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Ready for discussion...

It doesn't air for another two hours, but I wanted to get this started so I could post...

Foundation Renewed for Season 2

Brother Day (played by Lee Pace) and his lush, royal blue garments will live on for another day. Foundation has been renewed for Season 2 at Apple TV+, TVLine has learned.

"Since my childhood I've dreamed of how Hari Seldon and Eto Demerzel would look and sound - what Terminus and Trantor would feel like," showrunner and executive producer David S. Goyer said in a statement. "Now, with Season 2, our audience will get to visit more of [author Isaac] Asimov's indelible characters and worlds, including Hober Mallow, General Bel Riose, and all the Outer Suns.

"I'm thrilled that a whole new generation of fans are reading Asimov's brilliant masterwork," Goyer added. "We're playing the long game with Foundation and I'm grateful to my partners at Apple and Skydance for entrusting me with this epic. Buckle up. We're about to fold some serious space."

Adapted from Asimov's influential trilogy, the series centers on efforts to preserve civilization after Dr. Hari Seldon (played by Jared Harris) predicts the (very) eventual fall of the Galactic Empire. A band of loyal followers "venture to the far reaches of the galaxy to establish The Foundation in an attempt to rebuild and preserve the future of civilization," per the official description. "Enraged by Hari's claims, the ruling Cleons - a long line of emperor clones - fear their unrivaled reign may be weakening as they're forced to reckon with the potential reality of losing their powerful legacy forever."

 

[astrohip]

Another frustrating episode. Same complaint as last week... it's an interesting story, well told, but moves too slow. Whatever solution to the Anacreon problem will surface, whatever Salvor does, or finds in the vault, should have been part of tonight's story. Why wait a week?

We're four episodes in, and I feel like we've had about an hour or two of actual story-telling, yet four hours of story.

 

[jasrub]

I've never read the books. Maybe it's my complete ignorance of what this story is and where it's going, but I'm totally enjoying it. I personally don't find it slow, and every time the credits start to roll, I can't believe it's over already.

 

[Rob Helmerichs]

I've never ready the books. Maybe it's my complete ignorance of what this story is and where it's going, but I'm totally enjoying it. I personally don't find it slow, and every time the credits start to roll, I can't believe it's over already.

Yeah, I haven't read the books in about 40 years (and had a pretty strong dislike for them), but I'm enjoying the show.

 

[gossamer88]

All caught up. Timeline is a little confusing. I’m assuming Brother Dawn is now Day in this episode and brother dusk was Day?

Non book reader here as well and enjoying it...sorta...

 

[markb]

All caught up. Timeline is a little confusing. I'm assuming Brother Dawn is now Day in this episode and brother dusk was Day?

Non book reader here as well and enjoying it...sorta...

Yes, but the shift actually happened in the last episode. Newborn Brother Dawn from the last episode is still Brother Dawn, but now he's a young man. In this episode, Brother Day is unhappy with Brother Dusk's handling of things when Dusk was Day back in episodes 1 and 2.

 

[vman41]

Dusk became Dark for a short bit, gotta stick with the 'D's!

 

[Dawghows]

I'm very disappointed to say so, but this episode is the end of the line for my wife and me. I can't figure out what I'm watching. It's not enough like the books to be Foundation (to me), but at the same time it doesn't really hold water as something independent of the books. It looks absolutely spectacular, but that's about the only positive I can find.

 

[Craigbob]

I'm still in for this, but the story is diverging so much from the novels that it's Foundation in name only. The Empire portion is just exasperating to me, and could be cut out completely and I don't think I'd miss it.