It was sort of a gag on top of a gag. Or a retconned gag, if you want. In the same episode, it wouldn’t work, but in separate episodes, it kind of does.

I liked everything in the episode except the Sire. Which was definitely NOT digital, just a guy in a cheap-looking suit. It was too jarring next to the Baron, which is instead a pretty good mix of practical and digital effects.

I wouldn’t be able to disprove that Rebecca Ferguson knows how to use the Bene Gesserit voice in real life, too. At least, it would certainly work on me.

It was a WTF cliffhanger (still disappointingly hanging), but it’s not like the book series don’t have stranger things than that happening. To be honest, I’m afraid all the psychic stuff is at risk of looking ridiculous on screen, and the SPOILER! Second Foundation twist is kind of wild and a bit cheap, narrative-wise.

Jared Harris is still billed as a main character, so odds are there will be the hologram thing (on top of possible flashbacks, maybe even from Prelude, although that should be a younger Seldon that would require a different actor, I guess).

Where the hell did you get that quote from? Not from the spoken dialogue of this episode, I can assure you.

That’s kind of famous, that novel was a deliberate answer by Asimov (he commented upon it at length in his various introductions to things, like his own curated anthologies) to two common criticisms: that he would never use aliens; and that he would never write sex scenes. For all the other answers in this thread,…

That’s true. If we discount the time when she’ll be working, eating, sleeping, walking through the ship, in meetings, or engaged in recreational activities that don’t involve swimming. So, you know, just about 95% of her time.

It’s also interesting that Seldon’s warning is not a threat to the current rule, it will affect their “descendants”. As they said, they control the media, they could hammer home the idea that Seldon is crazy, and the citizens would buy it, especially because not even the scientific community at large is able to prove…

Why does everybody go talk to Gaal while she’s in the pool? At some point, you have to think they just want to see her in a swimsuit.

Hate to be that guy, but..

the Emperors HAVE to execute someone

it didn’t really have a plot (or women)

I think the meaning of that scene was to suggest that Frances kept writing half her new book in one sitting at the table.

the show has an awesome regular opening.

I like that Lazlo is so stupid that he assumes Sinatra became another ethnicity over time, and not that he, you know, died.

It’s something we just have to accept for comedic value: Nadja apparently was period-appropriate when it came to times that feel “period” to us, but now she reverted to 19th century outfits.

a side effects pamphlet that potentially killed his son

Nicole Kidman is horrible with accents.

Not sure why not considering c) Carmel transitioned. Her husband was originally his husband.