[Thread] Foundation (AppleTV +): Season 1 review (spoiler-free)
I had the opportunity to see the season ahead. Now I can't wait for the second season to be greenlighted, and I'm ready for the hoped-for 8-season cycle.
Did you like the first 2 episodes? You will like the rest.
Did you find that the first two episodes strayed too far from the books? We will have to accept that this is not Foundation, the book. This is Foundation, the TV series.
(All the pics here are from the first 2 episodes, but some wonderful -2839- shots await you in the future.)
I'm really glad I didn't reread Foundation before the series. Now, after the season, is the right time.
Because the interviews didn't lie: it's a remix drawing on the whole of Foundation (and more). If the book was a puzzle, it was broken apart to create a new shape.
VFX sup @ChrisMacVFX :“We came up with the idea of the ship generating a black hole to
travel through time and space, with an effect of three spinning rings, and a Trumbull-esque slit scan horizon with the ship traveling through a thin sliver of space.” #TSST
@ChrisMacVFX "Trumbull-esque slit scan horizon" ==> stargate sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Praised be the psychohistory: I enjoyed the first two-thirds of this season (I'll do an overall spoiler-free review later).
It's such a relief.
1/X
I would even say that my beloved sci-fi series of novels might join my favorite audiovisual space fiction works one day.
It is of course too early to tell. It's just the 1st season, with a whole universe to explain.
But it is possible, and I am the first to be surprised.
A quick note first for the eternal detractors of David S. Goyer (who also wrote The Dark Knight and Dark City): you are free to not watch the series, no need to repeat again and again under my tweets that you don't like him. XD
This 10-episode sci-fi drama series follows an alien invasion through various perspectives from across the world. #TSSN
1/4
With: Shamier Anderson (Bruised, Awake) as Trevante Ward, a soldier stationed in Afghanistan; Golshifteh Farahani (Extraction, Body of Lies) as Aneesha Malik, a first-generation Syrian immigrant, wife, and mother living in Long Island...
2/4
...Sam Neill as Sheriff John Bell Tyson, a weathered rural lawman on the verge of retirement; Firas Nassar (Fauda) as Ahmed Malik, Aneesha’s husband and a successful businessman; and Shioli Kutsuna (Deadpool 2) as Mitsuki, member of Japan’s JASA mission control.