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| Bluesky * | 24 | 5 | 162 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| TMDB reviews * | 3 | 3 | 0 |
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Some viewers praise the series as a visually stunning and intellectually riveting adaptation. [1][2][3] Others criticize it for deviating too much from Asimov's books and adding unnecessary changes. [4][5] A few note that the show is a reinterpretation that can be enjoyed on its own terms. [6]
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"Every translation is a treason," and adapting books to the screen — small or large — is a form of translation. The Foundation saga is one of the most ambitious works in science fiction. Beyond the original trilogy (later expanded to five books), Asimov used it to connect many of the stories and ideas he had developed over decades. The timeline spans centuries, the story unfolds across numerous worlds, and the cast …
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Title: Foundation - Apple TV+ Delivers a Galactic Triumph Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Foundation, Apple TV+'s adaptation of Isaac Asimov's classic series, is a tour de force in the sci-fi genre. Visually stunning and intellectually riveting, the series expertly captures the grandiosity of Asimov's universe. The meticulous attention to detail in set design and visual effects creates a breathtaking backdrop for a narrative that …
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Managing to put a series of Books into a series is no easy task especially when it covers 1000 years. It isn't a series for everyone when you consider this, and that Isaac Asimov isn't just an advanced sci-fi writer but also a visionary almost one century before us. It is a case of love or hate especially when it involves two types of media, a filmed streaming series (with no easy task at hand) and a series of …
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Very disappointed in this series. I know the books well, having read them multiple times, and I also know that no movie adaptaion can ever capture all the details and nuances of the original sories. I did not expect that, but neither did I expect to be insulted by ridiculous changes that do not enhance anything. After a decent start, this series has quickly devolved into garbage. It had possibilities in the …
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The writing has devolved into an intentionally formulaic and pandering Disney Star Wars spin-off. I thought it started with potential and got hooked on the palace intrigue and Demerzel's story. I am somewhat bitter because I did like the show and gave it a chance. Oh well.
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Critics, per Wikipedia
The first season received some positive reviews, with praise aimed towards its performances (Pace and Harris in particular), epic scale, visual effects, and score by Bear McCreary. However, the pacing, specifically of the time jumps, use of narration, and complexity of plot were often criticized. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 72% approval rating based on 89 reviews for the first season. The website's critical consensus reads, "Foundation's big-budget production and impressive performances are a sight to behold, but it struggles to wrangle the behemoth that is its source material into a fully satisfying series." Metacritic gave the first season a weighted average…
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60 of 268 · most liked firstBREAKING: A federal judge just reinstated the head of the Inter-American Foundation, booted Pete Marocco and voided all his decisions. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
neutral · AI labelView post →Doing a comedy show tomorrow night (Tue, Jan 14) at Largo. All proceeds will benefit the California Fire Foundation Wildfire & Disaster Relief Fund. Will have a bunch of surprise guests. Buy tickets here: wl.seetickets.us/event/kumail...
neutral · AI labelView post →Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...
neutral · AI labelView post →My latest piece, written for the Kettering Foundation. I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism. Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community. kettering.org/do-not-compl...
neutral · AI labelView post →Sold my Cybertruck and somehow it's news For anyone curious why: I ordered a Rivian R1T (launch edition) and Cybertruck (Foundation Series) around the same time. I knew from the beginning I wouldn't keep both. Put 5,000 miles on each, and now I'm keeping the one I like more 🧵
neutral · AI labelView post →All the MAGA folks who get mad when Trump is called a criminal should show some solidarity and make a mass donation to Trump University and the Trump Foundation.
neutral · AI labelView post →Right, but history remembers Asimov as the author of the Foundation and I,Robot series, not the author of a guide to Shakespeare or the Bible. Fame isn't about volume, it's about impact.
neutral · AI labelView post →Seldon for Hari Seldon from the Foundation series, savior of human civilization, and Lycurgis for the mythic promoter of Spartan values. For the love of God please leave your subnormal narcissism and social freakishness out of child naming decisions.
neutral · AI labelView post →#r4today Please do not present people from the Heritage Foundation on your show without telling your listeners who they are, what Project 2025 is and what it means for Americans and the world.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fuck Trump. Fuck Miller. Fuck Thiel. Fuck the Heritage Foundation. And fuck every arrogant stupid person who got conned by these people and voted for this shit show.
neutral · AI labelView post →I know you're never going to believe this, but ... For the 3rd year in a row, Musk’s foundation did not give away enough of its money. Tax filings show that the Musk Foundation fell $421 million short of the amount it was required to give away in 2023. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/u...
