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back again with my weekly recap breakdown review of the latest episode of apple tv plus foundation
we're breaking down episode 8 which was titled the missing piece an episode in which i feel
like there were some pieces missing here but i always say lee pace to the rescue because
brother day has a journey in this episode and we're breaking it all down here in this spoiler
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and in those comments as we've done for the last eight weeks what did you think about the episode
your pros your cons your thoughts your theories what was your favorite plot out of the three that
we got in this episode and what you hope to see in the final two episodes of season one of foundation
let's talk about it in the comments ladies and gentlemen so just as i always do just share with
you all my initial thoughts coming off the episode last week and this week arcana hit or miss for
me guys i'm not gonna lie the as i always say every single week whenever lee pace brother day
is on screen i always love that stuff him him and deremozel their conversations halima what happens
to her in this episode the lies and deception on the spiral path that he went on all this stuff
was fascinating but unfortunately salvar farah the ship hugo is he coming back the man can't be
killed that stuff was a little stagnant i feel like we just keep repeating the same narrative
there and speaking of keep repeating man i was as if you all remember my first three episodes or
first two episodes i was in love with gal the show has really put her in a back burner i i know it's
a slow burn i know from what you all have said in the comments she's very pivotal critical to the to
the actual novels but man i just feel like she has just been stuck in the same literally she's been
stuck in the same place since we've seen her since episode two but her story just and hopefully after
what happens in this episode we can propel her to somewhere else going back to her homeland but
those two stories were just the weakest elements to me but we're gonna break it all down again let
me know your highs your lows thoughts theories in the comments section but let's break this
down by what i think was the least interesting element of the episode let's start off with this
flashback that we get on anachrion which shows us a young pharaoh and we already heard her tell us
the story so i don't know if it was necessarily i'm not gonna lie it didn't do anything for me
to visually see her brother die in front of her i know what the show was intending to do
but it's just like she we already knew that as an audience she lost her brother she lost her family
she lost her whole planet but we see this which i don't know if that was necessarily it didn't work
for me but let me know what you all thought about that opening but we see again the destruction of
her plan and again seeing her brother die in front of her and it's within the scene that really again
is feels repetitive she just we just continue to know that she's on this mission she doesn't care
who what they think about her who's going to be affected by this she wants to destroy the
empire and she's willing to do whatever it takes to complete her mission which brings us to again
as expected as i mentioned weeks ago this man cannot die hugo he's still alive he makes his
beacon call to his homeland to help him and help salvar get away from pharah so again hugo
this man can't be killed he will be the last man standing by the first two fake out deaths
that we got with him but that happens we move on with salvar and lewis they managed to escape from
pharah for a brief second they go into the ship they find out and figure out how to do the jumps
and how they have to plug themselves into the ship and they want to ensure the survival terminus so
we see salvar being the hero of our story she's willing to do whatever it takes to make sure that
her people are safe which brings us to you know we get this kind of brief scene on terminus with her
mother talking to one of the commanders uh this is simply saying and we knew this from weeks ago and
i feel like this plot has been kind of forgotten about but the volt if you all remember very early
on the season the force field of the volt is continuing to spread and make its way to the
terminus people so she briefly says that to him and i'm assuming by next week it's gonna probably
go out of control and we're gonna have to get salvar there to figure out what's going on with
the mystery of the vault so we get a little bit of the vault in this episode but again that that main
thing that got me attracted to the first episode the vault is just like been forgotten about so far
but wrapping up this narrative which like i said i think was the weakest one we go back to selvar as
louis is unfortunately killed uh by the hands of pharah they have a fight we see hugo he eventually
his beacon call makes it out they attack the ship but it's too late because the ship makes a jump
to i guess we'll find out next week so and again i think she programmed the ship to go to terminus
but again we know the ship's navigation system is out of whack so we'll find out where the jump
takes them but like i said as a narrative as the story goes it's starting to get stale to me again
