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   Nick @ The Linux Experiment (thelinuxexp@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 01:23:46 JST Nick @ The Linux Experiment

   Finished foundation season 2. The second half improves, but it’s still absolutely terrible. The writing is so bad, I was laughing at half the scenes. Character deaths were made meaningless by the ham-fisted dialogue and Cotillard-like performances. It’s the realm of Deus Ex Machina and coincidences, instead of celebrating the agency of 1 person to impact the whole future.

   It missed what the book was about, turning it into stories about individuals. Season 1 was far better!

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 01:23:42 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • Jayhosh

     @thelinuxEXP @Jayhosh Since you've read the books, what do you make of this persistent claim that the Foundation novels were "unfilmable"? Is that why David Goyer deviated so much?

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     Nick @ The Linux Experiment (thelinuxexp@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 01:23:43 JST Nick @ The Linux Experiment

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     • Jayhosh

     @Jayhosh The books (the Robots cycle, and the whole Foundation cycle) are some of the best Sci Fi I’ve ever read. They’re a masterpiece, and I recommend them over the show any time! (The show doesn’t follow the books half as much as they should).

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     Jayhosh (jayhosh@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 01:23:46 JST Jayhosh

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     @thelinuxEXP Would you recommend the book? I've only seen the series and overall its "meh" 😅

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     Nick @ The Linux Experiment (thelinuxexp@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 01:42:45 JST Nick @ The Linux Experiment

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     • Jayhosh

     @killyourfm @Jayhosh I absolutely disagree with the statement! The books cover a huge span of time, but each one is focused on a particular character or set of characters, which they used in the show as well. The books are character stories. I’m no filmmaker or writer, but I think it was more a case of « let’s write what we want » more than « it’s not filmable ». Dune was supposed to be impossible to adapt, and the movie was absolutely fantastic!

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     Seasons of Jason (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 01:42:45 JST Seasons of Jason

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     • Jayhosh

     @thelinuxEXP @Jayhosh Hmm, thanks for the opinion. Perhaps it was all the time jumping that made it supposedly difficult (especially for casting?)

     But now I know with certainty I need to read these books ASAP.

     I agree with you that Season 1 was vastly better. The critics are crazy.