neutral · AI labelView post →Howard Buffett has visited Ukraine 18 times in the last 3 years to show his support and oversee the aid being provided. The Buffett Foundation has already provided Ukraine with $800 million in aid and this year the Buffett Foundation has pledged to Ukraine an additional $1 billion in aid.
neutral · AI labelView post →watching s1 of #Foundation screams internally 🫣 #artpost
negative · AI labelView post →Russell Vought, of The Heritage Foundation. He is the one running the show. This is who we are up against. A stout Christian Nationalist, who wants to remake America with Christian Nationalist ideals
neutral · AI labelView post →The Foundation for Defense of Democracies' tax forms show Mark Dubowitz is paid $900,000/year for spending his time tweeting this stuff that's a xerox of what Iraq war superfans said in 2003, just with one letter changed. Sooner or later FDD's funders will figure out they can get AI to do this.
neutral · AI labelView post →[REPOST] My OC : Rex🐯Muay Thai fighter from "BFF" Series. (BFF >>> Beast Fighter Foundation) + New extra artwork : The Finisher Move #furryart | #furry
neutral · AI labelView post →Our organization, The Before Columbus Foundation, is giving the annual American Book Award for anti-censorship to @colbertlateshow.bsky.social. Congrats to all other winners, including @johnfugelsang.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/step...
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched finished the first two seasons of Foundation. These books, the original trilogy and then the ones on Asimov’s later years, are some of my favorite. This show is not them. And why I am really enjoying it. The show is such an interesting reinterpretation, and just so beautifully shot.
positive · AI labelView post →In the Foundation series one of the signs of Imperial decay Asimov had was scholars merely reading previous works and summarizing those rather than doing primary research.
neutral · AI labelView post →[REPOST] My OC : Lyonel from "BFF" Series. (BFF >>> Beast Fighter Foundation) + New extra artwork : The Finisher Move #furryart | #furry
neutral · AI labelView post →There's nothing in Sparta or Asimov America needs to emulate in 2025—and given that Musk is both information and media illiterate, and has utter contempt for the liberal arts, I have no confidence whatsoever in his ability to read the Foundation series or study classical antiquity and understand it.
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW: Group sending Canadian right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel quietly funded by Israeli government Documents unearthed by @pressprogress.ca show Israel's foreign ministry granted the Exigent Foundation $175,000 CAD to bring "Canadian influencers and policymakers" to Israel
neutral · AI labelView post →IRS filings show the Wayne Duddlesten Foundation was Turning Point USA’s largest direct donor, surpassing contributions from foundations linked to billionaires like Bernie Marcus, Charles Johnson and Jimmy John Liautaud.
neutral · AI labelView post →Art by Philippe ‘Manchu’ Bouchet for the late-1990s French reissue of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series
neutral · AI labelView post →Art by Michael Whelan for the 1980s Del Rey reprints of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. @michaelwhelan.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →It seems I am about a season behind on the sexy Lee Pace in Space show, Foundation, so I'm gonna start that up.
positive · AI labelView post →We then filed a series of IRS complaints against Trump and the Trump Foundation www.citizensforethics.org/news/press-r...
neutral · AI labelView post →"New tax filings show that the Musk Foundation fell $421 million short of the amount it was required to give away in 2023." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/u...
neutral · AI labelView post →I messed up my thread but this is the latest in a series of Heritage Foundation banners that started with the inauguration
neutral · AI labelView post →Odd to have the Heritage Foundation show us where the boundary of probity in the Republican coalition sits: gutter antisemitism no, but anti-Black racism & primitive misogyny? Go for it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Foundation TV series . Season 1 Trantor Library #conceptart #scifi #asimov
neutral · AI labelView post →Accent Aigu Entertainment has launched “The Irina Foundation,” inspired by the foundation created by Shane and Ilya in Rachel Reid’s ‘Game Changer’ series
neutral · AI labelView post →because I am enjoying Foundation the show, I have picked up Foundation the book, and I am only 16 pages in because I keep having to stop and rant to my partner about it, like, why the HELL are we spending time on how Trantor generates its electricity, it doesn’t MATTER
positive · AI labelView post →When Nate Silver says ‘mule’ about Obama it’s obviously a well-known reference to the footnote 217th page of the 8th book of the Asimov series Foundation in which the footnote says, and I quote, ‘7. not in the racist way’
neutral · AI labelView post →The Heritage Foundation is POTUS. They are running the show. Trump and his band of idiots are pawns on their chessboard.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dreamily yearning for a crop chainmail top like Lee Pace has in season 2 Foundation. 🥺✨🤲
neutral · AI labelView post →these psychopaths read the Foundation and Dune series and get fucking delusions of grandeur thinking they're Duncan idaho
neutral · AI labelView post →The Imperial Jump Ship replica from Foundation is now in pre-order at Master Replicas! 🔥 "This intricately detailed, 10.75-inch die-cast model is crafted using the original CG mesh used by the Foundation VFX team during the making of the series, ensuring an incredible degree of accuracy."
