I've only watched the first couple of episodes so far. And so far, I'm disappointed.
Right off the bat they changed two of the major male characters, Gaal Dornik and Salvor Hardin, into women. I think there's some law in Hollywood that every TV series today has to have women in the roles of the primary movers and shakers. This seems rather unnecessary in this case as the original novels already had a female character as the major mover for one of the three books, Arkady Darell. Well, maybe one wasn't enough. This political correctness isn't revolutionary and profound any more. It's predictable and tedious.
Some have complained that they also changed the race of many characters. Actually I don't recall the novels mentioning anyone's skin color. Correct me if I'm wrong, it's been years since I read the books. So whatever.
The first episode begins with a dumb monologue by Gaal Dornik in which he/she attempts profound comments about how "this story became my story ... our story". And along the way she mentions "the Mule". Which makes no sense, as in the books anyway, Dornik died centuries before the Mule was born and the whole point of the second book was that no one anticipated the mule.
They changed the Time Vault from a simple setup where people heard pre-recorded messages from the founder of Terminus explaining his plan into some strange mystical something.
Minor spoiler here, I'll be deliberately vague: A key plot point of the first few chapters of the book is that Salvor Hardin discovers that Hari Seldon's plan was nothing like what everyone thought it was. But in the TV show, everyone seems to understand the real plan completely from go.
And, well, et cetera. This isn't one of those movies that is supposedly based on a book but in fact has nothing to do with the book. They did sort of follow the book. It's close enough to be recognizable, but different enough to be annoying.
On a different subject, I don't like the special effects. They are overly complicated-looking and very dark, so it is difficult to see what the objects are supposed to be or what is happening.
Right off the bat they changed two of the major male characters, Gaal Dornik and Salvor Hardin, into women. I think there's some law in Hollywood that every TV series today has to have women in the roles of the primary movers and shakers. This seems rather unnecessary in this case as the original novels already had a female character as the major mover for one of the three books, Arkady Darell. Well, maybe one wasn't enough. This political correctness isn't revolutionary and profound any more. It's predictable and tedious.
Some have complained that they also changed the race of many characters. Actually I don't recall the novels mentioning anyone's skin color. Correct me if I'm wrong, it's been years since I read the books. So whatever.
The first episode begins with a dumb monologue by Gaal Dornik in which he/she attempts profound comments about how "this story became my story ... our story". And along the way she mentions "the Mule". Which makes no sense, as in the books anyway, Dornik died centuries before the Mule was born and the whole point of the second book was that no one anticipated the mule.
They changed the Time Vault from a simple setup where people heard pre-recorded messages from the founder of Terminus explaining his plan into some strange mystical something.
Minor spoiler here, I'll be deliberately vague: A key plot point of the first few chapters of the book is that Salvor Hardin discovers that Hari Seldon's plan was nothing like what everyone thought it was. But in the TV show, everyone seems to understand the real plan completely from go.
And, well, et cetera. This isn't one of those movies that is supposedly based on a book but in fact has nothing to do with the book. They did sort of follow the book. It's close enough to be recognizable, but different enough to be annoying.
On a different subject, I don't like the special effects. They are overly complicated-looking and very dark, so it is difficult to see what the objects are supposed to be or what is happening.