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I'm glad she's getting work, but I wish it wasn't on that dumpster fire.
Edit: I guess I found the Goyer fanboys. Foundation sucks and is a slap in the face to the legacy of Asimov and classic Sci-Fi. "Foundation can't be adapted..." Then fucking don't and leave it alone. I hope Michael Bay gets tapped to start directing 1:1 adaptations of Star Trek I-V, and then they do an animated version of VI with Justin Roiland recording all of the voices.
I've just started the show, and I feel like from the outset they made it clear that a LOT of the show is creative fiction to fill in the gaps. I feel like a lot of people forget just how short the original trilogy is. F, F&E and SF, collectively, are like an 8 hour read! I don't love everything the show has done (and some of the acting is atrocious) but I love how they chose what boils down to allusions in the books and focused whole episodes on what that would've looked like in real time.
I also really like how they are not afraid to completely abandon cliff hangers for several episodes at a time, while still keeping you invested in what's happening. Asimov dwas notorious for that and did it SEVERAL times on the trilogy. Oh you wanna know what happens? Well I'll tell you eventually, but first, here's forty pages introducing brand new characters on a completely different planet...300 years in the future. Bitch.
Its kind of fucked either way. They're too short but a lot happens because each book is broken into thirds that are separated by huge time gaps, and inside those thirds there are also time gaps. A movie, even a long one, would be incredibly disjointed and the pacing would feel bizarre.
I imagine it's probably why nobody has made it a series or movie before even though it's such a beloved sci Fi series. You'd have to take a lot of creative liberties with it, which is for better or worse, what they're doing.
I'm not the OP but I got a bone to pick with the way you wrote this comment.
Lmao what a weird thing to say. Congratulations on being older?
True, I can't enjoy a low quality show that focuses on meaningless drivel between poorly written and acted characters.
I wholeheartedly disagree on this. Even if it were good, which it really really really isn't, shows like The Bear and Severance are on an entirely higher tier.
Asimov's works are quite hard to adapt to movies or TV series, imo. If you have read him once, you probably know
If u ever read Asimov's works, you would say something like "not everyone should be a writer"
I do not think that you haven't reed his books. I just meant that Asimov's way of describing thing and writing stories stands off and it might feel hard to read.
@Kraivo @NuPNuA
Indeed but even for the good writers like Asimov not everything they write can be turnes into a movie or TV series.
For some it probably shouldn't be attempted.
I don't even like Asimov's work (his characters are awful) and what I watched of the first season of Foundation was pretty bad. I can't imagine what fans of his books must've thought.
I was hoping an adaption that shored up his weaknesses in characterization while finally showing me what all the fuss was about, and I didn't get that at all.