WEBVTT - Foundation Season 3 Episode 3 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:04.400 Warning, this episode contains spoilers for a Foundation season three 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:24.200 episode three. Hello, my name is Jason Sepsion and I'm 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:26.360 Rosy Night, and welcome back to x ray Vision of 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:29.280 the podcast, where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics, 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:30.080 and pop culture. 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.519 We're here and iHeart podcast. 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:37.959 We'll bring you three episodes every week Tuesday Thursday, and. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.880 The summer's biggest movies every Friday, plus news on Saturday, 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:41.760 plus news. 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:46.479 In today's episode, most importantly for me, as a new 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.800 space traveler in the world of Foundation, we are bringing 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:51.200 back our spice Master. 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:52.920 A boo, A boo. 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:54.240 Thank you for joining us. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:55.640 Always a pleasure. 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:56.960 Let's do it. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.720 I think this interests This is an episode that really 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:01.800 I have a lot of questions about in broadens the 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.120 wild a little bit, so let's talk about it. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.720 I'm really excited to do this with you guys. 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.040 Episode three, season three, When a Book Finds You. We 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:16.960 open three years ago, flashback to the library where Don 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:21.560 current Don was down. Then rise to the library and 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.040 he's like, I what do you got on psychohistory? Give 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.080 me all the books on psychohistory, and the library is like, ahaa, 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:29.720 I'll take you to see the old books, and they 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:34.880 go back there. And what's very interesting is it's very 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:39.840 clear here that down is beginning to become work. 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:45.119 Is psychohistory curious? Hold on, do we get it wrong? 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.920 Maybe did cleon the whatever the whichever one he was back? Then? 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:50.920 Do we get it wrong? 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.480 Is psychohistory a lot more interesting with a lot more 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.760 to tell us about the world than we thought? 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:58.840 Is that the case? 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.040 So he goes back there and they show him I 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.880 believe it's the ninth Book of Folding book right, which 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:11.520 is a Callan's ninth ninth Theorem of Folding, which was 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:18.480 a very a very important book, a source book for 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:23.760 Harry Seldon's work. And Donn is like, well, how did 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.760 you even get this book? And the library is like 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.519 super super cagey about it and is like, by the way, 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.960 the person who left the book here said that if 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.560 anybody ever came looking for it, that we should tell them. 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:36.520 So I'm going to do that. 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.360 And guess who it was who left that little message 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.560 and who brought the book back? It was Gaild her 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.200 periods of being awake when she was not frozen. Who 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.320 knows when this could have been like aboo, any idea 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.560 timeline wise when this might have happened. 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.240 I I'm unclear on that. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.040 No, I think it's got to be some time after 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:04.600 her for awakening, the first time she was unfrozen. 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:09.760 Yeah, I think anyway, so day, I mean, excuse me. 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:15.280 Dusk, all disguised up, goes to a tea house to 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.000 meet this mysterious person. 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.600 It's Gail Dorning and they begin plotting together. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.680 He's like, how are you still alive? She's like, weird 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.560 question coming from you, but it's cryos. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.000 Come on, my guy, Like, what do you mean you 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:30.600 think of anyone? 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:31.800 Who else is it going to be? 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.880 So apparently Gail and the Foundation have been using the 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.360 Ninth Book as like a lure for. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:41.920 People who are. 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.680 Have the same kind of mindset as what Foundation is 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.680 looking for. And Gale and Dawn they kind of spar 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.760 back and forth about like whose fault everything is? And 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.040 Dawn eventually tells Gail that the Empire has the prime 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:58.880 Radiant that Harry Seldon gave it to him. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:00.760 This is a shock to Gail. 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:07.160 Don uh Is, like, listen, the data is obviously like 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:12.200 fucked and Demarzelle has been is the gate is the 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:16.120 Gatekeeper basically of the prime radiant data, and I believe 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.640 that she's interpreting the data in a way that is 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.120 only beneficial the Empire, not the galaxy, and I care 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:25.680 about the galaxy. So Gail's like, Okay, here's here's my 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:27.560 pitch escape Empire. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:28.719 And we keep talking. 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.240 We deal with the threat of the mule, which I'm 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:35.560 gonna tell you is a big deal, and Don is like, 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:37.760 I'll think about it, and he reaches out and then 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:39.880 his hand goes right through Gale's wrist. 