[DISCUSSION] Foundation S02E06 - Why the Gods Made Wine (Spoilers) - eviltoast

Premise:

Day and Queen Sareth make an announcement. Tellem sows seeds of distrust between Gaal and Hari. Hober Mallow reaches his destination.

Directors:

Alex Graves

Writers:

David S. Goyer, Josh Friedman
EPISODE RELEASE DATE
S02E06 - Why the Gods Made Wine Aug 18th, 2023 on Apple TV+
  • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world
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    1 year ago

    Could be and probably is a fakeout. Tellem just wanted to put Seldon through that to wring whatever she could put of his mind. So in that sense the deathbed flashback trope was actually a literal plot point. It wasn’t just us seeing those things, but Tellem. Maybe she’ll learn something that changes her mind about Seldon.

    In fact, I think whoever gave him a body again did it for exactly this purpose. A holo-Seldon would not have been vulnerable to Tellem, and thus wouldn’t have succeeded in eventually winning her over. The whole resurrected Hari gambit is a strategy to win over the Mentalics.

    Plus if they really were going to kill Seldon (again), they wouldn’t have used it as a cliffhanger. They would’ve just killed him.