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- The Handmaid's Tale (2017-) Based on the book by Margaret Atwood. O-T Fagbenle , Joseph Fiennes , Alexis Bledel , Elisabeth Moss , Amanda Brugel , Bradley Whitford , Max Minghella , Ann Dowd , Samira Wiley , Madeline Brewer , Yvonne Strahovski.
- Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018-2023) Based on the novels by Tom Clancy. John Krasinski , Wendell Pierce , Abbie Cornish , Ali Suliman , Dina Shihabi , John Hoogenakker , Noomi Rapace , Jordi Molla , Francisco Denis , Cristina Umaña.
- Sherlock (2010-2017) Based on the series of novels by Arthur Conan Doyle. Martin Freeman , Benedict Cumberbatch , Rupert Graves. Seasons 4 Streaming Service(s)
- You (2018-2024) Based on the books by Caroline Kepnes. Elizabeth Lail , Michaela McManus , Ambyr Childers , Victoria Pedretti , Luca Padovan , Scott Speedman , Travis Van Winkle , Penn Badgley , Jenna Ortega , Shay Mitchell.
- Pulling from The Prequels
- The Emperor
- Gaal Dornick and Synnax
- Trantor and The Starbridge
- Anacreon and Thespis
- Journey to Terminus
- The Vault
- Salvor Hardin
- The Foundation
- Trouble on Terminus
The opening episode of Foundation sticks fairly closely to "The Psychohistorians," the first story in Foundation, which recounts Hari's trial and Gaal Dornick's (Lou Llobell) journey to Trantor. However, the show incorporates some characters and elements from Asimov's Foundation prequels into this story. NeitherHari's adopted son Raych (Alfred Enoc...
Speaking of not appearing in "The Psychohistorians," let's talk about one of the most blatant changes made to Foundation: the Emperors. Brother Dawn (Cooper Carter), Brother Day (Lee Pace), and Brother Dusk (Terrence Mann) are genetic clones of Emperor Cleon at three different stages in his life cycle. Emperor Cleon does show up in the prequels to ...
Gaal is one of many Foundation characters who has been gender-swapped for this series, with others including Demerzel and Salvor Hardin (Leah Harvey). But perhaps the biggest change to her character is that she actually has a personality now. In "The Psychohistorians," Gaal is essentially an audience surrogate used to present the reader to Trantor ...
You know that whole sequence where terrorists from Anacreon and Thespis destroy Trantor's Starbridge, causing it to crash into the planet in spectacular fashion? None of that happens in Foundation. In fact, the Starbridge doesn't even exist in Foundation. Asimov's novels were very light on big action sequences and planetary carnage, but their inclu...
Since the Starbridge incident is an invention for the show, the political fallout and subsequent bombing of Anacreon and Thespis are also departures from Asimov's books. That being said, the planet of Anacreon figures heavily into the later stories of Foundation, specifically "The Encyclopedists" and "The Mayors." Thespis, meanwhile, straight up do...
The Foundation's journey from Trantor to Terminus is not in the Foundation novels, so basically everything that happens in Gaal and Hari's storyline is completely new. Gaal and Raych never meet in the books, much less start a romantic relationship. Hari does not make the journey to Terminus, nor does Raych kill him. (He does die in the books, but i...
We learn a little bit more about the mysterious Vault on Terminus in Foundation's third episode, "The Mathematician's Ghost." The Vault was already on Terminus when the Foundation arrived, and it projects a null field that prevents living things from approaching it. This is highly different from Asimov's work: The Vault is introduced in Foundation'...
The changes regarding the Vault also change the character of Salvor Hardin in a few ways. Salvor is the main character of "The Encyclopedists" and the following story, "The Mayors." In these, Salvor is the first Mayor of Terminus City. However, in the show, Salvor instead serves as the Warden of Terminus. She keeps her people safe and has a strange...
In "The Encyclopedists," the Foundation is solely focused on building the Encyclopedia Galactica - they have no knowledge of the Empire's looming Fall until the end of the story, nor do they know about psychohistory or Hari's true intentions in creating the Foundation. Meanwhile, the show's version of the Foundation already knows their role in pres...
While Anacreon and the Foundation's relationship is quite contentious in Asimov's Foundation, it never quite reaches the level of outright attack we see in episode 4, "Barbarians at the Gate." Since the Empire doesn't bomb Anacreon in the books, the resulting fallout is a show-only creation, as is the character of Phara (Kubbra Sait). It appears th...
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