Simple, just pick the most famous scifi book series of all time, by one of the best known and loved authors, and call your series after its title. Then, to save having to think up names, take them from the books and apply them to your characters who don't even have to be the same gender nor have the same attributes. Then take the shortest plot summary of the books that you can find and sprinkle it into your existing, wild story. For good measure include a robot that is the antithesis of the one that the whole series is based around and have it break all of Asimov's laws of robotics (the very things that a huge number of his stories revolved around and the development of which were his trademark). I would have watched the show anyway, and possibly have enjoyed it on its own merits, however the constant reminder that it is supposed to be foundation is sickening. The expectation of clever psychohistorical prediction never appears, just some lip-service to mathematics and a prime radiant that doesn't do what Asimov intended. The story is pedestrian with all the logic stripped out and replaced by mumbo jumbo, whereas Asimov's was thoughtful and clever. If Apple tv went through it, and renamed the characters and planets and renamed it Fall of Empire (or something), the plot is so divergent from the story of Foundation that no one would recognise it as such. I would actually be able to enjoy it if they did that. Instead, I will keep watching and feel increasingly disappointed. I had hoped season 2 would bring the Seldon plan back on track but it seems there is even more divergence red in the plot! Or, at least, what passes for plot.

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