Now whenever I see an ad for a new show I buy the book due to the times we live in. I know Foundation is being done by Apple but forgive me for believing this will be like every modern day reboot. I saw a recent interview with the show runner and he said he wanted to make it for a “modern audience” which is a red flag as well as gender and race swapping. He said he checked with the Asimov estate. Too bad they all aren’t like Christopher Tolkien.
I don’t understand why they don’t just adapt the woke garbage that has won Hugo’s/Nebulas the last few years. I find it pretty ironic to hear the constant bashing of dead white male authors but they have no problem making money off their work.
And I know Wheel of Time is coming. I’m sure the critics will clap like seals about it but that showrunner has shown that he knows jack about the story.
I found Asimov’s use of English so jarring that it became an assignment instead of pleasure reading. He’s an atheist and his desperate desire to avoid religion or religious origin of words to cause the flow of the writing to stutter to me. I kept having to stop to use context to infer meaning to his words or phrases which became tiresome. Really in the end what I carried away is this is Asimov’s desire for a priesthood of scientists that would handout edicts and scraps of knowledge. I like the idea of creating a grand database of human knowledge so that as long as the universe survives and humanity as well then the progress is not lost to time. The issue becomes that people and institutions are corruptible. I’m sure it was addressed in later books but the tedious nature of the first book made me stop.
I got through the first book and a half of the Foundation trilogy. The dude could create a wonderful universe, but holy hell was he bad at writing characters I cared to read about. I don't even need to like your characters, but they should be interesting at the least.