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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I like both. The novels are good, but would not work today - they have been writen in the 50s and it Shows.

The series might have slow points, but I really like the emperors and the genetic dynasty, great storytelling device.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think the novels would've worked regardless of time. The whole point of Foundation as a series was that there's no real protagonist in the series; the society as an aggregate works in a certain way as dictated by the rules of psychohistory. The concept wouldn't have translated into a good TV show.

The show that we got is more of a generic space action, which has some interesting parts, but meh for most of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I think it's just easier to write the hero's journey instead of systems. GoT was good at the latter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like both. The novels are good, but would not work today - they have been writen in the 50s and it Shows.

"Her breasts were a smaller version of the woman herself -- massive, firm, and overpoweringly impressive." -Isaac Asimov

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

TIL making fun of writers for talking about women as sexual objects is 'sex bad.'