Welcome to foundation and podcast the officially unofficial podcast for foundation on apple tv plus this week recovering season one episode three titled the mathematicians ghost respect and enjoy the podcast.

All right Aaron.

What do you think of the mathematicians ghost.

I really like this episode I am still kind of like.

Keep in my guard up because you know that this this show did receive some extra views some reviews or the critic.

I'm starting to think that like sep and wall is still haunting you.

The television critics ghost is living large over these proceedings.

And but I'm starting to feel a lot more confident that like I'm just a lot more receptive this type of storytelling like this kind of episode.

Where it just spends a lot of time dealing with like the implications of a certain type of governance and like the the like how the art and the ritual and all that stuff kind of reinforces like this peaceful transfer of power.

Like what is what is the experience of like living this life that's a singular life but it's also the same life is.

12 11 people live before you and that you're about to like accept your death and how this was like stuff that like the first clean on obsessed about I thought that stuff is really really fascinating and interesting and I'm.

So glad it's such a great way to tell the story of like an empire is declined to that like you know what was what the old man finally figured out something profound to say in his last hours of his life and then his teenage punk.

Descendant wipes it away because he thinks it's baby stuff like I thought that shit was great and I was third I just thought it was so fascinating the lore and the world building of the empire was great.

Determinous stuff.

I felt like in comparison well kind of suffered because it wasn't as colorful and interesting and you know kind of thought provoking but it had to do a lot of heavy lifting as far as as plot and I thought that.

I kind of I kind of thought that the ghosts and the house kind of metaphor I wasn't sure about that but by the end of the episode I thought is a pretty elegant way to.

You know talk about this thing in metaphor but then also to bring around to the reality that like the chickens are home the roost and and kind of an interesting way and I really.

The two has the show right exactly yeah so and I was kind of shocked that we didn't get any more developments about like gale.

And the manner of Harry's death what that meant you know and that like we're we're I imagine we will get answers but but the show is not interested in them right now.

Which I think could be frustrated and frustrating but I was so fascinated by the other stuff I didn't really mind it how did you find this episode.

I feel like a TV watcher the way that I think brother desk feels about the world and life like it's it's only at the very tail end of his life that he's sort of.

Opening his mind to bigger questions right he's pondering like there's a theme of like building versus stagnation or even destruction in this episode and I think.

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