>>213312023 (OP)Episode 4 had some stand out scenes, the "I am a machine" scene, and I think the subtle self hatred of the best characters, the 24th day, and demerezel both have a lot of it and taking the characters there was a great choice, I wasn't sure about the swami dude version of day but him turning out to be the most clever one says a lot in that it felt believable and largely out of nowhere. He hated his progenitor for being weak to the throne and hatred for the entire system and its such a strange turn to watch people give up when they have the ability to push out and take what they want.
I think one of the biggest problems with the show besides not killing off gaal too and most of the boring foundation side stuff is that they needed to show foundation being more advanced than empire to explain why empire isn't attempting to steam roll the entire galaxy to get their shit back.
They showed a phyrric loss last season but we need to see the difference why they're simply not marching out and taking everything.
They show near limitless power, and have cloning, meaning they could build clone armies, endless ones, even if you did not want to rebuild the robots.
They could recreate a robot army, they have so many pathways to take what they want that it boggles the mind. They're showing empire but they're not showing it. Why is this senate such an obstacle now, why have cleons given up absolute power without a war, even if they explain fleet loss and driving reason, why would they ever get it up. The progenitor is such a narcissist that he created three of himself to live eternally, controlling the empire.
They have such great potential to mine and they're leaving it on the table to leave worthless psychic nonsense that nobody will care about and they're not even using the psychic stuff well.
Every person should be a potential manchurian candidate that is causing chaos across the galaxy and destabilizing all empires/territories.