I gave the first episode a 10, but this one was mostly a set-back. "Preparing to Die" would have been a more apt title.
The pace is very slow without giving much relevant exposition. More Game of Thrones meets Dune than Foundation, as some have complained. At this pace, we are looking at season one covering only the first book. Fair enough.
My strongest complaint is that the robot (R Daneel?) doesn't even try to follow the Laws of Robotics--a mortal sin in the Asimov fandom and sure to displease all the people who liked the first episode. Asimov would be turning over in his grave. Very limiting for future developments too-if the series isn't cancelled first. And while robots may not necessarily have a fixed gender, making it blonde female was an obvious rip-off on the modern Battlestar Galactic and had no business here. Total fail on the robot! Robyn, how could you sign off on this?
Minor glitch: the base 27 reference should have but left out-doesn't really ring true for all the math people out there and it really confuses the point: are you saying save the inner worlds? Huh?
Then they start killing off characters very dramatically-I loved GoT but this isn't supposed to be that. I am hoping they can somehow return to the original plot of the books, but that is getting tricky.
Obviously I will tune in next week and hope things will be more interesting when we eventually get to Terminus, but worry from the foreshadowing that it will just become Lost in Space-which we've already seen, thanks.
One pet peeve with some other reviews: compare sure but don't say this show is derivative of Star Wars or Dune. It is quite the opposite having been written in the 1940's.
I don't mind them adding some modern social issues or improving on Asimov's character development-never his strength, and to be fair writing in the 1940's there were many topics you either couldn't foresee or couldn't publish. But also don't go so far afield that you ruin the story.
Let's see what happens with the cliffhanger before we decide if this is irreparable.
The pace is very slow without giving much relevant exposition. More Game of Thrones meets Dune than Foundation, as some have complained. At this pace, we are looking at season one covering only the first book. Fair enough.
My strongest complaint is that the robot (R Daneel?) doesn't even try to follow the Laws of Robotics--a mortal sin in the Asimov fandom and sure to displease all the people who liked the first episode. Asimov would be turning over in his grave. Very limiting for future developments too-if the series isn't cancelled first. And while robots may not necessarily have a fixed gender, making it blonde female was an obvious rip-off on the modern Battlestar Galactic and had no business here. Total fail on the robot! Robyn, how could you sign off on this?
Minor glitch: the base 27 reference should have but left out-doesn't really ring true for all the math people out there and it really confuses the point: are you saying save the inner worlds? Huh?
Then they start killing off characters very dramatically-I loved GoT but this isn't supposed to be that. I am hoping they can somehow return to the original plot of the books, but that is getting tricky.
Obviously I will tune in next week and hope things will be more interesting when we eventually get to Terminus, but worry from the foreshadowing that it will just become Lost in Space-which we've already seen, thanks.
One pet peeve with some other reviews: compare sure but don't say this show is derivative of Star Wars or Dune. It is quite the opposite having been written in the 1940's.
I don't mind them adding some modern social issues or improving on Asimov's character development-never his strength, and to be fair writing in the 1940's there were many topics you either couldn't foresee or couldn't publish. But also don't go so far afield that you ruin the story.
Let's see what happens with the cliffhanger before we decide if this is irreparable.