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Brother Constant Foundation | Season 2

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Foundation 2.08 "The Last Empress"

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[aquitainequeen]

Look, I don't know if Brother Constant chose her name deliberately or if it's part of the doctrine of the Church of the Galactic Spirit, but just think.

The three current Cleons, Brother Dawn, Brother Day and Brother Dusk. Confronted by the emissary of the Foundation, the potential foe of Empire whom the Cleons had thought to have died out; who, in contrast to their perpetual waxing and waning is Constant.

(And, to quote some appropriate Julius Caesar III.i.58-65):

I could be well moved if I were as you.

If I could pray to move, prayers would move me.

But I am constant as the Northern Star,

Of whose true fixed and resting quality

There is no fellow in the firmament.

The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks;

They are all fire, and every one doth shine;

But there's but one in all doth hold his place.

The speech Caesar gives just before his murder...

[kellymvrietran]

"Oh, so of course we're going to go and fetch Hober Mallow, our future's already been dictated!"

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FOUNDATION Season 2

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Top Picks of 2023

My Top 20 Favorite Movies - #18: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Running Time: 97 Minutes

Released: June 17th, 2022

Watched It: December 2022

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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

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Foundation: Creation Myths & Season 2 – TV Review

TL;DR – The crisis climbs to a crescendo as cracks cascade over a crumbling continuum of chance and causality.   ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the Apple TV+ service that viewed this episode. Foundation Review – Well, we have come to the end of the second season, and what a fascinating season it was. Adapting novels to work in a visual medium is no small feat, let alone one…

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Foundation S2:08 The Last Empress — some thoughts

Foundation S2:08 The Last Empress — some thoughts

As Apple TV+ wends its way towards the end of Foundation season 2, the latest episode (The Last Empress) draws a lot of the threads closer together. You can now see several pieces lining up for what I presume will be a big final two episodes. Overall I’d say if you like this season, you’ll really like this episode. Personally I find lots to like, but still rail against some of the…

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10 Reasons You Should Be Watching Apple TV+'s Foundation

Image: Apple TV+ On Empire’s home planet of Trantor, anyone—including the Cleons—is subject to “memory audits” whenever it becomes necessary to remove certain bits of knowledge from their brains. This tinkering becomes increasingly slippery as the season continues; how will you know if someone’s messed with your memory if they remove the very memory of them messing with it? But Foundation’s…

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Foundation 2.02 | A Glimpse of Darkness

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Foundation 2.02 "A Glimpse of Darkness"

[aquitainequeen]

Thinking about how in season 1 of Foundation the ambassadors of Thespis and Anacreon were put on trial for an attack carried out by apparent terrorists from both of their planets, predicted by Hari Seldon, and Cleon XII publicly executed all the delegates and bombarded their planets.

And now, in season 2, Brother Constant with Thespin heritage and Poly Verisof with Anacreon heritage,* sent by Hari Seldon's Foundation as ambassadors of peace, are on trial in front of Cleon XVII, perhaps about to be publicly executed going by the trailers, and there's been some compelling speculation in our fan community that something's going to get bombarded.

Also, Constant will ask 'Should I speak first, or will you?'; pretty much the same thing Seldon said first of all to Cleon XII.

What goes around comes around.

*I can't remember if it's been mentioned in the show, but in the books Poly is the High Priest of Anacreon.

[snowraven007]

I need more interactions with these two.

Foundation 2.04 "Where the Stars Are Scattered Thinly"

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Foundation, Season 2: You Can Put The Haterade Down Now

One thing that kind of surprised me about the first season of this show was just how many haters came out of the woodwork to proclaim their disdain for it. I couldn't understand that-- the original source material covers something like a thousand years or so and had they done a page-to-screen adaptation, pure and simple, it would have been... boring, quite honestly.

No, what Apple has done is what I wish that Amazon would have done with The Wheel of Time: they've put some money behind this thing, and as a result, even if you have issues with the adaptation of the show-- which, in general, I don't, then you can at least acknowledge that it looks beautiful.

