News Foundation Adaptation Series Officially Ordered by Apple
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This doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence. In S2 the current writing team really felt like they'd hit their flow and I am still looking forward to S3, but inevitably a new writing/directing team will bring a change in style and it may not be for the better. You only have to look at some of ST: Discovery's early troubles to see what happens when you have a revolving door of showrunners with no clear vision.
I wonder what the internal politics of the whole situation are, just that Apple has decided to squeeze the budget and they can't make the show they want? Or maybe the execs not happy with the viewing figures and have imposed changes? I shudder to think.
That said, Goldberg has some really excellent stuff on his resume. So I guess we can cross our fingers, it's not like we'll be seeing S4 until about 2027 anyway.
I wonder what the internal politics of the whole situation are, just that Apple has decided to squeeze the budget and they can't make the show they want? Or maybe the execs not happy with the viewing figures and have imposed changes? I shudder to think.
That said, Goldberg has some really excellent stuff on his resume. So I guess we can cross our fingers, it's not like we'll be seeing S4 until about 2027 anyway.
Honestly as somebody that found the first to season to be somewhere between terrible and heresy, I can only say a new team can be an improvement.
But off my soap box...
If the show is renewed for a 4th Season and goes into "Foundation's Edge" it actually would be a good point for a new team. Asimov wrote that book a good 30 years after the original trilogy and the tone, length and manner of the book is completely different, so a new voice in charge isn't necessarily a bad thing and would be the perfect point for a natural turnover of BTS staff.
But off my soap box...
If the show is renewed for a 4th Season and goes into "Foundation's Edge" it actually would be a good point for a new team. Asimov wrote that book a good 30 years after the original trilogy and the tone, length and manner of the book is completely different, so a new voice in charge isn't necessarily a bad thing and would be the perfect point for a natural turnover of BTS staff.
Books 4 & 5 are basically one continuous adventure storyline, with the same core characters. You kinda would be doing a soft-reboot anyway if keeping to the books with no-need for any continuing characters but Demerzel (though easy enough to squeeze Hari in on a recurring basis similarly to how Quark was squeezed into a scene everytime a DS9 episode focused on the Command desk or didn't involve the Ferengi).
Foundation started as a string of intermittent periodicals in the pulp magazine Astounding Science fiction, but you knew that.
