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[quote=Anonymous]Caught episode 3 this weekend. I think they do a good job with the stuff that's not in the books -- specifically the scenes back at the Empire -- and are doing a poor job of introducing us to the Foundation on Terminus which is in the books.

I'm not trying to insist that the writers go beat-for-beat with what Asimov wrote. That would be unrealistic and probably make a boring TV show. But it feels like they're abandoning some significant plot elements from the books just to force the show into some common TV tropes. Maybe there will be payoff for these particular deviations sometime later.

My biggest beef is that they seem to be making the TV version of Salvor Hardin into a special, Chosen One. In the books, he was kind of a regular dude -- a little more clever, decisive, and active than normal. In the TV show, they turned Seldon's Vault from a little movie theater into a strange floating object that was on the planet when the settlers arrived, with a force field that prevents anyone from approaching. Hardin is mysteriously the only one who can approach.

Also, instead of a planet with a reasonable climate but limited metal resources, they turned Terminus into a hostile Hoth like winter planet with predators that remind me of velociraptors.

I'll keep watching though. Like I said, they're doing some good stuff back at the Empire. And I'm hopeful some of these deviations will have payoffs that are faithful to Asimov's larger vision of the series. [/quote]

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