Paul Krugman ngmi. Thinks Dune movie good, Foundation show bad.
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Kidding aside, there’s something knee-jerk about the shallow foundation takes. There’s false notes and fluff to be sure, and I’d have done it differently. But this is a good treatment in the broad spirit of the original. Not a cynical one like Joss Whedon Star Trek.
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I can see why Krugman has shallow teenaged expectations unchanged by decades and a Nobel. He probably maps psychohistory to spherical cow economics. He wants fictionalized macroeconomics.
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The emotional subtext of Foundation is surrender to the Plan. It’s weakly developed but it’s there in the original. The story is sociological soul in economics body.
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Sorry yeah JJ Abrams not Joss Whedon.
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JJ Abrams Star Trek?
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Got my first prediction kinda 70% right I guess based on Ep7. Shouldn’t make such omnibus predictions.
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Just for fun, I’m going to try predicting the plot turns of the show, but without spoiling it for people. Here is the SHA-256 hash of my first prediction. Will reveal when either verified or falsified
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It could be a bit more right depending on how they explain Raych, but the baby/Wanda prediction is a wash I think
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New theory. Those who identify with Hari Seldon feel betrayed by the show. Those who get that the only real protagonist of the entire Asimoverse (Asimovverse?) is R. Daneel feel it is in the right spirit.
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Was probably due to my age, about 10 yrs old when I first read Foundation, but I most strongly identified with Arkady.
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Heh she’s a weak character if you remember how that plot is actually resolved 😂


