Oliver Chris, my favorite National Theater confused boarding school bisexual, is in Foundation?!
The one and only! It is a very different part from anyone else I have seen him play and he's wonderful in it. The show seems to have a thing for obstructive bureaucrats who complicate human, so I feel a little bit personally attacked (me to sholio, two episodes into the second season: "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"), but Sef is a really nice example in that some of his complications are apparent on introduction and others require a push from the narrative to emerge. To list one of my favorites from the former category, he isn't his daughter's bio-dad. That's her other father, from whom she inherits a strong likeness in terms of build, coloring, planetarily distinctive violet eyes, and at least some of the traditions of the ethnic minority they both belong to (the names they use out-group are not their in-group given names; hers is the name she took with her novice's vows, Brother Constant). Sef just got smacked in the back of the head so hard by evolution the first time he looked into her eyes that he's still vibrating slightly to this day. It's a nice touch in its own right and part of the show's larger pattern of not being very heteronormative about families, even if it took until the second season to get two m/m couples in the main cast at once. I would hope the queerness would only continue to improve.
(I also hope your mouth stops hurting soon <33)
Thank you! I have just survived my first full day on regular intervals of nystatin! Not recommended unless you have a fungal infection in your mouth, but that I recommend even less!
In case it has not become obvious, I would recommend Foundation. It is simultaneously a full-tilt space opera cherry-picking its favorite tropes from the Golden Age of Science Fiction and tags from AO3 and a diversely written and freewheelingly inventive meditation on big questions like immortality and free will and the incremental business of building a better future into which the writers have put way more human interest than they could have gotten away with, given the incredible prettiness of the show. It has a sense of humor which is not based in meta-irony. It has only ever made one plot decision I really hate (although I really hate it). It should probably be approached as a remix of Asimov rather than any kind of normal adaptation, but I am enjoying the results and it does feel like it got what made the Foundation stories work, it just discarded everything else it wasn't interested in. It's the passion project of the showrunner who is a second-generation sf fan; he's also name-checked Gene Wolfe as an influence. The first season is a slow burn and the second is shot out of a cannon and I just want to find out what a third will look like. Also the AO3 situation is mystifyingly dire in that it is almost all smut about the clone emperors and I understand that one-third of them is played at any given time by Lee Pace, but even so.
[edit] Actually what I should be telling you is that this show has a superlative example of a girl with a morally ambiguous mentor (as opposed to a girl with a disaster mentor, of which a very fine example is also featured) and while I would not place any of the main female characters on the ferality index of Frances Hardinge, the mixed motives of the found family might rate Kage Baker vibes.
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The one and only! It is a very different part from anyone else I have seen him play and he's wonderful in it. The show seems to have a thing for obstructive bureaucrats who complicate human, so I feel a little bit personally attacked (me to
(I also hope your mouth stops hurting soon <33)
Thank you! I have just survived my first full day on regular intervals of nystatin! Not recommended unless you have a fungal infection in your mouth, but that I recommend even less!
In case it has not become obvious, I would recommend Foundation. It is simultaneously a full-tilt space opera cherry-picking its favorite tropes from the Golden Age of Science Fiction and tags from AO3 and a diversely written and freewheelingly inventive meditation on big questions like immortality and free will and the incremental business of building a better future into which the writers have put way more human interest than they could have gotten away with, given the incredible prettiness of the show. It has a sense of humor which is not based in meta-irony. It has only ever made one plot decision I really hate (although I really hate it). It should probably be approached as a remix of Asimov rather than any kind of normal adaptation, but I am enjoying the results and it does feel like it got what made the Foundation stories work, it just discarded everything else it wasn't interested in. It's the passion project of the showrunner who is a second-generation sf fan; he's also name-checked Gene Wolfe as an influence. The first season is a slow burn and the second is shot out of a cannon and I just want to find out what a third will look like. Also the AO3 situation is mystifyingly dire in that it is almost all smut about the clone emperors and I understand that one-third of them is played at any given time by Lee Pace, but even so.
[edit] Actually what I should be telling you is that this show has a superlative example of a girl with a morally ambiguous mentor (as opposed to a girl with a disaster mentor, of which a very fine example is also featured) and while I would not place any of the main female characters on the ferality index of Frances Hardinge, the mixed motives of the found family might rate Kage Baker vibes.