I’m 8 episodes into Foundation now. Yup. It’s absolutely a yup. Wish I hadn’t kept putting it off now.
Also wish I’d read the books too.
@davep The books are classic. The series is good but completely deviates from the books in so many ways. It's still good but...it's not *really* "Foundation" in a sense. Sort of in a peripheral way for the most part.
@natharari I may have to do the books because I’m liking the themes and ideas in the show.
@davep Well, the books are great but very, very, 1950s. I mean, to a T. You have guys in "futuristic offices" still smoking cigarettes, talking with 1950s lingo...you can sort of just imagine them patting the secretary on the butt and asking for another scotch. It's very dated. But the concepts are still amazing.
@natharari @davep The old (BBC?) radio plays are worth a listen, too for another take on the books. They should be available somewhere out there (*waves hands vaguely towards the interwebs*).
@nullifidian @natharari Oh that sounds worth checking out!
@davep @natharari I *may* have a copy somewhere. I’ll take a looksee, and inbox you if I do.
@natharari @davep Sadly it looks like it was an unfortunate victim of the Great QNAP Disaster of 2017. 😒 I’ll continue to have a scoot around and see if it might be lurking on a CD or old USB drive something…
I don’t have the BBC radio plays, but it’s available on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/foundationtrilogythe--bbc1973radiodrama8hours
I *do* have the books-on-tape versions (digitised) of most (if not all) of the Foundation series, if either of you are interested… HMU and I’ll package them up.
Arse. That link is missing episodes 7 & 8. This one has all 8 episodes:
https://archive.org/details/foundation-trilogy_bbc-radio_1973_complete
@nullifidian @davep I'm downloading them all now and I'll put them on my iPhone for later listening.
@nullifidian @davep Yeah I never actually heard them (and I've got a collection of old BBC Radio shows). I'll definitely check it out. Thanks for reminding me.
I believe at archive.org or something they have the entire old BBC collection including LOTR, HHGTTG and a few other classic ones.