Andrea David Edelman

Ironic. Foundation is the story of a doomed society. The forces at work are destroying it and there's nothing anyone can do to save it. How very appropriate for an American TV show then. Of course as an adaptation of Asimov's work it is a failure and as a TV show it is the only thing American film makers are capable of making any more. America is so devoured by its societal problems they obsess over it and can't find it in themselves to create anything new or different. It's been said Foundation is impossible to film. If this show did anything it's reinforce that view. What this show ends up being is the story of two young black women who fight for hard to understand reasons with a young Persian woman. In the background there's a clone emperor story unfolding as well. How this relates to Foundation I'll never know. One of the issues with American TV is that it is, like the McDonald's Big Mac, an engineered product. X amount of screen time must go to each race, each gender, each sexual orientation. ABC and D topics must be covered from the "correct" perspective in order to make the show "relevant". The main points from the adapted original work must be included and then there's a required amount of CGI splendor, allowable humor and of course violent action scenes that must be added to the mix. The end result is homogenous, predictable, competent and entirely without surprise. It's a Big Mac. You want a Big Mac sometimes but not every time you eat.

1. Half the movie is missing (come back for part 2 I guess, pay again) 2. Harkonnens are generic bad guys with 0 flavor (all the good stuff, gone) 3. Music is nauseatingly bad (Zimmer has gone senile) 4. it's 2h35 min and half of the story is missing (common!) 5. Endless dream sequences (boring!) 6. They messed up the voice 7. Maize takes out the Kriss and sheathes it without bleeding herself 8. Shield fights look worst than they did for Lynch (inexcusable) 9. Badly cast for : Duke leto, Jessica, Chani, just wrong actor for job 10. It ends when Paul Joins the fremen, at the midway point of the story. 11. Special effects look HORRIBLE (Arrakeen city is EMPTY!) 12. Stillsuits look bad (worst than Lynch, made in china feel) 13. The 1984 version looks better in all but GCI