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That’s what Hari Seldon was saying in the beginning of the show. At the finale, he was saying actually you Foundation people, you will become the new “Empire”! <surprise!>

That’s the key misunderstanding. It’s psychohistory, therefore it can be changed. Nowhere in the show does it say that psychohistory predicts the immutable future. It is presented (repeatedly) as Sean describes:

He can predict the behavior of large groups of people based on the influences. By actively changing the influences, he changes the outcome of the large groups of people. Nowhere is it said that behaviors can’t be changed or influenced. But we know that predictions work for groups, but not at...

The Anacreons coming to Terminus with the the intent to destroy Trantor was the First Crisis. Salvor prevented that, enabling the genesis of the breakout empire. This was all predicted by Hari‘s psychohistory. Except, Gaal was supposed to be who lead the way through the first crisis. She was...

the show has indicated that there are at best rumors / myths that there is a robot in Empire. But broadly speaking no one knows she’s a robot. Do any others, such as the Shadowmaster know? I don’t think that’s been revealed?

The first two or three episodes, I was struggling trying to match it to my marginally remembered reading and what friends were saying about the book. And from the podcast, I increasingly understand this is an interpretation meant to keep it surprising even to die hard fans of the book. Reading...

I’ve watched Foundation from the start, and listened to the podcast episodically (love a good official podcast with cast and crew). Rewatched the premiere episode because it was so dense, and needed to understand the foundation of the show. I read the trilogy college 30-ish years ago. (I tried...

She becomes a Maryr. The trillions of believers who follow her teaching would become entrenched in the belief that Empire is not a person with a soul. And Day would have made real the religious threat he was sought to eliminate.

I read the episode recap you’re referring to. I disagreed with their opinion but kinda saw where they were coming from at that episode per se. But the story arc in subsequent episodes proves them completely wrong. From that recap, I’d advise against following that reviewer since they don’t seem...