God damnit, I was just starting to get into this. Why does it always feel like the production accountants use the niche fan boys to justify cancelling an expensive show that actually has a chance…
I didn’t realize how much hate this show would get on lemmy. I really enjoyed it from the very beginning. I truly hope this show keeps going.
From what I’m hearing, the production halt is not because Apple is getting cold feet but the budget for season 3 was set last year before the strikes and the inflation in the Czech Republic has gone up a lot since last spring. They need to figure out how to rebudget the show or find a new location that fits the current budget.
I have some coworkers who talk about it all the time at the office. I assumed that though it may not be as popular as Game of Thrones, there are lots of people that liked it.
I think it has potential to stick the landing, unlike GoT. The showrunner Goyer is a huge fan of the source material and has the blessing of the the Asimov estate.
Eh I’m a book reading snob and foundation is one of my favs. So of course I’m gonna be a curmudgeon about the show. Not gonna piss in your cheerios tho. If you like the show then that’s great.
Meh, I love the foundation series by Asimov, but this tv adaptation does not get my heart pumping. Especially how they interpreted the role of Salvor Hardin is just so stupid that I couldn’t care less. I did like Lee Pace as the emperor though.
It definitely had some confusing moments early on as the main characters panicked over events I couldn’t recall from S1. Until I realized these were future events. The psychic abilities and prognostications were all pretty clunky, though I feel like those tropes always are.
But somehow it all came together pretty well in the end. The story buildup and the way the characters’ worlds collided mostly worked. And the production values were great. I’d say my score jumped from like a 4 to almost 8 across the season.
Naaaw, I’m good. I am ambivalent about the books until the series is cancelled or ended. Once the series is done, one way or the other, then I will read the wiki.
Tbh this isn’t a bad take. The books revolutionised science fiction writing and it deserves credit for that but that was 1942. They haven’t aged well. But nuclear powered everything is funny to read about from today’s perspective. I loved that the show actually mentioned nuclear powered ashtray as an Easter egg.
Asimov forgot to even acknowledge women existed until much later. So the show is less gender swap and more actually including women at all 😅
For decades I’ve been a big fan of Asimov in general and Foundation in particular, and when it came to the TV adaption I kinda liked it, to be honest.
There’s a reason why Asimovs works are so rarely adapted to the screen: They don’t work well in a series or movie format as they stand. That’s probably why I gave the series a lot of room from a personal standpoint, not being too critical from a purist point of view.
When hearing about the TV adaption I was worried that each episode would be a whole new cast due to the timespan involved. While I don’t agree with every plot device they used to circumvent this, I enjoyed some of them, such as the cloned emperors, although I think too kuch of the story revolved around them.
But yes, it definitely did not measure up to the books. But TV adoptions rarely do. And Foundation is an especially challenging one.
Jared Harris. He was also great in the first series of The Terror. I haven’t seen season 2 of Foundation yet but felt his talents were a little wasted in the first season. Season 1 was definitely carried by Lee Pace and the emperor’s storyline.
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