(Image credit: Apple)Īnd characters who have returned are not always well served.

Here we see Brother Dawn, Brother Day, and Brother Dusk sitting on thrones. Plotlines that felt extremely significant in season one – such as the arc about a Brother Dawn falling in love and running away from the royal palace – are now merely mentioned in passing. Other shows, most notably 'Game of Thrones,' have featured a rapid churn of characters, but few have ripped things up and started again quite as 'Foundation' does here.

And, with an almost entirely new cast, you don't even get the safety net of familiar faces to anchor you to the story. As an entity, the Foundation is nebulous and tricky to define – not so much a place as an ideal – so it can be hard to get a handle on who's fighting whom and why. Meanwhile, a well-timed reawakening from cryosleep has allowed Hari's protégée, Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell), to come face-to-face with Salvor Hardin (Leah Harvey), former Warden of the Foundation on Terminus and the child Gaal never knew she had.įor much of this new run of episodes 'Foundation' remains ponderous and talky, the direction of travel frustratingly vague. However, when would-be assassins interrupt a very close encounter with robot aide/lover Demerzel (Laura Birn), his in-built paranoia is magnified. He now has plans to find himself a queen and produce an heir the old-fashioned way. There's a new Cleon in charge and – despite having DNA in common with his predecessors (he's still played by Lee Pace, of course) – this one's a little different. Most of this still applies when 'Foundation' season 2 picks up the story 138 years later.

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