Foundation Season 1. The beginning of the end.

Coins have two sides, may be a monetary reference...

Brother dusk is also killing it

@@MsFlamingFlamer Oh yeah for sure, Terrence Mann did a great job as well with the softness of one and the brutality of the other that Lee set up earlier before that brother Day turned into brother Dusk

Then you must be really impressed by Tricia Helfer from BSG,

@@johnpauljones9310 Haven't watched enough of it to really appreciate it, but I do plan on sitting down and binging the series soon.

Lmao same.

Same XD

Bruh

This entire series gave me such good Stellaris vibes.

I've never heard of this series before stumbling onto this clip today... but I have 2,200 hours in Stellaris, so now I feel like I have to watch it.

ALL OF THIS!!!

i dont think its more brutal than cold blood killing

I'm pretty sure killing billions is the most brutal part.

@@mcblaze1968 Given that this line came AFTER billions were murdered tells you (the audience) and the messengers that it meant NOTHING to them. Billions died and it is NOTHING to them. THAT is brutal.

Arguably the most important part of the scene was this quote.

@Aung Ramen I agree that it's boring but thats because it's de beginning of the building of the next empire so lot's of settling and little fighting. The empire storyline will be interesting until the sack of trantor.

Funnily enough, it's also completely original. It doesn't exist in the books.

Ya, always waiting for the next Cleon scene. That's an interesting story line and series of recurring characters.

That's cause in this massacre of the books... the Empire is the only "original" part while all the Foundation stuff is ruined

They really should have made a show only about the empire and cleons storyline

Here🙋🏾‍♂️

YES

To be honest, this is the first time I've seen him as a human!

Nope he won't since he hated dragonkind from lord of the rings lol

@@kegancampbell3604 good one.

Great reference there.

@@Perfectblue33 Hi This show was recommended to me by a friend. Do you do the entire upload? I would be interested in watching. Please response.

Ironic that, after all these decades of seeing George Lucas's Galactic Empire destroy worlds, it is only now that it's inspiration, Asimov's Galactic Empire (NOT Frank Herbert's) does the same.

@@daniels7907 Well, Asimov is the Tolkien of science fiction. Everyone can acknowledge that, but it's equally hard to make a film that does him justice. I really hope this series works out.

@@godiseverything1482 Uploading an entire episode is tricky. KZhead can and is allowed to remove and ban this account.

Very true

The acting and art department were definitely outclassing about half of the writing. I like the Cleon stuff and the foundation stuff minus the space pirates.

@@daemonelectricity the Cleon storyline I feel had the bulk of the writing. It also had a decent weight in showing you what it meant to be Cleon and what it was to have a soul

Asimov said that when he went back and reread the Foundation trilogy, he was amazed at how little action there actually was in books.

The art department deserves every award out there for this series. Brilliant work!

I am glad i can give you those moment. Enjoy them while they last!

If it aint broke don't fix it.

Jack Vance father of the space opera said once a culture develops a technology they never stop using it. He had space explorers setting up camp and burning alien wood on habitable alien worlds rather than overly rely on technology when they didn’t have to

@@yseson_ but they simply couldn't but a bag over the peoples heads before they got hung. They had to use some nano tech

Just like shotguns lol

I think its bc it has a symbolic important. Look at how the older emperors are executed, a lot more dignified and cleaner

The production value is high with this one.

Probably the only good actor on the show lol

@@Coolhalo How dare you say that when Lee Pace and Richard Harris are right there

@@Coolhalo Probably dumbest comment in the world lol

@@annaens2345 the show has terrible acting

Well noticed. Don't know if it holds up over time but you have a good eye.

Such a good observation and a huge testament to the subtlety of Lee Pace's acting.

It's the gesture used by all the Cleons, right the way back to Cleon the first, like the Royal Wave used by the British Royal family. It's just that when these Cleons use it, it becomes so much more sinister

He performed Shakespeare at his alma mater and has performed on stage extensively throughout his career.

I suggest 'Halt and Catch Fire'; great show where he plays a main role, and he does it very well (better than in Foundation, where he overacts a bit at times, imo). The rest of the cast is great too.

Authoritarian powerful rulers are supposed to be larger than life, overacting is a given to create a show for the masses

@@meansend2657 I definitely agree with you there! Lee is phenomenal here and I think this works for the ego that the Emperor portrays. You don't have much theatricality today for sure.

