Foundation - TV Series (2021)

The books are hard work, for the first 50-100 pages or so, but once you hit through that your golden.

As for the TV show, you would never be able to make a TV show so close to the books unless you have a billionaire willing to fund it and not care about reviewers complaining its far to complicated for their stupid little brains to comprehend.

Watched episode 1 last night and i thought it was very good, its a nice take on the books. I think i might stop watching at this point though and save it for an entire binge day with the log burner on when its rainy and crap outside :)
 
Bickaxe said:
I was actually dreading this as I like the books a lot and couldn't see how they could make it work with the timespan.
Jumping back and forth through the years for the explanations (and letting the viewer know, I'm looking at you The Witcher) and highlighting the Cleon clones solves a lot of issues.

Really impressed with the first episode though.

For those that have not read the books, it is set thousands of years in the future.
Earth is a myth which never made much sense to people because no planet has a moon that size and its not in the Galactic records.
Trantor, being a planet wide city, relies on thousands of planets to supply its food.
There is a lot more I could say but thats going into spoiler territory.
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Many many thousands. Trantor is at the centre of well, everything, think Roman Empire in space or rather the end of it. All Asimovs books are related in some way or other and some of the other book series are set in the same universe but meny centuries maybe millennia apart so you see the first steps into robotics, the first steps to the stars, and then, well I won't say anymore.
 
Just started reading them again. The passage of time from it being first published (1942) to now really shows in some of it where Asimov didn't speculate on the tech advances in the coming years.

Didn't take long to read part 1 (intro to the world and Hari's trial) whereas in the past, I'm sure it went on for longer.
 
I loved all them them Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Foundations Edge, etc etc. The sheer wide ranging scope, history and imagination is startling the only thing I've seen that rivals it in that way is the Lord of the Rings trilogy another favourite book series
 
Have watched all four episodes over a few nights. Really well done and I've never read the books but love the world building. I think Brother Day has a screw loose and Brother Dawn is feeling frisky.
 
VaderDSL said:
I love space opera stuff, books etc. I'd have happily sat through an entire season of them just detailing the galaxy, factions, wars etc. :) I'm enjoying it so far.
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Same, one of my recent favourites is the Expeditionary Force series by Craig Alanson, apparently its being made into a TV series as well.

Also another worth reading are the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor equally as a good.
 
MadMossy said:
Same, one of my recent favourites is the Expeditionary Force series by Craig Alanson, apparently its being made into a TV series as well.

Also another worth reading are the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor equally as a good.
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Read both of these series. A lot more humour than most other sci-fi. Looking forward to Skippy TV if that happens.
 
Efour said:
Good looking production, great world building but ....

Boring AF
Feels like a never ending Dr who episode.
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I don't know if you have read the books (which differ from the show quite a lot) but they involve a lot of talking and hardly any action.
I'm not sure if this is because Asimov wasn't interested in writing about that (any 'action' scenes he does write about are quite brief) or couldn't imagine it.
 
No disrespect fellas but this is clearly titled TV series. My criticism directed solely at that.

I've tried reading/ the foundation audiobook but stopped early. I literally just downloaded it again to listen at work.

I'm well aware of the structure of the novel, and I'm dissatisfied that it didn't transfer well to TV.
The TV series has already had me facepalm several times as they have littered it with excess modern tropes and in episode 5 some god damn bad acting and ridiculous convenience.

It feels about on par with Jupiter ascending.
 
I am really enjoying the slow pace of the show, I am sick to death of over the top action with magical bullets that manage to hit everything apart from the 1.5m^2 Box around whoever the hero is, that`s dull tedius and BORING.

Started reading the books as intended, some of the early Robot stories feels like i have read them but never read them if that makes any sense. (His work is hard going at times though)
 
SPG said:
I am really enjoying the slow pace of the show, I am sick to death of over the top action with magical bullets that manage to hit everything apart from the 1.5m^2 Box around whoever the hero is, that`s dull tedius and BORING.
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Indeed.

Read tonight if they get the green light for it, the entire series will span 80 episodes!!!!

Bring. It. On.

I am loving every moment of it.
 
Well late to the party but really enjoyed ep1. Never read the books which is kind of surprising as I am a Sci Fi guy. Maybe next year. Anyway promising start maybe I'll have caught up before the series ends.
 
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