WEBVTT - Foundation Season 3 Episode 7 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:05.000 Warning today's episode Today in spoilers for Foundation episode seven 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:24.200 of season three. Hello, my name is Jason Getupsion and 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.040 my name's a Boot and welcome back to x ray Vision, 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:29.720 the podcast where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.120 comics of pop culture. Company from my Heart podcast where 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.360 we're bring you episodes every Tuesday and Thursday and Friday, 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:36.440 Most News on. 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:37.680 Saturday, News on Saturday. 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.519 You don't forget Today, Jason, we are continuing our journey 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.240 into Foundation season three and talking all about episode seven. 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:47.200 We're nearing the end. 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:51.720 Oh man, and it's getting very hot. Let's immediately jump 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:59.040 into it. Foundation episode seven of season three, Foundations ended. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.600 It really looks like it. We open years ago on 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:12.160 the planet Rassam aka Big Spinach a Mother, where we 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.440 meet a young mother with her newborn baby and her 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.880 young son and they are walking this path between the 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.920 spinach of Big Spinach, and we learned that they live 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:30.680 on this kind of industrial agricultural planet where huge wheel 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.399 shaped tractors pull up the crops and we watch that 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:39.080 process happening. There's also a group called Assessors that will 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.759 land and occasionally make sure that take inventory of everything. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.640 Apparently that these workers have and make sure that they 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.480 don't have anything they shouldn't and they sense that this 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.280 is about to occur, so they run back to their 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:55.040 homestead and one of the assessor ship's lands, and the 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.440 mother along with her husband, puts this newborn baby into 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.560 a hiding place, and the assessors arrive and they ask 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:05.880 a bunch of questions, and we learn immediately that these 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:09.560 assessors work for foundations. So uhh, the good guys that 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.919 you thought were good are kind of bad. Although I 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.959 should say that we kind of knew, and Harry always 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.280 kind of knew that Foundation one was going to go 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:25.720 astray in certain ways. And so we're seeing that now 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:31.600 the Foundation one rules this planet, and we should assume 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:37.000 other such planets with a authoritarian grip. There is a 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:41.799 one child policy. The assessors discover the second child, the 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.079 newborn child, and so they tell this family, okay, well 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.399 you live under a one child policy rule and we'll 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.440 be back in thirty days and you'll have one child. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:54.639 See you later. Very alarming, very troubling. 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.080 Very troubling, very Nazi codd. 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:03.360 Yes, we go to the present. Is causing Foundation to 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.280 tear itself apart, just as we saw at the end 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:11.600 of the previous episode, the space defenses are shooting at 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:17.280 it themselves. On the ground, soldiers are shooting at civilians. Meanwhile, 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.240 pritches down in a cell trying to warn Seth that 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:22.359 this is all the Mule. The Mule is doing is 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:23.840 let me out so I can deal with the Mule. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.560 It's all in all a very bad day for Foundation. 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:32.000 And meanwhile Torren is trying to get Bita to safety 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:36.360 and she's basically knocked unconscious. We go to Trantor. Various 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.760 alarmed ministers are appealing to Dusk, who is currently the 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:46.280 only cleon available. They're telling him it's bad. The Empire 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:50.280 has lost much of its fleet around Kalgan. The Foundation 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.160 is about to fall, which means the Mule will then 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.400 have ships with which to attack the rest of Empire, 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:58.360 including the Imperial planet. We've got to do something. Dusk 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:02.640 then has a vision of a camel moving. 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.640 Through the back of the well. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.840 Not the real camel, I mean, let's talk about that. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.720 Because he sees this, he then snaps too and orders 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.240 He says, okay, send pro determined new terminus. Let's find 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.159 out what's happening there. All the armies in the galaxy 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.200 have them recalled to Trantor to defend the empire and 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.520 do something about these camels that are loose in the hall, 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.680 and then he'll just leaves. Yeah, what is this real 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:32.719 camel vision? What? 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:34.200 I think? 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:39.240 The camel not real, but the ferret later or at 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:45.159 least clearly real, because the ambassador also sees the ferret. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.120 And I think, I mean, I think clearly we're supposed 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.760 to assume that with only three days left until his ascension, 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.840 Dusk is like deteriorating mentally, you know. And I think, 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:01.919 like he keeps repeating, like I have, I'm on a timeline, 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.480 the clock is ticking, and I think that might literally 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.840 be like a physical taking time bomb, and like maybe 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.520 dusks are just never meant to actually live longer than this. 