But the invaders have a plan and as we know in serial TV SF when it's stated there's a plan everything is plotted out to the last desire. Anyway there must be some kind of way out of here.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 October 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
of course! but let's get to it. i don't need a flashback of anacreon being devastated for 20 minutes to establish motive.
btw am i alone in wishing that hari was not being pronounced 'harry'
i'm sure we can all look forward to my similar complaints whenever dune hits the torrentz and i manage to watch it! <3 <3
― mookieproof, Saturday, 16 October 2021 02:25 (two years ago) link
"Say Captain there's some big gun pointed our direction.""Eh whatever."Wasn't the gun what they cloaked earlier in the episode?
― groovypanda, Monday, 18 October 2021 21:42 (two years ago) link
Didn't seem clear it was still cloaked by the time it was just 1K away.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 October 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link
It probably makes a good point about decadent colonial powers on the wane. Just fly in there expecting an easy rout and then get taken out by one well aimed shot.
― calzino, Monday, 18 October 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
Oh it wasn't clear at all,. I just assumed it must be otherwise what was the point of the whole cloaking scene in the first place xp
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 05:55 (two years ago) link
Getting pretty Game of Thronesy here
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 October 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
gonna name my next cat 'empire'
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 October 2021 23:40 (two years ago) link
A rotating trio of cat
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 October 2021 00:14 (two years ago) link
my biological father has had a series of (i think siamese) cats going back decades and named each of them 'mozart'
which is . . . fucking horrific, honestly. but would have certainly made better sense with 'empire'
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 October 2021 00:26 (two years ago) link
This show needs a cat emperor.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 October 2021 02:37 (two years ago) link
obviously he should have named the cats duncan idaho
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 October 2021 03:04 (two years ago) link
really enjoying the show but the lingering "ok, they've set up several events that are going to happen... maybe in the next episode?" feeling continues because apparently we have more things to go through
― mh, Saturday, 23 October 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link
Hmm at the ending of this latest one. (I'm...assuming at this point the idea is that Hari set up both the Raven and the Vault so he can chill near Helicon and deliver live updates via the Vault or something. And Gaal like...hibernates in between crises? Guess we'll see!)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 October 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
saddened that the phrase 'what's your ask' will still be in use 10,000 years from now
― mookieproof, Saturday, 30 October 2021 00:57 (two years ago) link
On the other hand, good to know that Touch ID will still work after 700 years
― stet, Friday, 5 November 2021 02:58 (two years ago) link
oh no my first law of robotics
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 November 2021 12:35 (two years ago) link
When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Isaac Asimov’s Vision Gets Lost
some points, some misses imo
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
Two episodes in, I feel like it's a lot of telling rather than showing, just a lot of exposition and CGI backgrounds.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
Real 300/Zack Snyder's Owl Movie vibe.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 20:54 (two years ago) link
I feel like it's a lot of telling rather than showing
well this is true to Asimov's vision
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link
haha otm
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 21:47 (two years ago) link
Lol.
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 23:34 (two years ago) link
Burn...
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 11 November 2021 00:23 (two years ago) link
Martin Skidmore to thread!
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 November 2021 00:41 (two years ago) link
idk man
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 November 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
Mm. It's definitely heading towards a 'huh' season ender at this rate.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 November 2021 18:15 (two years ago) link
i haven't been bored (except by the narration), so that's cool. just seems like we're still more or less in the same place we were six episodes ago
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 November 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
Meantime we got this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5CBWy17y70
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 November 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
How does a robot have a religious belief!?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 15 November 2021 00:32 (two years ago) link
I like this show, but I think I'm glad I never read the books.
Visually, I keep thinking of what someone could do with an Earthsea adaptation (yeah again, I know), with the right casting finally, and stuff like Ged finding the floating city in the ocean and etc.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 15 November 2021 00:33 (two years ago) link
I'm enjoying this as well. Sometimes some half decent sci-fi shit is just what you need and best avoiding the plethora of hottakes!
― calzino, Monday, 15 November 2021 00:44 (two years ago) link
well. sucks to be azura
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 November 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link
We were saying she'd be better off just jumping into the pond than what lay ahead.
Also, did not see what Demerzel did coming. But maybe its because she too is beginning to go against her nature (same as brother dawn and day seem to have)? I mean shes a robot so that shouldnt be possible, but ...
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 20 November 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
hmm tried to be vague but is that too spoilery?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 20 November 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
appreciated that brother dusk angrily flung the stuff at his painting with his *left* hand, and wonder whether that was done on purpose
anyway, solid finale with some unexpected things -- i look forward to the next season whenever that is
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 November 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
Yeah it's definitely not Asimov's story anymore, broadest of outlines aside. Still, I'll watch. Wondering if the time jump means going straight to Hober Mallow (and thus skipping the thoroughly cynical view of religion in the intervening Seldon crisis).
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 November 2021 23:33 (two years ago) link
xp
well spotted there [what was posted in hidden text] probably was on purpose.
― calzino, Saturday, 20 November 2021 23:40 (two years ago) link
Yes, I missed that!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 21 November 2021 00:44 (two years ago) link
I'm a little confused by the continued presence of somebody I thought Hugo had missed the landing on the Invictus and floated off into space.I thought it odd when they came back out of the warp over Terminus and he reappeared. Did I see one character in a spacesuit do that and think it was him or was there a further plan being enacted.
Quite enjoying this and wondering how much of it I read. I think I got several of the series from my uncle's collection when he died. Definitely think I got some Dune from him as well as Ed Sanders The Family. Definitely thinking I did get into a few of them at one point. But it is decades ago.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 21 November 2021 11:59 (two years ago) link
I think Hugo faked his miss/death so he could go for reinforcements
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 21 November 2021 12:38 (two years ago) link
He did. He deliberately flew off so he could sneak back in.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 22 November 2021 00:34 (two years ago) link
(but yes, all those bits flying about in spacesuits and nothing else and somehow succeeding were redic implausible but I'm bad at willing suspension of disbelief)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 22 November 2021 00:35 (two years ago) link
i was more bitter about the anacreons surviving the naked jump and then somehow being allowed to take over ships again
fuckin figure it out, thespins
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 November 2021 01:26 (two years ago) link
Man, this show. It seems like it has some pretty obvious flaws - lot of telling instead of showing, unevenly paced, some so-so acting - but I loved these 10 episodes. I do think it kind of lacks the spirit of the Asimov books (was very weird to see a robot kill someone!) but keeps the scope and the interesting ideas, and the writers somehow turned that into something very compelling and visually gorgeous. So glad that it's getting another season!
― Vinnie, Monday, 22 November 2021 15:30 (two years ago) link
Ya good point about the robot
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 22 November 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
Tbf, the robot laws never made a lot of sense
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 22 November 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:
ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link
Sorta slipped past but Season 2 went ahead and filmed earlier this year -- only image released so far is this:
https://dl.moviesr.net/images/dn9sN.jpg
Which, hm. (Flashback to Foundation founding? Some later meetup with another clone?) -- new cast members: Isabella Laughland, Kulvinder Ghir, Mikael Persbrandt, Sandra Yi Sencindiver, Holt McCallany, Ella-Rae Smith, Dimitri Leonidas, Ben Daniels, Rachel House, and Nimrat Kaur.
And per burblings today but which date back a couple of months as well, Season 3 renewed and filming starting in April, so the five season plan may actually happen here.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 December 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
Per an article back in February, here's who's playing what in Season 2.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 December 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link