I burst into laughter during the scene where the people find the commander of the crashed ship crawling away. Good grief.
So much of that show is like written by a 6yo. Or a very primitive AI.
Oh and relation to Foundation? Zero. I believe the first few books are difficult to adapt, but not even try?
Hell, I was on the fence by that point, but when the teacher-student romance BS setup was nauseatingly obvious — and then they actually opened with it the very next episode?! FFS. What is this, Outlander-in-space? Ge’ tae fucc.
Ya it was student from the books but I think the changes were necessary. In the books, we get a whole new set of characters every 30 pages or so. It wouldn’t work for tv where shows are often character driven. As someone who lives the books, I enjoyed the show adaptation and the changes made.
I’ve read the whole series and absolutely love it, but I know that a direct adaptation would have been a failure.
I really enjoyed S1, they’ve taken some ideas from other Asimov universe series (Empire and Robots) and combined it into a pretty fascinating alternate take on the foundation universe.
It’s visually stunning, has some great acting and direction and I’m really looking forward to S2
I’ve never heard of it before but I am gonna pick up the first book next week now.
Just keep in mind it is a pretty old book, and was originally a collection of short stories so it jumps around a bit.
“Aaand here’s episode 3, it’s 200 years later and all the characters you saw before are dead. Moving on!”
that’s pretty much how the main trilogy of books works too.
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