Im lukewarm on it. I haven't read the book, and feel like a lot of things are going over my head. The issue Ive found sometimes when reading old classics, and especially sci fi classics is they feel really tropey - because those works invented/started the tropes. Kind of feels like what's happening here.
Books plural, it was written as a trilogy and then Asimov went back and wrote 2 prequels and 2 sequels almost 50 years later
Their also very dense. I feel like if you wrote Foundation or Dune in the modern era, book 1 would’ve been dragged out into 7 individual novels. Granted Foundation is very thin but it’s still dense.
Way too many questions from episode two last moments that were mostly ignored in episode three. Or did I miss something?
I have read the trilogy several times over the years. And I've watched the first two eps. The show is good, but only has a passing resemblance to the source material. They've taken the overall story arch, and made the rest out of whole cloth. For example, the character Gaal is only a passing character in the first book without a lot of backstory that I recall. They've made him (now a her) central. And the Emperor characters? Not really a thing in the book.
I gave up after the 5th episode. Just not doing it for me. The Emperor characters not being in the book is disappointing. That was one of the more interesting aspects of the show imo .
The books are great. Peak Asimov. You may be unaware, but Asimov also ghost-wrote CW Longbottom's Nebula Award-winning "Tears of Anaren".
I am five episodes in and really enjoying it. I never read the books. I can't help but wonder if the lack of faithfulness to the books is causing the divide in opinions about this show, because having no expectations I am enjoying most of the plot elements that people are saying weren't in the books.
I didn’t realize there was a thread for this show I like it, but it’s not the best thing ever I really enjoy the dawn, day, dusk idea, and think that has been the strongest storyline my fear is this is becoming such a complex story, and it will end up getting canceled before they can tie it up
God damn that speech Day had with Azura. Flick of the wrist and locking her inside her head for the rest of her life sheesh.
They’ve introduced arcs early, such as references to The Second Foundation, while First Foundation is just getting to its second crisis. I’ve read the books several times and I’m having trouble with the story pacing and non-sequential introduction of book events.
Really enjoying it so far, but I love stuff that spans long periods of time like this. Not a huge fan of Gaal, but I think that might be intentional by the writers. She trusts anyone who is willing to feed her God complex. Raych should have stuck the knife in her imo. I do enjoy that there seems to be almost no good guys, only power hungry egotistical maniacs.
It felt a little all over the middle few episodes this season, but this last episode was really good going to be really mad if this ends up getting cancelled. I really like this
Started tonight and only 2 episodes in. Love the idea and scale. Makes me hopeful apple or HBO will pick up Red Rising in time.
I struggled getting myself to watch and connect the first 4 or 5 episodes of this year, but damn when it started coming together this is super good.
This one's up next after we finish catching up on FAM. Heard season 1 was kind lost and messy and season 2 is great television. Accurate?
season 1 was awesome. Season 2 was all over the place at the beginning but is coming together last few episodes and really good I really like this show
Not accurate from my perspective. Season 1 was surprisingly great and easy to understand. season 2 was a little harder to reconcile all the pieces but now that it has come together it’s great.
Finished s1 last night. I'll give it a 7/10 and definitely watch s2 but... They clearly found money for the scope and effects of the show by not paying great actors. I really like Laura Birn, Hari, and Day, but most of the other major actors are pretty average. Salvin and Hugo have all the chemistry of 2 wet paper bags. Dawn is meh. I'm not crazy about the writing for most of them.
I’m on S1 ep 4 and still have no idea wtf is going on. The time jumps are baffling me and the warden girl’s hair infuriates me
Gale and Salvo’s actresses are both not good. Through 4 episodes of season 2 and the Siwenna set where they intro the clerics is It’s A Small World quality. Given the scope of so much of the show, when it’s bad, it seems absolutely terrible.