The State of TV Science Fiction 2025: Foundation

One of the points in my life is where being successful means watching TV sci-fi  to give my opinion on the shows happening regardless of where the shows happen to be streaming. Now I don't mean what we'll kitchen table sci-fi, where a camera and one to four famous actors gets to equivocate about society's belly button for two, maybe three, seasons about time travel or hot chicks that are genetically modified to beat up battalions of faceless people because oligarchy or something. No. I want costumes. I want spaceships. I want striking visuals. A bit of soap opera doesn't hurt.

I actually gave the Apple Corporation an email address to watch their production of Issac Asimov's Foundation series. At least the first three seasons. I did this mostly out of guilt after watching five episodes of the first season from a friend that revels in bootlegging this sort of thing like two years ago. The 14$ that I spent was well worth it. I still haven't found the cancellation button anywhere to try to stop paying the named company without replacing my debit card. I actually have stopped the account from charging me, but not being able to just cancel a subscription for a while-- Fuck off phish-mining. 



Say what you will about "the Book versus the Movie" the TV series, is not afraid to be creative. You-Tube's asshole critics will be on about "It's not like the books!" or "gender-swapping!", they're missing out on how a sci-fi series has spaceships, androids, and explosions. This criticism ignores how boring the books, held to these critics breasts, were. 

So far the series has invented an empire that clones its most perfect ruler. Who needs elections when you have perfection? And then space elevators and brain transfers into machines happen without much of a mention. No. Indeed that brain transfer has its own subplot. This is all on top of the written material of the books,



Godsheads bless the books. The books that have to be mentioned because film and TV producers need titles and plots from the past to fund doing shows (or films) like this. Is it good? Yes. The show though keeps being compared what Issac Asimov might've envisioned. I'll add that it would have been filled with schlock and pretense.

This is some sphere romance presented not trying to explain anything but the passions of its characters. Decent sci-fi doesn't need much more.