It’s hard to get a legitimate take on this show due to Apple fans. The consensus that I got was that it was not anything like the books, might be missing the point. But the veteran actors and Emperor plotlines are great while the new actors and Foundation plotline are weak.
I went through the book series again and was wondering if anything from the books does get adapted or is it pretty much the same as season 1?
I didn’t start watching until season 2 was even out, I’m a huge fan of the books and had zero faith they’d be able to do them justice. I just couldn’t see how a story spanning tens of thousands of years, with frequent lead character changes, could work for TV.
Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your view) they’ve taken an attitude of just changing whatever they want to create a fantastic (imo) scifi show. So yeah, as tiny_parking says, ignore the books (if you’ve read them). The TV bears only a passing resemblance, in that Hari Seldon / psychohistory is a main feature.
Tbh my biggest gripe… WTF did they do to Daneel Olivaw?! Now he’s a murderous psycho sexy fembot. Why. Whyyyyyyy. They could’ve created the Demerzel character and kept Olivaw as an antagonist for the good guys. One of my favourite characters from all scifi series, reduced to a murderous fembot.