This is my feeling as well so far. The main characters are very uninteresting except for the emperor scenes.
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Well… if you’re talking only about the emperor —beautiful man btw— I must concur :)
This series was a great example of both the good and the bad that can happen when deviating from the book.
The emperor thing was pretty cool. The rest of the show is basically crap imo. I’ve read Foundation probably a dozen times, and it would’ve had to be modified for TV, but they really missed the mark a lot of ways that just seem needless.
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Isn't a lot of what is happening in the first books super dated and ridiculous? It's been some time since I read it. The basic concept and the big story was always the interesting bit, the small stories inside of it much less so.
Some of it is, but not too much. And a lot of the stuff they changed for absolutely no understandable reason, was not stuff that would’ve been dated otherwise.
Some minor points of tech are anachronisms now, but Asimov was pretty spot on with his science, so there aren’t too many glaring issues.
As a counterpoint: Dune Part 1. They changed some stuff, but the story is still Dune. Tbh it’s one of the slickest book->movie’s I’ve seen lately. Foundation does not feel like the story in the book. (To me)
I like the Dune adaptation so far.
It would be nice if they continued with the rest of the books in series. Not sure how popular it would be though.
In a few years we will just ask a text-to-movie AI to create one based on the new movies and the books. So maybe there's no need that the actual humans get involved :). It's going to be faster too.
It's as if Apple knows something about empires, but when it comes to mere mortals and poor people it just don't know what to do. So it's mostly just annoying *current thing* filler. Undortunatelly.