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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have not read the books but did watch the first two episodes. It is not hard to follow but the second episode was kinda slow. Also, what about the SPOILER ALERT death at the end of second episode? I thought he’s supposed to be part of the show? He’s already dead?[/quote]

First of all, I don't think he's really dead. But, however they pull it off, I think the Foundation needs Seldon to be a mythic figure (a martyr is even better) and, in any event, the plot needs him not to be on Terminus when they set up the Foundation. I think they're going to lean into the first bit -- that was probably the significance of him bemoaning the fact that he was "Hari" and no longer "Professor Seldon" to the people on the ship. In the books, the Foundation on Terminus didn't have any psychohistorians which ends up being a pretty significant plot point.  [/quote]

Wait - you apparently have read the books, and also "don't think he's really dead?"  Really?  Please explain.  [/quote]

Part of that is just past movies and TV shows. If someone dies that rapidly and that close to the end of an episode and we don't see pretty definitive evidence of their body being cold, then they're probably alive. There was also the gizmo Raych took off his ear which (I think -- my memory is fuzzy) looked like the gizmo we saw at the beginning of the episode where Demerzel is interrogating someone and it helped them breathe. That said, I wouldn't be surprised to be wrong. While Seldon doesn't die like this in the original books, he dies of natural causes on Trantor off-screen. I can't recall if there is anything he has to do with respect to Second Foundation before he dies. [/quote]

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