Just watched the first episode. Feeling far removed from caring.
When they just make 10 or so episodes per year, and then sometimes take more than a year between seasons, this is BS.
Studios should commit themselves to producing a series - all at the same time, beginning to end, at whatever rate they come out - usually daily or weekly.
I like the Empire-Storyline best. A science fiction series that tells the story of a galaxy/dynasty over thousands of years - i mean that is something new i haven't seen on TV yet.
I heard in a youtube video that the books were these big societal storylines, that show that societal forces are determining the future (*not* small number of individuals) = the entire point of psychohistory, and that history can be foreseen by that.
And this tv-show seems to throw this main idea mostly just overboard and making a few characters with magical powers (one chick can foresee the future, one chick can see the past or something) basically determining the future.
I think the physics of the universe is such that this is an impossibility.
To get that big and widespread, even without any communication capability
would take longer than the lifespan of the stars. And there would be no
way to communicate to the home world, even let alone neighboring stars
that would take years to go back and forth.
This is the kind of science fiction I detest.
Is it true that the plot is this:
First season Seldon tells Empire that Empire will fall and lead to 100k years or something of dark ages,
while if Seldon is allowed to build a bunker where all knowledge is stored, these dark ages can be shortened to just eg 1000 years.
Then empire lets them do that at the edge of Empire-Space.
In Season 2 it comes out the foundation doesn't really build an encyclopedia, but really it seems they are preparing for war against empire to take it over.
https://martinschell.substack.com/p/if-robots-get-more-human-will-people-get-robotic
and you might want to read my essay on Season 1, too:
https://martinschell.substack.com/p/can-a-solid-foundation-lead-to-a-weak-firststory
Regarding the PC complaints, I discovered between these two posts that some of the component stories of Foundation that Asimov originally published in magazines had illustrations of various characters as white men. However, readers of the novels can adapt the races of characters to fit their own imaginations.