Foundation Reviews

Sorry but I really did not manage to go beyond the 4th episode of this series which I expected so much (probably too much).
I am a fan of the work of Isaac Asimov but the Apple series is constantly weighed down by an erratic storyline and changes too radical for the "old-fashioned" that I am. Why so much insist on the clone emperors Cléon (who cares ?) and whose chatty scenes are a total boredom? Salvor Hardin daughter of ... Gaal Dornick ??? !!! Hari Seldon assassinated and whose holograms from the future manage to converse with the living ??! And so on ...).
Ah yes, it's very beautiful aesthetically and formally but nothing surprising about that given the enormous financial means available to current TV series.
In conclusion, we knew it and we have the confirmation: Asimov's masterpiece is indisputably unsuitable!

Visually it's stunnig...the plot...is a mess, big mess...as usual leading male characters turning in black (average) female like Gaal Dornick, or Salvor Hardin (why he/she's there...if I can remember Salvor lives 40 years later, and in the second Foundation book). And, that's quite incredible, Eto Demerzel is portrayed by ex Finnish model Laura Birn...ok she's not average, but R. (Eto is just one of the name of the MAIN character of Asimov's Foundation) acted as a male...yes acted...Jared Harris is too Luciferian to be credible as the lead psychohistorian and mathematician, Lee Pace is on the border of a ScyFy villain typecast, but he's good...I like Alfred Enoch as Raych Seldon, but his character is totally different in the book, and I can't find in all cast the name of Linge Chen...one of the main character of Foundation...probably they killed him bacause it's a male character.

Dudes...Foundation it will be an Everest probably for Kubrick, and a travel to the moon for Spielberg...and I can name other 2 directors, but it will be a nightmare for them, Asimov is hard SyFy, no description of fancy starships or space mausoleum or gentle giant...just math, fisics and biology...fascinating but quite boring sometimes... if you're not Kubrick, even not JJ Abrams, why, why a big mess like episode 2 ? Gosh, I've stopped it 4 times because I couldn't follow the logical thread of the plot...maybe I'm stoopid...I'm an old white guy.