i feel for farah but i feel like we're doing the same song and dance we're seeing what her mission
is i already know as an audience she's willing to do whatever it takes but we don't have to
keep repeating that salvar her narrative is just kind of stagnant for me and again hugo is just the
the indestructible character of the show the man can't be killed but let me know what you all
thought about that narrative i thought it was the weakest of the episode which brings me to
the second weakest part of this episode which is all the stuff that we get with harry and gail
finding out about him going back to his homeland so we see them having this conversation and she
talks about more in depth of her abilities how she's had this and she as long as she can remember
and her being becoming a mathematician it was all kind of brought together because she didn't want
the destruction of her you know her homeland with the destruction of the water overtaking her planet
very similar to harry's motivation very similar to a lot of our characters they're all you know
motivated to save their people so that's kind of we we learn a little bit more backstory of her and
what motivated her to become the mathematician to become the genes that we know that she is
harry tells her that it's in the most importance that we get to my homeland helicon because it's as
important as terminus and the first foundation because this is the second foundation ladies and
gentlemen surprise surprise there's another planet that harry wants to or his planet he wants to go
back there because there's a secret there's something very important on helicon that has
to bring them to the planet gal she doesn't want to hear any of that ladies and gentlemen he is
willing to have her destroy the ship he's willing for her to sacrifice her life he doesn't give her
the secret what is so important on helicon why do we have to go there what's the importance there's
another vault there i guess we won't find out because we see she's willing to like break out
which i thought her trying to break through the doors like this isn't going to work but eventually
it does work because he eventually allows her to go into a pod and and she wants to go back to her
homeland which i don't know if her homeland is still going to be alive because we know that you
know she predicted that her homeland is going to be destroyed uh by their uh you know negligence
to protect their people so it'll be interesting to see if her family's still alive because it's been
30-something years she's been there so she's hit it there it's going to be a very long journey but
man she is just i feel like she's been in a sleeping mode for most of this show whether it
be sleeping to get to the emperor and the empire whether it was sleeping for her to get to where
she's at now she's always sleeping so hopefully we can wake her up and get her more involved in
the main plot but let me know what you all thought of all the situation that we learned helicon being
the second foundation what are your thoughts on that let's talk about it but i think this is
easily the best not only part of this episode but honestly the best part of the show at least for me
because lee pace is fantastic as he goes on his walk down the spiral and all this stuff to me
was just so rich the writing was there the performances were there but let's break it down
as we know and we're told he's gonna get no food no water no rest and he can't even have his
protective bracelets they take out his nanobots as he has to go on his path with no help whatsoever
and it's on this path that brother day he sees the struggle of the people he sees people
falling breaking down he sees people dying right in front of him and it's at this point
that he meets i don't even know if they give him a name but he has like this friend that
he meets that kind of lifts him and kind of gives him a lending hand on his path
i was thinking that this character was like a hallucination i thought that it was going to maybe
be like dermazel like under this cloak because she was going to be protecting him the whole time but
i assume it wasn't a metaphor it wasn't hallucination this was an actual person he
came across and it's within this moment his friend we see brother dave for the first time all season
he has some sincerity he actually cared for this person as he eventually falls and he comes down to
his knees and he eventually dies and again seeing brother day give him like a you know a proper
memorial and bury him he really did care for that person which again made me think was it all in his
mind but again it was a real person but i did like that sincerity and that kind of humanity that we
have yet to see from brother day uh throughout the different kleon uh you know regeneration system so
i really kind of enjoyed that moment that we got with brother day as he eventually makes his way to
the cave and we are to assume that he's as we'll talk about him seeing this uh
the the marks from the three mothers but i gotta go back to just what i was thinking
i thought brother day was gonna kill this guy cheat the system you know work to his advantage
and we'll talk about him cheating the system here but he gives his his experiences to the women in
charge he talks about him seeing a three and they bring up the birth root flower and brother day
he connect he connects us so him and his brothers and he we hear the women hear their story and they
