There’s much more to her participation than simply bearing witness to the Empire’s reaction to Seldon’s seditious theories. The television series digs deeper into this characterization for actor Lou Llobell’s version, making her a math prodigy from a deeply religious, scientifically repressed world. In the book, the predictive mathematics of psychohistory were explained to Gaal Dornick, a green recruit to the Seldon Project from a backwater planet. There’s plenty there to work with and expand upon. Hari Seldon (played by Jared Harris in the show) and his scientific predictions of the long-lived Galactic Empire’s fall, but then they quickly jump ahead 50 years to witness the decline through reports and visitors to the titular foundation, which seeks to preserve human knowledge during the inevitable dark ages to come. By its very nature, the Foundation narrative was composed primarily of exposition, dialogue, and events happening off-stage. The key lies in building upon the skeleton of the original Foundation trilogy, which in turn was formed from a series of short stories written in the 1940s. How can Apple TV+ take a story that spans centuries in a galactic empire with thousands of inhabited planets and make it accessible both to hardcore fans and to audiences unaccustomed to “space opera” sci-fi? When viewers watch the first two episodes of Foundation, set to release on September 24, they’ll see Asimov’s world come to life in an expansive yet character-driven vision that will please both groups. When considering the adaptation of a classic science fiction universe as massive as Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, the sheer scale of such an enterprise seems quite daunting. Click here to stream Foundation for free with a 7 day trial! Terms Apply.

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