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Foundation: Creation Myths (2023)
Seriously?
What utter and complete nonsense, there is no story, but lots of fantastical and unbelievable ways of keeping the same 6 people in the entire universe alive. The show shouldn't be called Foundation at all, but rather 'Empiredude and other immortals' or something... such a waste of some classic SciFi source material and turn it into this nonsense, I can't make sense of any of the choices they make to veer away from the Asimov books, does it make the story more interesting? No. The characters more interesting? No. Expand on some of the novel ideas in the Asimov books? Absolutely not, not even close!
Foundation: Long Ago, Not Far Away (2023)
Visuals over substance
Asimov wrote in Foundation books, and I believe it was even dialogue in this show that 'violence s the last resort of the incompetent' which must be an admission of incompetence on part of the writers of this show who every time go for violence on the order somewhere between a Michael Bay feature and GTA played by a particularly sadistic 13 year old. The story of the Foundation book moves on the subtlety, the discreet historic flows on large scale, the show is all about explosions! Lasers! Stabby people! I.e. The show is all about individual violence and the coherence of the storytelling really suffers as the galactic SFX budget is spent.
Foundation: The Last Empress (2023)
Unexciting drivel
Apparently there is only something like 5 important people in the entire Foundation universe, one of which is Lee Pace who must have something incriminating stuff on the producers since the show is a lot more about him than the actual foundation, which technically the show is the story of... The other important person Hari Seldon dies, lives, dies, lives etc ad nauseum, only to hold long exposition monologues to make it look like the story has at minimum a homeopathic level of coherence. The triteness of the last second saving someone trope emphasizes the lack of excitement of the story because the show will shamelessly keep folks around for centuries in a show that supposedly is about the slow inevitable grind of history.
Foundation: A Glimpse of Darkness (2023)
Bad and likely will get worse....
It is well established now that this show has veered so very very very far away from the prey fun and interesting source material, as to now have less than a homeopathic relationship to Asimov's books...It has also been my understanding that some people have still enjoyed the show on its own merits, but how is that possible after this incoherent blob of storytelling, long and tedious exposition scenes that are supposed to explain the whys and whos but just keep on stumbling around the expensive sets and production values invested and wasted on this mystical mumbojumbo. Shame on all involved in this nonsense. I give it two stars for now as I'm certain it hasn't hit rock bottom yet.
Foundation: In Seldon's Shadow (2023)
Just a total let down
This show fails to tell the story of the foundation, in this first episode of season two Lee Pace's abs got actual more screen time than the actual foundation, right? It shows nothing of the actual dynamics of the galactic breakup or the development of the foundation as unstoppable historic forces and goes down several non sequitur rabbit holes where Seldon's consciousness is in several places, and there are mystical visions that nullifies the whole point of psychohistory and hence the point of the Seldon plan... while shows certainly can adapt their source materials, the choices made in this reduces a great scifi story to incoherent mysticism.
Foundation (2021)
Terrible
Boooo, this is as I feared after season 1 turning into pompous mystical mumbojumbo! Are the producers and writers aware that the story is based on actual books? Have they read them? They turn all the interesting foundation concepts of psychohistory as being independent of individual actions and predicting the slow grind of inevitable history inside out rendering them meaningless and worse, boring and trite and perversely about dreamy visions, just a horrible waste of the source material and a fancy production budget, but at least they managed to catch Asimov's corny ear for dialogue writing....