When I heard that the series adaptation of the Vakıf series, which I had read only a few years ago and regretted not reading it before, was coming, I had strange reactions that did not make much sense in Turkish, such as “Hoo bro, grab your horses”. Because there’s not another book I’ve read in my life that’s not that suited to being adapted into a tv show or a movie.

Because what is in focus at the Foundation is not characters, dramatization or action; It just flows with that wonderfully clever and wonderfully gripping story.

I wouldn’t personally say no to such a cold and gripping show, but the producers had to make significant changes because they wanted more than 14 people to watch the show. In short, I was prepared to see something very different from the Foundation I was reading. But I can’t say they did the show too well, nor can I say they screwed up.

The series tells two stories that are almost entirely independent of each other. One of them is the imperial story, which I can say was written entirely from scratch, which is almost never in the books. These chapters, which focus on the beginning of the genetic dynasty that dominates the galaxy, the beginning of the crackling both from the outside and from the inside, the deadlocks, changes and conspiracies experienced by emperors who are genetic copies of each other, are truly tremendous due to lee pace’s incredible acting.

The story that follows the books is that Hari Seldon used psychotarih science to predict the collapse of the Galactic Empire and founded the Foundation, a science center on a distant planet, to accelerate the recovery process after the inevitable collapse, but rather a little too up and down. Thanks to the original material, there are some fascinating moments, but I told you, the Foundation is cold, and they’ve never been able to do it in case they need more of the characters, dramatization and action in the series. They threw one or two unconvincing love stories in between (I don’t mean the imperial story, he was very successful). Or they filled it with brainless scenes like spitting at the intelligence of books. There’s a creature grunt coming from the dark cave up ahead, our character goes to the cave and asks who’s there. Or you put a gun to your arch-enemy’s head, and all of a sudden you turn your gun away and you die. Or you hold someone captive to walk through the door, you walk through the door, and then you kill him because you’re so “bad” bad. Maybe there’s another door in there, you’re going to stay, don’t kill him right now? I get so hung up on this kind of crap, man. The action is meh.

In short, it’s a little weird. They screwed up a little bit when they wanted to make the original parts flowing on the show, and the parts they wrote from scratch, on the contrary, they did it great. In general, there’s a big production that doesn’t regret watching, even if it doesn’t leave much of a mark, offering enormous space views that just delight to look at…

Editor’s Note: A series that does what you expect it to do well, what you expect it to do badly, what you expect it to do well, that makes you enjoy yourself if you don’t expect books to pay off.