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:41.159 She's a hologram. 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.719 A tough choice as far as disguises go. I'm not 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.080 so sure about the goate look for. 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:49.880 A lot more. 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.360 Have you guys seen the movie pop Star Never Stop 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.920 Popping Iconic Lone Moe, one of the funniest movies ever made. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.680 I always think about when anyone puts on a disguise. 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.359 I always think about the Andy Sambak character. He puts 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.680 on like a full face of makeup, and I'm like, 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.000 he does like a prostatic knows like that's how he 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.520 does it to hide from the press. And I always think, 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:14.159 I'm like, you guys are not doing enough what the 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.040 disguise is, Like, you got to really put that stuff. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.360 I mean, you gotta go full mission impossible. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.320 Yeah, you need a fake mosque. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:25.960 Yeah, the facial recognition technology. However, many thousands of years 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:27.440 in the future, this has got to be great. 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:28.560 We go to the present. 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.240 Don reads a secret message, he destroys it. He gets 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.120 this little Gail communicator out and they start talking and 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:40.600 Gail tells Dawn that he needs to ask the council 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.800 to do like a siege, like let's let's let's completely 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.599 seal off Kalgan. Don is like, but, like, that's not 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:52.840 even imperial territory. It'll start a war with original og Foundation, 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:58.000 First Foundation. And Gail is like, let me handle the bitches. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:03.480 She said, I it's like she was like, She's like, 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:08.000 Harry Selden gave me this ninth proof manuscript and twelve 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.719 O sixty seven, Like, come. 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:14.599 On, Mariam is a fucking pushover. And she's like, listen, 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.800 the mule. Nobody's getting it. We need to act now 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:21.280 because the mule quickly will become too strong for us 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.640 to deal with. And she warns Don that also it's 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:28.000 gonna sound crazy, okay, but the mule can control people's minds, 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.000 and Don was like, what he's like, peace and then 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.320 she hangs up Kalgan. It's the big party. It's the 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:40.920 Mule Party, Torn Beta and Preitch. The spies enter Spicy 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:42.200 with no shirt. 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:45.640 Can we talk about the outsits? 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:50.760 I love this. It's like, you know, it's kind of 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.800 like the opposite of being solid's like hiding and play insight. 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.920 He's like, I gotta look extra sexy that no one would. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.600 Yeah, I mean he's live streaming. The whole thing is 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:01.920 a little like vlog Cambridge. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.440 So fun. Okay, so it's spy time. 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.080 We see at the center of it all the Mules, 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:17.400 personal balladeer DJ Magnifico Giganticus. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.400 This is why is this. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.640 Is the funnest fantastic This is like the most fun 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.320 episode of this season so far. There's so much like 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:32.640 in depth political lore and kind of and Spycroft like 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.000 stage setting that the first two episodes do. But this 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:36.800 episode is. 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.160 Like a blost everyone. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.440 They just sneaking on everyone and there's a potty I mean, 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:45.160 who doesn't want to be named Magnifico Giganticus is like 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:46.280 the best name of all time. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.280 Like that's that's a bad name than duncan Idaho. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.120 Like, come on, man, I absolutely love it. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:56.360 They drop a mike Sure, ask name on us magnifical 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:01.080 and magnifico. Giganticus plays like it appears to be a 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:06.840 highly advanced like Beats Bluetooth speaker and is just like, 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.360 has the room and trance that mule. 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.200 Come out of that speaker, But it's not connected. 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:19.640 That the mule is just chilling watching it all. He's 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.560 with Scarlet and some other like his other top lieutenants. 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:23.640 Pritch comes over. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.520 And bad idea. I think I don't know what Prichard 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:29.640 was thinking. Of course he doesn't. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.280 Really yeah, yeah, what was the planner? 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:36.880 But of course he I guess theoretically isn't fully aware 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.559 of the mule's abilities, right, So the mule just like 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.200 is like, okay, great, I'm gonna scour your mind. Immediately 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.040 just goes like rifling through the files of his mind. 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.080 Is like, who's Gail Dornic by the way, And Pritchard 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.080 is like his brain partially broken, has to he like 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.040 immediately flees the party. 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.000 I cannot in this situation. 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.200 He's off planet in one hundred forty five seconds. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:08.199 It's actually crazy. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.280 I he was like, this is too much for me. