‘Foundation’ simply lowered the boom

Season three of Foundation is almost at the end, and the galaxy is in great difficulty. We have long known that the fall of the Empire would inaugurate a long period of darkness, which the foundation was created hundreds of years to try to mitigate. But although the end seems certain, exactly how it will happen has not yet been clear. Could the nasty mule certainly help to push things … But could another element of unhappiness also emerge?

“The paths that choose us”, the ninth and penultimate episode of the season, offers a candidate perhaps so surprising.

To paraphrase a paraphrase, you cannot show a mega weapon supplied by a black hole in the act one without bringing it back for act three. For decades, Brother Dusk (Terrence Mann, a solid competitor for the dramatic MVP of the season) happily emerged his terrible toy, the “Novacula”, sort of hiding his existence of the noted control of Demerzel (Laura Birn).

He planned that this passionate project as a gift for Brother Dawn (Cassian Bilton), translating him as an ultimate deterrent. Nobody would do it to dare Attack anyone who has access to a black hole bomb, right? But with Dawn now out of the image – at the time when anyone on Trantor knows it, the youngest key floated in space somewhere – and the twilight slipping towards his intended “ascent”, his cloned brain begins to obtain very bad ideas.

We were told earlier in the season than ascension – in this context, it is a word of fantasy to euthanize a cleon which is too old to reign – is not negotiable. Demerzel’s many functions include being a clock, and she knows precisely what time a given twilight of a given brother must be put out of service. This particular twilight has only a few days, although he tried (and stranded) to negotiate more time. Let’s just say that he is not faced with the inevitable gracefully.

In “Skin in the game” last week, twilight was faced with a trio of political Bigwigs: the chief of the Galactic Council; the first representative of the rich Dominion Cloud (a reminder to Foundation season two); And the representative of Trantor of the faith of influential luminism (a reminder in the first season). These three are even more independent now than the grip of Empire on the galaxy decreases. In addition, they are embraced by the fact that the twilight which will soon be expired is the only Cléon who is being fired the palate.

Their proposal, which is not really a proposal, is to put Trantor to the mule, thinking that it will pacify it. They have seen what the mule is capable of, and they think it is the best of cases to satisfy it while saving as many lives as possible.

The twilight is furious, especially when the chief of the galactic council said to him with delicacy: “it was just to inform you”, because the group is saved from the throne room. Demerzel is also against this plan; Of course, this goes against its directive to protect the Empire at all costs. Although she is shocked when the twilight reveals her Novacula, she immediately knows what he will do with it.

This brings us to “the paths that have chosen us”, which sees the trio on a publication return to the throne room, with Demerzel to greet them. The Quent ambassador is there too, and a surprise guest appears soon: the mule in the form of a hologram.

The twilight, also in the form of a hologram, tells in the mule the offer to put Trantor and Empire, and the pirate perplexes his shoulders and says that he will accept. In a similar tone, the twilight says: “Sorry, I just checked. It offers expired.” Then, when the mule says that it can easily take Trantor itself, the twilight goes for death: “I will not bow before a usurper a farm animal. “”

We can guess what is coming, but we cannot really believe that he will do it, while Dusk reveals his death star, uh, Novacula, to his dismayed audience. In the first season, we saw Empire bombing the distant planets of Anacreon and Thespis after being suspected of terrorist violence. (By the way, we recently learned that Demerzel was actually behind what they did.) Then, in season two, the title Brother Day destroyed Terminus, the original house of the Foundation; In season three, the mule bombed Kalgan in oblivion after Empire tried to trap him there. The exploding planets are not entirely unknown Foundation.

But it’s so worse than everything that is before. The atrocities that follow are completely not caused. One by one, the twilight evaporates Clarion Station, domicile of the Galactic Council; the “adorable mini-plans” of the domination of the clouds; And the world of the sacred houses of luminism, the girl.

Even the mule looks unusually disturbed; He turns off his hologram after the twilight warns him: “does not fuck with the Empire.” To the survivors who cry in its throne room, the twilight offers them with benefit refuge on trantor … then very Bitchily signs with his own “It’s just to inform you.”

The horrors of the genocide to the touch of a button, perpetrated by a sufficient man’s ambassador, that he deduces icy, is “pissing for fear” while he faces his own end. Demerzel, who knows that mass murder is false, must accompany him because for her, Empire is everything. Suddenly, the mule has serious competition for the most vicious character of all Foundation Season three.

Does the twilight plan to save empire in the billions and billions of dollars worth it? (Litter at the slaughter of a lamb for his victory dinner was a bit heavy, but we will allow this macabre choice but Campy.) And what could he have planned while counting the hours of his life?

FoundationThe final of the season arrives on September 12 on Apple TV +.

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