@@Yarblocosifilitico overacting actually works in Lee's favor during this scene. The Emperor is all about spectacle and power. He loves the attention and naturally wants to make a scene to show his people he means business. It's a power play, and it honestly works here. 🤷‍♀️

I so hated Demerzel for killing Cleon XIV Cleon XIII completed the the spiral walk thing, and was wise enough to want to spare his "son." Too bad the second season skipped quite a lot of time. Would have wanted to more of cleon the 13th. I so wanted him to be furious and take action against Demerzel and Dusk after they killed Day

​@arcadicus_ezevius At the end of the day, they are beholden to Demerzel even though they fail to realise this

Hell I thought I was watching dunce the rebooted version

Wonder why

Magnanimous voice: ENGANGED

Beat me to it..

Funny, I only ever see him with platinum blonde hair and elvish ears…

The emperor protects

I'm a newbie to this but you guys are talking about 40k lore right?

@@TigerHawX yup...more specifically the speech when exterminatus is performend on one planet.

@@DreamskyDance wow okay cause that shit sounds awesome..I remember playing a Warhammer game for ps2 or ps3 I don't remember but you played as a Brolic ass soldiers stomping out orcs in a massive Galactica scale war with spaceships that looked like massive flying cathedrals it was pretty fucking epic.

Well said🙂🌸

Well he did say it was the Emperor’s Peace they were giving so…

It is better to die for the Emperor then to live for yourself.

And twice on Fridays!

Just like M. Bison

40k imperium do it much faster with their technology, bombarding like above take too much time and the effect hardly scrach the surface of that planet

Already? Sweet! Do they often greenlight other seasons before they're finished airing?

@@docb8324 Well the first season of foundation was an sucess of audience in first 3 episodes, of course they will renew.

@@docb8324 they have done that to a few shows since 2020

The hardcores hate the show. But they hate most things when a franchise is not a beat by beat replica of dated works. I think “purists” and “hardcore” are actually stuck in the past. And they hinder growth and development in great franchises. They tend to act like the works are biblical and have to be verbatim. Any artist, designer, creative will tell you when opportunity allows, push the creative further when possible. I know the series is not near the books but it is clear the books were dated and far too cerebral. I love where the show is going and it’s much needed right now. But also I look at it this way - it’s fun when books and shows don’t completely mirror one another. Gives more content and possibilities. We will hear much more bemoaning for the “purists” next week when Dune launches. Be ready.

@@zanith56 You do not have to be "purist" or "hardcore" to know it have next to nothing connection with the books..Just like the Discworld series for example (The Watch) It was obvious at the beginning to make a decent adaptation from the books gonna be extremely hard (afterall they are not actionpacked sci-fi) and they failed big time....Visually stunning, storywise wtf, wokewise hell yeah....

not since GW is trying to get rid of its fandom.

I'd rather a live action Battletech

Yes please.

Isn't Eisenhorn in production?

I would to see a series , there is just too many stories for a movie but maybe a series based around a select major characters from 40k

A coordinated framing of each other? don't think so

I think it was Hari Seldon. I think he hired the two guys to take down the sky bridge knowing the emperor would be incompetent blame those two and destroy their worlds thereby making Terminus safer. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I think before the show's over that's what's going to come out.

@@tena2sweet Yeah I agree, it makes the most sense.

It was Hari who orchestrated this. He created the conditions and then set things in motion with the inciting indicent.

@@tena2sweet sadly i don't disagree but that makes Hari an equal monster to any of the Dynasty, makes you wonder what he ever took objection to.

For sure! They're doing a awesome (underrated) job with the nuance in that part of the series.

O .ok

Trantor's bureaucracy in effect xD

The roman legions exterminating the Dacians because the emperor had to "balance the books". :)

@@ivanmilanov8386 Poftim? Sunt foarte inițiat în istoria României și nu am aflat niciodată de asta

@@Thyberien But now that i think about it the comparisson might not be that good. :)

@@Thyberien He's talking about the Roman Empire

Thank you for the good comment. I need to read the books again

This actually explain why anacreon thought of the foundation tech as god like tools. After having their world completely destroyed yhe descendant of those who survived probably forgot about advanced tech and when introduced to them by the foundation it looks to them like magic.

@@arielathomo229 just like in the books.

Stop spoiling :D

@@ivanmilanov8386 The books were published 80-70 years ago. Nearly everyone watching these videos are younger than the Foundation series.