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.640 I'm out. He knew his limits, and it was having 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.199 his brain scoured beta. 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.480 Meanwhile, smart idea is like, wait a second, the sky 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.679 gigantic Kiss appears to be central to. 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:24.400 The Mule's entire things. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.000 The mule appears to be taking this guy from planet 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.840 to planet. Why don't we grab him and find out 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:37.120 what he knows? Meanwhile, Torren, seeing how Pritch failed, figures, Okay, 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:37.880 I guess. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:38.840 Maybe I can do better. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.480 Uh look at my chest, Look at my abs. 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:44.560 I'm going up there. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.320 He's like, no one would ever think I'm trying to 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:47.120 get any info. 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.920 Don't think about my brain. Just look at these abs. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:54.160 Baby, can I rip through my mind through my body? 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:59.840 Say some of the most cut acting talent working to 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:07.360 day Baby Foundation, Pritch, Torn Mallows and of course and 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.679 Day like shredded guy. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.920 Well, I was going to say as well, Like the 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.800 biggest rumor right now is that Lee Pace is going 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.280 to be the DCU batman. 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:17.880 That's like the biggest room of room of. 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.600 Mil I'm saying Lee Pace said, I think that he 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:22.920 was in conversation about it. That has to be from 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.800 this show. Like, no question, I know James Gunn is 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:29.000 watching this show thinking, oh he's tall, he's cut he 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.839 can be like really weird six four baby, you know. 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:39.920 Like batmanful. Torren goes over there and you know, under 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.720 the cover of like oh I'm streaming this still, like hey, 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:43.520 chat check it. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.479 Out and with the Mule or on can I can subscribe? 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:48.959 Subscribe up with the mule? 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.360 You want to know about him? I'm gonna have a 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:51.559 drink with this guy. 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:56.000 So the Mule is kind of tickled by Torrent and 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.560 is like, hey, it's a it's a cultural thing. On 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.640 my plan it that we trade insults. 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:04.040 Let's roast. 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:09.240 Just do it, roast battle and Torren gets pretty deep. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:10.079 He does pretty well. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.000 The mules impressed, and the Mule tells Torren because of this, 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.000 He's like, listen, I don't want to just rule Kalgan, 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:16.319 like this is a small change. 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.040 Chat you on me? You got the two gett. 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.480 I want I want the galaxy chat and then he 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:30.760 and then he like begins to peel like an orange, 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:35.640 the palm, the skin off Torren's pom as he's. 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:36.280 Telling them this. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:41.319 So Torren, quick thinking, he uses his stream cameras with 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.080 like on flash mode to distract the Mule, and then 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:49.800 he and Beta flee the party with magnet with magnificent interesting. 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.720 Abo thoughts on the Mule and this and. 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:58.160 This, this meeting confrontation between the spies of Foundation one 0:11:58.240 --> 0:11:58.720 and the Mule. 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.960 You know, I really pret she ate Beta stepping into 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.680 the limelight in this scene, because Beta is such a 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.640 great character in the books as well, and folks underestimate 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:10.000 Beta in the books, right. 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:11.719 Yes, little girl, who are you? 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.400 What are you getting into? You're in over your head? 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:20.280 And then we see time and time again Beta surprise everybody. Yeah, 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.240 and so I think seeing her step up in this 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.920 moment and actually do something that Pritch should have thought 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.800 of in the first place. Mister master Spy, you ran away? 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:31.360 Hey, yeah, I'm like you. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:35.720 I really like both of those ideas of using the 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.920 stream and talking to Magnifico so much better than Pritch 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:43.600 is just like, hey are you the Mule? Like no, 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.719 this guy is like a he's you know, he can 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.280 read people's minds, you can break people's minds. Yeah. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.560 It was a little skeptical in the first couple episodes 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:55.199 when Beta and Mallow were introduced as these like influencer 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:58.760 TikTok influencer kids, and I was like, Okay, that's an 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:03.720 interesting reinterpretation of these characters, but I do feel like 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.760 we're going back to the core of the characters. 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:12.400 Yeah. Yeah, We go to trantour Day is with his 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.560 companion's song. They go to the barracks to watch the 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.120 soldiers shower. 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:19.760 Weird vibe. 