It's interesting to see the rating go down, further we go into the second season and this is only the second episode. What's more remarkable is that Disney's Secret Invasion is receiving 8, while this is in danger of dipping under 7.
I have not spoiled myself by reading other reviews. So let's jump into it...
Hari and the girls. "What did you think would happen to me, Gaal, when you abruptly sundered my consciousness from the Raven?" Seldon asked, before he vent out further of his anger. "What did you think would happen to me? That my thoughts would simply be suspended as you were while you cryoslept?"
Gaal knew nothing. After all, when she met the other digital ghost last time, Hari II wasn't the most pleasant person either. Rather, he was a big dick, and he hasn't changed at all in his time in the prison. Yet, he was willing to clear the computer when Warden asked, all because of his precious second foundation.
Warden however cocked up when she claimed that Hari would be the key and then she ended up going outside to clear coral from blocking the vents. All in the middle of storm and over ten meter tall waves.
There is always something other than a software problem. But with three of them, if they get the ghost-in-the-machine to play on their side, there's nowhere they cannot go.
Not that it was going to be so easy as back in the space, Hari told the girls that they could go to the First Foundation, because the war between them and the Empire had to happen, hence the Second Foundation acting as counterpoint.
Warden didn't buy the idea that the First Foundation would become another Empire, because she knew them to be "good people."
Gaal didn't take Hari's pessimistic outlook as her own, as he figured out that the "red" divergence was all her own doing, when she climbed out from the pool and saw the murder. Only the "red shift" was going to happen another "150 years into the future."
To solve the quandrum Warden suggested to Gaal to use her memories to see into the future. She had to suffocate to do the time jump to see the Mule taking down the First Foundation. All while she was in Warden's body.
Warden brought him back and Gaal told Hari that the Mule is a telepath, powerful enough to take down the Empire, and then wanting to end the Second Foundation.
This is in Sivenna. I have no idea what the beastie is, but he has a nasty smile. And way too many teeth for my like. What he's carrying is Brother Constant, a girl with purple eyes, wearing red priest robes. She also hangs a golden vault symbol on her neck. And did I mention those purple eyes?
I couldn't stop looking as they were so hypnotic. The same goes to her attitude, as her part is to spread the gospel of Church of Greater Spirit at the outer reaches. Not that the locals are so interested to hear Seldon's propaganda, as they'd tied one of the cleric's in the tree and waited for the lightning to kill the b*stard.
When she approached the locals with her teachings, they wanted to murder her. It was all thanks to her Aura technology that she couldn't be harmed. The locals tried, but the preachers used supreme technology to put magic and fear in the local minds. But before they could finish their propaganda lesson, Brother was called by the opening of the Vault and the locals were left with nothing.
Back in the Terminus they were all welcomed with high standards, before they were whisked away into a Foundation boardroom meeting, where High Claric got told the marching orders. In fact, it's amazing to think that he was the child that met Hari when the Vault opened the first time.
Now he was only going to be a show-piece, while the current warden was going to have a word with Hari's digital ghost. Then it happened, Warned went up to the Vault and submitted his body for Vault to get out one message, before he was burned to ashes.
"Get Hober Mallow!" was the last words before the Vault painted itself with them.
Spooky.
The android, the banner and Soulless Man with all his worries about the future, while still pining for the greatness of the past. According to him, Empress Hanlo had four times bigger empire 4000 years before the Dawn of Genetic Dynasty. And "oversaw a blossoming of science and culture."
Cleons have done nothing but to tried to maintain the status quo. And while doing that they've mostly alienated their citizens to a point that they're openly revolting. Well, this is where the soup gets murky, because according to the android, Dusk and Dawn couldn't remember that they'd hired the Burning Angel assassins or at least that was her suggestion, which the Soulless Man took hook, line and sinker.
Then she revealed that she'd also altered the medical staff memories, to erase the 'compromised position' that they'd been found when the hit happened. The Emperor was all but delighted to know that the android was manipulating them all. Including him. And she's most likely culprit for the clone alteration, and killing the original host.
After all, she's not following Asimov's robot laws, because she's a special. A manipulator. The Emperor was livid of her choice of an admiral to lead the strike on Terminus. Yet, he couldn't come up with an alternative for being an Emperor of Mankind.
You'd assume that he'd know a guy, but he didn't and Dusk approved the choice. He even claimed that Bel Riose was the best choice for commanding absolutely loyalty with his men. His men, not the Empire.
The android watched as the trio dined with the Queen Sareth of Cloud Dominion. She turned out to be quite knowledgable on how the Genetic Dynasty really works, even if she wasn't most certain about the cloning tech.
It wasn't long before she'd talked her way into seeing all of it, with Brother Day who was more the happy telling her all about it. Including how to kill the clones, despite the Queen quoting a rebel poem. Or knowing the whole plot.
