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elliott back again with my weekly recap breakdown and review of the latest episode of foundation
we're breaking down episode nine which was titled the first crisis an episode in which we see salvar
trying to save her people on terminus and brother dawn tries to escape but only for the plans to
fall through we're breaking it all down here in the spoiler review but before we do so make
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this second to last episode before next week's finale your pros your cons the stuff with salvar
and pharah and terminus what do you all think about brother dawn and brother dusk and the
escape plan how it all worked out let me know what you thought and of course what you all hope
to see in the finale next week so just jumping into my initial thoughts coming off this episode
before we break it all down if you all have been following me and for this journey of covering this
show which again for every single one of you all that tune in every single week i appreciate every
single one of you all and this is your first time tuning in welcome but the last couple episodes i
think were a little bit mixed right episode seven and eight i didn't feel like it was just it didn't
the build up wasn't really the tension really wasn't working for me right
but i haven't really necessarily flat out hated an episode or thought that the episode was terrible
and not that i think this ninth episode is terrible or that i hated it but it just
for all things considering this is a second to last episode which is supposed to set up a
finale which we'll talk about that at the end but man this ninth episode did not work for me on a
lot of factors number one as you all know i'm not the biggest brother dawn fan and not that i'm not
the biggest fan of his narrative in the story i think that's really interesting compelling
you know him being different from his other brothers in the cleons but
the performance is just not working for me i feel like that i don't mean to bash this young man i
can't even think of the actor's name right now but i just don't think he's he he's not he's miscast
in my personal opinion so spending a lot of time with him and not just one of them but two of him
in this episode really didn't work for me we you know we already predicted that there was going
to be a twist with the whole ezra relationship thing which ended up being the case but then you
transition to salvar and pharah and terminus and and nakrians that story has slowly but surely kind
of lost my interest as the season went on so the fact that we spent all of the episode on those two
of my personal opinion the two weakest plots of the story no brother dawn or brother day in this
episode really kind of put me in a mindset like man this episode did not get me excited for the
finale but hey we're gonna break it down again let me know your pros and cons in the comments
let's get into it as we open up the episode with as we know the show gives us ton of flashbacks we
get another flashback here ladies and gentlemen and this flashback consists of young salvar
talking to her dad which by the way i love this scene i thought that it was some great dialogue
them talking about their existence coming from earth the hatred between the different people
and different planets really good dialogue here but i just couldn't help but think to myself
why wasn't this scene shown many many weeks ago we got flashbacks to salvar as a kid and
talking to her dad but i just felt like a scene like this could have been so more could have
put more impact on his death because when i saw you guys can watch my review from when he died
i didn't feel his death i didn't feel like there was enough relationship there i didn't feel like
there was enough character development to have a big impact for his death for me personally
yeah it's sad for someone to see their dad die right in front of him but i just didn't from a
narrative structure i didn't feel like the show built up that moment for me personally
so i would have loved to have gotten that type of scene that we get in this opening many weeks
ago to kind of really establish that father and daughter relationship but even taking that aside
kind of moving forward with this narrative we see that salvar she's waking up on the ship at
this point we see that pharah's right hand man is tied up which i don't remember who tied him up but
she's waking up she realizes that she's on you know she was on a course to determine
it's like i mentioned last week she's there and she sees louis's body there which is again
relationships in this show the deaths in the show have fell completely flat for me i just
don't think number one louis and salvar from the jump street when we first saw them they were like
butting heads which is fine right you can have that but i never felt that they were like she
had like this care for him when she sees his body it's like oh louis i'm just like i don't i don't
think it was established enough but she sees his body which leads us into her cutting to uh
going to a familiar ship and this is where again i talk about relationships she's reunited with her
boyfriend we united and it didn't feel good she is her and hugo which you know they go back and
forth he's like let's run off together she's like no i'm the hero i got to save my people he's like
okay well i'm a hero's uh boyfriend so let me team up with you and it's just like i do feel like the
