Ep. 4 has a subplot on Luminism religion that seems vaguely like a Bene Gesserit ripoff. 😵💫
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This episode is a bit meh
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The parts that kinda drag are the parts that clearly borrow from Dune type fantasies. I guess fantasy is more popular so it’s a pragmatic move but still 😐
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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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maybe not so much surrender as in the plan (in OF) leaves you no choice. in NF way too much individual scope to mess with the plan. if one ignores the whole plan thing, the show gets much better. so I am.
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I’m giving them benefit if doubtEven in original the plan didn’t mean no free will. It meant the math was powerful enough to be robust to free will.
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the whole point of a Seldon crisis was that you had no real choice. like whitewater rafting.
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But you didn’t realize that until the Seldon recordings revealed that you’d been acting according to the model

