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Erebeon Jul 5, 2023

Foundation Season 2 draws near, starts 14 July

Foundation Season 2 draws near, starts 14 July - Lemmy.world

Personally I kinda liked the first season. It’s better if you forget the original Asimov story and just watch it as its own thing because it diverges from it quite a bit. Season 2 Full Trailer - Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t0BGkVQMuQ] Looking forward to see where they go after that ballsy season 1 ending. Lee Pace will continue to kill it no doubt. [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/67223164-0487-45de-8d41-3dc92038173c.jpeg]

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pglpm Jul 5, 2023

Unfortunately I didn’t enjoy the 1st season, just like other commenters here. A preliminary reason could be that the story is very different from the book, which is one of my most favourite sci-fi books ever. But even simply seeing this series as something different from the book, if found it too cheap: the characters are half-stereotypes, the events are what you’d expect, usual blood and sex to attract viewers…

Should go without saying, just my personal opinion and tastes. I’m happy that others enjoyed the series and I hope it’ll made them curious to read the books.

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JasSmith Jul 5, 2023

I also loved the books and I think this might be the difference. It’s only very loosely based on the books. Those who seem to enjoy the show often haven’t read the books at all, or don’t have much of a connection with them.

I just wish Hollywood would stop butchering such amazing IP. They should create new IP if they have such disdain for the original content.

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FaceDeer

I read the books (the first one anyway) and it doesn't affect my enjoyment of the series significantly, IMO. I recognize that they're very different mediums and written in very different contexts, so it's fine for them both to be their own things.

An analogous case that I think is probably quite similar to this was "I, Robot." The short story collection was classic and I enjoyed much of them, and the Will Smith "adaptation" was extremely different. But The Will Smith movie's story was still an exploration of the Asimovian three laws and so IMO was worthy of being included in the "anthology." I thought it was a good movie.

Generally speaking, books make for poor movie scripts and vice versa. The best adaptations require a lot of changes. The only prominent counterexample that comes to mind is Lord of the Rings, and even that one garnered a lot of complaints about the bits that were cut or tweaked.