35 Years Later, an Obscure Sci-Fi Prequel Just Got Rewritten in The Best Way Possible

When Isaac Asimov’s original Foundation trilogy of novels was first published between 1951 and 1953, those original books presented math-genius Hari Seldon as a force of nature. Since 2021, the Apple TV+ adaptation of the Foundation books has done the same, establishing Hari Seldon as the soothsayer of a mathematically predictable future. At the start of Season 2, however, Seldon is much more fallible, a fact that actor Jared Harris previously revealed was all part of an effort to make Hari seem less like an all-knowing Sherlock Holmes. And in Episode 6 of Foundation Season 2, “Why the Gods Made Wine,” we witness the true beginning of Hari Seldon, which further humanizes him by retroactively making his Psychohistory origin story specifically connected to heartbreak.