Every time you sit down to watch a new episode of Foundation (David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman, since 2021), the Serie of Apple TV + that adapts the intelligent and mythical novels of Isaac Asimov, one does not remove the titles for the nice design of its colorful and colorful images, which is combined with the main theme of the powerful soundtrack composed by Bear McCreary (10 Cloverfield Street). And because it works to prepare ourselves emotionally and by repetition, like that of any other television fiction, and receive the new part of your story with a well-disposed mind.
That story is that of “Mysteries and Martyrs” (1×07), a chapter for the one who repeats in the direction Jennifer phang (The Boys) after “Death and the Maiden” (1×06); and the script is signed by the novel Caitlin saunders, who has been a production assistant at Super 8 (JJ Abrams, 2011) or script coordinator at American gods (Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, 2017-2021) and who had previously only written the one for the episode “Oscar Mike” (1×12) of Value (Kyle Jarrow, 2017-2018).
The latest release of Foundation contains some of the most impressive perspectives of a space environment in this first season after those of “The Emperor’s Peace” (1×01), and the observation of the characters involved ─Salvor Hardin (Leah Harvey), Hugo (Daniel MacPherson), Phara (Kubbra Sait) or Lord Dorwin (Christian Contreras) ─ reminds us of similar circumstances in the saga of Star trek (Gene Roddenberry, since 1966).
A ghost ship in ‘Foundation’
Already we are understanding what the aggressive anacreontes intend storming Terminus and, because of the technological elements associated with it, it seems impossible not to also remember the Death Stars of Star wars (George Lucas, since 1977). On the other hand, the imperial Brother Day (Lee Pace) faces incarnate challenges in “Mysteries and Martyrs” that he would never have thought possible, and his amazement and irritation are equally easy to understand.
The idea of the Invictus like a ghost ship lost in the Bermuda Triangle, combined with one of the most spectacular revelations of Lost (Abrams, Damon Lindeloff and Jeffrey Lieber, 2004-2010) on their enigmatic island, It must be quite satisfying for those who love science fiction, and cause them vertigo just thinking about her. Brother Dawn (Cassian Bilton), on the other hand, continues his own emotional journey in Foundation, for which we fear a tragic and influential end in the collapse of what he himself represents.
His sequence is a small appetizer of the most elaborate of “Mysteries and Martyrs”, with the voice in off that we have not yet heard here from Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell); and what Caitlin Saunders, with David S. Goyer (Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice) and Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds) behind his back, shows us what has happened with what left the extraordinary catastrophe of “The Emperor’s Peace” is a seductive logic that Isaac Asimov himself would have liked.
The most intense sequence of the episode, for the end
But the truly exciting of this chapter of Foundation does not arrive until they resume the strange situation of the aforementioned Gaal dornick after the end of “Upon Awakening” (1×05). There we remember the novel Solaris (Stanislaw Lem, 1961) or from the series Westworld (Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, since 2016) for the grateful resource to bring back the great Hari Seldon (Jared Harris), who performs with his ward as Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) with Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright) in season two about the retro-futuristic amusement park.
The dialogues and composition of this sequence rise in tone and dramatic intensity, aided by Bear McCreary’s score and live montage; and provide the necessary explanations about the motivations of the genius of psychohistory to, in the last section, unlock the viewers a fantastic breakthrough reveal as a climax. Thus, David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman could not decide to finish better this episode of the series Apple TV +.