Summary: Enjoiner Rue confides in Dusk about her distrust of Demerzel. Hober Mallow pulls a daring move. Day sets course for Terminus and the Foundation.

This thread can contain TV spoilers up to season 2 episode 8.

Air Date: September 1, 2023

  • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    it suffers from committee-approved writing: there must be random action scenes, love interests and personal stories of exceptionalism

    You’ve just described literally every piece of genre television made since the beginning of the medium.

    • Axiochus@lemmy.world
      31·
      10 months ago

      Eh, I’d say that this one is fairly blatant about it. You can tick boxes without sacrificing plot coherence and world building.

      • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Idunno, this one ticks those plot and worldbuilding boxes pretty hard for me. It’s just a different sort of plot and the worldbuilding is necessarily shifting, both owing to the fact that the story spans a great deal of distance and time.