Dune

[Mik]

Both Dune and Foundation were largely about politics and religion. Both classic. Been decades since I read them. I should probably revisit.

[George K]

Paraphrasing Time Magazine's review of "Catch-22"

Apple TV's version of Foundation is not a bad series. Perhaps one day they'll make a series of Isaac Asimov's "Foundation."

Once you accept it for what it is - just taking Asimov's ideas and running with them - it's not bad. It's visually glorious, and the plots are mostly OK (though getting weird). Still fun.

Check out Silo. It's VERY good, and faithful to Hugh Howey's book so far.

[Mik]

Foundation as it is written would not make great TV. I listened to it on the way to Las Vegas last year. It’s really several cautionary tales with a common theme of intelligence defeating force. The Apple series is quite good tv despite its deviations.

[George K]

@Mik said in Dune:

Foundation as it is written would not make great TV.

I see your point. It's not great entertainment.

But, they said that Dune is unfilmable.