This article contains spoilers For the "Foundation" Season 3, Episode 8.

We are in the middle of a great time for science fiction on TV, with great shows such as "Alien: Earth", "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" and "Foundation" by emitting new episodes every week that illustrate the diversity of the genre and its ability to tell the stories that speak to our past, sowness and future.

The Foundation is not only one of the best Apple TV+best shows, but a really stunning adaptation of an incredibly influential literary classic that has long been considered indecent. As created by David S. Goyer and Oshos Friedman, the adaptation of the book Series of Isaac Asimov by the same name maintains the complex philosophy of the original material, as well as its fairly dense conspiracy and expansive volume. However, it is also an adaptation that makes so many changes that it is easy to think about how a special entity from Asimov's books - almost more inspired than fully based on novels. Among other things, the show introduced the incredible idea of ​​the Clonic emperors who immortalize the idea of ​​an unstoppable, unchanging, endless empire; It strongly changed the story of Demerzel and turned it into attractive and slow mystery; He also introduced both romance and action in the world of the Foundation.

This last bit is important because there are many activities that take place in the books: whole planets are conquered, the empire breaks down and wars are waged. However, most of the site action is going away, and we are only told about it. In the TV show, however, the action is explicit and visibly displayed on the screen, with the "Foundation" becoming more than a four quadrant piece of entertainment with a huge spectacle, such as Denis Vilnev's download at Duna.

Season 3 continues with this approach, increasing the antetet and increasing the action at every turn. We have seen that the surface of the entire planet is set on fire and Even the discovery of a real death Starwar. Now, the Foundation is fulfilling its end (again) when another planet with terminus falls into a big battle in its name. In Episode 8, we get the full volume of Mule's attack on Newu Terminus, its full frontal attack and conquer the foundation's domestic planet. It's great, it's stunning, and it's more realistic than you think.

The episode begins with the battle above and the new terminal, with Mule taking control of half of the foundation forces, as well as many of its leaders and forces them to kill each other. The battle above is an amazing VFX display, with a very cool sequence of space dogs. However, on the ground, we get a war zone as we have never seen in the Foundation. There are people dying left and right, large open sets and a surprising amount of blood for this show.

Cody Fern, played by Toran Malow in Season 3 of the Foundation, said /film in an exclusive interview that this is an "extreme physical" episode of work. "The show has many practical effects, so you are dealing with hundreds of accessories. You are dealing with more stunts. There was a real person on fire," Fern said, and that is before you reach the fact that he also wore a trick, playing Toran's wife, byte, for most of the episode. It may be surprising for fans to learn that much of the episode is realistic and practical, given how the show relies on VFX to create fantastic alien worlds and wonderfully impossible places. And yet, practical sets and dedication to reality make the whole difference when it comes to recording the scale and tragedy of these scenes. "It was hot, it was sweaty, it was a lot of physical work, and then moreover, you have to agree, especially when he arrives on the ship, that there is all this emotional thing that comes with it," Fern explained.

Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series is not very much for space battles or military zones. Most of the action takes place in various forms of meetings, with characters talking about events that are changing in a galaxy that occur out of sight. Adaptation of the "Foundation" of Apple TV+not only has time to make a thick, complicated, exciting Exploring the history of robotics and war in the robotIt also finds a way to give the audience a gruesome, battle-heavy episode, where the character we previously thought about as something more than a rich clown runs through a battlefield to save his wife while experiencing absolute horror. Moments like these are what makes this series that it must see.