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[Motown Bombers]

I've been getting back into older shows and rewatching them. I started Lost again. It really started out great but I'm in season four and I'm ready to check out. I've watched it before so I know how it ends. There's too many characters and half of them I don't care about but I still have to see their back story anyways. I liked in the beginning when it was more mysterious and now it's just more supernatural. I wouldn't mind some sort of reboot perhaps with different characters and a different scenario. 

[IdahoBert]

I am struggling a little bit with Foundation S-3 on Apple based upon the Isaac Asimov trilogy (which was originally short stories later stitched together into book form). I have absolutely loved the first two seasons.

I don’t really have a problem with the series as much as I do with Asimov’s source material itself.

I’m not giving much away here, but in S-3 there’s an ultra-powerful character called “The Mule” with amazing powers of psi-based mind control allowing him to bedazzle entire planets and armies. This is the first time in 20+ episodes where I have felt bored.

For me this is just a lazy way that atheist intellectuals account for the unaccountable in human existence and come up with a cheap substitute for what has since time immemorial been seen as “the divine.”

This lazy slant on things is seen in the way the once-popular fraud Uri Geller was lionized in the ‘60s while every stage magician of any worth knew what he was doing and could replicate his cheap tricks.

Deterministic scientism is pretty boring so you have to come up with a way of accounting for the unaccountable that can be reduced to deterministic scientism, in other words “the mule.“ The fact that Asimov could fall for this if only as a literary device is kind of disheartening.

Maybe he was just having fun and was trying to get a paycheck when he wrote these stories and it was the kind of thing that was in the air at the time. But now it just seems lame.

[Hongbit]

Bear season 4 has been much better.  I’m 6 episodes in so there’s still time for a swan dive.  I’m about 50/50 on whether it happens or not.  

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

On 7/22/2025 at 12:41 PM, Hongbit said:

Bear season 4 has been much better.  I’m 6 episodes in so there’s still time for a swan dive.  I’m about 50/50 on whether it happens or not.  

IMHO, it doesn't. Enjoyed it immensely. I did finally have to read an "explainer" about who is actually related to who on that show. It blew my mind that "Uncle" Jimmy is not actually related to any of the other regular characters.