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:17.480 Yeah, I thought that this was a I think it's 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:22.600 a vision one and I think it's gotta be an 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:30.000 allusion to the biblical metaphor about a camel moving through 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.599 the like it's easier for a camel to go through 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:34.040 the eye of a needle than it is for a 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.320 rich man to enter heaven. And I think that's as 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:41.320 he enters the literally the last three days of his life. 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:45.640 I think Dusk is thinking, what happens to me after? 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.680 And have I lived a good life? I think that's 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.200 what's happening, but we will see. Maybe it's a real camel. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:58.400 Dusk then goes to see the ambassador from Foundation and 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.919 she's a mess, of course, because she's watching like a 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:08.000 nine to eleven planetary level event happened too to her society, 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.640 and she just doesn't know what to do. Dusk comes 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.320 in with a million questions, Hey, do you know any 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.159 trantor is it falling yet? Or what's going on? She's like, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:19.159 is that the only. 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:20.320 Reason you came to talk to me? 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:24.480 I care? 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:25.159 What? 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:25.320 Why? 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:27.839 How are you? I'm sorry? 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:28.880 How are you doing? 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.880 Are you also? Baby? 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:42.480 No? Sorry? Anyway, we go to New Trantor the Mule lands. 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.520 He's got all his acolytes with him, Scarlett is with him, 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:50.960 and Mayor Inbird goes to bend the knee foundation completely surrendering. 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:55.320 Anybody who doesn't want to surrender is immediately dealt with, 0:06:56.040 --> 0:07:00.680 and the Mule is like, listen, you're gonna love serving me. 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:04.400 It's gonna be great. You're gonna love it. And Mayor 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.839 Inberg you're gonna have to learn to love blood because 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:08.560 There's gonna be a lot of it. There's gonna be 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.560 a lot of war, there be a lot of death. 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.920 Scarlet then paints his cheeks, Mayor Inber's cheeks with blood, 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:19.280 so he gets the picture, and we discover that it appears, 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:23.160 whether by his own volition or due to the influence 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:27.120 of the Mule, Inbur apparently sold out foundation and told 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.640 the mule to come here or lower the defenses or something. 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:38.920 And then as as I guess a price for their 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.640 somewhat of their freedom or to not die, he offers 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.360 a pritch, who the Mule clearly wants so he can 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.960 locate Gail Dornick. This is shocking. Do you think do 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.360 you think Mayor Inbert did this just on his own 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:52.240 I think he did. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:53.520 I think he can. I think did. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.880 I think he's enough of a coward to sell out 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.760 the planet for his own supposed safety. But I do 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.480 think this is such a fun storytelling device because every 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.800 time we cut back to Mule, you don't know whether 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.160 any of these characters are acting under under their own volitions. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.000 Correct And obviously we say that see that play out 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:17.920 quite explicitly between Randu and Tourin later in the episode. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.520 But I had a fun time in every scene on Foundation, 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.320 asking myself is this the mule or is this their 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:24.960 own choice? 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.120 Same we go to Micagen where things are getting very 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:33.800 very interesting. Now Day is apologizing to uh Song and 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:40.679 to gamer tag girlfriend about basically he's like, listen, it's 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.520 clearly like a misunderstand some of it. This was a 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.600 vast misunderstanding me coming here. But like, let me make 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.200 it up to you by telling you about the robot, 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:50.880 which I know you really care about because of this 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.920 religion you have. Look at this and he pulls out 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.480 like a crochet needle and he's like, this is one 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.800 of Demrzelle's tools. It comes from Earth. You can tell 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.079 by the markings. And is that like, come on, that's 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:05.120 a big deal. And they're like, you know what intriguing, 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.560 but we need to know more, right, how do we 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:12.880 figure out more? And Song and gamer tried girlfriend kind 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:14.720 of argue a little bit about well, you could put 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.079 the memory thing on and see if he said anything then, 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.640 and she's like, I really don't want to put the 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.320 memory thing on that will return the memories from the 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:27.360 Pleasure Palace to me, And yeah, you know, there's got 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.640 to be some other way that we can get him 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.200 to talk more and sun Master. Maybe we bring in 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.120 sun Master eighteen and we get his take on it. 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:40.480 This gang leader that we had heard some telling of 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:45.360 in a previous episode. And all in all, Song and 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.040 her partner are very excited about the potential that robots 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:53.439 might actually exist. They decide to use shrooms, which are 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.040 part of their religion. I guess makes sense that this 0:09:56.200 --> 0:10:01.720 place is called micagen, which is, you know, the more 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:07.680 species correct plant name for well, they're not plants whatever, 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:13.880 the scientific name for fungi. And so they start getting 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:15.480 the mushroom mix. 