The Foundation series

I haven’t had a chance to read the second book yet, but the first is not what I was expecting at all. I can’t explain what I was expecting exactly but it wasn’t that the book was going to be mainly conversations set around a few moments in time.

I’m not abandoning the series or anything like that.

I did enjoy the first book and it was a very easy read. I will start book two this week.

I would be interested to know if the first season of the series from Apple can be watched without spoiling the books.

Then I don’t get it:p

I just started Foundation and Empire.

If it isn’t a spoiler, can someone tell me how much time has elapsed since the end of the first book?

Agreed, it is a sausage festival with only one female character who is less than very minor.

The intent is bring the entire book series to the screen, however, if Salvore Hardin is in the first season then either they are not starting with Prelude or there is multiple time periods unfolding through the episodes.

I just watched the first episode of the Apple series.

It was fantastic.

I’m very surprised that they have started with the first book and not with Prelude as others predicted. The episode shows the entire Seldon & Dornick part of the book but I’m guessing the show will detail the journey to Terminus and the setting up of the Foundation and not skip forward in time like the book (and thus Seldon and Dornick will remain the main characters) with flashforward to Salvor Hardin’s story.

I know nothing about the prequel trilogy but perhaps they don’t intend to use it.

Yes there are some major differences so far between the books and the show.

I have read the first two books I find it affected my ability to enjoy the second episode both from it being so different and because I know Sheldon can’t fest to Terminus. Maybe it because I only read them recently.

I think I will have adjusted to it when I watch the third episode and I will have read the whole series by the time season two comes - assuming there is one.

The gender swapping is absolutely necessary as are a lot of other changes like the use of atomic power.

I was surprised though that the Emperor would have a personal shield - those are a huge advantage that the Foundation have in the books.

You are probably a few episodes ahead of me but the action I have seen so far has been good and there needs to be action - the books are mainly characters having conversations bar a few scene of action. The story would need to be livened up to make a show or movie.

Changes are necessary for adaptations to TV or movies. For example, science has made leaps forward since Asimov wrote the books, all the characters of significance were male, etc.

If they stuck to the books Hardin would be by by the fourth episode and the Foundation gone by 7.

The only thing I don’t like in the show is Hugo (only seen up the Mathematician’s Ghost so far) - why does every sci-fi series set in space keep dropping in these bad Han Solo clones.

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if I had read the books when I was younger I might be a lot more critical of the show now but I don’t have a strong attachment to them and do look in each for it’s own merit.

i’m only three episodes in so no spoilers or such please but I want to know if I’m correct about this - that there has been no mention of Second Foundation in the show?

I’m on the third book.

I really like the entire story of the series and the world building but honestly I’m just not enjoying reading it.

The characters are paper thin, the all speak the same way, and it is written the same way I would write a story (and that is no compliment.

It is no surprise that the Apple+ show has taken just the basic concept and character/planet names.

I doubt I will read the prequel trilogy next. I have had a longing to re-read the Philip Marlowe series - will probably go there next.