The first major space battle of the show is brief but well done, as is the ship’s jump. As always with the Terminus sections of the show, we get plenty of action here, with Phara interrupting plans as Hugo’s reinforcements arrive. Salvor decides to sacrifice herself to save everyone on Trantor, plugging herself into the ship and intending to take it to Terminus, where the people are planning an evacuation. Likewise, despite her threats, Phara is becoming ever more likable, with her skillful takedown of a sentry gun and ready quip afterward possibly being the most badass moment of the series so far.įinally making her move, Salvor and Lewis Pirenne are the last ones alive on the bridge an ominous warning written in blood suggests whatever happened to the Invictus came from outside. The Anacreon threat to wipe out the colony can never receive any sympathy when Terminus is morally pure, thus blunting the show’s attempts to make the Anacreon cause less clear cut. Almost immediately, we grapple with one of the major issues in the storyline: Terminus’ presentation is entirely without fault.
It’s no Glenn under the dumpster, but it does feel a little like the show has cheated.īack in the present, the countdown is still running against Salvor Hardin and the rest of Phara’s hostages. While the character’s survival is welcome, it cuts the legs out from under the idea that space is dangerous and somebody can die at any time. The old rule that unless you actually see somebody die on screen they’re not dead rears its head as Hugo is miraculously seen to have survived his drift through space, landing on a nearby asteroid. The question of whether terror is a justified response to terror is left unanswered, but it’s good that Foundation is making this conflict far more morally gray than it appeared in previous episodes. While their anger at the injustice done to them by Brother Day when he destroyed their world provides motivation for their atrocities, it’s been painted in broad strokes.įinally, here we get a more nuance in the form of a story told through the eyes of a young Phara and her brother, who is obliterated by the empire’s bombs. Foundation has so far treated the Anacreons as somewhat one-dimensional villains who occasionally feel like the Dothraki in space. “The Missing Piece” doesn’t address any of these issues in its opening moments, instead flashing back to Anacreon in its prime. Yet the biggest threat of all may come from within, with Brother Dawn revealing just how different he is from his clone brothers. From the Anacreons efforts to relaunch the deadly Invictus to Zephyr Halima threatening the empire on religious grounds, the Cleon dynasty has surely never faced a more significant challenge.
Last week’s episode of Foundation began the build toward the season finale, with threads starting to combine to create the circumstances envisioned by Hari Seldon that cause the empire’s downfall.
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