Foundation

The books are super dry and boring for long stretches so I can understand why. On the one hand some of those visuals look amazing, but I'm not really sure they capture "the fall of a billion sun empire" that well, it looks a bit too video gamey. Doesn't look like AI factors into it at all either, which is interesting since Asimov did some terrible retconning to try and link his I, Robot universe to The Foundation universe in the last few books he wrote.

Wonder if they will pull in The Mule and stuff like that or just stick to mainline story stuff. The lead black young girl genderswapping as the noob scientist in the original books is kinda lame but not surprising. The books timeskip 50-100 years quite often, I can't really see how a TV show does that while trying to keep character continuity. Unless the lead actress is an android after all...

Jared Harris as Hari Seldon is pretty awesome

I haven't heard of this before but it sounds like Jupiter Ascending. Will it be as fine as that Wachowski masterpiece???

Eh. It'll be pretty. I'm not sure how you do foundation without actually doing foundation though.

It's more like six or nine stories rather than one. Seems like it would be perfect for a modern serial format. Also doesn't seem like this is what they're doing. That looks a lot more like those Prelude to Foundation series that he wrote about the life of Seldon.

Those were not particularly good. They were ok, but no where near as good as foundation itself was. The life of Seldon was both not important and better left as a mystery. The -one- good thing to come out of that prelude series was the robot idea that he justifiably gets so much shit for. But I remember that prime eldest robot asking Seldon "why do you think it is that you've never encountered any other advanced life in this galaxy which may pose the least threat to humans? Why do you think it is that your dominion is so complete?" That was in one of his later books when he was trying to tie it back into I, Robot. I mean it's actually a good question and within the context of his fantasy a good answer.

Still it'll be pretty. And that guy is an odd choice for Seldon but he'll probably be good.

Make Peter Jackson do foundation. Not "the co-author of batman". lol, jesus.

Asimov: nice
AppleTV: nope

It's a great set of books. In one way it's a meta retelling of pseudo roman history with interesting historical insights. In other way it's an interesting observation on human nature and human systems. In another way they're just well written stories that are fun.

I honestly don't see how any of that translates into the medium of television. In anything less than 20 hours or so.

I might be ok with it if they give me some nice space titties tho.

its Apple TV, they will only show family friendly stuff that is aspirational - no titties, minimal violence/racism/sexism/etc.

Haven't read these books in decades, just vaguely remember it. So wouldn't be too disappointed in any changes they might make if these times were typical.

But Hollywood is pushing out a never ending shitstorm of woke crap. Especially in the sci fi arena. Have serious doubts that this wouldn't have some sort of garbage immigrant blm tranny storyline that has nothing to do with the source material tacked on.

I don't see how they could possibly translate it to TV. This is most likely going to be set in the same universe but a completely separate story? So......still interested because it's scifi!

Well not just the guy he meets but also Demerzel is a male in Foundation and 6 other books.

Gotta confess, this is one of the giants of sci fi but I could never get into it. I tried reading the first one several times, just never got into it. Its one of those things where reading the Wiki about it, it sounds it they would be really interesting books, while the actual experience is somewhat different.

That said. Not sure I remember it as the story of a plucky teenage black girl, but perhaps I've forgotten something.

Nothing gets me rigid for a new TV show like the director shilling for Apple in the first minute of the promo.