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My Sci-fi unpopular opinion is that 2001: A Space Odyssey is nothing but pretentious, LSD fueled nonsense. I’ve tried watching it multiple times and each time I have absolutely no patience for the pointless little scenes which contain little to no depth or meaningful plot, all coalescing towards that 15 minute “journey” through space and series of hallucinations or whatever that are supposed to be deep, shake you to your foundations, and make you re-think the whole human condition.
But it doesn’t. Because it’s just pretentious, LSD fueled nonsense. Planet of the Apes was released in the same year and is, on every level, a better Sci-fi movie. It offers mystery, a consistent and engaging plot, relatable characters you actually care about, and asks a lot more questions about the world and our place in it.
Foundation sucks ass.
The premise was great: restart the human race after a predictable collapse by writing an encyclopedia galactica based on our collective knowledge that would help the survivors to rebuild a civilization. I was all for it and I was thinking about my own encyclopedia…and boom the story was a boring political struggle. What a letdown.
Books or TV series?
Books, I couldn’t finish the TV series.
You didn’t even like the good half of the show? (The Empire) I will say the other half of the show sucked, so I half agree.
I can’t remember if I ever read the source material, but I got the sense that the show must have uncritically adopted the books’ early-information age sensibilities. Or maybe it was a choice not to update it to reflect eighty years of technological advancement. I’m sad I didn’t enjoy the show, though. Love Lee Pace and Jared Harris.
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5he prequel book was honestly the best part of the series for me. Though I did enjoy the series, it just kind of lost the plot after the Mule showed up and diverted the basic plot of the series.