Much better episode, starting to get going now.
Rejoice! Our boy is back! :muscle:
Some of the seemingly disparate plot elements are starting to coalesce nicely, and the larger picture is beginning to come into focus.
Okay, still don't care about Terminus, save to say that I think it's ridiculous how easily those big ships are shot out of the sky. The whole Invictus drama about the jump... practically everyone survives with their mind intact (save for the guy who was dying anyway)... so what's the big deal about all the dramatic build-up to jump while awake?
Way more interesting (again) is the plot surrounding Dawn who tries to escape only to find himself a genetically manipulated plotdevice in a rebellion - and the tool which Dusk used to reveal said rebellion.
It's so sad that the only story which keeps me interested is showing once between 2/3 eps. The empire story is flat, weak, not interesting at all. Some YA shit. The Foundation story was last interesting when the battle started which wasnt really a battle more of a slaughter but Hari will seem like a God now which I soooooo hate. He was/is egotistic and we see so much how his predictions were flawed with Salvor and Gaal so I don't believe him at all now, which means I don't believe in the Foundation at all, which means that this whole story lost my interest.
Best episode so far! I hope it keeps getting better.
Finally. Only took 9 episodes, but this is what I was hoping for out of this show.
Oh, look who's back! Yeah, I thought so... aaand I don't feel myself caring. Also not surprised that I don't care.
The brother Dawn plot is the only thing that isn't casually braindead about this episode, unsurprisingly due to it not being taken from the source material at all, and as such is the only thing that bears the mark of being an inspired plot of the showrunners. They still managed to, once again, be really vague and confusing with the actual important reveal through wispy, amateurish dialogue. I understand what happened, but not who the involved faction actually was.
Still, it was actually pretty good, it looked good—as all the Empire and Gaal sections have—and it surprised me, as I didn't at all predict or expect the outcome (probably having something to do with the show not actually ever dripping any information from which to predict it cough Sherlock cough.) It ends with some laughable dialogue from Day, followed by an appropriately derisive response by Dusk. I don't care how much you make a character cry and look pathetic if you put stupid lines in their mouth that make me enjoy it when the evil asshole scoffs at them. I swear there's some adversarial writing going on here, within the script drafts.
This episode both doesn't cause as much investment, while also being less acutely offensive about big events (until the end when you realize it is, if you've read the books), which, considering they've officially thoroughly destroyed the plot, concept, and entire compelling dynamics of the book with this episode, is... impressive? No, that's not the right word. It shows how little the show has to do with anything that made the novels great, and how the showrunners fundamentally missed the point of the books and characters, if that weren't already obvious. What a fucking waste. They even had, like, six good and well-cast actors in it.
So much happens in the episode that it feels as if it lasted two hours instead of one. Things are looking up for Salvor since she wakes up alive at the Invictus, it turns out that Lewis sacrificed himself to get them to Terminus, and soon after she boards her boyfriend's ship, she is reunited with Hugo, whose fleet apparently jumped together with the Invictus. I supposed that they would end up in totally different corners of the universe. However, when Salvor discovers that there is no communication with the surface of Terminus and the null field enveloped the entire planet, she decides to go down and try and fix the situation. She manages to use the prime radiant on the basis of Gaal's memories to who Salvor seems telepatically linked, and deactivates the field. It turns out that all the people that were knocked out come to, I thought that it someone is under the influence of the null field for too long, they may die but apparently this is not the case, though these people might have been lying unconscious for some time. After some skirmish between Hugo's army and newly escaped Phara, Salvor kills her with Phara's own bow as Phara begins to shoot at the null field thingy. It seems a bit strange since it was perhaps the first time Salvor used a bow and she shot Phara at the first try (she was good with guns and had a good aim though, so maybe it wasn't that hard to transfer her skills to a bow). At the end, a probably digital Hari Seldon walks out of the null field thingy and gives a pep talk to all people gathered here. It sound a bit as if he was behind the conflict and sort of orchestrated it.
The youngest Cleon clone falls pray to double conspiracy. He finally escapes from the palace after discovering that Dusk has known his secret about killing six creatures during the hunt, and believes that it has been discovered that he is different. He manages to reach his gardener girlfriend's flat but after being friendly, she turns against him. It turns out that he was only used by the underground which wanted him to get his nanobots for a Cleon clone they have created. The underground also confesses to polluting his genes and making him different. However, Dusk also knew everything from the beginning and the imperial troops with him come and "save" Dawn at the last moment when the underground want to kill him. However, Dusk implies to him that he will be eventually killed by the Empire as a faulty clone. So things don't look bright for him as he will be killed anyway.
Shout by MagenofVIP 7BlockedParent2021-11-12T19:30:36Z
This is bad.
In the book, after the first crisis, it shows a recording of Hari Seldon, proving he predicted the first crisis correctly with psychohistory, the plan was working. In the tv show? Just a live zoom call by AI Hari… ruining everything special the original moment had.
Also the first crisis is nothing like in the books, very stupid made up plot.
Made up Empire story is still decent though.