chris jones

So I gave this 5 stars because it is engrossing sci-fi TV. Stunning and engrossing at every stage. I made the mistake of rereading the books after episode 1. Just in case I had remembered it wrong. Why Issac Asimov is being mentioned is a wonder to me. The original trilogy was written before the silicone chip was invented. Atomic power (not even nuclear power yet) was in its infancy. Yet he wrote of intelligent machines, the ability to navigate the galaxy, power for all this via manipulation of atoms. The ability to process fantastic mathematical equations in devices that didn’t even have names outside of theoretical science when he wrote of them. We at best use processed rocks to heat water (or other fluids) to turn turbines that were invented before electricity was properly harnessed. Tell me who actually understands how this is done even now? Much is made of characters gender being altered, irrelevant! Salvor Hardin was a politician, who used politics to pass the first crisis - gender irrelevant. No use of actual violence, no bow and arrow, no running away and abandoning the first solution before it’s implemented and therefore starts to become stale thus causing the next crisis…. Psychohistory is the mathematical prediction of group dynamics not including individual exception on a galactic scale. Group dynamic modeling is a living monster in today’s society, just with catchy different terminology. The saddest part as I rewatch episode 10, I watch the robot kill a human. The clowns actually forgot about the 3 laws of robotics. The female reimagined R Daniel Olivaw who despite upgrading his/her self over the centuries could not kill a human. In fact had (along with other sentient robots) chosen a version of the galaxy with no ‘aliens’ thus protecting humanity from that risk. Had manipulated Harri Seldon to try to get humans out of the dead end that he/she had created whilst trying to buy time to resolve the issues with ‘galactic Gia’. This from the ‘connection books’, prequel and follow up books. Yeah Asimov thought big, the stupidest part is that had apple actually followed the books story properly the eventual ending suggests that a form of ‘all encompassing hive mentality’ wins out eventually. Which seems to be the desired outcome of many people currently. Sigh!