just say we believe you you've you've walked the path of the spiral you're you know you're chosen
you've been part of this path and you completed this journey and they were very impressed by some
compliment and they they say to everyone no one in this religious faith will ever stand against
you because you have beat you know this big path and you have defeated it and we stand with you and
we won't get in your way and that even includes halima so she's shocked she's like wow i can't
believe he really did this which brings us to one of the most like really great moments again this
was the best part of the episode all the stuff in this scene and all the stuff in this kind of
moment in the story plot was really rich as dere mizelle and halima they talk about her path and
how she grew to go against her own system and how 11 000 years ago is when she went on this path and
she and this is where halima learns the origins of dermazelle so all that stuff was fascinating but
it was in this moment that she learns that she was sent there to be killed by dere mizelle and she is
just heartbroken she's pouring her heart out she's crying she doesn't want to kill halima but she's
obviously programmed to do this and she can't go against her demands so it's in this moment that
halima tells her you have a soul regardless of you being the last of your kind being a robot
you have more of a soul than your emperor and she appreciates that moment but unfortunately
she tells her you know i poisoned you by the skin contact it's going to be a painless death
but i you know she appreciated her they they had a sincere moment which again was almost
parallel to what brother day had with the gentleman that he met on his path on the
spiral so i really loved that conversation i really wish that you know that that the character
halima didn't die uh you know she says it's death of natural causes and i'm always a fan of
the theory of like if you don't see the person die they're not really dead but i'm assumed that that
is the last of lima but who knows you know hugo can survive everything maybe she can and maybe
you know she didn't poison her like she told her she did you know maybe in her system if she says
it it's true and they can read that she did it but she really didn't do it i don't know but i think
she is dead but neither here nor there let's end the episode with the big surprise which i'm like
i don't trust brother day and it's in this moment that deremizell goes to him after he's eating
he feels like a brand new man he's like i did the walk of the path i got the people on my side
but it's in this moment that daryn mizzell calls him out on his fake vision that he told the women
in charge it was all made up ladies and gentlemen he saw the flower in deramazel's room and he made
up that whole story he did you know he beat the path he made it to the end but when he went in
that cave the three mothers didn't have anything to say to him because he's empty he's soulless and
that was such a great moment to end the episode because it just shows you what he's willing to
do to win he beat halima but what did he do to beat her he cheated the system he lied to them
and what a great way and dermazel knows that and i love how she called him out and again i told you
all halima she was getting really risky with him the way she was talking to him and that ended up
you know killing her we'll see again where that plot goes but again i love the stuff with leigh
pace as brother day and dura mazel i love their conversations i just love that character as a
whole i'm talking about dermazelle and brother day but i just love the complexity between those
two characters and i'm telling you all she will turn on the emperor she will turn on them as we
talked about weeks ago her maybe altering brother dusk and making him a lot different her brother
don i'm sorry making him a lot different than his previous brothers and his current brothers
she has a plan i think she's in cahoots with halima as i mentioned last week and we'll see
where that goes but that was easily the best part of the episode the other two plots little didn't
work for me entirely where i feel like we're doing the same thing i'm glad we didn't get
much of brother dawn's story because as you all know i'm not the biggest fan of the performances
i like the narrative but the performances aren't really elevating the narrative for me
but overall like i said last week this weeks are kind of hit or miss but if it wasn't for brother
day durham iselle and all this stuff with lima and all that this show would be not as interesting to
me as it is but though that plot is really kind of keeping me invested i'm hoping episodes 9 and
10 really wrap things up in regards to let's get gail on a good path in the main narrative
what's going on with helicon and all this stuff with the second foundation will they be able to
save terminus only time will tell but again i'm a little iffy on that episode but i cannot deny
the greatness from lee pace duramazel brother day hilima that was fantastic but hey that's just my
thoughts let me know yours in the comments your highs your lows your pros your cons your thoughts
and theories for the weeks ahead and let's talk about in the comments ladies and gentlemen if
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