{"id":2642,"date":"2024-06-29T21:52:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T04:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2024-06-29T21:52:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T04:52:03","slug":"film-foundation-seasons-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/06\/29\/film-foundation-seasons-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Film: Foundation &#8211; Seasons 1 &amp; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In early 2022, I wrote out a retrospective of what I had been watching, and I feel like it is time to do that again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X4QYV5GTz7c?si=EOg-cyvVQBbm5FpA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Foundation<\/strong> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/show\/foundation\/umc.cmc.5983fipzqbicvrve6jdfep4x3\">published by Apple TV+<br><\/a>2021 (Season 1) &amp; 2023 (Season 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the first two seasons (20 episodes total) of a series based on Isaac Asimov&#8217;s books about a galactic empire, and the organization set up by a mathematician to cushion that empire&#8217;s fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several stories overlapping across these series. Key figures include Hari Seldon, the mathematician who predicts the fall of the empire; Gaal, the mathematician who leaves her anti-knowledge planet and is immediately at risk of execution for associating with Hari; the Brothers Dawn, Day, and Dusk, genetic emperor clones who rule as a set in staggered life stages, decanted whenever one of them needs to be replaced; Demerzel, the last survivor of the empire&#8217;s attack on her kind, who is a ruthless and eternal enforcer of the empire&#8217;s rule; and the people who follow Hari, who appear to pose an existential threat to the empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elements I enjoyed about it, that kept me eager for new episodes: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a high-stakes story about the future of humanity and its variations on thousands of worlds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>scientists as leading figures within the story, including women of African ancestry in key science and leadership roles, in a &#8216;diverse&#8217; future that looks like my port-city culture NOW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>pleasant futuristic design of objects, grand spaces, technology, and mathematical displays, but with grubby and worn elements (away from the wealthy) adding realism (including truly remarkable interstellar ship life\/suspension pods)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the character variations of Brother Day, as played by Lee Pace, who seems to enjoy the role, especially the Season 2 version of him I described to a friend as &#8220;louche&#8221; (which Google\/Oxford describe as &#8220;disreputable or sordid in a rakish or appealing way&#8221;).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the general lack of warp-speed travel for most people, meaning that going to sleep in a suspended-aging pod and leaving your planet for a long trip meant everyone you knew would be dead long before you reached your destination<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the display of the dirty elements of empires, such as genocide, prison camps, slavery, exploitation, obligations to provide young people as tribute to the ruling class, and so on<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the disappointing persistence of anti-knowledge religions, and anti-knowledge repression, which I appreciate because it is entirely too realistic<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Good pacing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2t0BGkVQMuQ?si=X68H9ZXzterAlmgQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Foundation is enjoyable sci-fi \/ drama, and I look forward to future seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early 2022, I wrote out a retrospective of what I had been watching, and I feel like it is time to do that again. Foundation published by Apple TV+2021 (Season 1) &amp; 2023 (Season 2) These are the first two seasons (20 episodes total) of a series based on Isaac Asimov&#8217;s books about a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/06\/29\/film-foundation-seasons-1-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Film: Foundation &#8211; Seasons 1 &amp; 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2650,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}