698: Incarnation of the System

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Crack open your psychohistory textbooks and ready a new batch of imperial clones, because it’s time to discuss the Apple TV+ series “Foundation,” extremely loosely based on the classic works of Isaac Asimov. Before the spoiler horn, we talk about why this is a show worth catching up on—and also debate the merits of psychohistory. Then we discuss the first two seasons, which we really enjoyed....

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0:51.9	The incomparable. Number 698, January 2024.
1:00.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
1:02.0	I am your host, Jason Snell.
1:03.0	This is an episode about a television series on Apple TV Plus that's been on for two seasons,
1:09.0	and we haven't done an episode about it.
1:14.5	And as the second season finished, I talked to a lot of people who are like, you know what,
1:15.7	I really like that show.
1:17.6	More people should watch that show. And I heard a lot of people who are like, oh, I started it and then I just sort of like let
1:21.1	it drop off and I didn't know that it came back.
1:24.3	Anyway, it's foundation based on, based in quotation marks on the novels,
1:30.4	novels also in quotation marks, the books by Isaac Asimov.
1:36.5	And they're, it's sort of the brainchild of David S. Goyer.
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