Hoo boy! That was one hell of a season finale, wasn’t it? You may have noticed that none of us were exactly bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as we remonstrated about Foundation’s Season 3, Episode 10, “The Darkness.”
“The Darkpodcastness.”
Spoiler Alert, as usual. Of course, you can listen without watching first, but this one needs to be seen to be believed.
But there were small photons of light trying to break through the shroud; we were joined for our conversation by Cora Buhlert, the 2022 winner of the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. Cora has an incandescent and extensive collection of commentary and fiction. Want to check it out? Start at her blog, CoraBuhlert.com! Her latest foray into fiction is “Queen of the Communist Cannibals,” published in Cliffhanger Magazine.
And speaking of cannibals, how about that David Goyer? Okay, “cannibal” might not be entirely fair, but he recently said that one of the reasons he’s stepping away from the show is that he “was having a hard time figuring out how to keep doing my vision of the show on a smaller budget.” Is that what this is? Full Metal Belt-Tightening? Who needs to send out pink slips when you’re writing the script?
Stars End: A Foundation Podcast 
I finally got to the end (there was some resistance on the home front to continuing this season). Did you notice – there was like nobody in the final episodes? Just a few people in what’s left of New Terminus. In the imperial court there is nobody. Mention is made of trillions of people, but none of them happen to be around doing Imperial business that’s for sure. A handful of 2nd Foundationers.
That’s your budget cuts right there. We can float the special effects and sets we’ve already got, and hope the story can carry it.
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