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.840 Day finds his the commander who he's been gambling with 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:28.120 over you know, these last several months and perhaps longer, 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.560 and he's like, listen, you're gonna help me and my 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:35.880 girlfriend sneak out of the palace and you can come 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.800 with by the way, like it must. You know, don't 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.079 worry about any repercussions because you'll be with me. We'll 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.040 get out of here. And if you help, I'm going 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:48.080 to make sure that your daughter, who is ill, will 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.960 be healed by He doesn't say it here, but the 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:56.400 implication clearly is the healing nanites that the emperor has. 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.600 It will give them some of these. 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.440 So Dawn sees Demarzelle kind of walking through the gardens, 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.160 and he tells his companion that Demarzell's a robots. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:07.760 She is shocked by that. 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:14.840 No one's supposed to know this, of course, but excuse me, 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:18.000 Day spies Demarzell. But of course day Is Day is 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.200 like fully checked out of everything that's happened. 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.760 Why do you I want to know, why do you 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:27.720 think he tells song that? Because I I feel like 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:29.840 that's going to have like massive ramifications. 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:35.960 I think he's he's gone a little soft, right like Empire. Yeah, 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:40.200 all three empires are always raised as the emperors of 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:44.320 this galaxy. They know how to do politics, they know 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:48.360 how to do espionage and subterfusion and manipulation. And I 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.480 think this day in particular is a bit of a 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.960 lover boy. He is in love and this is this 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.920 is his way of saying I love you, I trust you. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.080 We're about to do this crazy thing together. We're going 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.280 to escape the PA and go off on her own. 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.480 So you know what harm does it do to tell you? 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.040 That makes a lot of sense because also Demoiselas also 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.320 like has a lot of control over his life, like 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.440 his kind of for this this like spooky presence to 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:14.720 him in this escape. 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:16.600 So yeah, I like that read. I think that's right. 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.880 I was actually very shocked when that happened though, because 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.640 I was like, this is like top secret, like last 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:23.800 Immortal Robot. 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.520 I feel like you shouldn't be saying something, But I 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:27.440 like your love a boy. 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:28.320 Read that's. 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.600 Don and Dusk are arguing about the Mule, about what 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.840 to do about it. De Marcel senses this schism and 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:56.360 the tension. Dusk doesn't, frankly, understand why this is important 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:00.360 at all, and of course he is. His mind is 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:04.040 completely on the fact that in three or four days 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.120 he's going to be evaporated, and that's really what he's 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.240 thinking about, honestly, fat Don says. Don says, the Mule 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.200 is dangerous. We know he's been talking to Gail, so 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.240 I'm sure Gail has been telling him Don, the Mule 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.280 is dangerous. He can put thoughts in your mind. And 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.840 that's why when we have our little conference with the Mule, 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.840 we should do it over video chat. So Don pitches 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:30.600 the Mule on Kligan becoming part of the empire and 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.520 if you refuse, you know, that could mean war. The 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:33.600 Mule says, great war. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:34.920 I love it. That's what I'm hoping. 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:40.200 Meanwhile, the Mule and his pirates are just like fully 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:41.360 looting Kalgan. 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:45.560 They're actually that they take over the MTA station. That's 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:49.640 what they're doing. In that moment. Oh wow, he says 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.800 something like the one of the officers says something like, Okay, 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:56.720 we've locked down the station, and so I think this 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.280 hints to us that the Mule has greater ambitions and 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:04.040 that he's actually seizing the means of transportation around calganhu Oh, I's. 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:08.480 So interesting, Like he's doing again crazy, just looting doing something, 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:10.480 but really he has like this big a plan. 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:11.240 Interesting. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.800 Yeah, And that was one of the threats from Don right. 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.800 Don was like, well, one of the things if you 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.199 join Empire, one of the things we can offer you 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:25.280 is access to the transportation system, the galactic transportation system, 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.440 the travel gates. You will be able to expand if 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.399 you want to. And so I think the fact that 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.760 he's just out here he was like Cathinkingham, Yeah, he's 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.640 taking them himself. He doesn't need Empire was the importation 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:37.280 I think. 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.040 On transwer various secret plans are taking shape. Days. 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.960 Discussing his escape plan with Song, she is like, Okay, 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.280 but I'm scared of Demarzel now now that I know 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.640 she's a robot. I'm like really freaked out about her, 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:55.560 and maybe we should just stay because it's she would know. 