You have bequeathed me an Empire rent by impulsive action. On your watch, Hari Seldon and his followers were allowed to flee. On your watch, two worlds were incinerated with not a care to innocents or consequence. On your watch, the Star Bridge fell, and from that scar, insurgency was birthed. Finally, he confronts Brother Dawn with a devastating take down: The Imperial Statisticians, at Cleon 12’s orders, have been tasked to try to decode psychohistory, but Brother Day finds that all they are doing is self-reinforcing the belief that Seldon was a charlatan. He feels that he’s been left holding the bag as the “to-do list” that Hari Seldon gave them is being checked off, one item at a time. Brother Day has no patience for either his younger or elder counterparts. The consequences of the events of 35 years ago are also impacting the relationship between Brother Day (Cleon 13) and Brother Dusk (Cleon 12). Brother Day is looking for answers Brother Day and Dusk But now, the “problem” may be his budding romance, as he spies the Shadow Master keeping tabs on the girl. What would happen if a clone took a queen? Or worse yet, gave birth to an heir? Sadly, Brother Dawn brings the Shadow Master into his confidence as a person who “eliminates problems” so that he can learn the gardener’s name. Marriage is not on the agenda for the clones. Brother Day is having his “physiological need” satisfied by the concubine du jour. Now, Cleon 1 never married, and having no heirs seems to have been part of the motivation to invent the Genetic Dynasty. He stammers over the gardener’s last name and generally comes off as low status, unless prompted to remember he is an Emperor.Īnd then, a love interest. He is not respected by the staffer summoning him to Brother Dusk. He is out of sync giving condolences to Ambassador Thanwall. We can see that Brother Dawn lacks the bold confidence of his elder counterparts.
He was “born” the day after the platform was finally destroyed, giving up on their greatest triumph and leaving only a planet-wide scar as remembrance. What would drive Brother Dawn to this action? An important factor might be that he’s the first of the Cleon clones to be raised entirely in the shadow of the Star Bridge bombing. Throughout the scene, Gaal is recounting a story of someone coming to Hari Seldon hoping to learn if “the predictive models could chart the significance of his life.” We start out this episode with a fairly shocking scene that I never would have expected: 17-year old Brother Day (Cleon 14) attempts to commit suicide by jumping out of a palace window. It’s hard to believe that it was not part of the original stories. The evolution of the Empire’s genetic dynasty continues to be one of the best elements of this show.
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Would Hari’s plan assume they take action themselves or wait for help? Is Salvor an outlier than the plan could not possibly predict, or does the plan depend on her actions? It’s the classic conflict between free will and destiny. Bemoaning the rash decisions of his predecessor, he embarks on a rash decision of his own in an attempt to stave off at least one of their looming crises.įor the Foundation, their reverence for Hari Seldon has the opposite effect, leaving them paralyzed with indecision in the midst of their own crisis.
Brother Day looks back and sees that every one of Hari’s warnings were ignored, and all of his predictions are coming true. The Star Bridge bombing, the retributive strike against the “barbarian” worlds, and the dire predictions of Hari Seldon’s psychohistory.įor the Empire, the mathematician’s ghost haunts their every decision. On both Trantor and Terminus, the next generation of leaders is still dealing with the fallout from the events of 35 years ago.
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Welcome, dear reader, as we continue to review the Apple TV+ series Foundation with Episode 4, “Barbarians at the Gate.” With this episode, the world building is finally behind us and we’re getting into the real meat of this season. The following contains spoilers through Foundation S1E4, “Barbarians at the Gate,” on Apple TV+, and also references the Foundation series novels.
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