Apple TV show Foundation is actually excellent

I just finished episode 8 of the first season.

Here’s my thought on the show so far:

-Visuals: dear god they are spectacular. It’s as if a lot of insanely good visual artist with a lot of creativity and dexterity worked on the show and I love that for something as big as Foundation

-Respect of the story relative to the books: I read the books many years ago when I was young, I don’t remember much except how it impacted me and some of the big likes of the story. So far, having read all the Foundations books, including those written after the first batch, I consider the story to be pretty in line with what is suppose to happen while keeping room for secrets for the viewer. I feel the need to express this because I’ve seen post ranting on characters seeming to have superpowers coming from nowhere yet it’s something that is explained within the second where they talk about the second foundation and I believe the realisators/directors took a route to incorpore them early in the story, which I personally like and admire.

-Themes: I love how characters are being developed in line with the themes brought (talking here for exemple how Demerzel needs to kill someone even thought she doesn’t want to: here I also believe they kept that in line with the books because if I remember correctly, she’s mainly trying to save all of the human race, not just one person, so each move she does is meticulously calculated, which means her killing someone is absolutely necessary in her regards to keep the humanity’s peace the longest, which also includes indulging with a soulless Cleon because if she is to betray him, consequences could be greater than not killing that woman. Anyhow).

-Story and dialogue: I think the story line is pretty good so far, I personally feel like they are seeing a bigger pictures for the plotlines and there is some good quotes here and there. Yes for sure, some characters are dull and some of their dialogue are less interesting and I feel like it’s mainly because the writers/realisator/directors took of the show know they won’t stay long in the show, which gives room to improve that part particularly so we could care more for pivoting characters we know will probably die soon.

-Culture: I love how they pictured different species in the show and their culture. Yes they could be deeper and more ingrained, for sure, yet making us being able to see how they change throughout the series would a feat of a great scriptwriter because I assume this is something hard, mainly the change in these cultures as the empire is to collapse.

Anyhow, yes it’s not a perfect show, but I still think it’s of good quality. Could it be better? Most definitely! In the end I trust the people working on that project to make it a living piece of art that generations to come would go to it because of it’s quality and grandioseness.

P.s. I would have written that on Letterboxd if the feature to review tv shows would have been up, but it’s not, so here I am, written just to register it. Wonder what are yalls opinion on how they could make the show better in hope they see this conversation and simply improve on what is already good. Thank you all for listening for my ted talk :)