Turns out, he’s planning to get married and replace his genetic clones and co-emperors with an heir procreated the old-fashioned way. This seems to have deeply impacted Lee Pace’s Brother Day, who spends a good amount of time in this episode naked and talking about ending the dynasty as we know it. Let’s start with the most naked one, shall we? We pick up over a century after the events of season one, where we found out the Cleon genetic dynasty was sabotaged generations ago and made every new clone flawed and not identical to one another. This is particularly true of the season premiere, which focuses on a handful of characters we are already familiar with while only teasing the new characters we’ll spend time with this season. On the contrary, now that the foundation was established and we know what the show is about, season two is free to focus on the bigger moments that will define the titular Foundation, and the history of humanity while somehow becoming more intimate and personal. That’s because Foundation is based on one of the most influential works of modern science fiction, but Isaac Asimov’s magnum opus is notoriously dense and complex, heavier in world-building than actual story or character. If you skipped the first season and came straight here, oh boy, this may be a tad confusing. Welcome, Vulture readers, to the second season of Foundation! While season one was full of striking imagery and some fascinating ideas, those episodes, to quote Yoda in The Last Jedi, “Page-turners they were not.” The groundwork (or foundations) laid in season one made those episodes convoluted and rather dense, as we were introduced to a whole galaxy, end-of-humanity stakes, a triumvirate of cloned emperors, and also the very idea of psychohistory.
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