Foundation

Foundation – Barbarians at the Gate

  • Title: Foundation – Barbarians at the Gate
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Jumbling the second and third Foundation stories which take place decades apart, with content that was never part of the original stories from Isaac Asimov, and moving Salvor Hardin (Leah Harvey) even farther from the politician the character was in the original stories to some weird agent of fate, Foundation gears up for a more action-centered storyline as Hardin captures the leader (Kubbra Sait) of the Anacreon invasion force not realizing everything they are doing is playing into the intruders’ plans. While this Hardin is an interesting character, the longer this series continues the less if feels like Foundation.

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Foundation – Preparing to Live / The Mathematician’s Ghost

  • Title: Foundation – Preparing to Live / The Mathematician’s Ghost
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What’s most surprising about the second and third episodes of Foundation is how much time is spent on Trantor with the Emperor clones long after Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) and his team have left the planet. In “Preparing to Live” half the episode is devoted to the investigation into the destruction of the Starbridge and the brutal punishment of both Anacreon and Thespis when neither will confess to the crime. The remaining part of the episode offers a look-in at the Foundation team traveling slowly through space which confirms a relationship between Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) and Raych (Alfred Enoch), makes an odd supposition that psychohistory isn’t complete, and ends with a bizarre series of events that isn’t even referenced in the next episode which pushes forward 35 years to Terminus.

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Foundation – The Emperor’s Peace

  • Title: Foundation – The Emperor’s Peace
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Originally written as short stories for Astounding Magazine more than 70 years ago, Isaac Asimov‘s idea of examining something akin to the fall of the Roman Empire on a galactic scale would result in a series of stories and novels, some written decades apart, spanning thousands of years, where the fate of humanity weighed in the balance. Using the concept of predictive models taken to the nth degree, Asimov offered the mathematics of psychohistory which was capable of predicting the future of large populations, even if those populations don’t like what those predictions might be.

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