S2E8: The Last Empress
Foundation: The Official Podcast
Apple TV
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Director Roxann Dawson joins Jason and David to talk all about episode 8, “The Last Empress.” They break down the challenges of creating an execution that’s broad-beamed across the galaxy. Plus, they unpack Salvor’s clever thinking while imprisoned on Ignis and how it leads to a meeting that has major repercussions for the rest of the series.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Foundation, the official podcast from Apple TV Plus. I'm your host Jason |
| 0:05.9 | Kitsopsion, and this is your guide to the galaxy from Trantor to Terminus and hundreds |
| 0:10.5 | of millions of other worlds. Space is a big place, we aim to make it smaller and brighter |
| 0:14.4 | and add some context to everything you see on the show. Each week I'm recapping and breaking |
| 0:18.6 | apart every episode of season 2 with Foundation, showrunner and executive producer David Eskoyer, |
| 0:24.1 | David. |
| 0:26.1 | The title of this episode is The Last Empress, and we're joined by the director of this |
| 0:31.5 | episode Roxanne Dawson. |
| 0:32.5 | Hi, it's good to be here. |
| 0:34.5 | It's great to have you a quick recap. Okay, this episode was written by Liz Pong and |
| 0:39.8 | Addie Roy Manus and Bob Ultra. We started on Ignis where Tellum is trapped Gale and |
| 0:46.4 | Salvor in mental prisons that are directly attuned to whatever the frequency their mind |
| 0:53.3 | resonates on. |
| 0:54.3 | It's something you really don't want me to see. |
| 0:56.6 | Salvor has discovered the missing prime radiant, hiding as a paperweight or a dish of some |
| 1:02.5 | kind. |
| 1:03.5 | A trivet. |
| 1:04.5 | A trivet. |
| 1:05.5 | A trivet as a trivet and she realizes, aha, this is my way out. |
| 1:08.4 | My mind sort of snuck in through the back door. She uses it to a quantum project into |
| 1:14.0 | the vault on Terminus, and Dr. Seldin's mind is absolutely blown. |
| 1:19.4 | A left hand, blissfully unaware of what the right hand is doing. |
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