Just discovered this on the menu.
Haven’t seen it brought to the Lair’s attention.

Anything you guys can tell me about this?
Read all the sagas back in my youth.

Got bored to death with Raised by wolves, too slow for my taste. Not making any progress with the Expanse either. I need this

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I tried very hard to like The Expanse but there wasn't anything really likable about it - made it through season 1 and called it quits

Foundation should be good - that I will watch

if you can get thru season 2, the Expanse gets better and better,


I could have sworn we had a Foundation thread here ,, but searching google (sigforum foundation and sigforum asimov foundation) I found references to the book but not the show,


I don't have Apple TV, but may have to subscribe to watch,

I re read the trilogy last summer just to refamiliarize with it, and am looking forward to how they turn it into a series

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Originally posted by lyman:
if you can get thru season 2, the Expanse gets better and better,

If you can't watch Season 1 and get hyped about the battle the Rocinante has with the stealth ship, there's no hope for someone to enjoy any of the rest of the show.

As for the Foundation series, I read the novels when I was a young teen and can't even remember what they were about. I can only hope that Netflix doesn't absolutely butcher it.

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Originally posted by Orguss:

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Originally posted by lyman:
if you can get thru season 2, the Expanse gets better and better,

If you can't watch Season 1 and get hyped about the battle the Rocinante has with the stealth ship, there's no hope for someone to enjoy any of the rest of the show.

As for the Foundation series, I read the novels when I was a young teen and can't even remember what they were about. I can only hope that Netflix doesn't absolutely butcher it.

You read them but can't remember. But don't want them butchered?
I read the first book twice. It needs to be butchered.
I'm almost finished w/ his Robot series and I can't see anyone picking it up to turn into a movie. (I Robot aside)
I don't think the books translate well to film w/o being butchered, sad to say. IMO.

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Originally posted by dsiets:

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Originally posted by Orguss:

quote:

Originally posted by lyman:
if you can get thru season 2, the Expanse gets better and better,

If you can't watch Season 1 and get hyped about the battle the Rocinante has with the stealth ship, there's no hope for someone to enjoy any of the rest of the show.

As for the Foundation series, I read the novels when I was a young teen and can't even remember what they were about. I can only hope that Netflix doesn't absolutely butcher it.

You read them but can't remember. But don't want them butchered?
I read the first book twice. It needs to be butchered.
I'm almost finished w/ his Robot series and I can't see anyone picking it up to turn into a movie. (I Robot aside)
I don't think the books translate well to film w/o being butchered, sad to say. IMO.

the writing style is very time or era dated,

still, I think it could be done right,


looking thru IMDB and then over on the fandom wiki, I am not sure what direction they are going character wise

I am a tremendous Asimov fan. There is no way you can take something like Foundation and turn it into a TV show in 2021 without butchering it to the point it is Asimov in name only. He was a brilliant mind, but his work was very much a product of the time and dated. They'll turn it into an action series.

Lord help us if Hollywood ever discovers Gordan R. Dickson's Dorsai series.

The first 3 episodes were on last night. I watched the first one and outside of some initial casting questions on my part I thought it was a good start. It has been well over a decade or more since I've read the foundation series so I may be less exacting than some but I thought it was done pretty well.

I watched the episodes available. Can't wait to see the next available. It's been a long time since I read the Foundation Novels so I can't comment on how good they are vs books but I really like what I've seen so far. Try not to judge, just enjoy good SCI-FI is my best advice. :-)