Anyone watching this? I’m enjoying it so far, they must have had a massive budget for this series. Seems true to the books I read years ago so far.

Really? You must not remember the books very well. The show looks great but it isn't very good in my opinion.

While he wrote a lot of great stuff some was pathetic, he was just trying to say: 'I'm smarter than the people reading this' and some important point of the story would be just crap.

Gonna watch this.  Don't want to give apple money though.

Hope it's not as bad as the "Brave new world" was.  although, boobs!

I may end up checking it out.  I had read a bunch of the stories and work in grade school on,
And in the early 90s went through The Trilogy, the two books which I think were doing to be a second trilogy, but were followed by two prequel novels.
The second book of the second novel ended poorly.  It definitely needed the third book to being the first two home.  A third prequel novel would have been nice- but not straight up necessary like the sequels needed.
I preferred the first trilogy and the prequel novels better than the two sequel novels.  I also got through all the robot stories and novels at that time, plus the three galactic empire novels.

He died around that time, I reread the robot series about 20 years ago, the galactic empire books about ten years ago, and the foundation books about a year ago.

I have not paid attention to any expanded universe type works like I dabbled in with the Dune universe.


Don’t read further if you are not familiar with the source work and are looking forward to it.
This is why I “might” check it out vs dying to see it.

His works obviously existed as lone threads, then tied together, with some retcon type actions, and seemingly some shifts in the the author’s personal beliefs over the decades.

Their are obvious classical and contemporaneous historical and social trends he borrows from, but

Regarding the foundation novels themselves, Chronologically, he seems to have gone from a degree of admiration and faith in mankind being driven by brilliant, rugged, determined individualists, to those needing some from of bureaucratic and authoritative management and control, that stagnates,   And must be led and saved by brilliant scientists, but with a back up plan of literal mind control, before determining the ideal fate of humanity rests in a pan humanity hive mentality, while painting individualism in a most horrific and evil manner.With all concept of a higher power painted as- except in a galactic tie in reference Bondo job- an insane concept- unless it’s a robot with supernatural powers essentially filling a benevolent god like- but allowing some but not too much- free will.  In a galaxy strangely absent of any other sapient life forms.  While foreshadowing that an obvious threat exist from such coming from other galaxies.

If the above paragraph seems choppy, confusing, and hard to follow, you’re welcome.  In 30 seconds I basically summarized the arc of five stories written in the 1940s combined into a novel in the 1950s, two novellas combined into a novel in the 50s, another two novellas combined into a novel in the 1950s,  a gap of three decades, a fourth novel, a fifth novel in the 1980s, ending chronologically on sort of a foreshadowed cliffhanger, a prequel novel written in the 1980s that is essentially a series of short stories, and another novel published posthumously  in the 1990s that is also composed of a series of short stories.- In a far shorter time than it would take to read them.

While I had a childhood love for reading about a future where I would grow up to have spaceships, blasters, robots, etc. at some point, the fun and wonder just seemed to drain from his work.  While lacking components that were a backbone of various SF genres that make it compelling without fun and excitement.

Like all modern adaptions of 1950's thru 1970's 'New Age' science fiction, they're going to screw it up and its going to suck. Because Apple is involved, its going to suck big time. These books can only be appreciated by READING them. Dune 1984 is a fantastic movie, that sucked. Dune 2021 just sucked. Starship Troopers.....fantastic movie, that basically took the title and bugs from the book.  Lord of the Rings was kinda OK until they tried to print money with the Hobit.
Foundation is a HUGE universe of stories. And yes the ending/underlying concept was where he ran out of ideas (there are no other intelligent life forms in the galaxy because the god/robot came up with the 0 rule of robotics and changed reality so in this universe only humans exist so we don't have to worry about aliens).
Please Hollywood, go back to making movies with the same 7 scripts you've always adapted, and leave the science fiction/fantasy books alone.

It is fairly decent.

I have the Original series.

There is such a shattering amount of changes made to the story....

What happened to the KSP tattoo for starters

All the religion, too...

From what I've seen from the recaps on youtube, they have basically reworked the entire series into something entirely different.
About all they have kept are the names of people and planets.

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They're massively ripping off Dune for the Salvor/Gale arc now.  My first thought after the final scene.

I just started watching the Foundation series.  I'm on episode 5. I had low expectations for this series prior to starting it and all I can say is wow, fantastic series!

That, is about the best summation of those books I have seen.  Still enjoyed the read through though.



Think I have only seen the first couple episodes of the show so far.  Follow the books, it does not.

Season 2 is about to be shown

Waiting until mid-September to start season 2.

Youtube is showing clips from the shows.


Like I said previously, about the only thing from the books that have been kept are the name of the people and planets


I mean Come On Now!  The Second Foundation was supposed to be a secret.

Yeah, that summed it up pretty good.



Gave up on the show after the 2nd episode.

I was sort of interested through season 1, even if it didn't follow the books well. Then Season 2 came and the Empire's Admiral just had to be gay and ram it into your face. That was it for us, we cancelled Apple TV+ and didn't look back. Nothing else worth watching there.

I watched it.  Was kinda hard to get into at first and I thought some of the acting was not good but the last season kinda made it worth while.

Spoilers

I remember reading "Pebble in the Sky" several times as a kid.
One of my favorite novels at the time. I read the original Foundation
trilogy but lost interest pretty quickly.