This article contains spoilers For the "Foundation" Season 3, Episode 7, "End of the Foundation".

The "Foundation" Foundation of Apple TV+has opened the story of Harry Seldon, His close pair of foundationsand the fall of the Galactic Empire. After two seasons of stage setting, the real throw arrived in the form of Mule (Pile Asbak) - and I couldn't be more excited. The character who controls the mind appeared in the seasonal initial act, where it manipulated a global leader, turned an army against himself and won a planet, all without raising a finger. In episode 7, he uses his telepathic forces on the main planet of the Terminus Foundation with a frightening effect.

And yet, the most disturbing part of the latest episode was not the terminal conquest. That was the way the episode began and ended with Mule's backstation. It opens to Rosem's distant external planet. (Page note: that name has An interesting relationship with author Isaac Asimov also.) There, a young mule is shown with his parents and brothers and sisters. Local law enforcement officers arrive and discover the child, revealing to viewers that there is a strict embargo on families with more children.

By the end of the episode, the frightening story comes to a frightening conclusion as Mule's father is trying to drown him in the legal bounds of family sizes. This unlocks the young villain's mental forces and leads him to kill his parents in a shocking mix of self -defense and cold blood. The whole story explains why Muz has reached the extent that he accidentally conquers the planets and rejoices his enemies, making frightening acts of violence and self-wrapped wounds under his control. But here's the fascinating thing: this frightening story of the origin of the galactic backs is not Mule's backstew from the books.

Shower, David S. Goyer has shown that he is not afraid to make changes to his "Foundation" adaptation and I get it. I spent the record before I agree with the common consensus that this series of books (I have read twice in recent years) is unacceptable. Creative decisions and art license were inevitable for any adaptation. Even so, season 3 had some of the biggest changes of all, including major changes in muzzla. One of these is Separating his character from that of Magnifico giganticus. In books, masked masked as beautiful, as he tries to discover the second basis, but in the show, they treat them as special characters for a cleaner story. Again, I get it. It is a different medium, you have a limited time, yada yada. But this fundamental change in Mule's backstew tightens me. Here's why.

In the books, Muz comes from an extremely unique planet called Gaia. People who have been living there have been led by robots for centuries because they have developed mental abilities and then merged them into a collective force that includes the entire planet. Gaya is later a critical part of the story of the foundation, but for our purposes here, the book "Foundation Foundation" has revealed that the mule comes from Gaia.

Shortly after we discover Gayai in the books, a resident named DOM explains:

"(Mule) was unstable and he left us. We were naive enough to think it was not possible, so we didn't act in time to stop it. Then, when we turned our attention to the outside worlds, we became aware of what you call the second foundation and left them."

Here's where I'm stuck a little with this change. Rosem's version of Mule's origin works for Season 3, but its influence will not exceed Mule's story. Once that villain is overcome, his start to the agricultural planet in the back water will not be very important. In the books, the connection of Muzla to Gaia creates a greater sense of continuity throughout the story, as the mental planet for one -way focus later.

It feels like a missed opportunity, but I'm sure there were reasons for the change. Maybe the show does not want to introduce Gaia. Maybe they will replace Gaia with Gaal and the second foundation to simplify the story (such as Mule/Magniko's part). Maybe they wanted to keep this season alone only if the show didn't rise for the fourth season. Whatever the reason, if we get more "foundation" out of season 3 (and no one wants it more than me), we can expect a spectacular lifting of the stakes we saw in Season 3 to continue to advance forward. Laws, people: the second basis and the muzzle are headed for a collision course, and if it makes a reduction for this particular adaptation, Gaia is unlikely to be far behind.

The Foundation is an Apple TV+streaming.