No. Exterminatus is actually rarely executed.

When I saw this scene, I thought the Empire was going at this all wrong. What does killing 2 worlds do for the Empire actions of a couple individuals? Nothing but a brief moment of fear and a lot more new enemies that will bide their time towards the goal of bringing down the Empire. Also, both ambassadors kept constantly insisting their worlds had nothing to do with it, even through the Empire's torture. At that point, if I was in the Empire's shoes, I would then say, "You say you're people weren't responsible, then prove it. Under penalty of (what just happened to in this scene) your planets must pay Trantor half of their total GDP until they themselves find the group responsible for these attacks and send them over the the Empire. They will be interrogated and then made an example of. The planets will have their GDP reparaitions halved upon confirmation that these are the guys responsible (No random farmers who had nothing to do with it. You try to pull that, then this scene will happen). That tax will then continue another 100 years, and upon the complete payment of that tax with no late payments, all will be forgiven. Late payments, non-payments, or presenting people not responsible, then this scene will play out." That way you can greatly extract resources from these 2 worlds while the burden is on them to find the one's responsible as the incentive is to try to reduce the burdensome tax enacted on them. Also, I just realized that the way Seldon is able to predict so many constantly changing variables in the galaxy so well, is because of Empire himself. He is the only constant in the centuries of calculations and actions of individuals. Since the genetic dynasty is practically the same person, then they will behave the same way to every situation. He is the only individual that you can predict the actions of, and thereby compare in Seldon's math calculations on how the empire will fall.

@@Silverraptorvideos Exactly! Empire is a persistent variable, and that lack of stability is, to him, a strength, but as Seldon correctly noted, when things do not change, they lead to stagnation, and empires that stagnate eventually turn in on themselves.

@@aslyn8943 By creating a perfect unchanging emperor, they leave the empire nothing to hope for. The leader will never be kinder, he will never be fairer, he will never change his mind or try something new and daring, he'll be what he always has been. Since the Empire cannot change, anyone who hopes for change must hope for the death of the Empire and its leader. They have set themselves up for failure.

@@jarowan Exactly right. And I suspect that's part of the basis for Hari Seldon's 'darkness': he sees the stagnation, the revolution that follows, and the downfall of an Empire that refuses to grow or adapt.

Jahaha... Asimov would NOT appreciate the changes! The series focuses so much on individual actions. However the empire is doomed to fail because it's time had come. Irrespective of individual actions. Because that is the nature of all civilizations.

Lee Pace is from Oklahoma, not Britain though haha

@@nunyabusiness4752 he's hwhat?!?

​@@nunyabusiness4752Pace gives off the aura of British arrogance

Meh

It's a hard game for sure!

Thanks for your nice comment. Have a wonderful day!

You have it the other way around. 40k's Imperium is based on the Foundation's Imperium. Down to even the techpriests. Azimov's works predate Warhammer 40k by about thirty years.

@@nikinikolov6570 hmmm you got me wrong there, I know this, but there is a clear inspiration from 40k in this, and in Dune tbh, it's like Captain Atom and Dr. Manhattan, were Manhattan was the copy, but the copy influenced the origial it self.

@@nikinikolov6570 I'm surprised GW haven't tried to claim copyright infringement.

@@runnre 40k is basically every sci fi story ever written put into one universe. Starship troopers (the novel as well as the movie) foundation, dune, aliens, etc.

@@yeneraras7403 I know..?

is it?

@@JudgeDreddMegaCityOne Yeah the diplomats have failed, diplomacy is dead. They don't even seem to know if they were responsible for this, so their people possibly died from a false accusation. To strike is devastating but not enough to kill everyone so is not even a mercy kill/justice kill its revenge. So many more layers to it, the young learning from the old the ways of violence. Its very 9/11 from the crater of the terrorist attack a strike is made cheered on by the people without them even knowing who is actually responsible because empire demands payback or the system fails

@@JudgeDreddMegaCityOne Also the robot maid gets to relive the murder of her people in way, the defeat of rebellion so many beautiful moving parts its awesome. You can imagine her experiencing the humans cheering in the same way the destruction of her people

Did not see that one. Thank you!

Read the books.

Would you shave your armpits if you were the most powerful man in the galaxy

Found the traitor.

Nice reference to one of the iconic enemy of the foundation.

Nice reference to the Aurelian Total War trailer, too.

