With Foundation Season 3 in the rearview, we attempt to take a holistic look at the entire season and put it all into perspective, not just within the show but its production. Spoilers to come as usual!We're joined by Travis Johnson, Friend of Stars End, formerly of the Black Alert Podcast and Star Trek Podigy, both Star Trek Podcasts, and much more!I feel like we're crawling from the wreckage. Travis, however, enjoyed the season and was looking forward to discussing it! I hope we didn't bring him down.But where are we? The Genetic Dynasty? Gone! Demerzel? Melted! The Luminists, Cloud Dominion, and the Galactic Council? Devastated! David Goyer and a lot of the creative staff? Shuffled off! Roxann Dawson? We don't know!Yet, the robot head we're calling Giskard has WiFi, and it looks like robots writ large will become an important force in what's to come.Season 4 has officially been greenlit, but will we actually see it? And is there hope for the narrative going forward? Once again, we try to puzzle it all out! Join us!And don't forget to vote for this year's Hari Awards for Foundational Excellence! Polls close on October 11th!
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Stars End S6E11 - The Darkpodcastness
Hoo boy! That was one hell of a season finale, wasn't it? You may have noticed that none of us were exactly bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as we remonstrated about Foundation's Season 3, Episode 10, "The Darkness."Spoiler Alert, as usual. Of course, you can listen without watching first, but this one needs to be seen to be believed.But there were small photons of light trying to break through the shroud; we were joined for our conversation by Cora Buhlert, the 2022 winner of the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. Cora has an incandescent and extensive collection of commentary and fiction. Want to check it out? Start at her blog, CoraBuhlert.com! Her latest foray into fiction is "Queen of the Communist Cannibals," published in Cliffhanger Magazine.And speaking of cannibals, how about that David Goyer? Okay, "cannibal" might not be entirely fair, but he recently said that one of the reasons he's stepping away from the show is that he "was having a hard time figuring out how to keep doing my vision of the show on a smaller budget." Is that what this is? Full Metal Belt-Tightening? Who needs to send out pink slips when you're writing the script?
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Stars End S6E10 - The Podcasts That Choose Us
In which we ruminate about Foundation, S3E09, "The Paths that Choose Us." Spoiler Alert, as if that wasn't obvious.If you thought that episode 8 was intense, this one was a philosophical gut punch after another.And they come, fast and powerful.We see the full extent of the Mule's power as Gaal tries to free Warden Greer.And we see Dusk, despite the "genetic drift," doing the most Cleonic Thing possible. If you thought the destruction of Anachreon and Thespis was intense, you'd better buckle up! Sad, alone, and desperate to matter, even his final meal is an act of spite.Demerzel is questioning. Rather than following an efficient, structured algorithm, a plethora of paths try to choose her. Can she find guidance in the Prime Radiant?And finally, Brother Dude has escaped the compost heap and is rushing toward the Imperial Palace with the Brazen Robot Head that we can only call Giskard for some reason. Can Giskard help him make amends with Demerzel? So watch the episode if you haven't yet, and then join us for the show! What does it all mean? We're teetering on the razor's edge. Come see where we fall! Let's GO!
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Stars End S6E09 - Skin in the Podcast
Join us for another barn burner of an episode as we look below the surface of Foundation, S3E08, “Skin in the Game!” Brother Dude goes on trial, Brother Dawn wakes up, and Brother Dusk is up to something so sinister that Demerzel is preconfessing. We're picking up speed as we slide into the inevitable conclusion! Also, what's up with Bayta? Don't miss this one!
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S6E08 - Podcast's End
Foundation, S3E07, "Foundation's End" is another episode that demands analysis! And has big revelations! Don't tell anyone, but I may have squeed. We have another special guest to help us wrap our heads around this one!Spoiler alerts, as usual. And don't let the title frighten you; we're not going anywhere!In this one, she names the robot that dare not speak its name. Plus, brother dude goes on a trip that makes 2001: A Space Odyssey seem tame in comparison! And a surreal fairy tale that probably has something to do with "the Mule's" backstory! A bit, a bit. To quote the great Hari Seldon, "Tragic story, I wonder how much of it is true."We're joined, once again, by Renaissance Man Extraordinaire, Paul Levinson! Since he was last on the show, Paul has published a short story, "In the Dybbuk's Pocket," and expanded the short story we discussed last time into a novel, It's Real Life: A Natural History of The Beatles. Paul and some friends did a reading from the novel at Big Red Books. You can check that out here!But first, join us for our deconstruction of what Paul calls 'by far the best of all the episodes (of Foundation) so far!" Once again, you don't want to miss this one! Let's GO!!
We’re a group of middle-aged guys who loved this series as teenagers. In season one we finished revisiting the original trilogy in anticipation of the TeeVee show.
Now that the show is here we won't just be enjoying it, we'll be bringing you our thoughts and predictions every week!
Hopefully, through this podcast, we'll bring you along for the ride. We want to do our part to bring this series to a new group of fans who are hopefully far more diverse than the three of us.
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