r/interestingasfuck • u/howimetyourcakeshop • 10h ago

Our moon being formed.

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u/dizcostu 7h ago

I have no idea what people like you expect. The books as written are completely impossible to translate into a coherent series. At best, an anthology series might work, but Asimov is so thin on character depth and decent dialogue that it would still not seem true to the books.

I think the series is great. They figured out decent enough solutions to continuity and casting an otherwise unadaptable series. Try to enjoy things. Makes life less shitty.

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u/Y___ 7h ago

I haven’t seen the series but I like your critique on the book. I only read the first one and it felt like such a drag. And I really respect Isaac Asimov but Foundation did not interest me.

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u/bromjunaar 6h ago

I'll admit I mostly driven by my fascination for how much of that book was outright pillaged to make the modern foundations of a bunch of fairly well known scifi series.

Kind of like how the setting of Dune played a huge part in the early concepts of Star Wars.

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u/Haunting-Vanilla1624 4h ago

Kind of like how the setting of Dune played a huge part in the early concepts of Star Wars.

Would you say it was a good Foundation??

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u/bromjunaar 4h ago

Take the upvote and get out.