show and don't get me wrong i know there's people out there that probably really are fascinated with
relationship they love the relationship between salvar and hugo but for me i don't really care uh
hugo to me is just kind of a plot device i don't really feel like he's a character in the show but
i just feel like it was a missed opportunity to have and this just speaks to the salva our
character i don't think that that character has had enough chemistry for me to have a moment where
they're saying goodbye like we're supposed to be rooting for them right at this moment at least i'm
i'm not rooting for them at this point i could care less i think that that should have been a
moment where talvar should have been saying bye to whether it was her lover her parent her really
close friend but that that chemistry between her and hugo the lack of chemistry with any other cast
member i just feel like it's lacking that moment so it just kind of fell flat for me personally
in that goodbye i should have been like oh no hugo this is the last time you're gonna see each other
which we know isn't the case because you can't kill hugo and they actually team up a little bit
later but it's just it didn't work for me but let me know how you all felt about that moment and how
you all feel about their relationship as a whole but moving on delvar makes this determinist she's
on terminus she noticed that all the people are are knocked out they're not dead they're
just passed out because we all know for many many weeks that the vault was going to inevitably make
its way to the terminus people which it does here she is able to open the doors to the vault which
appears to be a door that can maybe be a gateway to another planet we'll see what next week offers
but as she opens the door everyone starts to rise everyone's awake now she says hello to her mom
the kids are awake so we get all that stuff there and this is where we see that fair has taken over
the ship a few those people and we're gonna we're gonna cut back to how we wrap up the episode but
a lot of that stuff on terminus man i just feel like from an emotional standpoint a narrative
standpoint it just wasn't compelling to me like again this is the second to last episode
the vault the reveal the vault just felt so underwhelming but again we'll cut back to
all that stuff on terminus but i want to talk about brother dawn ladies and gentlemen
we've been talking about it for weeks we i already predicted there was going to be a twist there
was going to either be the shadow master was ezra the whole time or she was working in cahoots with
brother dusk and it's a mixture of the two right which we'll get into but let's break it down we
see that him and his girlfriend ezra are planning his escape and again a relationship between those
two it kind of makes sense now that there was not that much chemistry because she was essentially
acting to pretend to really care for him but still nevertheless a relationship that just kind of felt
a bit rushed but we know that it wasn't really a relationship as we'll talk about the reveal here
but brother dawn and brother dusk are having a conversation a really interesting moment here to
say the least because he's showing him his murals and showing him all the celebrations and all that
stuff but clearly it's a moment that brother dusk is like listen young man i know what you're up to
he doesn't explicitly say it but there's enough meat there to brother i mean he was already
brother dawn was scared after he kind of got his little fake threat from his older brother but he's
pretty much says to him i know your secrets and i'm gonna call you out sooner rather than later
so we see brother dawn runs to his room the shadow master gathers him to say that brother dust wants
to see you he escapes him by using his bracelet to kind of knock him out we see him on the run which
by the way the suspense the music again the visual effects this the score and all that stuff is
is there and even when he's like escaping and running through the town which reminds
me you know blade runner 2049 type of denivo new visuals he goes down to the water cycle again the
set designs all the stuff the production show is flawless i just don't care about that character
again that young man is just not hitting those notes for me in regards to the emotional depth
the the moment that i'm supposed to be feeling this sense of urgency from the character
i just didn't really care for the character again i don't like that actor i think he's that i don't
mean to bash him but i think he's completely miscast in the world because i just didn't
feel that urgency in this moment when he's on the run but let me know how you all felt about it but
as we jump from him according to the water cycle we see that he makes his way underground
he exchanges his bracelet for some clothes from a homeless man he gets a coat from him we see that
he eventually makes his way to his girlfriend ezra and we can see that you know she there's something
obviously off when he walks into the room but he's like okay i'm here now i'm a day early i
couldn't wait to be here he's excited he's like we need to get my nanobots out before they track me
and this is where you know he's starting to get comfortable now and he makes his way into the
shower he makes his way out of the shower and says you know what i think i've come up with a name now
