The first Law on Robotics is to watch the premiere of the 3rd Foundation Season 3 before reading further. Spoilers forward.

Similar to Danny Vilnev's "Foundation", "Duna", "Foundation" of Applet+, occupies science fiction, which was previously considered indecent and Adds a enough spectacle to the size of a blockbuster to balance the very dense building of the world.

And there are a lot on the ground to cover in the "Foundation". The story deals with the centuries-old plan of psychochistoric and super-genius Harry Seldon (Aredar Harris) to save humanity from dark times long millennia by establishing a foundation that will preserve human knowledge. Every season of the show jumps forward over a century as "for all humanity" of steroids. We have seen that the whole planet has been destroyed, the kingdoms are rising and falling, and the slow but stable decay of the Galactic Empire, as they change the entire cast every season - because everyone is dying, with a few notable exceptions.

But there is more, because the volume of the "foundation" has not been measured for centuries: it has been measured in millennia. Although the "Foundation" adapts to Isaac Asimov's many -influential series story, it also makes significant changes. The largest of these includes emperor and his adviser. In the show, there is no emperor, but three - clones of the original emperor at different points in his life, rule together and replace when they become too old. As for that adviser, Demerzel (Laura Byrne) is a fascinating enigma, one through which the "Foundation" carries in the other of Isaac Asimov's most famous works: his series of robots.

Indeed, The Foundation is set in the same universe as "I, the robot", The meaning of the story we see in the show is, but the tail of the story stretching over several thousand years (kind of as the story of the "Lord of the Rings" is the last chapter in a story that began at the beginning of time). How exactly the two stories have been linked so far have been quite nebulous. We knew Demerzel was the last survivor robot in the Galaxy, but in season 3 of the Foundation, we learn exactly how we got here.

When the Foundation 3 Season 3 begins, Demerzel goes through an existential crisis. At that time, the empire declined significantly, and the emperors lost a lot of power to the Galactic Council. As for our certainly inappropriate robot, it owns Prime Radiant, a Seldon device that shows the predicted future of mankind and great events. She knows that the end of the empire is near, and thus her programming to serve them will end. Faced with this, she begins to see a nun of the Luminist Church as a therapist, unloading her worries and secrets.

This latest bit is important because in the premiere of season 3 of the Foundation, Demerzel explains the entire history of the robots and how they were destroyed. Thousands of years ago, as robots grew in number, they began to argue about what exactly the people were harmed, not obeying the three laws of robotics (not harming people; respect people; self -defense is allowed when they are not contrary to the other two laws). In the end, one robot has proposed a new law that can overcome everyone else: the law on zero, which states that the robot must not harm humanity or allow mankind itself to be violated. In this way, preservation of vision comes before a person's safety.

The problem was that people are, well, very good at causing their own destruction, so what should robots do? Humanity's actions lead them to extinction, and robots are not allowed to harm them, even through inactivity. This created a paradox that made the robots fight each other about what to do, with the murder of (probably) some people in order to keep the species alive, leading to all robots to be destroyed by humans - with the exception of Demerchel.

This is a huge news for the "foundation". Not only do we finally have a time frame of events linking the robots to the "Foundation" series, but we also learn that Demerzel was a general in the war before it was Kidnapped by Clion I and turned into a slave dedicated to the genetic dynasty.

Most importantly, it realizes the whole of the wars in robots as we knew. This is no longer just about the robots that insult people for the way they treated them. This is now a more complex and shaded philosophical paradox in robots. Indeed, the way Demerchel said, wars in robots were always more than an internal crisis with the identity faced with robots because they were forced to consider whether they should interfere with humanity to save it, or let it die and be released from their rules and laws.

The Foundation is an interesting adaptation because it often feels like a remix. It makes huge and drastic changes that can wander a lot, but at the end of the day it comes to the same conclusion, even if a very different way is needed to get there. This episode is an example of this, because wars in robots are less than people's conflict against robots and instead of something closer to the Robot Civil War. This is a much more interesting idea: that the destruction of robots happened because they could not agree whether they should allow their creators to die and be free of their rule or harm some people to prevent them from being destroyed. This is very important for Demerzel itself, which now faces a similar paradox, when it knows that the Empire can be on the last legs, but also that (according to Harry Seldon) its destruction will ensure the survival of humanity as a whole).

Of course, there is something that doesn't even think Demerzel - a different threat that is Greater than everything for predicting Seldon: Mule.