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If any network could even remotely stand a chance of doing that series justice, it would be HBO. However, it seems a bit outside the norm for them. Even in th

If any network could even remotely stand a chance of doing that series justice, it would be HBO. However, it seems a bit outside the norm for them. Even in their most creatively rich productions, HBO still likes to incorporate sex and violence in ways that are often flatly gratuitous. It's been a long time since I've read the Foundation series, but I don't recall a great deal of sex or face-to-face violence. So would this series be tame by HBO standards (and possibly disappoint their usual audience), or would they shoehorn in a lot of gratuitous sex and violence (and possibly disappoint fans of the source material)? Of course, I've never understood being hostile toward a film or TV adaptation, for fear that it will "ruin" the original source material. Maybe the series will be great, and maybe it will suck, but the books will always be what they are.

touristtam 12y ago
I think the main concern, at least the one I fear the most, is that presenting an adaptation of a written story to the screen will provide the viewer a visual impression of the story and the world defined in the book without giving them the opportunity to make use of their own imagination, even going as far as preventing them from having one, and which will inevitably conflict with the one a reader will have prior to seeing the adapation. This has happened to me with the Lord or the Ring books; I have read the books three time over before the films were even mentioned as projects and I had a vivid imagination, populating the world Tolkien described with my interpretation. The films came, and I feel like my personal graphical view of this world has been ripped off and torn apart. I cannot remember how things were. I am a fan of the Fondation series, and I have read it twice, and I am not looking forward to see any kind of adaptation as this will inevitably be the personal graphical interpretation of someone else. Now you may argue that is it fair: this is a liberal world we are living in and if I wanted to see my graphical interpretation of it on the screen and not someone else's, I should seek to produce it before any competitor reaches the consumers first. As I am not able, nor willing to do this, the next best position would be to avoid as much as possible being exposed to any potential adaptation.

touristtam 12y ago

I think the main concern, at least the one I fear the most, is that presenting an adaptation of a written story to the screen will provide the viewer a visual impression of the story and the world defined in the book without giving them the opportunity to make use of their own imagination, even going as far as preventing them from having one, and which will inevitably conflict with the one a reader will have prior to seeing the adapation. This has happened to me with the Lord or the Ring books; I have read the books three time over before the films were even mentioned as projects and I had a vivid imagination, populating the world Tolkien described with my interpretation. The films came, and I feel like my personal graphical view of this world has been ripped off and torn apart. I cannot remember how things were. I am a fan of the Fondation series, and I have read it twice, and I am not looking forward to see any kind of adaptation as this will inevitably be the personal graphical interpretation of someone else. Now you may argue that is it fair: this is a liberal world we are living in and if I wanted to see my graphical interpretation of it on the screen and not someone else's, I should seek to produce it before any competitor reaches the consumers first. As I am not able, nor willing to do this, the next best position would be to avoid as much as possible being exposed to any potential adaptation.