Foundation - Shadows in the Math
"Shadows in the Math" opens with a narrated montage filling in some of the history of the Second Foundation by showcasing Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) and Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) awoken from cryosleep for a few weeks at a time teaching Psychohistory to the generations of the hidden Foundation, working to help the Foundation grow and weaken the Empire, and preparing them to fight the Mule (making another huge divergence to the original source material where Seldon's original calculations didn't account for unpredictable mutations like the Mule pulling the ebb of history so far off his predicted path). Eventually, Seldon chooses to stay awake at longer intervals to keep things on track prior to his death before the show bounces back to the "present" and the time of the Mule (Pilou Asbæk).
The rest of the episode jumps around a bit to the Mule's actions on Kalgar bringing it to heel, back into the slog of Trantor notably focusing on Brother Day's (Lee Pace) further debauchery and Brother Dusk's (Terrence Mann) fear of death, and also following Han Pritcher (Brandon P Bell) to attempt to recruit some help into taking down the Mule. Nothing in this is as good as the Second Foundation sequences, but things do pick up towards the end an ominous note with the reveal of Dusk's secret weapon project and the reveal Brother Dawn (Cassian Bilton) is in contact with Gaal, either of which could be the all-important variable of changing history for the better, or the worse.
- Title: Foundation - Shadows in the Math
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