The title comes from the article, but I agree with some of these changes. It’s making for an engaging show that also feels modern.

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    Also, “the entirety of psychohistory and the Foundation hinges on us storming X place with guns and explosives in the next fifteen minutes!”

    Ugh. Yuck. Hard pass. Go home, Goyer, you’re drunk (on the aroma of your own emissions).

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      That is in the books too. It’s called a “Seldon crisis”, where the Foundation has only one possible way forward as means of keeping it close to the original plan.

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        But the Seldon Crises don’t depend on the coin toss of whether or not they manage to infiltrate a stronghold and deactivate the thingamajig kajigger in the next fifteen minutes.

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          It’s been a while since I’ve read them, but as I remember, the entire definition of a crisis is some moment that depends on a coin toss or some individual acting correctly. The books narrate exactly the moments where there can exist some heroes.

          They are just calmer than the series.