Episode 2 was amazing! For more context, it was created by Dana Terrance who also made The Owl House for Disney. Main character is queer, and it’s all about being an outcast in a society that demands conformity.
She obviously did not have an easy time of it with Disney and it shows in KoG!
Knights of Guinevere is an animation series by Glitch, the creators of some other amazing works that are freely available on YouTube.
Just to add some more context, the specific creator behind this series is Dana Terrace, who also created The Owl House.
Knights of Guinevere is easy to interpret as something of a hit piece against Disney, who canceled The Owl House for not being "on-brand" despite being a commercial and critical hit.
Oh no, I don't realize it was cancelled! That makes me really sad because it was a fantastic show and had such wonderful messaging
But I absolutely will be looking up this series!
Edit: I just watched the first episode... Holy fucking shit that was fun; I'm going to save the second one for when my partner comes home and we'll watch the two that are out right now. I'm already hooked and look forward to the rest. It looks like there's 4 total planned
There is 8 planned it's just that 4 already have release dates
I checked out the other shows on that channel and recognized a couple of them even though I haven't seen any. It seems they put out good, or at least popular, content. The pilot for TADC has 462 million views
Hopefully Knights of Guinevere gets some of the same love
I said in another comment that I've just watched the first one and I'm saving the second to watch later when everyone is home. I know they'll like it and I'm really excited to see the rest, looks like Jan and April of next year
But "holy fucking shit" is what I said to myself. It was a fantastic watch and I'd absolutely recommend to anyone to give it a try
Not essentially, Asimov combined his three series (robots, foundation, and empire) and a few other short stories and novels into one universe 30 years after with with foundation follow-ups. There’s a few continuity errors since it wasn’t planned like that from the start.
One of my favorite authors and series.
The books are awesome. The concept of being able to (more or less) predict the future and trying to shepherd humanity through various crises that will alter the timeline and trying to rescue us from our own nature is a fun one.
The nature of the story doesn't lend itself well to adaptation in a visual medium but the show is decent (it does deviate some from the books and mess around with the timeline some to make it work better for TV). Can't speak to the movie.
The Foundation Trilogy also was published 1951-1953 and you see a lot of ideas that became mainstay scifi tropes in their early form. For example, it's easy to see the influence Foundation had on Dune.
I only read the first one and didn't really like it. From what I remember (not much) it's just full of "plot twists" where some smoking guy randomly appears and tell the protagonists "haha, I predicted you'd do this" and then "hah, I predicted you'd know that I'd predict your next move and you'd do something different!".
I don't know, I like the setup and the beginning but after a while it seemed silly to me.
It's kinda competency porn. The heroes solve problems by being clever and predicting their opponents moves. The generational aspect, where it follows multiple characters over long periods of time, is also interesting. I really like the series, and now that I think of it it's probably no coincidence that I also like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
I think it's a touch more nuanced than that but yes the plot does follow Hari Seldon's creation of a school of thought and study called psychohistory.
The main plot is that humanity would be plunged into 30,000 years of dark ages full of bad shit but Seldon believes following his plan it can be shortened to only 1,000 years of real bad times for the schmucks born then.
Like you said, one of the themes the books talk about is the paradox of knowing the future and if you can or can't change it. If you know the future and do something to change it to be different from what you predicted - does that mean you did or did not actually know the future?
The movie has almost nothing in common with the original story.
I believe so. It's some solid sci-fi. I've heard grievances from a lot of fans of the book because it is not a very faithful adaptation in the slightest, but I think they managed to put together something that works better for TV and manages to tell an interesting story in its own right.
Some parts of the narrative fall a bit more flat than others, but the highs of the series have (so far) done more than enough to make up for the lows for me.
And I'm just thankful to have more space sci-fi that isn't trying to be another Star Wars.
Dunno. Haven't seen it (nor gotten to the books yet). But I thoroughly enjoyed what I've read of Asimov so far.
Crazy how crazy Will Smith is. Even before the whole slapping thing.
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Knights of Guinevere is an animation series by Glitch, the creators of some other amazing works that are freely available on YouTube.
The 2nd episode just came out the other day, the series is set in an amusement park planet, where the two main protagonists (so far) find a damaged Guinevere robot, the mascot of the park, that seems to have experienced some... brutal treatments, and is unlike all the other Guineveres.
I highly recommend their work, it's really great. The only downside is waiting months in between episodes...
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