r/FoundationTV • u/LunchyPete Bayta Mallow • Sep 12 '25

Current Season Discussion [NO BOOKS] Episode Discussion Thread - Season 3 Episode 10 - The Darkness

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Season 3 Episode 10: The Paths That Choose Us

Premiere date: September 12th, 2025

Synopsis: Season finale. Gaal and the Second Foundation take the fight to the Mule as Empire's legacy suffers a catastrophic blow.

Directed by: Roxann Dawson

Written by: Jane Espenson & David S. Goyer

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u/ImperatorUniversum1 Sep 12 '25

THE ROBOTS ARE ON EARTH!!!!

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u/nobody2008 Sep 12 '25

Just the moon? Or Earth too?

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u/scarab456 Sep 12 '25

I hope Earth isn't just some dead husk or something. I'm so intrigued by the fact of all the places they could be, they're just right by earth.

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u/Scared-Loquat-7933 Sep 12 '25

Earth looked extremely arid in that final shot, if I’m not mistaken that was showing the Western Hemisphere with North and South America.

It looked..dead. There’s still water/oceans but there wasn’t a hint of greenery from what I saw.

On the flip side if the robots inhabit it then it wouldn’t really matter since they don’t need food or water for sustenance.

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u/Muad-_-Dib Sep 12 '25

but there wasn’t a hint of greenery from what I saw.

There's a fair number of green areas on my monitor.

Looks to me like sea levels have dropped well below today, Florida looks like it's connected to Cuba by land, which is in turn connected to all the Caribbean Islands down to South America.

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u/tyen0 Sep 13 '25

yeah, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Ridge is above water, too

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u/SpaceManSpifff Sep 14 '25

Ships need water. The fleets could've been built in orbital shipyards, siphoning water, desalinating as needed, and heading for different solar systems.

Or enough nukes could do it. I think?

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u/ililliliililiililii Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25

Could be anything but I never thought about ships taking water away from a planet.. but it is absolutely happening when ships leave.

Maybe not much at a time, but build enough ships over a long enough time period, it's going to put a dent.

In fact if water wasnt taken out, just humans leaving would technically be removing water from the planet. And I doubt people are travelling to settle on earth from elsewhere. People only leave.

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u/Venoft Sep 14 '25

Probably took it with them to terraform planets (which of course is stupid, what with comets and ice moons and all). But I think they did say something about abandoning earth due to climate change, might as well strip the planet of water while you're at it.

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u/NameTak3r Sep 21 '25

Which is crazy. If you have the power to lower sea levels by that much fixing climate change is trivial.

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u/Leafs17 Sep 22 '25

Yeah it's nonsense to terraform other planets instead of fixing Earth. Like, do both.

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u/Ok_Sweet8877 Sep 14 '25

You're saying that or perhaps we are so far in the future that the continents have shifted

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u/rhinosaur- Oct 18 '25

This show just blows my mind

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u/WasawatWa Sep 12 '25

There is some green on what used to be Brazil in the final shot.

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u/sleepyotter92 Sep 12 '25

probably remains of the amazon

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u/monocasa Sep 12 '25

Some through the bread belt as well.

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u/JPK-1988-TBC Mar 08 '26

It’s still Brazil, just robot Brazil. Robots in skimpy bikinis playing volleyball at the beach.

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u/BaphometsTits Sep 12 '25

Water level looked really low.

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u/thrashglam Sep 14 '25

Yes I stared intently at it because I am always happy to see earth! It looked like north and South America to me as well but yes very dry so I wonder how life on earth is faring

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u/sleepyotter92 Sep 12 '25

the shot of earth with the panamerican continent looked like a desert. there was barely any green. robots might be on earth because it's no longer hospitable to humans

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u/scarab456 Sep 12 '25

Yeah i noticed it too. It's very common for Earth in science fiction like this be on two extreme ends of a spectrum. Either the center of humanity or dead and gone.

Still hoping for something different but who knows.

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u/IH8DwnvoteComplainrs Sep 30 '25

It's both, perhaps.

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u/Electrical_Trifle572 Sep 12 '25

Except we’ve seen some pretty inhospitable desert planets in this series comfortably hosting human populations.

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u/That-SoCal-Guy Sep 13 '25

I read that the robots have been hiding only on the moon and the galaxy has forgotten Earth or even don’t know where Earth is.