I was already expecting some kind of timeskip due to the nature of the show, but having everything jump forward 100 years was certainly a surprise!
We were speculating that it might work as a kind of linked anthology following the structure of the original stories—a different crisis each season—but I had no expectation of most of the developments in the intervening decades, including the quite impressive latest nonsense from the Cleons. The continuity of Poly made both of us happy. Meanwhile I don't know whose id is driving the minor casting, but we are now two for two on dillweed Foundation Directors I would die for; this season is slightly cheating since I did have a prior liking for Oliver Chris ever since One Man, Two Guvnors, but I didn't know he was in the cast and therefore spent the entire first board meeting staring really hard at Sef Sermak. The pace of the second season is a lot more breakneck so far, but it has correctly recognized that there's almost no point in casting Jared Harris if you aren't going to emotionally rough him up.
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We were speculating that it might work as a kind of linked anthology following the structure of the original stories—a different crisis each season—but I had no expectation of most of the developments in the intervening decades, including the quite impressive latest nonsense from the Cleons. The continuity of Poly made both of us happy. Meanwhile I don't know whose id is driving the minor casting, but we are now two for two on dillweed Foundation Directors I would die for; this season is slightly cheating since I did have a prior liking for Oliver Chris ever since One Man, Two Guvnors, but I didn't know he was in the cast and therefore spent the entire first board meeting staring really hard at Sef Sermak. The pace of the second season is a lot more breakneck so far, but it has correctly recognized that there's almost no point in casting Jared Harris if you aren't going to emotionally rough him up.