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Brother Day wages war to cling to power in Foundation S2 trailer
Brother Day: “I will look at them in the eye and reclaim what is ours.”…

Ouch. Very whiz-bang.
I think he would have approved at certain level, for knowing how difficult it has been to fulfil his vision.I wonder what Asimov would have thought of this show?
In the interest, again, of avoiding spoilers, we’ll use Apple TV+’s official character descriptions for these new faces that’ll be important in season two:
Brother Constant (Isabella Laughland): “A cheerfully confident cleric whose job is to evangelize the Church of the Galactic Spirit across the Outer Reach. Constant is a true believer, whose courage and passion make her hard not to love.”
Poly Verisof (Kulvinger Ghir): “High Claric of the Church of the Galactic Spirit. Whip-smart and sardonic, he’s also a terrible drunk — intelligent enough to see the path he’s on, but too cynical to change.”
Enjoiner Rue (Sandra Yi Sencindiver): “The beautiful, politically savvy consigliere to Queen Sareth. A former courtesan to Cleon the 16th, Rue parlayed her status to become a royal counsellor.”
Queen Sareth of Cloud Dominion (Ella-Rae Smith): “Used to being underestimated, Sareth employs it to her advantage, charming her way into the Imperial Palace with biting wit, all while on a secret quest for revenge.”
Hober Mallow (Dimitri Leonidas): “A master trader with a sarcastic personality and questionable morals, who is summoned against his will to serve a higher, selfless cause.”
Bel Roise (Ben Daniels): “The last great general of the Superliminal Fleet and would-be conqueror of the Foundation. Bel is noble to a fault, but his fealty to the Galactic Empire is waning.”
The Warlord of Kalgan (Mikael Persbrandt): “A monster of a man, coiled with muscle and possessing powerful psychic abilities, and fueled by hate in his quest to take over the galaxy.”
Tellem Bond (Rachel House): “Mysterious leader of the Mentalics.”
Yanna Seldon (Nimrat Kaur): No official description for her, but the name gives away her connection to Hari.
I think that would depend on when you were to ask him. If before his 20+ year hiatus from writing science fiction, I believe he would have been disappointed. After, when he resumed, I don't think he would have cared anymore; his books then seem like he was not that involved in his writing.I wonder what Asimov would have thought of this show?
io9: Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics didn’t really get addressed in season one but are explicitly brought to the forefront in season two, especially through Demerzel, a character we get to know a lot better this season. How do you see her specifically fitting into those Three Laws, and how does Foundation subvert them in its own way?
Goyer: I know fans of Asimov’s work were wondering how Demerzel’s actions could be possible if she/it were beholden to the Three Laws of Robotics, or whether or not the Three Laws even existed within our show. Retroactively, Asimov made the Three Laws and robots exist within Foundation, and the Demerzel character was a character that wore many faces and had many names over the course of his various interconnected series. I’ve said in a few interviews that yes, the Three Laws do exist within Foundation the series, and that we will start to unpack those and explain to the audience why Demerzel as a whole is allowed to do the things she’s doing, even though she might appear to be beholden to those laws. If we continue the show, we’ll dig into that even further.
I told [Demerzel actor] Laura Birn when she joined the show that her character was a slow burn—we don’t get into her interior life that much in season one. And then slowly, we peel back the layers, and we get into her interior life a lot at the end of season two, in a way that I think is really effective. That’s just a storytelling tool that I find effective sometimes: to keep some characters, to keep their interior lives close to their chests and then reveal those moments later on to earn them. That was very deliberate in the case of Demerzel.
io9: Do you see a parallel between her influence on Empire and the way AI is influencing the world we live in now?
Goyer: Yeah, 100%. There are good ways that AI is influencing us, and there are bad ways that AI is influencing us. And the question, I guess, for Demerzel is because she/it is not a human being—can we trust Demerzel’s motivies for Empire? Or can we trust Demerzel’s motives for humanity at large? That’s one of the things that, if the show continues forward, we’ll continue to be exploring.
No sex. Some violence, some that's very gruesome, but nothing like in GoT. Where did you read this comment?What's the Foundation TV series like in tone, then? I think I read a complaint before that it was trying to be like Game of thrones, so presumably gratuitous sex and violence? Or did I misunderstand the comment?
A couple of posts in the other thread:No sex. Some violence, some that's very gruesome, but nothing like in GoT. Where did you read this comment?
I get the argument, because I wrote the piece of my second watching. I just couldn't do it yesterday because I was actually ill. Thing is, although some parts of the Foundation is a costume drama, it isn't GoT. It doesn't satisfy the audience with sex and violence.After watching the first episode of the second season, Foundation has gone full GoT with ramped-up violence, intrigue, and semi-incestuous sex. All pretense of having any relation to Asimov's Foundation is gone and serves only as a name.
So it's not really family-friendly, then?After watching the first episode of the second season, Foundation has gone full GoT with ramped-up violence, intrigue, and semi-incestuous sex. All pretense of having any relation to Asimov's Foundation is gone and serves only as a name.
After watching the first episode of the second season, Foundation has gone full GoT with ramped-up violence, intrigue, and semi-incestuous sex. All pretense of having any relation to Asimov's Foundation is gone and serves only as a name.
A couple of posts in the other thread:
Foundation on Apple TV
I liked the first episode, and I will post the second one tomorrow.www.sffchronicles.com
Foundation on Apple TV
I liked the first episode, and I will post the second one tomorrow.www.sffchronicles.com
I wondered if it might be good for our family viewing, but looking closer at the threads it doesn't sound like a good fit.
Not especially.So it's not really family-friendly, then?![]()
Not especially.
No. Unless the kids are at least teenagers, but even then I think it's meant for a more mature audience, as it's a complicated show. And they don't shy showing fights, wounds or even deaths but it's most certainly isn't a GoT.So it's not really family-friendly, then?![]()
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