@@arielathomo229 General Bel Riose was born around 100-150 years after the founding of the First Foundation.

@@ALwinDigital at the time of hober mallow, yes. What is your point ??

Yack Deculture

Dolza reappears

Thank you for your insight. I learn something every day. Have a wonderful day!

@@Perfectblue33 hence why the command to put them on was "Shroud Them".

I have the feeling we are living in a simulation. Thanks for commenting. Have a wonderful day!

A drop that high would rip your head off completely. It's happened in botched hangings and they were only using a drop of about 10' at most.

Um Tom hiddleston is Loki

They only "nuked" half the planet on each side. But yeah. i can see the resemblance. I checked your channel. Thank you for your comment!

@@Perfectblue33 You are welcome.

😺

He brought the dead to life. Now it's the opposite

For sure

Yeah, I can't see how this would not trigger an immediate secession, rebellion, or civil war. If the empire does this to any world for a transgression, then it could do it to yours too. Only a fool would stick around and wait for your home to be glassed like this.

What was a repercussion for Charlie Hebdo attack?

@@Sebastianek1990 They were told that they were very naughty! That was about it.

@@strangelee4400 To say it least insulting ... leadership in some countries suffer from a lack of sense of reality but then again leadership is a reflection of upper classes of society.

@@Sebastianek1990 wtf does have to with anything

That’s because Asimov never wrote this. This is a liberty taken by the show’s creators to “modernize” things.

@@taw1967 Looks like. I've read most of Asimov, and this is pretty far outside his style. I'll watch... but I just hope they don't make it "woke". Grrrr

Did this happen in the novels I don’t remember this at all but I could be wrong

@@MrScrillaforprez I think it was added. It doesn't seem like anything Asimov would write. Not at all.

Lol I wasn’t sure, I had read them so long ago. Shoe looks good just not like foundation beyond Hari and stuff. Thanks

The whole season so far is outstanding! Really worth checking out. See my channel for more clips.

Honestly when you bomb the capitol of the empire...wtf do you expect? A strong worded letter?

i agree with you. I find this one of the best SF series in recent years.

If you are saying this then it means you have not watched The Expanse. If that is true, GO FUCKING WATCH THE EXPANSE!!!!!!! Watching all five seasons and then coming to Foundation is unreal

@@Wodz30 I will be uploading clips from season 6 from the Expanse. Last season.

Well to be fair he has two major armour that makes is suit useless. A body force field and healing nanobots

really what they'd be speaking would probably have drifted so far from what we consider, in this example, english, unless they really went mad with trying to preserve the language. If not then you'd have to imagine it as us hearing a translated version of what they're saying because otherwise, the language drift would result in a very different sounding language.

Azimov was a huge fan of Edward Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". ;)

Not so surprising, 2000 years later people still speak Latin

@@ivanmilanov8386 "...of the Roman empire."

@@simonmultiverse6349 Ah yes, thanks. I fixed it. :)

Thank you for your nice comment. Have a wonderful day!

It's a big difference. I agree with you. I still think this is one of the best SF series out there at this moment.

Like Handmaid tale ? The series of Handmaid tale it´s very different from the single book and it´s great, so great that won many emmys. ´´But it´s not faithful to the books´´. No, the foundation series and Handmaid tale shows are faithful in therms of main plotline and messages, they only additionned much more material in the characters and tecnology and the universe of foundation, because let´s face it, if they adapted literally the first book of foundation, would be only 4 or 5 episodes and the first book it´s short in therms of character development.

That would be my question - does it capture the spirit and intelligence of the books ? If not, the it's just generic sci fi spectacle - yawn. If they stayed true to what Asimov's vision ( which is as clever as the Dune books) then it's something special. I would like to see Foundation and Empire, to see how they adapt the Mule, but if it's garbage otherwise I'll leave the rest. Cheers.

It's pretty good. I haven't reads the books, and I've heard the show deviates from the source material. But I've enjoyed the 4 episodes out so far. Might be worth checking out when it's available via other platforms for purchase. It's supposedly the first depiction of a galactic empire in science fiction, so thinking that this inspired everything from Dune, to Star Wars, and more is pretty interesting. Trantor is basically Coruscant in Star Wars. A city planet that is several levels deep with a space elevator. The clone emperor triality is an interesting concept as well. Clones of the last emperor raising and training the next generations of clones to rule effectively indefinitely.

We shall see what season 2 does.