I’m enjoying the second series of #foundation but it would be more accurate to replace “based on the novel by #IsaacAsimov ” with “the novel by Isaac Asimov was somewhere in the house when the teleplay was written.”
@beatnikprof The producers have long said it was based on the books, and it is. If you pay attention you’ll see they pulled ideas and stories from the prequel books, in addition to adding their own ideas (Starbridge, Clemons, gender-swapping characters).
@beatnikprof There's a good reason why all prior attempts to film Foundation - and there have been several - failed at an early hurdle. The original stories are almost defiantly unadaptable.
This version is a dialogue with the books (all of them, not just the popular ones most people read before giving up) and their ideas, which do not follow usual narrative rules and attitudes to internal consistency.
I like it for that reason, and because the writing team clearly do care about Asimov and his ideas, but they also care about making something that can actually be made and watched in the 21st century.
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