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Spoilers ahead forCreation Myths,the season-two finale ofFoundation.
Season two ofFoundationhas been a clear improvement from season one.
Characters have to stick around longer and have more intense and long-lasting relationships with one another.
An enormous cataclysm destroys the planet Terminus, killing everyone including Bel Rioses husband except not!
… its hard to trust that Salvors really gone.
Everyone from Terminus survived in the Vault, after all!
A piece of the Mentalic witch lady was saved inside the brain of a little boy.
Maybe Salvors in someone elses brain!
Obviously, either of those resurrection scenarios would be explicitly silly, whichFoundationonly rarely deigns to be.
That doesnt change the fact that this is now a show with a pretty healthy record of resurrection scenarios.
In the broader sense, diminishing the potency of death inFoundationalso diminishes some of the shows central thematic weight.
How much deviation can there be between these identical copies?
How much does he change between resurrections?
What exactly are his motivations now?
Is he a person, or a god, or a convenient story machine with a penchant for mansplaining?
