what's going on to all my sci-fi fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie
files ellie back again breaking down the latest episode of the brand new apple tv plus sci-fi
epic by the name of foundation today we're breaking down episode three which is titled
the mathematician's ghost an episode in which we hear the whispers of the ghost but we also learn
more about salvor and her connections to the volt we're breaking it all down here in this spoiler
review but before we dive into it all make sure you check me out on all my other social media
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third episode together what were some things that you really enjoyed about this episode what were
some things that didn't work for you all but let's talk about more about the big events seeing the
opening with the cleon and the clones the cycle of life and death and transitioning to terminus
and seeing the civilization built its world out as well as salvor and her personality and her
hero you know heroic traits that she's given her so far and what's exactly her special ability
why is she able to communicate and connect to the vault and more importantly what the hell is in the
vault and also let's talk about the ending and how these ghosts have reappeared on terminus and what
it could mean for the rest of this show let's talk about it in the comments below so before i recap
and break it all down first and foremost for every single one of you all that engaged in my review of
episodes one and two i really appreciate it i read all the comments it was a mixed bag there
was a lot of people that have read the novels that were not the biggest fan of the first two episodes
feel like i didn't really do it justice there were people like me that this is their first time being
exposed to this ip that really enjoyed the journey so it's really interesting to kind of see where
people are at especially now after this third episode but i'm really invested in the show so far
i love the world building i love the characters so far i think the writing has been really sharp i i
mentioned it last week the visuals are absolutely flooring the sound uh the the the sound design the
score has all been really epic and the scoping scale has been beautiful but i'm really enjoying
how we're getting to meet these characters hasn't been a ton of action which i'm okay with because
they're spending more time on dialogue and who these characters are for when things really go
crazy we can care for those characters which i really enjoy about our story so i really
enjoyed this third episode but let me know your thoughts in the comments below so let's recap
and break it all down as we opened the episode 400 years earlier and we see cleon and we see
that he is coming about his final days he is dying but he believes on his final days that he's
leaving the empire in pieces and we see the early stages of his legacy of the star bridge being
created which brings us to 400 years later 19 years after the bombing
we see that the star bridge obviously has been bombed in episode one and we see that brother dusk
who is retired at this point who's passed on his empire uh kingship to the brother
day and we see that he is now coming about his final days and we know that this particular cleon
clone is the oldest of the genetic clones which is just so cool to kind of get that kind of backstory
of that character as his final days are kind of coming about and we see him kind of preparing for
his final days and saying his goodbyes to his brothers and his his empire that he's created
so what i love about this kind of opening moment here one of these scenes that we see these clones
questioning the true legacy of cleon right is it the legacy of him cloning himself and continuing
his dreams to continue to build the empire and make it the best empire as possible or is it the
star bridge is it the star bridge and creating this kind of disjoint community and having all
of the galaxy come together and have peace so it's that's a great question to kind of see the
the psychology of these clones and how each one of them are obviously born from the cleon but they
all have their different ways of how they perceive the legacy of the first client which i thought was
a very interesting conversation within itself but we see him receiving his final gift which
his brothers take him to for the last time the eye of the empire as they promised to build something
better in his honor as they destroy his legacy which that's the whole theme of this episode
what comes before you and how it can affect your future and just seeing
your legacy being blown up right in front of you which was just a really cool way i know
some people might have been maybe disinterested or maybe bored by this opening but for me i
really enjoy seeing this circle of life of the cloning going through and more importantly the
point of view of dem arzel and how she has seen all the cleons how she has seen them from birth
to death and how she has to keep reliving that and we all know that she's one of the lasting androids
of her kind so i just love seeing that routine seeing the brother say that goodbye to the darkest
brother at that point which is a really cool way to open up the show and really give me perspective
of this cycle of life and death and this whole theme of the episode of your legacy which a cool
awesome way to open up the show but fast forward to 17 years later we see that cleon 14 is now
a teenager meanwhile we go to terminus as a civilization is building itself out and
