The craziest visual of season 3 is one of the coolest traditions of science fiction

“Foundation” is a phenomenal work of science fiction and one of the best programs on Appletv, or generally in the air today. We need a job that was considered to be unsuitable, a dense fictional work with a large range but not much action, and transforms it into a blockbuster that balances pleasure with deeper discussions and themes – in a way the recent adaptation of Denis Villeneuve de “Dune”.

Based on the extremely influential series of books by Isaac Asimov, “Foundation” is a saga on the fall of the Galactic Empire. People scattered throughout the galaxy try to prevent humanity from falling into a dark age after the end of the Empire by establishing a base to preserve knowledge. For three seasons, we followed the foundation when it went from a small group of people to a legitimate threat to the Empire, while a mysterious pirate named The Mule began a conquest that could destroy the Empire and the foundations.

Part of what makes this spectacle so fascinating is how expansive it is. “Foundation” brings the other science fiction stories of Asimov to his universe and extends the scope of the story of several thousand years, while simultaneously exploring complex ideas on the sense of self, humanity, sensitivity and paradoxes. But as dense as the show is, it is also visually magnificent. For example, the appearance of the siege of the Galactic Council, Clarion Station, which is inspired by a cool tradition in science fiction: the O’Neill cylinder.

The O’Neill cylinder is a concept proposed by Gerard K. O’Neill, a spatial physicist and activist who developed a plan through which humans could build colonies in space. The titular cylinder is a space colony made of two cylinders running in opposite directions, which would so that they can always be intended for the sun, while rotation offers artificial gravity.

O’Neill was not the first to find such an idea. Arthur C. Clarke has thought of an extraterrestrial manufacturing cylinder in “Rendezvous with Rama”, while Larry Niven found a similar (but on a larger scale) idea in his science fiction novel “Ringworld”, which has turned into a very influential series of novels. But O’Neill’s book in 1976 “The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space” cemented in reality what science fiction authors had only dreamed before.

The concept of a cylinder-shaped space colony has become a popular science fiction trope. “Babylon 5” and “The Expanse” have done so, just like “Interstellar” and the popular trilogy of the video game “Mass Effect” (Clarion Station is essentially the citadel). However, you might say that the O’Neill cylinder is most closely associated with the “follows” mobile “” anime “franchise like the many, many, many spatial colonies of the franchise (which tend to be deposited directly on earth as a military tactic with a devastating power) all follow this conception.

It is a distinct and unique look that immediately shouts science fiction while being realistic enough to be used even in the most anchored science fiction stories. This “foundation” uses this design only talks about the balance between more anchored and more fantastic and extraterrestrial science fiction in the show-for another example, look at the Visi-Sonor.