In the 1950s, as Isaac Asimov’s Foundation short stories were fixed up into his Foundation novels, the author was dabbling with a different sci-fi continuity altogether, the future history of robots. The thing is, eventually, the Foundation series and the Robot books became unified in one massive, future history thanks to books like Foundation’s Edge and Foundation and Earth. And, in the Apple TV+ version of Foundation, this shared canon is honored to a certain degree and embodied in the character of Demerzel. However, with Season 3, Foundation is digging deeper into the Asimovian robot lore than ever before. So much so that in Episode 8, “Skin in the Game”, you can’t help but wonder if there’s not an incredible, and hypothetical prequel spinoff series to be had.
In fact, in some ways, a Robot-centric spin-off show might be slightly more satisfying than a far-future conclusion to Foundation.
