I honestly don’t get the complaining. I’m a huge Asimov fan/nerd and I’m enjoying every minute of this.
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The last bit with Demerzel and Helima mildly bothers me. Zeroth vs First law conflicts are vaguely implied in the books, but this was so on the nose… but the extreme emotion is an interesting way to cash out law-conflict stresses. In the original robot books you just get stasis.
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Aside: Laura Dirn does an excellent interpretation of Demerzel/Daneel. I hope they do flashbacks all the way back to Lije Bailey. Presumably played by a different actor since we know from the books that Daneel is basically a robotic Ship of Theseus.
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Gonna link this here for those looking to get properly educated in Asimoverse
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Most people don’t realize Foundation is not 3 books but like 14
Caves of Steel
Naked Sun
Robots of Dawn
Robots and Empire
Pebble in the Sky
Stars, Like Dust
Currents of Space
Prelude
Forward
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Second Foundation
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And this as a sampling of literacy levels.
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Poll: Did you know there’s a zeroth law of robotics in Asimov universe, making the total 4 not 3?
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Episode 9 finally kinda gets back to book plot. Vault opening handled in an interestingly updated way. Cleons plot on Trantor is a bit strange.
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Ep. 10 pulled a bit of an ex machina stunt to resolve a plot line but I’m inclined to forgive it. My first prediction is now slightly more right but second prediction is wrong.
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Got this one mostly wrong
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Salvor is not a mentallist. Little boy with knife is obviously Raych. Second foundation is in the house obviously. Hugo is the obvious candidate.
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Completely wrong
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Azura is second foundation
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Overall, excellent. I really liked the last scene with Demerzel, and they’ve cued up a different actor playing Daneel next season nicely, a la Doctor Who regenerations.
Cleons plot has been satisfyingly blown up in a way that underlines a nice “change is the only constant” note
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Didn’t quite like how they played vault-Hari, but I did like how vault itself acquired a backstory. I think Ghost of Hari is too sentient. Makes for better TV, but weakens punch of recordings.
But they’ve cued up his being fallible. Ghost Hari will not like the Mule in Season 2.
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Like the setup of the Second Foundation though. In the books, that’s never really described, besides a vague line of descent indicated between Stettin Palver/Wanda Seldon and Preem Palver in Second Foundation. This Synnax setup is more of a story, and nothing significant changes.
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My main complaint was they didn’t take the first foundation mission seriously enough. It was so obviously not a real thing from the beginning, so it’s not convincing that hundreds of smart ppl gave up their livelihoods and futures to move to Terminus
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Yeah it was like 5 minutes of people discussing how to preserve the knowledge of fire
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