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And yes, sure, theres a story.
Things definitely do happen.
It works, a bit.
As the evil emperor, Lee Pace makes an excellent figurehead.
In individual scenes, characters like Dornick and Hardin work, too.
ButFoundation, by design, does not let you stay in those scenes for long.
Stories glide across decades too quickly.
And whats happened in the last 40 years?
As a result, not much aboutFoundationsticks, either emotionally or narratively.
Never once does he make the slightest dent in the storys larger field of gravity.
As a screensaver, though?
You really cant beat it.
Every frame lives up to the outrageous vision of mid-century grand-scale science-fiction otherworldliness.
