Stars End: A Foundation Podcast

Apr 28 2024 11
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We’re a group of middle-aged guys who loved this series as teenagers. In season one we finished revisiting the original trilogy in anticipation of the TeeVee show. Now that the show is here we won't just be enjoying it, we'll be bringing you our thoughts and predictions every week! Hopefully, through this podcast, we'll bring you along for the ride. We want to do our part to bring this series to a new group of fans who are hopefully far more diverse than the three of us.

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Stars End S5E09 - There Are Old Legends of Life After Podcasting

Apr 28 2024 53 mins  
Join the conversation as we discuss Foundation and Earth chapters 10, 11, and 12 which is to say, the entirety of Part IV: Solaria. I began our description of S3E18, with "You know what? Solaria is weird." And here we are again on Solaria. It's been twelve millennia and in the meantime, they've really leaned into the weirdness. The Solarians have been busy genetic

Stars End S5E08 - A Dog in Pain Emits Podcasts of a Kind That Are Well Understood By Other Dogs

Apr 13 2024 55 mins  
In this episode, we talk about Chapters 7, 8, and 9 of Foundation and Earth, "Leaving Comporellon," "Forbidden World," and "Facing the Pack." I've largely stopped bothering with the spoiler warnings, but I'm going to spoiler enough in this episode description to warrant one. If you want to discover things as you read and you haven't read th

Stars End S5E07 - There is a Kind of Free-Masonry Among Podcasts

Mar 24 2024 61 mins  
We talk about chapters 4 to 6 of Foundation and Earth. There's almost a framing sequence for this part of Foundation and Earth, "On Comporellon," "Struggle for the Ship," and "The Nature of Earth." At the outset, Trevize had bulldozed his way onto Comporellon by implying that Bliss and Pelorat are involved in illicit activities that can't be a

Stars End S5E06 - You Cannot Have a Reasonable Civilization Without Podcasts of Some Kind

Mar 16 2024 57 mins  
We're diving into Foundation and Earth with Chapters 1 through 3. The story so far: When last we checked in, Golan Trevize had deduced that the ultimate answer to the ultimate question of Life, The Interregnum, and Everything was "Galaxia" and not "The Seldon Plan" or "42" as we had previously been led to believe. But still, he has his doubts. Like

Stars End S5E05 - Once This Podcast is Attained All Sighs Become Sighs of Ecstasy

Mar 09 2024 59 mins  
It's our final podcast on Foundation's Edge as we discuss chapters 17 to 20! My Mom, an unabashed fan of Joseph Campbell, frequently counseled me to "find my bliss." I think I've done pretty well. Collectively, though, we may have found our Bliss as we reach the closing chapters of our novel, "Gaia," "Collision," "Decision," an

Stars End S5E04 - The Podcast is a Powerful Dispenser of Odors

Mar 03 2024 72 mins  
We talk about chapters 13 through 16 of Foundation's Edge. We're finally up to the episode where we reveal that Apple TV's Foundation has been renewed for season 3! Not exactly ripped from the headlines. Also, the Great and Glorious Az wants us to know that, like spaceships, other planets have their own distinctive odors. ⁠It's true!⁠ Captain Kirk could have fac

Stars End S5 - Special Update 2024-02-24

Feb 25 2024 8 mins  
Dateline – Terminus: It's sweet that you guys noticed that we hadn't commented on the news about Apple TV's Foundation being renewed for Season 3! But that isn't exactly what happened; we did, in fact, talk about it on S5E04. Unfortunately, we've all been super busy and the post-production train has a metaphorical Bishop's Claw on the tracks. Believe me, y

Stars End S5E03 - We Are Not Children to be Frightened with Tales of Grandmother Podcast

Feb 10 2024 53 mins  
In which we discuss chapters 9 through 12 of Foundation's Edge. Thanks to Avengers: Endgame lots of people know what the end of a chess game is called. This section of Foundation's Edge which includes the chapters "Hyperspace," "Table," "Sayshell," and "Agent" is much more like the beginning of a chess game, which is called the "

Stars End S5E02 - Do Nothing Unless You Must and When You Must Act - Podcast

Dec 29 2023 59 mins  
In S5E02 we talk about chapters 5 through 8 of Foundation's Edge. We're about 40% of the way into the book now and we're still introducing characters! This section introduces us to the Second Foundation including Stor Gendibal, Delora Delarmi, and First Speaker Quindor Shandass, and shows us that the Speakers' Table is a raucous affair. We also meet Sura Novi, a Tra

Stars End S5E01 - At Odd and Unpredictable Times We Cling in Fright to the Podcast

Dec 17 2023 58 mins  
Welcome to our season 5 premiere in which we talk about the first four chapters of Foundation's Edge! Hello, True Believer! We're back! Again. And we're ready to dive into season five! You might recall the beginning of Season 3 when we made a pronouncement like this one. "On the Stars End Podcast, Foundation canon is represented by two separate, yet equally importa