he realizes that his sweet sweet girlfriend isn't there and he is being betrayed he runs
away from her only to be knocked out and he sees himself he that this person has the appearance of
himself and we're going to get into this moment here as it's revealed which i mentioned weeks ago
she was either going to be a spy or she was going to uh you know the shadow master was
going to kill her brother dust is going to be behind this and again it's a mixture of the two
but the big reveal is that she's a part of this group that has collected the cleon's
dna many many years ago and they couldn't wait for this date to arise even though it
came their christmas gift came a day early and we see that the evil version of brother dawn
and we get the you know the real version of brother dawn having this conversation
about discussing how he's more of the fake one is more of a cleon than he is he doesn't have
any of the effects that he has and they're going back and forth from just like you all know how i
feel about this actor the fact that we got two of them in one scene i was just not checked in
at all i didn't feel it at all even when he was trying to be menacing and evil i'm like just
maybe this actor is a good actor i i don't know if i've seen him in anything else but i just think
he is so miscasted he's not miscasted once but this guy said twice in this scene i just like i
wish that this scene would hurry up and happen because i'm not a big fan of this actor but
either way we see that they're about to kill him but in comes big brother he saves him they kill
everyone in the room they slit the throat of the guy the shadow master's there and we see brother
dusk because you know he's like oh we're gonna take her and talk to her a little bit later ezra
and they're having a conversation between two brothers and he's just like i'm i'm
i'm embarrassed i'm sick of you and we're gonna judge you once our emperor brother day comes back
from his trip so that's somewhat exciting because you all know how i feel about lee pace and brother
day we need him in every single scene in this show but they're gonna judge him come next week but
overall that story to me was just a little bit not a little bit it was a lot of underwhelming i don't
like that actor i knew the plot twist was coming again it was a variation of what i said about a
couple weeks ago how it's going to play out but to see the execution and see how it all plays out at
least in a moment we obviously know we're going to get a finale next week and maybe there's another
twist that comes into the mix and maybe brother day kills brother dusk and whatever the case may
be but as it stands right now brother dawn brother dusk without their brother day it's just the
it doesn't really work entirely and i thought that that whole scene was just again very underwhelming
for me personally but again let me know what you all thought about that plot but let's
wrap up the episode as we cut to going back to the anacrians and they have they're waving their white
flags in front of hugo's people but in comes farah she saves the day to everyone's surprise
salvar makes her final plans to pharah as she wants to band together fair is like no i don't
want to ban with you i don't want to work with you i'm going to kill all of you but
she's like you know what first let me take out the vote she shoots at the vault leaving salvar
to kill her shooting her with her own arrow and again yet another death that i'm just like and
you all know i actually enjoyed the fair care character but when it comes to the show how they
handle and execute these deaths it just feels hollow to me like i i really will first off
she stabbed in the throat she shot her through the throat but they have the most you know they're
very technology-wise they have the most technology so they might be able to bring her back we'll see
what comes next week but right now i'm assuming she's dead she's shot in her throat but i'm just
like oh pharah bye oh no she's dead but as we wrap up the episode we see that a blurry figure
walks out of the vault and is no other than harry saying that oh we got all the people here i'm glad
you guys are able to team together maybe we'll be able to figure this out end of the episode
again you all see my thoughts on the episode i thought it was a very weak second to last episode
the brother dawn secret reveal that stuff fell flat the salvar terminus hugo all that stuff just
didn't really feel as compelling as i personally want to be but we got one more episode gail she's
somewhere out there making her way back home to her people to only probably find out that they've
all been killed and maybe she'll make her way to terminus and join forces with harry the nakrian
salvar and her people to discover the foundation and to you know make his you know predictions
come true meanwhile we'll see brother dave brother dawn brother does having a conversation about what
to do with their brother i don't even know why they're gonna have a conversation with him because
we already know that they have another cleon ready to go ready to reboot and take his place so i
don't even know what the conversation's gonna be had but we're gonna see what's gonna happen next
week and we'll see how the finale wraps up but hey that's just my thoughts on the episode let me
know your pros your cons your excitement neville excitement level for next week's finale let's talk
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