Foundation,, Apple TV+ adaptation of the famous Isaac Asimov novels, take place in Galaxy facing immediate, mathematically predicted Age of darkness. It is critical, especially for an empire, the genetic dynasty of clones called Cleon, which has ruled power for centuries, but it is not as bad as an all-out extinction. But during the third season begins, certain between FoundationThe characters learn that mathematics has changed, and total Doomsday is quite sure.
Some react to this news – signaled by critical changes in the main radiant, the quantum supercomputer of sorts that share what is forward – by accelerating preventive actions, while others decide they will help. But the most thoughtful answer comes from FoundationThe most complex character: Demerzel, interpreted by Laura Birn. She is an ancient robot, the last survivor of the robotic wars. A few hundred years ago, she was reprogrammed by the first Cleon to serve an empire – a directive that leads all her actions and one she is powerless to challenge.
As Foundation Progressed, we learned a lot about Demerzel. Her back history receives more inquiry in the third season, but as an empire (and, by extension, all humanity) faces the next, her role in that future becomes decisively confusing.
“I would say very much that she is in an existential crisis,” Birn told io9 recently Foundation Press day. “For many centuries her way was very clear, since then [she was programmed by Cleon I]And before that too. ”
But that clear path is now moved. “This season, the information that the main radiant offers – and when [season three villain] The mule arrives, the effect it has on the whole galaxy – suddenly offers these new paths, possible paths. She thinks she always knows the right answers, such as: “Here’s a way we need to work, this is how I guide the galaxy or guide the kleas.”
Birn continued. “Suddenly, when that changes a bit, [a lot of] Questions arise. What if the end comes? What is [her] Responsibility in all this? Where is it leaving [her] If the human species is destroyed? Is it a good thing for her? Is it something very lonely and sad? Does she bear responsibility? Can she make a difference? So all these things breathe her into a place of ‘What is the purpose of my life, what is the meaning?’ So it is a very existential crisis. ”
Early in the third season, Demerzel reaches a leader in the Lumistic Faith –Foundation Fans will remember it from a key season one plot – to work as a soundtrack for her crisis.
“I think, as in many of her decisions, it’s hard to say if it’s a good thing or a helpful thing,” Birn said. “In the palace no one knows her secrets. She is very restrained. She is very controlled. So to have those moments where she can literally consider her own affairs – decisions she has made, contemplating the past and the future – it is powerful, but I’m not sure if it helps. Maybe for her, but maybe not for humanity.”
Demerzel stores the main radiance that resembles a small jewelry box, inside her chest. It’s almost where her heart would go if she was human. The choice is one of comfort, of course, but there is also a deeper meaning, as Birn pointed out.
“It is interesting: how do we define where humanity lives in us? We often think it is the heart that feels. Or is it the soul – where do we think the soul exists?
Foundation Returns to Apple TV+ with weekly episodes since July 11th.
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