Apple TV+ to get the most-wanted new sci-fi series in years

Apple is all-in on sci-fi. Foundation, Severance, For All Mankind, and Silo are all very good. At this point, Foundation is barely an adaptation of the novels and that may cause some hesitation for another show based on a book series. But foundation was always an unfilmable series based on the time jumps.
Invasion sucks and it’s too dark to see anything sometimes.

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Invasion sucks and it’s too dark to see anything sometimes.

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I've been watching but when the showed the "world president" and she was a woman I just laughed.

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Apple is all-in on sci-fi

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They do really well with their sci-fi production. Theirs almost always look better than what you would think given their budgets. Foundation looks like as good as most big budget sci-fi movies.

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But foundation was always an unfilmable series based on the time jumps.

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I hate this argument. You have shows like House of the Dragon that show large time jumps can be pulled off perfectly fine. A decent amount of the story was always going to have to be filled in, similiar to House of the Dragon, but you still could have stayed true to the source to a decent degree. Not even talking about the gender and race swaps, I don't care about that. One of, if not the biggest story line in the entire show isn't even in the book and has things added in like cloning that wasn't ever in the Foundation universe. There is absolutely nothing about this show that makes you think they even wanted to remotely stay true to the source.

It's not Foundation. At all. I kind of hate the "just name it something else" reply but with this, just name it something else. It is absolutely nothing like the books and honestly didn't even try to be, it was just a cheap way to get viewers. It's a quality sci fi show, but they should have just called it The Crisis or something and people would have been like "wow, some of this story seems ike it was taken from Foundation." Because that's basically all it is at this point.

I don't even like sci-fi but ATV+ does it well (they do most things well).

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Not impressed, meatbag.

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Already been done

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First, a few years, or 10 years, or 20 years is much easier than hundreds of years.

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I'm not arguing that. But it was a big enough jump where you had to change the main actors mid season after you'd grown to like them. Something that isn't done much and you would think would be a hinderance but it clearly wasn't.

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Second, House of the Dragon did not pull of the jumps perfectly fine. I thought that season of TV was trash. Time jumps for people you haven't written well enough to make me care about initially makes for a show that is just "This happens then this happens then this happens, etc., and on and on." It's like they decided the audience knowledge of what happens in the future would be enough emotional grounding to sustain the series. It definitely was not for me.

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Well you're in the minority and that's not even arguable. It got really good ratings, high viewership numbers, it even picked up viewership for 5 weeks straight during the middle of the season, something most shows don't do. Hell, even on this board there were quite a bit who swore up and down they'd never watch anything Game of Thrones related again watched it and loved it. You might not have liked it, I get that it wouldn't be everybody's cup of tea, but it was a big success for HBO and widely viewed as a really good season of TV.