I'm quite conflicted because I wanted to like it so much and the production is so beautiful, but the fact they have reversed so many Asimov themes is really dis

I'm quite conflicted because I wanted to like it so much and the production is so beautiful, but the fact they have reversed so many Asimov themes is really disheartening. The sets, costumes, lighting, cinematography and most of the acting is truly superb. I'd think it's safe to say to it's the most enveloping sci-fi universe ever captured in a tv show with all the money and details that have gone into the production. And yet the writing has Salvor Hardin shoot someone in the neck in the very episode they quote the famous aphorism "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent". The day to day technology within the empire is so advanced what room for innovation does the Foundation have? They seem to have abandoned the religious aspect of the first Foundation expansion, which would have been fascinating to explore (though they could still potentially retrieve by skipping forward and making Seldin and his appearance from beyond the grave into the basis for a faith that grows up around the founding of the alliance). Maybe it's true Foundation is unfilmable as written, but there was room for taking the themes of the ossification of institutions and the innovation borne of necessity and making something that matched much more closely to the spirit of Foundation. What we got feels like a cargo cult adaption where the words match the book but there isn't any meaning, understanding or depth behind them.