...the 'not the book' and 'whaaaa they messing up the robots!!!' crowd continue in their inchoate rage, swarming the place, instead of just letting those who actually understood Asimov's corpus just enjoy the show..
The Zeroth Law of Robotics , the most important Law for Giskardian robots, was phrased multiple ways:
'A robot may not harm humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.'
'Humanity as a whole is placed over the fate of a single human.'
'A robot must act in the long-range interest of humanity as a whole, and may overrule all other laws whenever it seems necessary for that ultimate good.'
That is why Demerzel can kill. Try to keep up.
The First Crisis played out as in the books, but with a lot of fleshing out that Asimov didn't bother with (not a criticism of Asimov - he realised that and worked assiduously to rectify it, something Not The Bookers seem wilfully blind to - seriously, listen to the official podcast and wipe the scales from your eyes: Not The Books is just silly).
And a thoroughly nasty Empire is being destroyed from within. By the Zeroth Law, while decent humans are being left to work out their future - so much so that even the Second Foundation found its own way, rather than Seldon's.
A fantastic, thoughtful and vibrant adaptation that deeply understood the books strengths *and* weaknesses.
More please, Apple.