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:15.880 Ready. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:21.960 Back on Trantor, the Ambassador tells Dusk about the fall 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.400 of New Terminus and she's like a total mess. Like 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.920 they're having dinner like as if it's normal, and she's 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:30.080 like it's so crazy, like everybody's dying. But here I 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.720 am like eating this luxurious dinner like everything is normal, 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.319 and Dusk is like, don't worry. They don't worry about it. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.280 I'll protect you, Like, don't worry. You stay with me. 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.800 Leave the Foundation Mission, the chancery, the Foundation Embassy. You 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.960 come live with me in the Palace. I will enfold 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:51.480 you in the Imperial protections and everything's going to be 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.120 absolutely fine. The Empire is on a strong footing. She's like, 0:10:55.120 --> 0:11:03.600 oh yeah, where are day in Dawn Like, Joe, I'm 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:04.000 not enough. 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.000 Why are we bringing up my brothers? 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:13.200 Yeah, and he's like, listen, okay, flat out, Dave fled 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:17.280 the palace and Dawn well, yea too complicated to get 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.440 into that one, but maybe one day we'll get into 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:25.240 that one. The mood, yeah, let's not get into that. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.160 All of which is to say, I'm holding things together here, okay. 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.959 And then Day's ferret runs onto the table and he's like, 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.760 look at that, that's Day's ferret. He's kind of still around, 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.840 I'll look at that. Isn't that cute? Song? And gamer 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.920 tag girlfriend questioned Day As he's tripping, he's taken the 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.160 shroom mixture, which seems like it comes out of a 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:49.160 fancy espresso machine. He finds himself back in the palace. 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.800 He's greased up and shirtless because this is Foundation after all, 0:11:54.160 --> 0:12:01.199 and he's running Wait til Jesus, god, guy, the chastic 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.760 process of this show amazing. So they're running through He's 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.679 running through the halls right seeing these visions. He sees 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.000 his brothers sitting on the triple throne. His seat is 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:15.840 empty than Demarselle. A massively size de Marcel approaches. She 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:21.000 gives him this kind of short lecture about like their 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:26.559 relationship that the Kleonic brothers have with Demarselle, and then 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.080 he wakes up on the floor, but still under the 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.600 influence of this stuff. Song is there. Day apparently, in 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:37.320 his unconsciousness, has been talking about Demarzelle. He's arguing now 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.760 with Demozelle, like about like, why do you hate me? Demrcel? 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:44.360 Do you hate me? And Song is trying to quite 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.760 you know, get more information about this Demarzel character, right, 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.080 and it's like that's okay, So that's the robot. Can 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.280 you free you? Can free the robot? Can't you? And 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:58.959 like and days like can I free you? And Day 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.480 eventually tells Song, no, I can't. I can't order the 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:07.400 robot freed because she is programmed, like from before me Eden, 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:12.040 to serve Empire. And this infuriates Song and her partner, 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:16.160 of course, because it's like they have enslaved God. Apparently 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.520 the trip continues days back in the palace, he's talking 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.480 to Dusk now asking if Demarzelle, like is Demarzel heard, 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.240 is she sad about this? The way that she has 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.760 to serve empire? And then he sees an older Demarselle 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.720 like sitting in the mirror to do maintenance on herself. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:38.520 And then he sees his the three brothers, the three 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:43.319 Kleonic phases of dawn, day, and dusk, all doing the 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:47.040 practicing being in sync thing at dinner right, and then 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.880 Dawn messes up and you get the pick, you get 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.160 the I got the impression at least that this Dawn 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.000 that we're seeing in the vision is him, Like, he 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.560 then progresses into the day that we are watching, Now, 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:00.440 did you feel that? 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:02.600 I felt exactly that too. 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:07.960 I get the sense that we're learning that this day has, 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:12.040 since his Dawn days been always a little out of 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.679 saying a little bit. And I've certainly been dealing with 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:16.360 like this complex that I'm not good enough. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.080 I've never been good enough to be a cleon. 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.840 I've never been good enough. And also Demarzel hates this 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.120 and hates me, and how can I make it up 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:28.840 to her? So he then asks de Marzelle, like, are 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.920 we the worst? Are we the worst cleons? I feel 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:37.280 like we're the worst ever cleons. And he and he's like, 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:38.960 can you tell me a story, like any story? And 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.480 she's like, well, listen, I've had so many stories. I've 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.560 got so many like I've been alive for so long. 