Re:When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Asimov’...
by rsynnott on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:47AM
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> My greatest gripe with the show is that none of the writers seem to have any understanding of science, technology and have only a vague understanding of sociology
> but every other plotline seems to just happen because of pseudo-magic.
I mean, you could say the same of the original books! Asimov obviously did have a good understanding of science, but it is not meaningfully on display in Foundation; psychohistory is _nonsense_, and that's before you get to the 'atomics'. Foundation wasn't (and wasn't intended to be) rock-hard sci-fi, and that's okay.
> but every other plotline seems to just happen because of pseudo-magic.
I mean, you could say the same of the original books! Asimov obviously did have a good understanding of science, but it is not meaningfully on display in Foundation; psychohistory is _nonsense_, and that's before you get to the 'atomics'. Foundation wasn't (and wasn't intended to be) rock-hard sci-fi, and that's okay.