Please no book spoilers in this thread. This thread can contain TV spoilers up to season 2 episode 2.
Air Date: July 21st 2023
Posted this in another /c but disappointed by this season, Lee and Jared are doing what they can but the writing is brutal, too many threads not enough setting, 2 episodes on synnax, the most boring planet in the galaxy with 0 population, and how is that one building somehow floating for hundreds of years with hurricanes like that so common that someone who left as a teen knows how to predict them?
Adding the mule arc early didn’t seem like a great solution to not closing threads coherently, we just went from an 8 thread jumble to a 12 thread jumble.
There’s one payoff I’m waiting for and that’s demerzel, but they can’t pull that till later, so we are stuck with interempire-rivalry with that girl added in.
They didn’t exactly add the mule arc early, though, given that his existence is only revealed by precognition.
I think it’s nice that the Mule isn’t so unique and unexpected in the TV series, actually. Seldon didn’t account for this kind of “psychic” capability in his equations, but now that he’s actually doing experimental psychohistory stuff like this is starting to pop out of the woodwork and reveal itself through glitches in the original plan. I suspect this is a benefit of working from a completed series rather than making up the series one book at a time like Asimov did, you can know ahead of time what to foreshadow.
