The title comes from the article, but I agree with some of these changes. It’s making for an engaging show that also feels modern.

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    But Hari Seldon is being very clear that those characters are wrecking his psychohistorical predictions by being like that. It’s perfectly fine, IMO, for psychohistory to have not been as complete and omnipotent as Seldon initially thought it was. It’d be kind of annoying if it was, frankly. I prefer stories where the characters have agency and have to make efforts for things to turn out well.

    That flaw turned out to be present in the books too, BTW. The Mule was the universe’s most special boy in there, the show’s just added two extra ones to the mix on the protagonist side.

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      Exactly. Anybody like the Mule absolutely wreaks havoc.

      And he even account for situations like that with a backup plan.

      The entire point is that he can predict the overall movement of mankind and with it be specific to some events and some times.

      So any one person who everything hinges on just undoes the entire psychohistory.

      On the flip side… in the end the books show that even if you’re as good as Hari Sheldon that the universe has a way to randomly throwing wrenches in the works.

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      Having a category of entity that wasn’t considered in the base assumptions show up and throw a spanner in the works is consistentnwith the theme.

      Having a singularity or error which needs correcting works.

      Having the same people be the crux of every crisis is incredibly grating.

      They also done my boy Daneel real dirty.

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      I hated the Mule in the books. Wrecked the books from that point on in my opinion. But, loved everything in foundation before that.