Well two episodes of utter crap. WAY too many story changes and the character of Gaal is WAY too important and being given "chosen one" vibes. The clone Emperor idea is stupid and undermines the overall story as does even having the character of Denzareel. This to me felt very disrespectful and demeaning to Asimov's work.
like i said, never read these asimov books, but i get where you are coming from. why i had to stop watching LAST KINGDOM, why I get intense when i watch stuff on history that is so bent away from the actual history-- too much distortion
i did read the wiki on the book series, and i can see that the show is much diff from the books. i don't see how a series could ever contain what the books do? I know things can stay much truer to the original intent and storyline, i dont know why writers of today have to rearrange things so much
i also read where in the later FOUNDATION books written, Asimov 'unified' the Foundation literary 'universe' with that of several other of his works, putting them all into the same future history of Earth/Humanity... how does one make THAT into a tv show?
are any of these TV characters in the books? i see from the book wiki that there are 2 Foundations established by Seldon--could that be where that Rach guy is sending Galle in the escape pod? whatever.... idk, but again, i get what you are saying. if i rad the books, i probably would not even have tuned in at all
couple things on the tv bit:
i know asimov did cover anti science in some of the short stories of his i read, is the anti science of Galle's home word shown in the show also in the book?
whatever that case- i see the inclusion of this- mentioned so often "burned the universities, rejected science and math, math is a crime.." to be an intentional mirror of recent real world events. if asimov had this in his books, is this exaggerated in the show due to IRL events?
i see her planet's people as being science deniers and also being 100% "minority (per IRL)" as an issue that I don't know how made it on screen in today's SJW climate!
In the books, is there a general suspicion of science by the population of the empire, including the emperor, as shown in the show? to me, the people seem more content to be 'end users' of tech rather then to actually know how to use science and math. not as extreme as Galle's homeworld, but it is there
thanks