The Leap

I did make it to the end, which did surprise me as I realized pretty soon it had virtually nothing to do with the novels. On the whole it was appalling, Pace and Harris were great but the rest was twaddle. You can always tell the truth of a whole TV series by the rating a single episode gets, when a singular voter reviews it as 10/10, that review gets subsequently more thumbs down than up. Trust me it works. What a waste of a great book? Hands up with utter respect to the costume department and the VFX, the true heroes, brilliant job.

...the 'not the book' and 'whaaaa they messing up the robots!!!' crowd continue in their inchoate rage, swarming the place, instead of just letting those who actually understood Asimov's corpus just enjoy the show..

The Zeroth Law of Robotics , the most important Law for Giskardian robots, was phrased multiple ways:

'A robot may not harm humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.'

'Humanity as a whole is placed over the fate of a single human.'

'A robot must act in the long-range interest of humanity as a whole, and may overrule all other laws whenever it seems necessary for that ultimate good.'

That is why Demerzel can kill. Try to keep up.

The First Crisis played out as in the books, but with a lot of fleshing out that Asimov didn't bother with (not a criticism of Asimov - he realised that and worked assiduously to rectify it, something Not The Bookers seem wilfully blind to - seriously, listen to the official podcast and wipe the scales from your eyes: Not The Books is just silly).

And a thoroughly nasty Empire is being destroyed from within. By the Zeroth Law, while decent humans are being left to work out their future - so much so that even the Second Foundation found its own way, rather than Seldon's.

A fantastic, thoughtful and vibrant adaptation that deeply understood the books strengths *and* weaknesses.

More please, Apple.

I really loved this episode, a great ending to some of the storylines, some harsh but some beautiful, I'm suprised to see some of the reviewers not liking it, but some also thought it was fantastic like myself, i suppose i wasnt so into the more violent episodes, this 10th episode really bought things together though.

This is the best show in the world. I can't wait for season two. 450 million dollars well spent, the show is beautiful, in a few years, when a viewer finds himself seeing it all in one breath 4-5 entire seasons will be catapulted into a new world. The world of Foundation. Thanks Apple.

Dermerzel, aka R. Daneel Olivaw, a Giskardian Robot with Three Laws and Zeroth Law, committing a murder?

Okie, shoot the writers, if they haven't died of embarrassment,. Or at minimum, buy them a copy of ALL the books, from I, Robot through the Caves of Steel and on to Foundations saga, so they can understand just how frakked up it is to have a robot choose to kill.