What's the Difference between Foundation the Book and Foundation Season 1 the TV Show?
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Emperor Cleon
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Emperor Cleon
Portrayed by: Lee Pace
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Gaal Dornick
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Gaal Dornick
Portrayed by: Lou Llobell
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This Character does not appear.
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Eto Demerzel
Portrayed by: Laura Birn
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Hari Seldon
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Hari Seldon
Portrayed by: Jared Harris
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Salvor Hardin
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Salvor Hardin
Portrayed by: Leah Harvey
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Raych Foss
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Raych Seldon
Portrayed by: Alfred Enoch
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This Character does not appear.
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Hugo
Portrayed by: Daniel MacPherson
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This Character does not appear.
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Phara Keaen
Portrayed by: Kubbra Sait
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Foundation Season 1 Book vs TV Show
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In the TV Show |
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Only the closest associates of Demerzel, including Dr. Seldon (eventually) know he is a robot. The Emperor and other officials do not know. Demerzel routinely manipulates the Imperial family and others to bring about a more stable Galaxy. Pushing Hari Seldon to create the science of pyschohistory is one of his attempted solutions for protecting humanity
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Cleon knows that Demerzel is not human. She has served them for at least 400 years. She is programmed (or so the Emperor believes) to obey the Imperial dynasty. |
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The book does not have details on the trip to Terminus. Hyperspace jumps are instantaneous, but it takes many jumps and weeks/months to arrive across the galaxy. Gaal Dornick initially set up the vault and ensured Dr. Seldon's recordings were ready to be viewed in the future.
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Dr. Seldon's group of exiles arrives on Terminus 17 years after they left Trantor. They see the floating vault and have no idea what it is. People approaching the vault fall unconscious due to a null field around it.
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Salvor Hardin is the mayor of Terminus. He opposes the Encyclopedists who are only concerned with gathering data for their encyclopedia to preserve knowledge and bring about a new Empire. Hardin wants to build a new empire directly.
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Salvor Hardin is a child upon arrival and grows up to be the warden of Terminus. She sees that the null field around the vault is expanding. The null field hurts people who approach it, but it does not injure Hardin when she approaches it. She thinks it is waking up. The Encyclopedists claim they are saving the galaxy from a distant crisis, but Hardin says the crisis is on Terminus. |
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Terminus is very technologically advanced, but militarily weak.
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They live in little more than a tent city and primitive buildings made from the remains of their spaceship.
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The First Foundationers know the Seldon Plan exists, but do not know the details. One of the postulates of the Plan is that the people subject to it do not know the future in detail.
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The First Foundation people have a Prime Radiant, but do not know how to use or interpret it. |