Jwee Chiek Er

Unfaithful to Asimov’s elegant intergalactic and intellectual take on psychohistory with many interesting fresh new characters popping up with time. In the novels, Gaal Dornick was never meant to last beyond the prologue of Foundation. He was a pair of fresh eyes for the reader, not a central pillar of the saga. Apple turning him (now “her”) into a century-spanning chosen-one archetype is one of the biggest distortions of Asimov’s design. By Season 3, Gaal has become: • Narrative deadweight — every time the story should leap forward in history, the writers drag her along instead. • Tonally out of sync — Asimov’s genius was in showing that individuals don’t matter against the tide of history. Apple undermines that by anchoring everything to her. • Emotionally repetitive — same beats again and again: doubts, visions, angst, destiny talk. It’s wheel-spinning. She’s essentially a roadblock to the very thing that makes Foundation unique: the generational relay race of characters. Keeping her alive for centuries is like locking the story in a cage

Brilliant bunch of mi5 outcasts trying to make a difference even when their peers in the upper echelon look down on them. Finally something on Apple TV, besides Mosquito coast, that grips me and makes me wanna binge watch.