they're beginning to lay land to terminus they are surprised to find that there is something
there before them and that is in the present day that is the fault as we know that there is many
people that fall when they get close to the force field of the vault except for one individual that
we'll talk about here in a second but it's in the voiceover by gail that we hear that this is
an artifact from the aliens my question is who are these aliens are they do they come in peace what
exactly are the answers that they're hiding in the vault so many things i know the book readers know
but i'm really kind of fascinated to know what's so special about the vault more importantly why is
only one person able to communicate and connect to the vault is my big question i and i can't wait to
find out that answer but as we see the birth of terminus and as time goes by we officially meet
this dreamer this thinker in salvor who's a very kind of hero of this story it's
her and and gal who we we didn't get gail in this episode but i'm really interested to know
what are their connections i know someone mentioned in the comments last week i don't
know if this is from the books but some people think that that might be the daughter of gail and
only time will tell but nonetheless we see that she is in this present day she is the warren of
terminus she keeps all the people safe and i kind of love again how the show is building out our
characters as we see kind of the day-to-day routine for all of selden's believers and
what they do on a day-to-day basis in regards to continuing civilization once the empire inevitably
falls to his prediction of psycho history so we see the issue at hand right now is that the volts
force fields are expanding and i love this kind of quote here by salvor as she says that you all
believe that there's a threat that's beyond the stars is gonna be affecting the civilization but
it's more or less the vault is the threat that's at hand and again what is the vault all about
we meet another new character in hugo who is an adventure seeker he goes out into planets and
gets different resources for terminus but he's also in a relationship with salvore and we see
this moment where they you know they have their moment they're happy to see each other he's going
to be back in town and be back on terminus for 29 hours but she has some type of intuition she has
something that's bothering her she wants to check on the vault as she makes her way she sees this
this young boy who runs into an abandoned ship and it's a creature so i'm like okay
is this alien creature transforming and disguising as this boy or is it all about
the whole themes of ghost and who is this boy his connections to this ship as we get to see one of
the big threats are coming to the way as they see these gunner ships being led by and driven by and
acronyms and you all remember the enactions was one of the two governments that were completely
taken out by brother day in episode two so the big question at hand is how do they survive their
planet being blown up so that answers the question in regards to again the name of this episode was
the ghost and how the ghosts can affect and hear the whispers of the ghost what do they want
exactly we'll talk about that here in a second but we see that terminus is preparing for the
worst but let's go back to salvor as her mother introduced her to selden's psycho history and her
mother wants to know if she's able to maybe decode some of his information of what they can expect to
see as she's not able to but it still kind of goes to the question what is what is special
about her why is she able to again go to the vote and i think inevitably she will be able to
decode selden's information there but i love this quote here to be alive and so no ghosts listen to
their whispers as we end the episode with salvor chasing that same kid who is the alien creature
that is a lone wolf and she meets the enacriums as she assumes and we hear the voice over there that
they are there to take their good so again how did they survive that explosion were they just
maybe people that were maybe venturing out from their planet they were just like on a run and
they weren't exploding and their parents and their families and everything they loved blew up on that
on that planet and now they're out for vengeance that's something exciting to see
of course salvor my big thing is how is she able to connect to the vault what's in the vault who
were the aliens that created the vault and and just everything that comes on there and of course
the empire and seeing the clones and we didn't get gail in this episode so it's
really interesting to see where she's at and how she's going to play into the story especially
after i didn't want to spoil it and when i did my non-spoiler review but knowing that seldon's dead
and they think that maybe she's responsible for her death where does she where does she go what
planet she on so i'm really excited to learn more about this world about these characters about the
big question what exactly is in the vault and all the stuff that the show has presented to us
so far i'm very invested into it and i really enjoyed this episode but i want to know your
thoughts on this episode again what worked what didn't work your thoughts your theories your
predictions again i know there's book readers out there so don't spoil too much but let me
know how you all are feeling about the show so far let's talk about in the comments section
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