It’s hard to predict the fate of a series based upon a single episode, but when you look at a series from more of a distance, considering all episodes aired to date in the aggregate, it becomes possible to draw some conclusions. Based on what we’ve seen so far, I predict this series will suffocate under its own weight sometime within the next 500 years.
This show continues to disappoint me more and more with each episode. The pilot was so promising, with so many great and interesting ideas. Despite that, I've found the show to be mostly a snoozefest, featuring characters that I really do not care about with the exception of Brothers Day and Dusk.
What a way to turn Salvor from a very interesting and intelligent character to read to the opposite of that.
This is a very quote heavy episode...I might have to make clip vid. Its damn good writing in this episode.
From SciFi to SyFy in just four episodes. I’m not usually a “should have stuck to the books” kind of person but they should have stuck more to the books. The excitement I had in seeing where the writers would go with the story is gone. The lazy and directionless writing has left us with mostly dull and forgettable characters. Things that should be established by this point in the story don’t seem to be anywhere in sight. So far it’s just boring. Even the interactions between Dawn, Day and Dusk have staled quickly. Pretty soon Foundation will be code for nap time.
Since this show has little to do with the books, I can't really see where they are taking this. In some ways this is good, because it introduces surprises in otherwise very familiar content, but in other ways...it has started to turn me a bit away from it as well.
So...
I'm not that excited about the next episodes, but I also really want to see where they are taking things next.
Weird feeling!!!
So, dusk and day start quarrelling about the previous day's actions regarding the foundation and the other 2 planets. Dawn apparently has some serious flaws, so not the perfect genetic copy.
And the foundation is fighting against an invasion - but cut of from Trenton to call for help. Any maybe we'll find out what happaned with Gaal in the next episode.
Lee Pace struts around and yells while being tall, angry, and mad sexy and killing unimaginative fat men with his overbearing hotness—or maybe he fainted, I don't know. Brother bottom, the arrestedly developed, gets a crush ten years too late and can't decide whether he wants to go steady or have her killed; munches medicinal salad.
Other things happen, unfortunately.
Bitching follows...
Ugh, the false Salvor Hardin part is insufferable. What a surprise that, when they massacre a character by completely rewriting their base personality, that they end up with bad daytime TV/NBC-style sci-fi. They have decent actors doing support work for a boring, ugly, incompetent maladaptation of the Terminus plot, while the lead actress simply cannot pull off the awful "gungoho but actually pathetic and emotionally weak empath magical non binary person" (that's not me mocking—Salvor seems "enby" coded to me). I don't even know if Leah Harvey is really to blame, as it's almost an Anakin Skywalker situation with the asks the script is demanding of a young actor. I ended up skipping parts of the abysmally uninteresting/disappointing Terminus sections and skipping forward to the Empire bits, because at least they were interesting and not in the book.
I really wish out of touch gen X show runners and their inexperienced assistant/protéges would stop making Gen-Z and gender nonconformity look so awkward in such shoehorned characters, but it's clear they have no idea what they're doing with writing anybody outside certain archetypes. I actually like Gaal, so I'm of two minds about seeing her again when the writers and show runners get their incompetent hands on her again.
i am so attracted to lee pace
The episode was shorter than the earlier ones but quite interesting, apparently there is trouble brewing for the Empire brothers, since the new religious leader is opposed to cloned people and this could lead to a larger dissent. Day is worried that Seldon's prophecy is really beginning to come to fruition and goes through the roof with the statisticians, later on in the episode it looks like the identical brothers quarrel, Day accusing his older version of dealing with Seldon and the Star Bridge situtation in an incompetent way. It looks like Dusk was on his way to meet the religious leaders but Day supersedes him so it seems he is the decision-maker when other brothers are of a different opinion? The clone brothers are apparently also capable of needing physical closeness or having some romantic emotions, as the youngest brother is sort of romantically interested in the gardener.
Salvor manages to outwit the leader of the Anacreons and take her prisoner, then questions her together with Hugo, who knows Anacrean language from his travels. He believes in Salvor and her leadership but a guy called Lewis definitely doesn't support her and accuses her of disrupting Saldor's original plan, at the end of the episode she begins to doubt herself. Especially that they are surrounded by the Anacreon army which looks greater than they anticipated. I wonder whether they are going to use the woman they captured as leverage since they discovered it is actually the great huntress. Salvor continues to have the visions of a boy, maybe this is little Hari Seldon since she got transported into his library?
The seventh star is for Gaal who reapears at the end of the episode, maybe it will finally be explained what happened to her.
Lee Pace really steals the show as brother Day, he was made for this role. Though maybe it is not so different from his Thranduil in "The Hobbit".
A slightly better episode but still somehow hollow
Looks like we're headed for a clone war...
Shout by PongpengVIP 2BlockedParent2021-10-08T17:13:39Z
Best episode since the pilot, and also clarifies a bit why I find the two episodes in between only ok. The macro of Trantor just feels so much more engrossing in its unique blend of relatively hard sci-fi and big-picture politics, with Lee Pace in his multi-performances providing the fiery energy underneath the whole thing (with great assist from Terrence Mann), than the micro of Terminus' more standard mysteries and adventures. The latter is pretty good in this one though with its raising stakes, which is why the whole episode works for me.