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I'll add my voice to the consensus, ignore the part where it's connected to the books. It's a superficially similar story, but it has neither the purpose, storytelling or even plot points of the books.
What I find the hardest is that despite having a solid plot and concept to follow, the series has very weak story telling. It might be that I'm getting old, but I find the focus is more on eye candy and cool situations than on progressing the story and characters.
It has the feel of filler content to generate ad opportunity, or an illustrated podcast about someone who once read the books but has too much ADHD to be able to retell what they read.
That is also the vibe of much other content on AppleTV, so might be a conscious choice of which I'm not a target demographic. I'll be shouting at clouds about it though, maybe it'll slow climate change while I'm at it.
I agree, it is a shame that the movie industry is full of egos and back patters. Foundation could have easily turned into a massive franchise. I can't even finish watching season one. It was slightly interesting at first, but it totally lacks any depth and ruined all of the subtle points that tie the books together. There is nothing to build upon and expand the franchise into something interesting based on the books. Their biggest crime is calling it Foundation. It would have been better on its own mediocrity.
Haven’t seen s2 so can’t comment on that but aside from the emperor(s) storylines s1 was just awful in my view. Didn’t make sense, very incoherent, just badly written…and that’s without comparison to the books. I listened to the podcast related to the show and it’s clear the show runner has a vision that strongly contrasts with what I like in sci-fi