Apple TV+’s Foundation is already a gigantic science fiction epic. The third season of the series just recently came out this Summer and now creator/writer David Goyer is out talking about it. Our friend Brandon Davis of Phase Hero sat down with Goyer and gave us an exclusive preview of their upcoming episode and they talked all things Foundation. Here’s what Goyer had to say about the shocking twist of the third season. Beware, there could be spoilers for Foundation season three ahead!
The Mule has been a question at the heart of the series and their identity was finally revealed. If you haven’t watched the show yet, this is a huge spoiler.
The Mule has been teased throughout the entire Foundation series, with one character having been described as the Mule but ultimately the finale revealing that Bayta is, in fact, the Mule.
Q: Did you have this reveal with Bayta and this timing of the Season 3 finale planned all along?
DG: “Yes. I think it’s pretty obvious that a lot of this stuff was planned from the beginning. I mean when you watch it straight through.
I’ll be really curious to see what the book readers think of it when it drops. On one hand, I think it’s bold and on another hand, I don’t think it’s bold. I mean, we’ve been pretty open with people that there’s more to the Mule than meets the eye. So, I think there’s only an expectation that the Mule will be Magnifico if you read the books and knew that in the books, the Mule was never go right. I think he’s one of the potential red herrings or suspects but there’s no reason why it couldn’t be someone else.”
More About The Reasoning And Foundation‘s Future
Q: Can you talk to me about your reasoning or is that something we’re going to be discovering later on?
DG: My main reasoning is I just thought it would be more interesting and when Asimov was writing the books there, there are no female characters in the first book, and then Bayta is one of the first fleshed out female characters in the second book and she’s also kind of canny in the second book and interesting.
I thought in a show that where the villains are very male heavy, it would be interesting to have some female energy in there, in terms of something that potentially is toppling the Empire, would just be different. I was banking on the fact that I think even though we’ve come a long way from the 1950s, when Asimov was writing Foundation and almost no women were reading science fiction and… Women didn’t even have checking accounts back in the 1950s. I think it was not till the late 60s or early 70s that women could have their own checking accounts.
And so I just thought that even though we’ve come a long way, we’ve still never had a female President, that the society has a tendency still to underestimate women and so I thought that could work in our favor, I would argue that I was right, in terms of people not suspecting her because there are some places where I think it’s patently obvious, like in episode eight, where she tells the pilot to walk away and he just does, where I’m like, pointing! I was worried like that was going too far and people still didn’t get it.
Additionally, Goyer has written a 2-page document with a plan for 8 seasons. Season 4, which Foundation has recently been renewed for, is being written right now and he estimates it would be about 2 years until new episodes arrive.
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Source: Brandon Davis of Phase Hero
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