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Foundation: Creation Myths & Season 2 – TV Review

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TL;DR – The crisis climbs to a crescendo as cracks cascade over a crumbling continuum of chance and causality.  

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Disclosure – I paid for the Apple TV+ service that viewed this episode.

The death of Terminus.

Foundation Review –

Well, we have come to the end of the second season, and what a fascinating season it was. Adapting novels to work in a visual medium is no small feat, let alone one of the founding icons of Science Fiction. Taking a selection of interconnected short stories and making them work as a whole and in a framework that will work with a modern audience is a tightrope to pull off, and today, we will see just how well they have managed this task.  

So to set the scene, we open in the moments after Long Ago, Not Far Away ended by discovering just how Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) survived being very dead, so dead that even Salvor (Leah Harvey) believed he had passed. A trick from Gaal (Lou Llobell) so powerful that not even Tellem Bond (Rachel House) sees through the deception. As Terminus lays there as a flaming ruin, with Brother Day’s (Lee Pace) fleet in orbit, the question becomes, how can psychohistory’s plan continue from here? When all we know has been left in ruins. But when a sensor is tripped, Demerzel (Laura Birn) soon discovers that secrets can escape no matter how much you try to control them. Now from here, we will be looking at the season as a whole, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead.    

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Foundation: The Last Empress – TV Review

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TL;DR – The culminating catastrophe coalesces.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Disclosure – I paid for the Apple TV+ service that viewed this episode.

Many Seldons

Foundation Review –

I was captivated back in Season 1 of Foundation. This book was challenging to adapt, and the show did it interestingly. This season has been a bit of a rollercoaster, and I wonder if they have a plan of where it is going. Today’s episode might be the answer, maybe.

So to set the scene, deep in the capital of Trantor, Brother Dusk (Terrence Mann) finds someone in Demerzel’s (Laura Birn) quarters who should not be there. Rue Corintha (Sandra Yi Sencindiver), enjoiner to Queen Sareth (Ella-Rae Smith), is rummaging through all of the android’s personal effects, but is she just an opportunist, or is she a threat? Meanwhile, on Ignis, Gaal (Lou Llobell) is desperate to find out what happened to Salvor (Leah Harvey) and confronts Tellem Bond (Rachel House), only to discover just how powerful Tellem is. Now from here, we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so there will be [SPOILERS] ahead.

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Foundation: In Seldon’s Shadow – TV Review

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TL;DR – This opening episode whispers where they are going this season while opening with a Hari Seldon, that might be a little mad.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Disclosure – I paid for the Apple TV+ service that viewed this episode.

The Galaxy.

Foundation Review –

I had always wondered how someone would adapt Foundation. Some of the older works of Science Fiction are foundational to the genre but don’t align narratively with how we create stories today. The First Season was full of interesting turns and explorations while expanding on Asimov’s world. It was not without its flaws, but it was always fascinating. My question is, where can it go from there?    

So to set the scene, at the end of last season, we had The First Crisis appear on the planet of Foundation set up by the leaders of psychohistory, Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) and Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell), to help the galaxy recover from the inevitable collapse of the 12,000-year old Galactic Empire. The first crisis was solved by uniting two former enemies and hiding themselves in the outer rim, building a base for recovery. The Cleon Dynasty is floundering after revelations about their DNA ancestry and on the small water planet of Synnax, a mother and daughter reunite. Now from here, we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so there will be [SPOILERS] ahead.  

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