The men are grotesque. The women have men's roles. (Gaal Dornick is now Gail Dornick, apparently.) And the universe is made entirely of crystal. The show has the feel of one of those creepy Apple commercials. It's what Danny Glover's character said in Lethal Weapon: I'm too old for this shit.
Oh
-- I have the option to "follow" Foundation on Apple Podcasts. Yeah,
that's what I want to do, become an Apple Zombie. I'm definitely too
old for this shit.
Apple has made it the Harry and Gail Show. Asimov must be turning in the grave.
I know I am.
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I thought maybe if they change the characters around, it might be OK. The story isn't really about characters, but about economic forces! That is kind of the point, right? (Except for the Mule...)
I haven't seen it yet, though...I'm probably wrong.
Hey Jerr. My first impression was not good, and it came out in the sentences above. I missed 20 minutes of it when I was out with the dogs, and more when I fell asleep.
I watched episode 1 a second time and it was better, but not enough to induce me to revise my critique. I watched episode 2 today and frankly, I'd have been better off if I fell asleep again. The only good thing in the show is Jared Harris, and he is damn good.
I think the show was created for the Apple generation, whatever that is -- all I know is I'm not part of it.
That is too bad. It might even be a kind of fun take on the Foundation, to have the characters be totally different and see how the social forces involved nonetheless bring them to the same places.
Oh yeah, Jared Harris is good in the expanse also. He's the only actor from that show whose name I remember...
"The story isn't really about characters, but about economic forces..."
Yeah maybe. It could be, anyway. Doesn't much feel like it. But maybe I will watch episode 2 again.
I watched 1.5 episodes, since we learned that we had that. I think maybe whoever made the show didn't read the book. Or maybe they thought a story about economic forces wouldn't get a lot of viewers and they made it about people instead. oops. I'll give it a couple more episodes to see, but it kind of looks like they missed the point!
This is the kind of thing that happens in a supply-side world. Companies Like Apple Can Do No Wrong. Obviously, Asimov had the story all wrong.
I can't wait till Apple does a remake of Orwell's 1984.
Come to think of it, they already DID 1984, in that Superbowl commercial.
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