Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2021 21:14:09 GMT
Now that the first season of the series is over. How about an assessment of it?
Personally, I have no objection whatsoever to Gaal Dornick, Salvor Hardin and R. Daneel (Aka Eto Demerzel) being female. I think it's great. I fact they should have made Hari Seldon a female. What I do object to is how far their characters are from their literary counterparts.
Instead of being a scheming (for the good cause) cool calculating subtle self-reliant born leader Salvor is this hothead shortsighted psychologically unstable given to psychic premonitions, urging for armed conflicts and when told that "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" her response is it's a doctrine for old people... I mean it's claiming that you've adapted Romeo and Juliet with Romeo being a compulsive skirt chaser and Juliet a lady of the night... I mean there's adapting and there's... well, this.
And that's not by far the only problem, tons of irrelevant details have been added to the story. Things that don't make much sense like why would the emperor of a galaxy of millions of worlds be obsessed by a single world at the edge of said galaxy? When the point of the polyptych novel is that the very insignificance of Terminus would make it that it would quickly be forgotten by the empire. The idea that a single ship would be enough to retake the empire or the reducing of the first two crises into one that is a ridiculous simplification of either of them. Terminus after one generation looks like a shanty town when it was supposed to be the center of new scientific discoveries. The omnipresence of religion and all sorts of baroque mysticism when the only religion in the novel was a way for Terminus to control the four kingdoms otherwise each much more powerful than terminus and then some.
The vault is nearly destroyed by a single individual stopped in extremis by an arrow shot through her throat... I mean seriously you can't get any farther from the book if you tried to.
The android kills people in cruel ways without any consequences for its functioning. It's like the writers have never heard of an asimovian robot!!!
More than half of the series is about the emperors which in the novel are barely seen and only occasionally spoken of. The empire is this brutal, savage even, autocracy where entire worlds are destroyed on a whim when in the novel it's not that at all. In the novel citizens of the empire have rights, trials follow procedures and punishments are not overly cruel.
Basically, aside from proper names and a few anecdotes it's a completely different story at odds with the novel.
It's about as much of an adaptation of Foundation as Alien is one of Rosemary's Baby.
Personally, I have no objection whatsoever to Gaal Dornick, Salvor Hardin and R. Daneel (Aka Eto Demerzel) being female. I think it's great. I fact they should have made Hari Seldon a female. What I do object to is how far their characters are from their literary counterparts.
Instead of being a scheming (for the good cause) cool calculating subtle self-reliant born leader Salvor is this hothead shortsighted psychologically unstable given to psychic premonitions, urging for armed conflicts and when told that "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" her response is it's a doctrine for old people... I mean it's claiming that you've adapted Romeo and Juliet with Romeo being a compulsive skirt chaser and Juliet a lady of the night... I mean there's adapting and there's... well, this.
And that's not by far the only problem, tons of irrelevant details have been added to the story. Things that don't make much sense like why would the emperor of a galaxy of millions of worlds be obsessed by a single world at the edge of said galaxy? When the point of the polyptych novel is that the very insignificance of Terminus would make it that it would quickly be forgotten by the empire. The idea that a single ship would be enough to retake the empire or the reducing of the first two crises into one that is a ridiculous simplification of either of them. Terminus after one generation looks like a shanty town when it was supposed to be the center of new scientific discoveries. The omnipresence of religion and all sorts of baroque mysticism when the only religion in the novel was a way for Terminus to control the four kingdoms otherwise each much more powerful than terminus and then some.
The vault is nearly destroyed by a single individual stopped in extremis by an arrow shot through her throat... I mean seriously you can't get any farther from the book if you tried to.
The android kills people in cruel ways without any consequences for its functioning. It's like the writers have never heard of an asimovian robot!!!
More than half of the series is about the emperors which in the novel are barely seen and only occasionally spoken of. The empire is this brutal, savage even, autocracy where entire worlds are destroyed on a whim when in the novel it's not that at all. In the novel citizens of the empire have rights, trials follow procedures and punishments are not overly cruel.
Basically, aside from proper names and a few anecdotes it's a completely different story at odds with the novel.
It's about as much of an adaptation of Foundation as Alien is one of Rosemary's Baby.