neutral · AI labelView post →🌊 Hang ten and make history with this poster from the 2022 Camden, NJ show, now available for auction. All proceeds benefit the Vitalogy Foundation: pj.lnk.to/AuctionsTP
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't mind me, just wanted to draw the new Oscorp (Future Foundation) suit from the upcoming YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN animated series. #SpiderMan #YourFriendlyNeighborhoodSpiderMan
neutral · AI labelView post →If you want to see the Heritage Foundation office evacuate itself, show up with drug testing equipment
neutral · AI labelView post →Take delight in the absolute shit-show of Trump and Elon, but don’t lose sight of the Heritage Foundation creepos who are really calling the shots.
neutral · AI labelView post →Think 'Foundation' Is Beautiful? Thank the JWST. The Apple TV+ adaptation of the Isaac Asimov series uses the telescope's images to make the show look incredible. https://www.wired.com/story/think-foundation-is-beautiful-thank-the-james-webb-telescope/
neutral · AI labelView post →Ariana Grande’s Brighter Days Foundation will support Black Voters Matter, Southern Fried Queer Pride, and SPARK for her Atlanta show of the ‘eternal sunshine’ tour.
neutral · AI labelView post →Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey. VMware customers face multiple obstacles as they rethink their virtualization strategy to reduce dependence on VMware. Today, Rimini Street published its “2026 IT Virtualization Survey – What’s Next for VMware Users.” The survey examined 300 organizations worldwide that use VMware. Notably, Rimini sells third-party support for VMware and other software, including Oracle and SAP. That means there’s an incentive for…
neutral · AI labelView post →Foundation TV series Season Two #conceptart #scifi #beggarslament
neutral · AI labelView post →Common sense rally, for people that show up when it’s -2degrees Fahrenheit. #Montana Push back against Felon47, Heritage Foundation, and Protect 2025.
neutral · AI labelView post →Apple TV is making its original series free this weekend, so may I suggest Foundation, For All Mankind and Monarch as very different kinds of fun? Foundation is one of my all-time favourite shows.
positive · AI labelView post →Foundation TV series . S1 Trantor Library - early design #conceptart #scifi #asimov #architecture
neutral · AI labelView post →Lunchtime gig shirt - British heart foundation Liskeard - evening show shirt British Heart Foundation Helston - what will my Newquay shirt be tomorrow ? www.robinince.com
neutral · AI labelView post →On this week's show, @brookegladstone.bsky.social goes head-to-head with the Heritage Foundation guy who wrote the Defund NPR chapter of Project 2025...
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally started #FOUNDATION S03 last night. This show is breathtaking in its cinematography & it's creativity in world making. Top Notch! #gaynerd #gaygeek #gayscifi
positive · AI labelView post →Another 2018 Home Show Poster up to the plate ⚾️ 🎨: Ames Bros All proceeds benefit the Vitalogy Foundation: pj.lnk.to/AuctionsTP
neutral · AI labelView post →Foundation, a marvelous show about the fall of empire and the degeneracy of the rich and powerful, is produced by the Ellisons
neutral · AI labelView post →The creators of the Foundation TV series loathe the novels. This is literally word for word the exact OPPOSITE of what the books are about.
negative · AI labelView post →Anything by Philip K. Dick and Asimov's "Foundation" series ranks pretty high up the list of failing to pass the Bechdel test despite nearly a million words.
neutral · AI labelView post →Still one of my favorite photos I have ever taken, of a face from an anthropoid sarcophagus; Ptolemaic Period, (332–30 BCE). It was put on display in the _Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt _exhibition at the Pulitzer Foundation in St. Louis a few years ago. I love an iconoclasm show.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's like Heritage Foundation watched that show & said "Cool! Let's do it!"
neutral · AI labelView post →Huge fan of Peter Ackroyd’s histories. But disappointed the next book in this series - presumably beginning with the Tudors vs. the Vatican - wasn’t called “Foundation and Empire.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Which goes to show that the Heritage Foundation had everything to do with Felon34's attempted coup
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