Gender changes for Gaal Dornick and Eto Demerzel improve things. The books were kinda tediously all male. New events added to the plot are great. Smart to keep Raych around. In the original he’s gone by the time Gaal arrives.
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Whole thing has a vaguely Dune like vibe with all the changes
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Production values on par with The Expanse, but much, much slower tempo. But not all talky as I’d feared. They’ve managed to make it more actiony than the books. A straight-up adaptation would have been tedious walky-talky like an Aaron Sorkin show.
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One disappointment. Though the visuals and art production are clearly solid and big budget they seem a bit uninspired. The show doesn’t have its own signature world-building look. It looks like a mashup of existing sci-fi properties. Star Trek/Star Wars/Expanse…
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The jump drive has an actual mini black hole rendering within it that looks lifted from interstellar
The ceremonial robes for outlier world delegates and Cleon staff in particular seems like a false note. Not Asimovian at all. Was hoping for something like the Loki 50spunk look.
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Asimov-verse has a consistent feel of a 50s bureaucracy from earliest robot stories to final foundation and earth/galaxia stuff. This Dune-like pageantry feels off somehow.
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Yes the empire is a monarchy but one based on a bureaucratic rather than theocratic state apparatus. You want gray/beige grimness. Closer to Star Wars. That influence is clearly there (soldiers look like storm troopers… it’s practically a “these are the baddies” label) but weak.
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This is going to be a good show in its own right I think, but something of the Asimovian soul has been accidentally abandoned (it’s not intentional clearly because it’s not displaced by an alt soul but by random acts of art production)
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Yep, I think my thought here was inspired by a similar latent frustration.
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Foundation is good so far and I'm fine with them deviating from the source material. But I wish they toned down Cleon's malevolence a bit. I prefer the "overly isolated from reality" Cleon (from the book) to the "basically Nero" Cleon.
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