Foundation [Drama, Sci-Fi] (Page 11 of 12)

Seems to be getting better as it goes on.  Hoping for a 4th season.

Quietly renewed last week

Officially now (but I guess we'll have to wait til '27)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/founda … 236515392/

I have to watch the finale 1 or 2 more times. There was a ton of stuff that went on. It was Wow. And too short

Whatever happened to 2 hour premieres and finale's? I miss those.

If they lower the budget, they are simply shooting themselves in the foot. This series has progressively gotten better, in acting, special effects etc.

Now is not the time to do more with less. It is time to truly shine.

This is not made up tv. The books have already been written. The characters developed. I do not know what it takes to put a book to film, but theoretically it should be cheaper to make then a story from scratch.

And putting more money into a good show, will not only land you more viewers, but also enhance the story. If it is done right.

I am tired of the Do more with less mantra. The only asshats that spout this are already rich.

Indeed. You cannot replace good writing with flashy CGI.

I have watched stuff, that was more cerebral than flashy. And they were still great shows. The dialogue, the tension between characters etc. You do not always require high paid, well known actors, or a 200 million CGI budget.

The Man from Earth (2007). I caught it by accident and when it was done I was flabbergasted.

But sometimes I just want to be entertained without having to think like a physics professor.

Thats when I turn to Christmas Vacation etc. etc.

As long as this show continues, I will watch it. The truth will come if 20 years from now I can still enjoy it and it holds up.

S3 is the first season of this show that ive liked. The 1st 2 were meh.  6.5/10 overall IMO.

The books were better.

I'm letting this be a 10/10 show for me. Are there some problems? Sure. But I'm pretty much in love with this show. Which is why I'm pretty poleaxed to see some news about how it was originally slated for 8 seasons and we may only be getting 6 now. Massive frowny face to that news.

Do I wish the show was longer? Sure.

I'm also happy y'all are caught up now, cause...

All that said, Gale has always been the roughest point of the shows with me. She's getting better, I just don't buy her as the protagonist. That last episode definitely could have been split into a two parter.

But other than that really no complaints at all. It is immensely satisfying to see such an important piece of Sci-Fi literature get it's time on the screen. If you love Sci-Fi, robots, androids, cyborgs, AI, cyrosleep, and a myriad of other Sci-Fi concepts, this is it. This is where it all came from. Issac Asimov is the brain that thought of all of it. The original. He is the Tolkein equivalent of Elves, Trolls, Orcs, Dwarves, and Halflings, as in without him, we might not have it, or have had it for some time. It really is a crying shame so little of his stuff has been adapted yet, cause Foundation is the tip of the Iceberg. Between all his short stories and books there is an untapped goldmine of hundreds of Sci-Fi stories, and if you thought the Mule twist was good. Yeah.

After Wheel of Time, The Witcher, and Altered Carbon got botched all to hell on the silver screen I was about to stop watching shows based on books I liked until I heard if they were good or not. Murderbot and this have given me hope that it can be done right.

Some of those IPs like Wheel of Time have some pretty large price tags associated with it. And that show had a pretty nice sized starting audience due to the book readers so I think they know we're interested in it. In fact most of those shows had exactly that. High starting audiences, but when the show started diverging from the books and what was cut and what was added started to increasingly piss off existing fans of the shows. Plus the changes actually did suck from a narrative perspective so they lost fans due to obscuring story line.

I'm holding out hope for a Wheel of Time animated version. Studios are increasingly investing in animation, and animators assisted with AI have already cut production times on a lot of that. Cause you can feed a lot of AI images and it can do limited runs of animation ~ a few seconds at a time, up until Google's new big boy Genie 3 which can do whole minutes of uninterrupted live video of animation and live video.

So now animators can draw their original content, characters, and storyboard frames, they can do a few frames spread apart in time, and use AI to fill in the gaps, then go back frame by frame and make sure there are no AI shenanigans going on. THIS has already massively reduced animation times for studios who use it, and as the tech gets better... Genie 3 being a massive step forward in just the last month, we're gonna see shorter and shorter times between shows that are animated, and even maybe some live action here in the future that's all AI.

And that's gonna be neat, really neat. https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1952732206176112915

That's what it can really do.

So I'd say hold out hope. These IPs cost a toooon of money. They really shelled for Wheel of Time. I don't think the powers that be are happy that it wasn't the new Game of Thrones and there's still a massive fantasy gap. We could see more of it soon. And that's true of all IPs, companies are gonna wanna milk those for all they're worth. We've got a new Witcher video game coming out that looks very good. So that's gonna remain popular.

I just re-watched all 3 seasons of Foundation.

Holy crap did I miss a lot. I am not designed to sit on my ass for a whole week and catch the next episode. And then after watching 10 episodes having to wait a year + to see the next season.

But man, these guys make Star Wars and the death star look like a toy. When you get into the the destruction of entire planets, without the use of a huge moon sized station. Just wow.

And the plot beneath plot beneath plot, its hard to keep track. Especially when you are watching other shows to boot.

This is my new eye candy for now. What a show.