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The title comes from the article, but I agree with some of these changes. It's making for an engaging show that also feels modern.

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[–] schroedingershat@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There's also the bit where we have at least two "universe's most special boy/girl" characters upon whom everything hinges repeatedly when the entire point kf the psycho-history concept is that major events like that happen one way or another regardless of the specific details.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also, "the entirety of psychohistory and the Foundation hinges on us storming X place with guns and explosives in the next fifteen minutes!"

Ugh. Yuck. Hard pass. Go home, Goyer, you're drunk (on the aroma of your own emissions).

[–] Noughmad@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That is in the books too. It's called a "Seldon crisis", where the Foundation has only one possible way forward as means of keeping it close to the original plan.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But the Seldon Crises don't depend on the coin toss of whether or not they manage to infiltrate a stronghold and deactivate the thingamajig kajigger in the next fifteen minutes.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It's been a while since I've read them, but as I remember, the entire definition of a crisis is some moment that depends on a coin toss or some individual acting correctly. The books narrate exactly the moments where there can exist some heroes.

They are just calmer than the series.

You say that yet in reality, psychohistory dictates that they WILL be the universes most special people. They aren't mutually exclusive, they're patiently entwined. Not even getting into the latter books and how that shows the truth of it.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Which would be fine if the magic pixie dream girl wasn't insufferable as hell and had a terrible actress.

The needed the mystery to follow Gaal without her being in the story, just a legend they searched the galaxy for.