There may be spoilers here so please beware.
Well the first season is over and I think this was not the Foundation I would have made if I were the Showrunner. I want something more faithful to the books and I would have produced a limited series and only covered the classic trilogy. However what I want does not matter. What matters is what we got and what perhaps we can do as fans is leave our comments and thoughts in a constructive and open minded way that is respectful of everyone because nothing good comes out of toxic fan hate.
I like the show as a whole and what worked for me was the intrigue on Trantor, the mysterious Hari Seldon and his trial and how ultimately the first crisis was solved.
Too many slow ships to nowhere in terms of Gale’s journeys and the encounter at the end with Salvor. I never thought I was invested enough in the characters of Terminus to feel much when they died and I would have preferred to see Salvor become the Mayor as she did in the book.
However now that it is over I hope we see less long sleep ships to distant worlds and less time jumps back and forth. I want to move on with the story and I hope we will see Trantor being sacked next season.
Hari almost sounded like a manipulative government agitator to me in his explanations of coldly telling everyone he lied because it made me wonder is this Foundation any better than the Empire if ultimately they are both built on lies? How did his coffin ship get to Terminus faster than the slow boat from Trantor? Are there two sentient holograms of Hari, with one heading to his homeworld? What is the deal with the Shadow Master? He never ages. Is he human?
There are other elephants in the room to ponder as we wait however long for season two to come, but if there was one thing I could ask is please make it more Foundation Book like and less disjointed as this season ultimately was.
Now we wait, we talk and speculate and hopefully we can guide how the show continues here from Earth. Thank you.
Mark Rivera
Brooklyn, Trantor