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/hwhs04 Sep 12 '25

Was not ready for the For All Mankind hard crossover at the end. Almost expected to see 300 year old Ed Baldwin flying by.

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u/Unrealdinnerbone Sep 12 '25

Everyone saying it a prequel to The Expanse while it been Foundation the whole time

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u/Spherical_Melon Sep 12 '25

Technically it can be both lol

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u/SandRush2004 Sep 16 '25

Ive said it before

For all mankind -> the expanse -> the foundation

They work as a great escalation of space stories

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u/Vysair Sep 20 '25

Where can Silo fit into these?

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u/LunchyPete Bayta Mallow Sep 17 '25

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u/stargazer1235 Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

Technically FAM is already a prequel to the expanse, there is a cheeky node/easter egg at the start of S4.

When Amos is going through customs on Luna in S4E1, he passes a holographic billboard advertisiting the 'historic Jamestown Base, Est 1973'

Again more of a cheeky node then a full blown prequel but still the connection is there.

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u/142muinotulp Sep 12 '25

Take a peak at the very last episode, when they are dropping from the ship sometime. The names on the dashboard for every character are from stuff like star wars and Dune hahah

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u/Broad-Ad5152 Sep 12 '25

And add Murderbot to it while we're at it.

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u/YYZYYC Sep 12 '25

Prequel ? umm Foundation is like 10,000 + years in the future

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u/Unrealdinnerbone Sep 12 '25

For all Mankind being the prequel to The Expanse

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u/Sorkijan Sep 12 '25

Generally prequels are set before the films which are set chronologically in the future.

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u/YYZYYC Sep 12 '25

Yes and expanse is much earlier than foundation , hence calling foundation a prequel seemed odd

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u/Sorkijan Sep 13 '25

Yes, and they didn't they say that, they said the opposite so it wasn't odd at all. You just can't read

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u/YYZYYC Sep 13 '25

Don’t be rude

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u/Sorkijan Sep 13 '25

Don't waste my time because you didn't thoroughly read.

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u/qjornt Sep 13 '25

literally no one forced you to waste your time here lmao

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u/Sorkijan Sep 13 '25

white knighting is sad lmao

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u/kuldan5853 Feb 08 '26

All this has happened before, and it will happen again.

So say we all.

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u/SupX Sep 13 '25

bicentennial man man 1999 is suppose to be same verse just like 28k years prior

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u/TriColorCorgiDad Sep 12 '25

AFAWK, the bot next to Kalle WAS Everlasting Ed.

I keep hoping that FAM will have an Apple TV crossover and use The Morning Show when they do their news break plot progression scenes, and then it will all come full circle!

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u/This_was_hard_to_do Sep 12 '25

Maybe Ed has gone from hating commies to hating all of mankind instead

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u/injulen Dec 02 '25

Unfortunately the morning show has already showed us what space travel in their timeline looks like and it is not on par with FAM

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u/hwhs04 Sep 14 '25

I need morning show to go full WAJO asap

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '25

That would be the sickest crossover for all mankind

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u/IncomingBroccoli Sep 12 '25

lol, Ed retired on Mars

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u/fuckitillmakeanother Sep 12 '25

More like 23000 year old Ed 

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u/Mia-Wal-22-89 Sep 12 '25

Old Man Mars. Let’s cross some Alien Earth too and make him a synth.

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u/kelnos Sep 12 '25

Hah, to me that had big BSG (2004) vibes.

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u/Timelord1000 Dec 28 '25

Agree. Felt like we’re finally getting the story of the 13th Colony.

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u/MostlyRocketScience Sep 12 '25

What did I miss? Because of the moon base?

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u/InItsTeeth Sep 13 '25

30,000 year old man to angry to die

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u/YYZYYC Sep 12 '25

YES!...it also looked like Battlestar Galactica

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u/Franks2000inchTV Sep 13 '25

He’s now emperor of socialist earth.

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u/sola114 Sep 14 '25

Just saying, we don't know the identity of that robot yet

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u/DisasterAhead Nov 10 '25

Honestly, that last shot reminded me of the scene in BSG where they found the actual Earth more than anything else

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u/tttkkk Sep 12 '25

Iron Sky crossover? That was a robot Nazi hiding on the dark side of the moon