The next contains heavy spoilers For the Foundation 3 Season 3, titled "Darkness".

Foundation fans are not foreigners for major adaptation elections. Epic "Apple TV+ Science" often deviates from the seminar series of Isaac Asimov's books and stories. There is a greater emphasis on romance, a great action spectacle worthy of a blockbuster film, and even the Starwar of death that kills the planet that puts at least one movie "Starwells War" to be ashamed. We have seen that several basic characters get completely different portraits, the new characters rise to become favorite fans (brother dude, we welcome you) and a few other changes that give their own identity.

All this is to say, fans were trained to predict the TV version of the story of Mule from books It can be different from how Asimov wrote it first. Mule is a military leader, conqueror and dictator with strong psychic forces, who manages to go unpaid by the psychochistory that dictates the events of the show - a series of mathematical equations that predict the future based on the movement of the masses. In the finals of Season 3, we learned that the man we thought was the Muzot (Pile Asbak) is actually just a random pirate, a figure used by the real mule to pass unnoticed. In reality, it was a seemingly cordial rich influential, byte (Sinevv Carlsen), who was the powerful mental and conqueror together.

This was an important change for the creator and the show -Show David S. Goyer, who talked in an exclusive interview with /Film for the Foundation 3 Finals and explained the mule adaptation elections. Although the discovery of Mule's identity book is considered a mass surprise and one of the biggest twists on the book series, Goyer did not consider him surprisingly as a reader, simply because there were no other characters like red herring to distract the reader. For him, it wasn't really a mystery.

"With a" foundation "show, where our audience is trained to look for small indications or twists and turns, I knew that if we didn't create a real, viable red herring - in this case with the pirate Kalgan, the military leader - that people would hit the discovery almost immediately," Very loud. So, I began to worry about that leakage and destruction of the surprise of people who did not read the books, and then I started thinking about, "Well, there is someone else in the orbit of our show that might be the mulea?" And I started thinking about a byte. "

The changes began at the beginning of this season (technically last season, even) when we had to see Mule in the visions of the future of Gal (Lou Lobel), and then personally as Pello Asbak plays. Where the books wait until the last minute to tell us who Mule is and what he looks like, The Foundation shows it to us very early, While there is still hints that there is more about him than initially fills his eye. In the books, we only get characters describing this impressive and frightening military pirate, and not late in the story that the character Magnifica Giganticus, a meek circus musician we followed for some time, reveals that it is actually the muzzy.

It makes sense that Goyer would like to create a mystery by showing the audience as a character, calling Mule out of getting, and then casting doubts about whether more. In addition, as Goyer explained in our conversation, byte was one of the first female characters introduced in the Foundation's Book series, and she was written as a very invited, compared to her husband Toran (played by Cody Fern in the show). "Although we went out long since the 1950s, I still think the audience tends to underestimate the female characters," the show said, explaining that bad guys are often expected to be a Halking villain in the form of Thanos. "It cannot be this kind of unpretentious, seemingly shallow influential on social media."

Separation of the character of the pirate military leader and that of Muzot adds something to the latter missing from the original material, because Mule not only uses his power just to create a picture of themselves in the heads of the sacrifices conquered. Instead, byte is smart enough to build this pirate, which Goyer calls a "cliché -negar character", not only distracting everyone from it, but also avoiding having to cover her hands with blood. When we talked to the actor, Carlsen in an exclusive interview ahead of the season finals, she said that byte "she sincerely cares about people and does not want people to be in pain", and she uses the pirate to be the one who will cause that pain.

As Goyer says, the wrong direction of piracy helps to make a possible twist actually surprising, regardless of your level of closeness to the source material. "I would oppose that if Asimov was alive today, he would have been quite amazed with that discovery."

Season 3 of the Foundation is now moving to Apple TV+, and Season 4 is officially in works.