Springer
Regular
Unfortunately Foundation's second episode wasn't very good, full of all the tropes of modern TV that I dislike. Gone are the clarity of storytelling and awe-inspiring spectacle of the first episode. Instead there's mumbling and inaudible dialogue, flat and boring characters, a camera that won't stay still like they think viewers will lose attention if they don't stay at one angle for more than 2 seconds, poor dialogue that makes everyone sound unnatural because they can't just talk like normal people, and a complete lack of wit, fun, adventure or wonder. We're talking about a galactic empire but we see very little of it, we don't even get much of a sense that Trantor is a city-planet. It's all very self-important and like a lot of modern TV it doesn't realise it has to earn that gravitas.
