- Foundation Season 3 may have just killed another protagonist
- This season’s latest chapter sets the scene for another five burning episodes
- One of the sci-fi series stars has teased what will happen next time
Foundation Season 3 Episode 5 is out now and it is an explosive post that may create an incredibly tense and life-threatening second half of Apple TV+ Show’s latest installment.
Titled ‘where tyrants spend eternity’, Foundation Season 3’s latest chapter is full of plenty of shock, one of which seems to be the passing of another protagonist. Full spoilers immediately follow For this season up to and including section 5, then return now if you haven’t seen it yet.
After Hari Seldon’s supposed death in Foundation Season 3 Section 2 seems that Sci-Fi Epos is encountering another member of its primary role-crew-brother Dawn-I ‘where tyrants spend eternity’.
It may not come as a big surprise to some viewers. After all, an earlier version of Dawn, ie. one of three clones of the Cleon I who tyrannically reigns the galactic empire, killed in Foundation” s first season. Fate for Season 3’s iteration has also been discussed in the last few weeks, especially after Dawn formed a troubled alliance with Gaal Dornick, which has ties to Empire’s bow rivals in the foundation and the second foundation, in this season’s third post.
It was not surprising that Dawn was just a farmer in Gaal’s all -consuming quest to try to defeat Mule, also known as the big bad of the season. In section 5, Gaal Dawn convinces of forming an imperial blockade around Kalgan, the independent world that the mule took control of in Foundation Season 3’s premiere. Dawn does this by blackmailing Taric, one of the most influential members of Empire’s Galactic Council, which is based on Clarion Station, and who Kalgan’s jurisdiction falls under, helping to force the rest of his advice to approve DAWN’s request.
The purpose of the blockade? Prevent food and medicine that enters Kalgan because of the imperial Armada that surrounds the planet, and effectively starve the mule and his forces until they surrender. Okay, Kalgan’s civilian population would also suffer, but Gaal insists it is a small price to pay to avert this season’s primary villain.
Predictably, things do not go according to plan. When Armada is in position around Kalgan, Mule reveals that he predicted what would happen and prepared to counter it. After taking control of the nearest spring gate to Kalgan in Section 3, his troops twisted it with blue cobalt, an explosive substance that, when fired into a nearby star, causes a huge, powerful and incredibly hot sunflare to erupt and burn something in his way. Long story Short: Armada is destroyed in the explosion, and Kalgan and its population are burned to a crispy.
When he flees from the stage and locates an air lock that will allow him to reunite with Gaal using the latter foundation operative, Dawn soon learns Kalgan, and the destruction of the imperial Armada was also part of Gaal’s own scheme. In fact, Gaal tells him – via their telecommunications units – that the fund needed the Empire’s fleet to be destroyed as it would speed up its decline and allow the foundation (plus the hidden other foundation) the opportunity to thrive.
Furious and understandably feeling betrayed, dawn differs with Gaal. As he prepares to leave the aforementioned air lock, Dawn is confronted with a grief-stricken tarical whose family was killed in Kalgan. Despite Dawn’s pleas for laying his weapon, a vengeful taric fire opens, causing the chamber to depress and suck the pair of them into space.
Now, Dawn managed to put a full space suit on before he was confronted with Taric, so he is very likely that he is not dead. Nevertheless, Brother Dusk, the only one of Empire’s three rulers still running the show – remember that Day has fled Coop to pursue his own quest in Mycogen – believes Dawn has died. So much is made clear in the holographic message that Daws sends to the dusk before the Council Meeting, Kalgan’s destruction and everything that comes after.
So what next to the ailing empire when it tries to hold on to the dwindling amount of power it exerts in the galaxy? Cassian Bilton, who plays Dawn, would not be drawn on what happens then when I asked him for details before this season’s debut.
However, Terrance Mann, portraying Dusk in one of the best Apple TV+ shows, was more upcoming. And with a black hollow gun-thinking on it like the planet-killing Death Star in Star Wars-to his disposal, the emotionally ruined twilight may be so consumed by rage and sadness that the said weapon has been taken for a trip or two very soon.
“Dusk and Demerzel and the other Cleons for that matter are desperate,” Mann said. “And now things have emerged that forces him to make really hard choices about who to live, who is going to die, and what will ultimately save Empire.
“All this season is about the wheels coming out of the carriage and he is back to do something he never thought he wanted to do,” Mann continued, “a big part of it has to do with thinking Dawn is dead. At that time he is completely lost and thinking ‘I have nothing else to do but exert this power [the Black Hole Gun] That I have and eradicate everything except for empire. “
If it does not set the stage for five more impossible chapters in this Apple TV original, I do not know what will. New episodes of Foundation Air every Friday, so we have a wait for our hands to see where things are going from here.
