This show is very pretty but all the time jumps and amount of characters is confusing me. Hoping it becomes clearer in time.
The time jumps are already starting to trip me up. They're also making it obvious that it's not worth getting too invested in any of the characters since they may not be around for very long at all, one way or another. I'm also completely unimpressed by the fact that we were given absolutely NOTHING in terms of an explanation for what transpired at the end of the last episode.
Discombobulated episode with poor flow. Too much time jumping to get to know or recognize or care about most characters. After truly enjoying the first two episodes I found this one mostly uninteresting. I’ve accepted this isn’t going to line up with the books but I hope this episode isn’t a sign of an unimaginative and boring re-telling.
The time jumps and time changes are confusing everything. This is getting very hard to follow. :thinking:
I was confused before, now I'm feeling Lost !
Welllll that was a boring one. The last two episodes were great but this one felt like a lot of filler and backstory? to catch us up to present time (ie there was a time jump) and it wasn't very interesting the way it was done.
Hoping the pace picks back up with the next episode.
So, years have passed, Dusk dies, another dawn's rising. And the colony finds the one thing that apparently hasn't been foreseen, the Vault.
The sequences at the foundation don't quite grip me because I don't care about any of the characters there - all those timejumps are confusing, I guess. I enjoy those with the Empire and especially Demerzel much more. What's her secret? Can she overcome her programming to intervene or is she simply a loyal servant (of whom? the idea of the empire or the men now impersonating it?).
There is a big time jump and the characters from the previous episode are probably already dead, which is rather disappointing.
The life cycle of the emperors is shown, apparently when the new cloned baby is ready for independent life outside the pods, the oldest version of the emperor has to die. The robot woman has been present at their side since the time of the first emperor and she plays the role of a mother or a lover to the emperors, depending on their age. This shows the artificiality of the cloned emperors' life, as they are deprived of human love and relationships, they have no mother and they do not take a wife when they get older, so there is no space for parent-child or romantic relationships. The robot shows more emotions than them, though at the end of his life, the oldest version of the emperor can awaken some sympathy.
After the part of the empire, the life of the colonists on Terminus is shown, apparently the thingie shown in the first episode is not the eponymous Foundation, as I have thought, but it has been there before the colonists came. This part of the episode focuses on another special girl, this time it is Salvor who works as a protector of the colony and can communicate with the null field thingy. She notices that the field is expanding and soon after the colony is attacked by the Anacreons, it looks like she is taken prisoner by them. Salvor is an interesting character, though I liked Gaal more and it is disappointing that her fate is not explained. I wonder whether the leading characters would be changed every two episodes?
Easily the best episode out of the first three. It actually had something of a realized visual style and reason for its muted tone, and the score actually kind of worked instead of just being generic. And no goddamned mediocre child actors. Still, not one fifth of what a real Foundation adaptation should be, but at least the creators are playing to their strengths here instead of just coloring in the lines that the committee in charge of this hackneyed attempt ordained. I really hope all these trillion dollar media corps fall before civilization does so that there will be at least a small measure of poetic justice.
Decided to binge this series, new to me I hadn't heard of the book before. I'm gonna pretend like this episode didn't happen lol. I got pulled in by the 1st & 2nd one.
Midway thru this thing I felt like I needed to stop & do a little math of my own just to justify the screenplay. Between the 400 years back & forth plus 40 years later plus or minus this much here or there I wanna still like it.
Really want to check out the original source of the story (book(s), etc).
This is going too damn fast. It needs to slow down.
The time jumps were a bit confusing at first but I was able to figure everything out during my watch of the episode. The story was interesting imo and I really think we need to get over the first few episodes before the show really takes off. At least this is my hope.
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Even though this episode ranks a bit down from the first two, I still have hope for this series. The thing is, the fact that they have clearly decided to deviate massively from the books, except for the main plot points, has made it a bit hard to really enjoy. At the end of this episode, I realized I'd have to look at this series as a retelling rather than a book adaption. I hope I can manage that for the rest of the episodes as well. I really want this to be the series of the year...