Goddammit season 2 of Foundations is great. I'm annoyed at the end of every episode because it's the end of the episode. Only one more to go, and the suspense is killing me. Please don't let it be another two years until the continuation!
@veronica Although series 3 has been written, between the time needed to scout and shoot, and the current strike, we’re a bare minimum of a year from season 3
@tmr232 I hope you can watch it in 4K, because it looks spectacular in it. It's such a huge difference with stuff made to be viewed in high resolution.
@veronica I'm with you on this one!
Had my bookworm's doubts about the whole TV show, but let them go, and I'm just enjoying myself. Waiting for each new episode and googling details about season 3 😉
@belfinwe Only read a little bit of the books. They're quite different already from the start. I plan to read the books, but I already suspect I like the TV series a lot better.
Edit: I am often very disappointed by so-called classical Sci-Fi, so I have largely stopped reading the ones I missed.
@veronica@belfinwe I've felt the same about most 'classical sci-fi' I've tried to read, apart from Dune. 'Starship Troopers' was pretty good (despite all the politics), but more of a one-off. And 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' was so different I'm amazed they managed to get Blade Runner out of it 😅
@siljelb@belfinwe Yeah, Dune was OK. But Starship Troopers is one of the most boring and unappealing Sci-Fi novels I've ever read. Still, it's the first Heinlein novel I've actually managed to read all the way through. I doubt I will ever waste more time on his work.
I read a lot of Jules Verne as a kid though, and loved those. Not sure how I'd feel now.
Haven’t really read any classical sci-fi, so you have any suggestions of what’s a good first novel I’m open too suggestions 😀
Was thinking of a Jules Verne book a have here somewhere or The foundation when I’m done with Deaths end.
@siljelb@belfinwe Perhaps that too, but I meant more in terms of epic storytelling, and the work being a corner stone of a writer's career. There is so much poured into the work compared to rapid publishing that most writers have to do to make ends meet.
@veronica@belfinwe true. Although LoTR and Tolkien's works in general holds such a special place in my heart that Herbert unfortunately can't quite compete with. The continued posthumous publishing by the authors' sons is another commonality I guess.
@belfinwe@siljelb I've only read them in English, so can't compare. Last time I got the new audio books read by Andy Serkis. Recommended if you like audio books. 😊
@belfinwe@veronica I'm planning for my next read through, perhaps this autumn, to be in Nynorsk 😍
But yeah, if you've only read the Bokmål translation, you're in for a treat with the original English. Just make sure to get a post-2004 copy, as there were several long standing errors and omissions fixed in that edition.
@veronica@belfinwe I haven't tried to read Verne since I was a kid either, even though I have really good memories of especially Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. And come to think of it I was like 15 when I read Starship Troopers, so my memories of it may be a bit skewed 🫣
@veronica@belfinwe ah right. I don't think I've ever seen a 20000 leagues movie. The Starship Troopers movie really annoys me, so I don't think I've watched all of it in ten years.
Especially since, right at the same time, Empire was talking about Hari’s ends justifying a lot of means (or however he put it), and um…then, he did that at the end. Projecting more than the hologram, he was, I fear.
@veronica 100% same. Bel and Glawen just about killed me, even if (in my opinion) they didn’t give Bel’s reaction enough time to land as hard as it could have.
@veronica Fair. I feel like it had an impact, yet just…there could’ve been a lot more. And I definitely wonder if there’s a shot that got cut somewhere that showed Cleon picking up on it. Then, again, self-absorption and getting off on destroying a planet are both pretty powerful distractions.
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