'I think you see how deep the conditioning is with her.'
The Big Picture The second season of Foundation has taken the characters of the mysterious Apple TV+ drama through new territory, as they attempt to do whatever they can before their civilization collapses, sending humanity to a new Dark Age meant to last for centuries. One of the main cast members of the series, Lee Pace, was fairly impressed with the writing for the second installment of the series, with every episode from it now available to stream on the platform.
The scripts came, I read the first scene, and I was like, “Oh, that's hot,” like, “Absolutely. Why not?” [Laughs] “That seems like it's in this world.” But as I got to Episode 5 and I saw that there's that scene with Sareth [Ella-Rae Smith], where he's in bed with another woman and he can't get an erection, and he's, I think, questioning, like, “What happened? How did that happen?” But I do get the erection with Demerzel.
In Foundation, Lee portrays Brother Day. The entire civilization that has grown over the course of history is ruled by three clones of its first Emperor, Cleon I. Every clone is meant to represent a different stage of the ruler's life, with Lee's character being the one in the middle. An older version of the character, played by Terrence Mann, also sits at one of the thrones, alongside the younger clone portrayed by Cassian Bilton.
The Dark Age Approaches Problems for the established government in the world of Foundation began when Hari Seldon , a mathematician with the ability of predicting the future using psychohistory, determined that civilization would collapse in the matter of a few years, and that humanity wouldn't be able to get back on track for at least thirty thousand years.