The following contains spoilers for the season 3 finale of "Foundation."
A big part of why Apple TV's "Foundation" works so well is that it takes the work of Isaac Asimov and brings it to the blockbuster space. The show, created by David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman, keeps the philosophical talk and complex sci-fi concepts from the source material but adds a level of spectacle mostly missing from the books (at least in the forefront). We've seen planet-killing Death Stars, grounded (and practical) battlegrounds , and a lot more, with season 3 of "Foundation" feeling reminiscent of Denis Villeneuve's "Dune" in how it takes a monumental piece of sci-fi literature and makes it digestible to all audiences with blockbuster-level spectacle.
A big part of how season 3 achieved this was by