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.600 I've been a soldier, I've been a prisoner, I've been 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:50.680 all these different things. Currently I am a prisoner. And 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.200 can I order you to free yourself? He asks? And 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.760 she's like, no, you can't do that. But what would 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.440 you do if you were free? He asks her. She's like, why, 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.560 I would make more of me. I would make more robots. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.520 And okay, if you could choose, would you choose to 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:10.600 love us the cleons? And she gives really no clear answer. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:14.160 She's which he realizes is the answer like the answer 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:19.200 is no yes. And he realizes then, in that moment 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.920 and that hesitation of her to answer, and the kind 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:26.400 of ambiguousness of her answer in general, that she really 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.960 wants to be free at the core of her, like 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.080 any living thing wants to be free. And then the 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:35.080 trip kind of ends or tails off, and he has 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.760 clearly come to a decision and has clearly come to 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:42.600 a place where emotionally something has happened, like something big 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:46.000 has happened. This is an incredible sequence. 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.240 Yeah, I think also visually an incredible scene, yes, just 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.960 the way we're transitioning from scene to scene. This whole 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:57.200 episode actually had some really fun transitions all throughout, but 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:02.480 this true Trip sequence was a visual treat for sure. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.120 I also loved that we ended on this like really 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:12.080 poignant freedom versus love, because I think same there are 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.760 different versions of that decision. You know, there are stories 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:20.320 about people choosing love over their freedom and prioritizing love. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.720 Here we're seeing the opposite of that. Deverzel Again, I 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:25.480 think I said those a few episodes ago, but I 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.960 believe that she, in some weird robot way, truly loves 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:33.120 the Cleons, and we see her emotional outbursts. We saw 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.960 that last week. I believe with Gail when she's talking 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:41.400 about raising them, and so I do think she loves them. 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:46.760 But I think after what a thousand years of enslavement, 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.800 freedom is worth more to her than any amounts of love. 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.080 Love is not enough for her. 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.560 I agree, and it makes me wonder should Harry have 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.400 just taken shrooms in my cons and then he wouldn't 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.160 have needed to do the whole psychohistory. You would have 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.400 just been like Oh, the robot wants to be free. Yep, 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:09.600 that is the hinge point upon which the entire galaxy moves, 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.359 Like I've figured that out. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:12.240 Yes. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:17.280 I also there's a very small I don't know whether 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.159 this is an easter egg. I don't know whether this 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.640 is hinting at future seasons to come, because it doesn't 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:24.439 feel like a thing that will make sense this season. 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:29.000 But I'll say this in sort of a vague, non 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.840 spoilery way, but Demriseel mentions that she has been known 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:37.000 as Daniel, she uses this other name, which hints at 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:42.040 a very very important robot character within the Foundation and 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:43.200 asim Off universe. 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:44.080 Yeah, we're gonna get it. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.080 I think that that's all that's really safe to say. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:18:05.879 I feel like robots are coming. We go back to Trantor, 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:09.679 where the Ambassador finally asks about ascension, like, okay, so 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.600 you're gonna protect me, that's great, but you are getting 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.720 vaporized in three days now, Like that's happening or is that? 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.320 Like she's like, clearly they can't do that now, like 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.560 everything's so crazy, and Dusk is like, listen, I will 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.280 take care of it and make sure that whatever happens 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:30.399 after me, like I've made my peace with this life. No, 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.520 he hasn't. He's flat out lying in this part where 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:37.080 he's like, I'm fine, I'm ready to close this chapter 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:40.000 of my life and I'll make sure you're taking care 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.600 of after the fact. And we know that that's not 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.080 the case. He's been freaking out. They then kiss. We 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:50.439 go back to New Terminus where Pritch bites through his 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:52.399 wrist in order to get the guards to come to 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:56.879 his cell. This is fucking crazy, crazy nuts Inber then 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.040 brings the mule to his cell to find Pritchard is 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:03.679 bled out and dead. Only no, it's the guard. Pridge 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.560 then like peeks in like ha ha and tries to 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.720 shoot the mule sneak style, like. 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:16.679 I better bridge to be clear, master spy by ass Are. 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:20.200 You kidding me? I love I loved it. I mean 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.280 he doesn't have the safety off. The safety is on. 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:28.479 He can't shoot the god and now is running away 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:32.280 as the as the guards of New Terminus and the 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.320 mules people are shooting at him in the butt. Torn 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.240 gets Beta on the ship, I mean crazy stuff from Bridge. 