Fri

--   "Kelly & Mark"

--   1:40p  Bed

--   8:55a  Up

--   9:35a  "Loot" (07/29/22);  Breakfast @home: PB&T

>>> 11:08a  "Foundation" (09/24/21)  (Metacritic: 62, -100, #25)

Dr. Hari Seldon and a small group of believers seek to preserve human knowledge and save civilization after he predicts the end of the Galactic Empire in this sci-fi series supposedly based on the novels 

by Isaac Asimov, but one reviewer said it doesn’t have much to do with Asimov’s book aside from using the same title and the same character names.

~~  One review said it "is a breathtakingly bold undertaking that will dazzle just as much as it confounds, and lays its own foundation for what may prove the most ambitious television yet." 

But another said, "Disrespectful and meaningless nonsense."

~~  I haven't read the source material, so I won't be distracted by the differences but people who

have read the original thought the original was great -- so why couldn't the producers stick to it?

~~  It starts off a bit badly by the narrator saying the planet is unsettled by man, and then we

see there is a colony.  They could have said "mostly unsettled" or "unsettled except for a small colony."

A bigger question, I don't know if it will be answered, is, if the planet is at the farthest reaches

of the galaxy, what would bring people here -- with children.

~~  I'm not sure if I got the answer from the first episode, but maybe it's properly called unsettled

because the colonists are there for a certain purpose, bit it's not to have a society that can support 

itself -- it probably depends on receiving supplies externally.

~~  I'm not sure if the difference from the novels are significant enough.  For example, the main character

in the show is female, but was male in the novel.  I will try to watch the remaining episodes during

the free trial but I don't know  if it will be worth it.  What bothers me the most is the ponderous dialog and

what I'll call mediaeval costumes mixed in with extreme scientific advances, similar to "Dune".

--   2:30p  "Loot" (08/05/22)

--   3:25p  Leaving to bike, then pickup dinner @Pete's hot bar

--   4:54p  Inside after biking 3+2.  Dinner @home: catfish

--   5:43p  Inside after biking 2 mi;  ... "Survivor"

--   7:21p  "Inside Edition"

--   8:35p  "The View"

--   9:50p  "ET"

-- 10:19p  Skim Ch5 news

-- 11:23p  "Kelly & Mark"

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