Season 2 picks up about a century after we last saw our heroes and the Second Crisis predicted by Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) is approaching. This time around, however, we get multiple Seldons. There's the one on Terminus, hanging in his vault, popping out to send mysterious messages to the waiting crowds like 'HOBER MALLOW' which people eventually figure out. It turns out, in the time jump forward, the Cleons (Lee Pace, Terrence Mann, and Cassian Bilton) have assumed that Terminus is long gone and haven't bothered to double-check, so the Foundation is now spreading the 'gospel of Seldon' as a religion to neighboring planets and is starting to attract attention. Mallow (Dmitri Leonidas)-- who isn't a priest, but a ne'er do well merchant of sorts, gets tracked down by a couple of the clerics- Poly (Kulvinder Ghir) and Constant. (Isabella Laughland)

Back on Trantor, a fresh trio of Cleons is confronted with some unusual happenings: someone sends assassins to try and kill Day, who has made the momentous decision to end the genetic dynasty and marry to produce heirs. (Also, he's sleeping with Demerzel (Laura Birn) now, which is... weird. Dusk is especially weirded out by it, but few others seem to comment on it.) Naturally, his decision to seek a bride-- in this case, Queen Sareth I (Ella Rae-Smith) of the Cloud Dominion makes Dusk and Dawn a little nervous, as once the baby is born, it sort of makes them irrelevant. Happily for them, before Day can go too much further with his plans, he catches wind of something going on in the Outer Rim and finds out that the Foundation has survived thanks to renegade General Bel Riose. (Ben Daniels)

The second one is on flooded Synnax with Gaal (Lou Llobell) and Salvor (Leah Harvey) and he's a little upset because he's been trapped inside the Prime Radiant pretty much the entire time and it hasn't been fun for him.

Gaal and Salvor do acknowledge this, but point out that they're going to need some help getting off the planet and Mobile Seldon after some reluctance- for obvious, 'you trapped me in the Prime Radiant for like a hundred years' reasons, agrees to do so. They start exploring Gaal and Salvor's mental abilities- and Gaal sees a vision from 150 years in the future where a powerful Mentalic called The Mule (Mikael Persbrandt) kills Salvor. Desperate to prevent that, they answer the mental call from the planet Ignis, where they find a colony of Mentalics, who seem welcoming at first, but their leader Tellem (Rachel House) takes them captive instead and the trio- which turns into a duo after Mobile Seldon is (seemingly) killed by Tellem have to figure out how to break free and defeat Tellem.

Eventually, they do-- but at a cost. Salvor sacrifices her life to prevent Gaal from being killed-- and proves that the future can be changed because her death now means that her vision of the future can't have come true. Gaal and Mobile Seldon agree to enter cryostasis for a century or so, waking up once a year to teach the nascent new Second Foundation.

Back with the other Seldon, the second crisis has arrived- though it doesn't go the way that Empire thinks it will though. Mallow cuts a deal with the Spacers to deny Empire the use of hyperspace and they start a chain reaction that slowly destroys the Imperial fleet, even as Empire sends the wreck of Invictus spinning down to the planet where everyone and everything is seemingly destroyed. Day is kicked out an airlock by Riose and then Mallow and Riose await their fate together while Constant is set adrift in a converted cleaning module, hoping that someone will pick her up.

On Trantor, Demerzel is outsmarted- kind of. Dusk finds out the truth about her (the standout episode, "Long Ago, Not Far Away" fills in a lot of the gaps) and her programming means that she will stay loyal to the genetic dynasty above all, so Dusk is killed to protect her secret. Sareth-- with child- and Dawn flees and Demerzel- with a copy of the Prime Radiant decants three new Emperors and just keeps on keeping on-- at least for now.

It turns out that Constant does survive and gets picked up by Seldon's vault and it turns out to be a little TARDIS-like, since it's bigger on the inside and can hold the entire populace of Terminus.

We flash forward to the future, where a crazed-looking Mule vows to find Gaal Dornick, as he senses her presence.

Overall: Look, you can put down the Haterade now, people: this is a good show. It might even wind up being a great show and-- it's not that far off from the books. It might be one of those rare adaptations that- and I realize I'm treading on some very thin ice here- improves upon the source material?

I know that's going to seem like heresy to a lot of sci-fi fans and I respect that. If Asimov is your do-or-die and you expected something closer to the books with this adaptation, I get it. You can be made-- but with adaptations, you've got to figure out how to bring new viewers in without them having to read the books first and if you're really good at what you do, you'll inspire new viewers/people who haven't read the books to maybe go check them out. Either way, I think people are going to be reading those books that maybe wouldn't have before and so, even if you disagree with it or hate the adaptation, I'm going to come down on the side of this being a good, solid adaptation-- maybe even a great one. (I mean, come on y'all: the source material did have some issues.)

That's not to say that it's not without potential problems. I don't know if you can keep leaning on Gaal Dornick if you go much beyond the next season or so. If she keeps freezing herself to jump ahead, I'm going to hope that the character at least suffers some side effects or something. It's going to start straining credibility a bit if she just keeps getting iced to go between seasons and jump ahead in time.

I'm also intrigued by the Seldon Vault and where they're going... because that is definitely not in the books either, so I'm kind of curious to see what they do with it.

My Grade: Stop hating, this is good and potentially great science fiction that while not a perfect adaptation of its source material does right by it at the very least. **** out of ****