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#Foundation is a very good series, judging from the first episode. It takes Asimov's grand galactic imperial scope and vision add three-dimensional people with motivations and purpose. Beautifully shot, acted and rendered, of course.
People are making so much cool stuff now that has finally become technologically possible.
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@clacke It isn't usually technology that determines how good a series is.
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@LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} > It isn't usually technology that determines how good a series is.
While that is generally true, there are certainly cases where the visuals can make or break a story. A lot of sci-fi and fantasy fits there, where there is certainly a philosophical or dramatic component but the spectacle is also very much part of the story.
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A few more episodes in the pacing is a real problem. Now I'm just watching because I'm invested in the characters, but the main epic story is really moving at snail's pace.
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So you're telling me the series closely follows the 9? 12? books of the Foundation Trilogy...
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Don't get me wrong, I think Foundation is one of the greatest SF stories ever written. And I hadn't heard there was a series, must find out when and where it airs... !SciFi @clacke
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@Bob Jonkman It is highly character-driven.
It uses key characters, the Empire, the exile, Terminus, Psychohistory, two kingdoms instead of the Four Kingdoms and some echoes of half of the first book and fainter echoes from other parts of the series, while the main story maps roughly to half the first book.
It shifts characters around, fleshes them out, gives them more connections between each other, adds its own world concepts and turns key characters into women. There is no Scientism, only straightforward diplomacy, and there are fewer Seldon Crises (only one).
Apart from the pacing I think it's a far better TV series than a faithful adaptation would be. The concepts it adds are interesting and fit with the world and give it depth, they're not just random stuff.
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Happily, it's been about 50 years since I read the first three novels, and about 20 years since I started on the sequels (which never did finish, got about halfway through the third sequel book). So my foggy memories of the storyline in the original trilogy shouldn't detract from the TV series.
I recall there was a BBC radio play or a BBC TV series in the 1980s, I heard at least one episode on the radio but never caught it again....
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And, of course, Wikipedia knows everything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series#Adaptations
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