I'll move on if I sit tight

[sovay]

Tonight in a move of true insult to injury, our dishwasher which we never use tried to flood the kitchen. Many towels were sacrificed. Many floorboards were mopped. We shut off the water under the sink, pulled the plug for good measure, and bailed out the inside of the dishwasher, but suspect we will need to call for a plumber no matter what. For consolation, we watched the first four episodes of Apple TV+'s Foundation (2021–). I wish Patricia McKillip were alive so I could tell her how formatively she imprinted me for millennially long games.

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[sovay]

He went out a hero, at least, but I didn't want him to go out at all!

"You wished us home."

brb augh forever

Otherwise spatch and I just watched the first-season finale which had the pleasure of confirming at least one of our evolved theories, surprising us in several other directions, and seriously Hari would it kill you to tell anyone the entire truth at any one time, oh, wait, no, it wouldn't, you are literally dead, you can risk it. (I'm sorry, it sounded inspirational, but you cannot have curated the Terminus settlers. Psychohistory by definition does not work down to the individual level! You got luck of the draw on who was willing to follow you into exile! They may be the seeds of a new civilization, but that's tautology, not prognostication!)

[sholio]

The finale was a lot of fun! I love how the plot is unpredictable without feeling unplanned; it's fun to guess where it's going and be proven right, or not. Hari definitely needs to start telling people more than one (1) thing at a time.

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!

[sovay]

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.

[sholio]

YEP, I was completely gone for Sef Sermak within approximately one (1) board meeting and figured you would be too. The fact that he's an utter softy for his adorable daughter helps tremendously. (Edit: It may interest you to know that one of the main fanfic ideas I want to write for this show involves him.)

Jared Harris as a scruffy disaster this season pleased me enormously. Watching him diverge from both his previous self and Vault Hari is fascinating. I also thoroughly enjoyed the Hari-Gaal-Salvor Road Trip From Hell.

[sovay]

(Edit: It may interest you to know that one of the main fanfic ideas I want to write for this show involves him.)

I fully support this plan.

(I haven't seen as much of her other dad yet, but I love Constant and her riding bishop's claw and her relationship with Poly and I will be extremely unhappy if anything happens to any of them.)

Disaster Hari is a treasure. [edit] spatch and I agree that his arc last season was fucking around and this season it looks to be finding out.

[sholio]

spatch and I agree that his arc last season was fucking around and this season it looks to be finding out.

I can only agree with this. <3