The worst thing any adaptation of a science fiction classic can do is be less intelligent than the original. Apple's FOUNDATION is dumbed down so far that readers of Isaac Asimov's original novels can barely recognise it. But can rewrites, reshoots and some smart recasting help Apple recoup some of the $500M the show is reported to have cost?

00:00 Apple's Foundation is dumbed down

03:48 The Science Fiction podcast with Damien Walter

05:09 $500 million is a lot of money

08:15 The most expensive flop in tv history

09:21 Could Foundation be salvaged?

10:42 Get rid of David S Goyer

11:52 The central character of Foundation is...Foundation.

14:11 Foundation is SOCIAL science fiction

16:16 The Empire is a technocracy

18:19 Hari Seldon - a prophet of science

19:34 Cast Lee Pace as Salvor Hardin

22:52 Hire science fiction writers

25:25 Culture is the intelligence of human civilisation

27:02 We are in a Seldon crisis

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