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Based on the award-winning novels by Isaac Asimov, Foundation chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire. (Apple TV+)
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Year before the release of this series, I read the entire Foundation and Empire, so you can imagine that when I read on Apple TV that they were planning to film it, I had a reason to look forward to it. The subject is incredibly demanding for filming, but why not. If done well, it could be great. In this case, however, we will stick to the word could, because I feel that the creators of the book series are rather making fun of it. When Jared Harris was on stage as Hari Seldon, it was still acceptable, but once the creators started to commit total harakiri with the plot, telling it carelessly in any way with any temporal inconsistency, turning characters into men, women, anything, being gender balanced and who knows what else is popular nowadays, it surprised me a bit. However, Foundation was not a cheap series, quite the opposite. It shows on the visuals damn well. It is indeed breathtaking. However, it is the only reason why I stayed with the series and I never want to hear a word about it ever again. I wonder what Isaac Asimov would say about the fact that his daughter has her producing hands in this mess.
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A big disappointment. Apple was really keen, so was I, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a book so defiled in its adaptation. The special effects are fantastic and you can see the money that they pumped into this. The problem lies in sheepish scripts that, apart from the title, have nothing to do with the Foundation. The warped psychological histories, the central character’s sex-change, including illogical behavior, and the nonsensical (for a cool mathematician and a robot) shouting and emotional outbursts so clearly demonstrate the harmfulness of our times and the artificial attempts to update (instead of decadence and decline, a dumb terroristic reason) the sub-plots of the book, which just make the movie seem laughable in hindsight. Goyer is incapable of holding our attention and is afraid of re-casting. The emperor clones (the only inventive storyline and it isn’t even in the book) are a perfect example. The Foundation, taking place over the course of thousands of years, should change out the central characters about every two episodes, with Olivaw in the first and last episodes and Seldon making frequent guest appearances. By the way, Harris plays a completely different Sheldon than is described in the book and the only good example of casting is Lee Peace as the middle Emperor. Each time I had to force myself more and more to watch the next episode and each one had me falling asleep more and more. Which doesn’t bode well.
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