“ The tearing twist of the foundation changes everything on the most neglected character of season 3

Publisher’s note: The above contains spoilers for the season 3 Episode 6 Foundation.Since its beginnings in the FoundationFirst of season 3, there was more in Song (Yootha Wong-Roi-Sing) What to meet the eye. Cleon variants are not foreigners to dalliances with assertive and unconventional women, but Foundation Image immediately the song as a special case. Unlike all other royal courtesans, who receive generous financial compensation in exchange for a single night with one of the three Cléons before having their memories of this erased meeting, Song retained his memories during all his six -month mandate as Brother Day (Lee rhythm) lover. Not only that, the song and its reluctant emperor seem to be struck with each other – two people who want to escape their happy ending, but in short the imminent end of the universe could make this end.

The more the first half of season 3 goes with Song, the easier it is to understand why this confident, capable and kind woman won the devotion of the day. Since Song never appears on the screen without day by side, it is just as easy to wonder why Foundation has not described Song as a multidimensional character who exists in its own right. Just as episode 3 reveals that Song has kept a secret that could end his life, episode 6 proves that she is not a young lady who needs the heroic rescue of Day. Free from the orbit of the Imperial Palace and with its true life partner by his side, The neglected song finally appears as a substantial character who is now surrounded by even more questionsAnd whose decisions could affect the trajectory of the apocalyptic history of season 3.

Song begins his arc of season 3 of the “Foundation” in the shadow of Brother Day

During her stay on the ground of the palace, the value of the song is mainly interpreted through the objective of how it improves the life of the day. Develop an emotional link with someone other than his two clone brothers and Demerzel (Laura Birn) Makes the day less “ghostly”, as he says. Living with the song in the height of animals and drugs, the happiness of the two fields of the day of his humanity and gives him a refuge – The approximation closest to a calm and average human life that a key may haveAn existence where he is released from his charges, his bitter depression and the golden cage responsible for this disillusionment. No matter how much his worship for the song is authentic, he romance in an impractical ideal disconnected from reality. Once he knows that he has only four months to live, his tendency to break the rules goes from recklessness to anarchic.

For his part, Song presents himself as calm, charming and also something of a rebel. Born and raised in the mycogenic trantor subcosisement, She is a daring and sincere woman to say her thinkingAdvising the Galactic Emperor to embrace his independence and to consider the rest of the galaxy as his equals. The song is too insightful and attentive to be rejected as in his head or voluntarily naive, but nothing of his behavior also indicates a harmful intention. Her physical comfort with the day implies that she trusts her protective wishes, and she seems really disturbed when her lover opens her arm in episode 2. Aside from self -inflicted violence, however, they seem to be an excellent match – although the one who is too good to be true. A metaphorical shoe waited to fall, and the question was how it would manifest itself: if the forces of external interference condemned their romance, for example, or if Song had maneuvered on the day of his secret piece.

Season 3 of season 3, episode 6, subverts expectations with the song

Episode 3 marks the first turn of the song. Because It follows dedicated the inheritance, a religion prohibited by Cleon I and punishable by deathSong spent these six months of living a heart rate away from the execution. The heritage worships robots like gods, believing that they will return and deliver humanity from their sufferings. As soon as Song discovers the truth about Demerzel and has a moment in the proximity of the robot, Song discreetly makes the sign of the inheritance in Demerzel. At this point, It would have been easy for Foundation To kill Song to motivate the rage of the day. It is a familiar rhythm, and he almost always finishes the story of a woman without providing her with a real arc, a resolution or a depth. The wisely lateral series step this obsolete trope before turning it completely in episode 6.

At the beginning, the energy behind the unbalanced meeting of the pair suggests that it could pass from clumsy in a meeting cross in stars. The song is deeply unstable by the presence of Day, but wise enough to act in a diffident manner, keeping its distances and cautiously phrasing its questions. But Day ruins this provisional peace by pushing too quickly, reactivating the combat response of Song or-Flight. As soon as Oceanglass-49 (Laura Berlin) arrives, his boost and his anger at the same time trailer, The song is free to coldly refute any day of complaint can establish itself as a precious possession, a romantic ideal or a persecuted survivor. Songbird-17 was a terrified woman who felt trapped. Instead of making a commercial transaction to one and for a long time, she survived a half-year in the hands of the enemy and far from the true love of her life, and did so by soothing Day’s affection without turning it back. Song has no doubt about his identity or his feelings.

The song appears as a substantial character in season 3 of season 3 episode 6

Song’s emotional insurance raises a plethora of questions about its objectives and recontextualizes its previous scenes. With hindsight, Song shares little about herself with the day during their moments on the screen – apart from her statement in episode 1, “my people tell me that I will speak my head one day”, which is now read as a potentially disturbing prefiguration. Not revealing his illegal faith or his existing partner to the Emperor makes sense, but Song has never shared his full name with Day. His decision could have many different explanations, as well as his reasons to join the Gossamer courtesans. His motivations could be like the simple occam razor to provide to his loved onesEven if becoming a courtesan was extremely dangerous. It is also possible a song posed as a companion to spy or influence the day for the protection of the inheritance. Anyway, is there the slightest chances that the song that has become the day in spite of itself? Despite his contrary claims, was their intimacy – Platonic or romantic on his side – only a sub -product of song that draws the best party from its situation?

Between his loyalty to the inheritance and the fact that Demerzel let her go unscathed, two things are probably true: Song’s claims are serious, and she is also able to be a convincing actress when the situation requires. The day is not a fool; During their first night together, he made the Song’s request to keep his memories because, according to him, the song looked beyond his scary title and believed in his kindness capacity. However, Day’s inability to look outside of itself long enough, to wonder if the song kept its own secrets or wonders if its presence would disturb it already fulfilled, condemns him to be the heart broken by the truth.

Whatever Song’s motivations, not even the revelation that she met a robot, the last living object of the reverence of her faith, tries to restore her erased memories. What the two women, descendants of the few mycogenic citizens who escaped the religious massacre of Cleon I, will do with Empire at their mercy. But while the galaxy is getting closer to the ruin, The future of Song is an opportunity to explore a previously underused perspective – both personally for singing as a neglected character, and socio -political for a woman whose beliefs are an act of secret resistance.

New episodes of Foundation First every Friday on Apple TV +.

Foundation

Release date

September 23, 2021

Network

Apple TV +