Foundation Episode 7 Review: The Exciting Paths Of Science Fiction Adds To Its Story Are Pure And Grateful Science Fiction
Director: Alex Graves
Streaming Platform: Apple Tv+
Starring: Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Lou Llobell
Ratings: 4/5 (four star) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
Every time one sits down to watch a new episode of Foundation (David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman, since 2021), the Apple TV + series that adapts the clever and mythical novels of Isaac Asimov, one does not remove the titles for the pleasant design of its showy and colorful images, which is combined with the main theme of the powerful soundtrack composed by Bear McCreary (10 Cloverfield Street). And because it serves to prepare us emotionally and by repetition, like that of any other television fiction, and to receive the new part of its story with a well-disposed mind.
That story is that of “Mysteries and Martyrs” (1×07) , a episode for which Jennifer Phang (The Boys) repeats in the direction after “Death and the Maiden” (1×06) ; and the script is signed by the newcomer Caitlin Saunders , who has been a production assistant on Super 8 (JJ Abrams , 2011) or script coordinator on American Gods (Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, 2017-2021) and who had previously only written the from the episode “Oscar Mike” (1×12) of Valor (Kyle Jarrow, 2017-2018).
The latest release of Fundación contains some of the most impressive perspectives of a space environment in this first season after those of “The Emperor’s Peace” (1×01) and the observation of the characters involved ─Salvor Hardin (Leah Harvey), Hugo (Daniel MacPherson), Phara (Kubbra Sait) or Lord Dorwin (Christian Contreras) ─ brings to mind similar circumstances in the Star Trek saga (Gene Roddenberry, since 1966).
A Ghost Ship in ‘Foundation’
We are already understanding what the aggressive Anacreons intend when they assault Terminus and, due to the technological elements associated with it, it seems impossible not to also remember the Death Stars from Star Wars (George Lucas , since 1977). On the other hand, the imperial Brother Day (Lee Pace) faces incarnate challenges in “Mysteries and Martyrs” that he would never have thought possible, and his amazement and irritation are equally easy to understand.
The idea of the Invictus as a ghost ship lost in the Bermuda Triangle, combined with one of Lost’s most spectacular revelations (Abrams, Damon Lindeloff, and Jeffrey Lieber, 2004-2010) about its enigmatic island, must be quite satisfying. for those who love science fiction and cause vertigo just thinking about it. Brother Dawn (Cassian Bilton), on the other hand, continues with his own emotional journey in Foundation for which we fear a tragic and influential end in the collapse of what he himself represents.
His sequence is a small appetizer of the most elaborate of “Mysteries and Martyrs”, with the voice- over that we have not yet heard here from Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell); and what Caitlin Saunders, with David S. Goyer (Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice) and Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds) behind him, shows us what happened to what the extraordinary left behind The catastrophe of “The Emperor’s Peace” is of a seductive logic that Isaac Asimov himself would have liked.
The Most Intense Sequence Of The Episode, For The End
But what is truly exciting about this Foundation chapter does not come until they return to the strange situation of the aforementioned Gaal Dornick after the end of “Upon Awakening” (1×05). There we remember the novel Solaris (Stanislaw Lem, 1961) or the Westworld series (Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy since 2016) for the grateful resource to recover the great Hari Seldon (Jared Harris), who acts with his pupil as the Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) with Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright) in the second season about the retro-futuristic amusement park.
The dialogues and composition of this sequence rise in tone and dramatic intensity, aided by Bear McCreary’s score and live montage; and they provide the necessary explanations about the motivations of the genius of psychohistory to, in the last section, unleash a fantastic revelation of magnitude as a climax to the audience. Thus, David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman could not decide to end this episode of the Apple TV+ series better.