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.760 Right, and we get caught. It's too weird, and it's. 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.479 It's actually scary out beyond up beyond the palace, like 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:06.240 let's stay here, and days like no, absolutely not, like 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.600 and by the way, let's just do let's just like 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.000 to have a normal chill day. 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:11.679 For Yeah, could we just have a chill day. 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.360 But before they can do that, Demosel is like, Day, 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:17.360 come see me in the library. We need to talk 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.199 in the throne room. Dusk and Dawn are continuing to 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:25.560 argue about the mule. Dawn says, Hey, I've got an 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.760 idea that I definitely didn't get from Gail Dornet. We 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:35.240 should put under blockade. Yeah, but we should seal it off. 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.520 We should seal off Calgan and Day shows up and 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:42.440 he's like, what's going on here? Dusk and Dawn think 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:47.080 Day is acting very strange. Dawn wants Day to call 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.520 because he's really the main guy. He's the theory. He's 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:55.320 still structurally the main emperor. So they're like pressuring him, listen, 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:59.639 you need to call an emergency session of the council. Uh, 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.040 so we can discuss this mule stuff in the blockade. 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.720 Den Marosela is like, no, because if we do that, 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:06.760 that would be giving, that would be basically telling the 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.439 council that we can't do anything without them. Either we 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:13.040 do it unilateral unilaterally, or we don't do it. But 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:17.200 if we, if we bring in the Council, that will 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:21.320 embolden them. Don is like, okay, fine, but can we 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:23.840 at least put the kalgan in the mule under twenty 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:27.320 four to seven surveillance. It's not clear that any of 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.479 that is going to happen. Day produces a flask drinks 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:32.480 to strength, wisdom, and fortitude. 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:33.680 They all follow. 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:38.080 Suit and the Cleons have a nice moment together and 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:41.119 it's very clear that you know the the ascension day 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:42.920 is coming, and this is like a moment where they're 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.160 all like, okay, hey, we're all moving up and one 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:45.919 of us is moving out. 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:47.800 Yeah, some of us is later it's going to die. 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:49.800 Yeah, one of us is not going to be here. 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.800 Really, this was my favorite scene in the episode. First 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:56.399 tell me why. In particular, I liked the staging and framing, 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.480 the fact that all three of them are doing the 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:03.760 same hand motions throughout the way they sit in front 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:05.920 of their thrones, and the way that shot in particular 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:08.760 was framed I thought was really beautiful. And then I 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:10.919 really want to hand it to foundation. I think this 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:13.919 is a show that's not afraid to slow down and 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.240 dwell on moments like this, Like, yeah, we spent quite 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:20.000 a few minutes just hanging out here with these three 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:25.000 brothers slash clones, understanding that at the end of the day, 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:27.879 like they are Empire, they are clones on the first 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:31.160 whatever they are and whatever they're supposed to be, at 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:34.040 the end of the day, they are still humans. Yeah, 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.159 and this is a very human moment for three brothers 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:38.200 to share it together. I appreciated that the show took 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:39.640 the time to dwell on that. 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:43.120 I love that read because you know, definitely with season three, 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:45.320 I've been seeing a lot more like this is Game 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:47.520 of Thrones in space, like you go to jump in 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:51.080 and this scene definitely gave me that throwback feeling too. 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:54.000 I'm not going to be able to remember the episode name, Jason, 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:56.399 I'm sure you will, but you know, the episode. 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:59.240 Before the bowel where it's just all. 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:02.960 Of them in the room, like having a conversation, sharing stories. 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.280 I love those kind of things, and I think you're right, 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:08.560 a boo, they spent more time here than I expected, 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:13.840 just allowing them to have that moment, you know, and 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:17.639 just kind of the gravitas of what's happening and the 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:22.320 importance of those characters being together and what it really 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:24.119 means to be one of them, because we mostly just 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:26.680 see like the scheming or the loving or the kind 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:29.480 of the fun parts, the scary parts, the terrible parts. 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:31.040 So yeah, I agree. 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:33.960 I think that's great, a great moment and also something 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:38.800 that's important in a story that has so much going on, 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:43.520 Like there is so much law, so much kind of 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:49.520 important spycraft and plot lines and and and spaces and scenes. 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:52.399 So I love that this, this gives that a little 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:54.119