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.960 Torn gets Beta on the ship. Randy breaks in. He 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.679 made it as well. They don't know where Magnifico is, 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:52.440 so the ship Ai is like, hey, while you were taught, 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:56.760 while nephew and and uncle are talking it out, bad 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.760 guys are coming to the ship. Okay, so there's that 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:03.880 to can clock. Randy then says, listen, what if it's 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:05.640 what if? The mule is like, what if it's gonna 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:10.399 be all good? Like what if? What if the opportunities there? Right, listen, 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.199 we've been fighting as foundation Empire has always kind of 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.960 been a problem. Everything's shaken up. Now maybe we can 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:21.480 all profit from this. So Torren now is like, hold 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:24.119 on a second, did the mule get to you? And 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.879 Randy's like no, no, no, no, no, the mule didn't get to me. 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.320 But I just want to tell you the mule is 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:34.480 you love. The mule is pure love, like he doesn't hate, 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.080 he doesn't hate us, In fact, he loves us. So 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:39.640 now Torn is like okay, yeah, whatever, the mule got 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:43.240 to you, and he jumps into an escape pod. The 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:46.960 escape pod has like some sort of booby trap in 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.879 it that shoots the bolts that are attached to the 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:56.160 escape pod cell. Yeah, these bolts kill Randu and Torren 0:20:57.280 --> 0:20:59.680 doesn't want to, but he has to leave Beita behind, 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:01.720 She's can prepare and he escapes to we. 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:05.159 Don't know where, right This was my favorite scene of 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:10.840 this episode. I think so because I loved the insight 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:14.680 that we got into more mentalic slash mule abilities here, 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:19.119 because it's not like, it's not mind control, it's not 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:22.639 generic I'm wiping your mind. You're now just like, although 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:24.919 it seems like he can do it, that I he 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.240 can do I think there are varying degrees to his powers. 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:32.320 For sure, you're right, But I think what's like almost 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:35.399 mornefarious is what we see here is that the Mule 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:39.960 has tampered just enough, but has played with Randw's motivations. 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:45.199 Randw already wants to subvert the foundation, so why not 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:49.359 do that together? But he like there's just enough to 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:52.680 nudge someone along. And so I have found it interesting 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:55.240 over the course of the season watching the ways in 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:59.440 which the Mule conserves gas. I guess in the table 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:02.520 that's he's not pedaled to the metal, just mind control 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:03.960 everybody around him all the time. 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:06.280 I think that to me is also the kind of 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:09.320 the most fascinating thing about the Mule is it's it's 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:15.000 it benefits him to not let anybody know just how 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:17.960 much gas he has or just what the limits of 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:22.679 his power are. So the sense I get, especially with 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:26.399 how freaked out he is about Gail, is that he's 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:30.360 much more vulnerable than anybody knows. And I think Magnifico 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:33.920 is going to be the key to that. In fact, 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:41.560 he's probably weaker now without Magnifico than maybe ever. And 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:44.520 but at the same time he's he's covering that up. 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:47.160 He's being very very cagey about that part of it. Naturally, 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:52.080 back on Trantor, Dusk and the Ambassador have made love 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:58.200 and Dusk. This is so funny because Dusk like kisses 0:22:58.280 --> 0:23:02.080 her and has this fucking look on his face like, yeah, 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:07.159 still got it, still doing it three days from ascension 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:09.960 day and I'm still doing it. 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:10.680 Incredible. 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:13.800 It was like an incredible vibe from him. He then 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:17.320 goes to I guess take like a post coital stroll 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:19.760 around the palace when he sees Day's ferret and then 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:22.000 he feeds it some wine and meat and then he 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:26.840 stomps it to death. This I think, Listen, we still 0:23:26.840 --> 0:23:30.280 don't know what Dusk is going to do with his 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:32.000 gravity bomb, but. 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:34.280 I suspect I keep forgetting. 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:37.919 About Yeah, we keep forgetting about that, but like I suspect, 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:43.640 I think Dusk is positioning himself to just be like, hey, 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:47.520 forget the cloning thing. What if I just keep going, 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:51.560 Like I think that's where this is headed. It's just 0:23:51.560 --> 0:23:53.600 like I'll just keep going. As the guy. 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:57.600 We go to Mikegens, are you are you saying that 0:23:57.640 --> 0:23:59.720 the death Star is his? 0:23:59.840 --> 0:24:02.359 Like gun, He's like, let me keep going? Or I shoot. 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:07.679 I think I think he's good. I think he understands 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:11.639 that everybody's coming to trantor I think he is going 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:14.920 to when everybody's in one place, set the bomb off, 0:24:15.800 --> 0:24:18.960 and somehow in his mind he's going to set himself 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:23.520 up as the emperor of whatever's left. 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:25.280 Okay, Yeah, all right, interesting theory. 0:24:25.359 --> 0:24:31.840 Yeah, sun Master comes through in Loki cosplay sun Master 0:24:31.960 --> 0:24:35.440 eighteen dresses like Loki. Let's just put that. 0:24:35.400 --> 0:24:40.120 Out there, like this is just another variant, a. 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:43.560