Does anyone recognize the similarity's between the 8th episode of "foundation" and the movie "Event Horizon". Ar those Easter Eggs or just coincidentally? What do you think?
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Event Horizon Easter Egg, Episode 8?!
Event Horizon Easter Egg, Episode 8?!
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So far Foundation has had a SF fairytale vibe with a touch of maths, which I like. If it goes into SF horror direction, I'll be horrified and stop watching. Episode 8 was nasty but tolerable. If it goes much further in that direction, maybe I won't be watching the second season. If I wanted to watch the Alien franchise, I'd go and watch that, not some sort of hybrid between it and Foundation.
Unfortunately, I too saw the similarity which is why I tried to ignore it.
The problem is that 'Event Horizon' was a space-horror schlock film, highly influenced by Clive Barker's work, esp the 'Hellraiser' series.
In other words, the writers are allowing for that mixture of horror-fantasy to infuse with Sci-Fi so that supernatural abilities, portals to hell, demonic possession, etc, could be used further down the road as plot devices.
And that for me, is the end of the Foundation but a start of a some Aliens-Hellraiser-The Grudge hybrid sort of abomination which isn't here or there. I suspect that that's when they give up on an 'Expanse' Sci-Fi theme but more of a Jump The Shark horror series like 'Supernatural' in space.
I hope I'm wrong.
There are some general similarities, but I wouldn't say it goes as far as being a deliberate call to the Event Horizon movie. The Invictus ship isn't made up of three perpendicular circles of a sphere, it's three circles that can be concentric and the two inner ones can rotate on the same axis, in opposite directions.