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Foundation (2021)
Unsure of it
One thing which really annoyed me on it is in Foundation (the books) one of the central messages is basically individual characters actions do not matter. It is all the effect of the maths of populations. In the TV Shows it is ONLY individual people's Actions matter, of these individual people. That's completely inverting the message.
The other thing is the frequent Gender changes. While one might be acceptable, I think it's three now. And basically every important "positive" character asides from Seldon (who sort of comes out "reduced", Gale Dornick and Salvor Hardin seem to be more important than him - which is again a reversal) are female. They just overdid the gender changes (they had to do at least one, else they might have ended with a nearly completely male cast).
On the other hand it really has parts which makes it really a strong and great TV Series. Lots of twists, and the whole way the time/space "difference" happens - that's just bloody brilliant!
I also liked the Emperor Clones. Very nicely done.
What I found a bit bad still was how 2nd Foundation was handled. Basically it is very early given away that there is a 2nd Foundation - not the big reveal as in the books.
Bird Box (2018)
Great Movie!
There are two kinds of Horror Movies. As H.P. Lovecraft, old master of Horror once said, either afraid of the unknown or afraid of the known.
This is a "afraid of the unknown" kind of movie. I assume people giving it bad rating are the kind of viewers expecting cheap jump scares and some sort of monster popping up.
Some compared it to "A Quiet Place", naming that one as "the better movie". Myselves I found "A Quiet Place" a bit disappointing. This movie here great in contrast!
Krypton (2018)
Some Issues, but still fun to watch
My main issue is the time travel story. Yes, there are time paradoxons in time travel stories (of course!). But the way they did it is a reverse time travel paradoxon which defies logic.
Correct Time Travel Paradoxon:
1. We have someone from the future in a certain "state"
2. a time traveler goes back to prevent this "state"
Here we have the reverse. Adam Strange travels back to save Superman. But before he traveled back Superman would not EXIST. He would not have a REASON to travel back, if Superman only exists BECAUSE he traveled back. It only would work if he traveled back to PREVENT Superman from existing. Or if he traveled back from a future in which Superman did not exist (but then he would not know of him) to make him exist.
But without his actions (at least that's what the series claims) Superman would not exist. So in the "mainline" future he would not exist. And why then would he travel back, if Superman does not exist and he cannot know that he COULD exist?
Time Travel story does not mean to forget about all logic.
Still, the movie was fun to watch (first episode only right now).
I do not object to the British accents. Superman learned language from his Earth-parents, not from his Krypton-parents. So he can have a different accent than them (and actually he would speak not the same language, Superman speaks English, his Krypton-Parents speak the language of Krypton - which Adam Strange seems to have learned in some way, BTW? (Well, maybe Superman teached him, not much other candidates as teachers available... and appearently he spoke it good enough that nobody took him for a non-native-speaker...). Still I see this as a minor logic issue compared to the time travel one...