We see her, still in some kind of cryogenic freezing in the escape pod, floating along in space and about to be picked up by some mysterious spaceship. Though we keep hearing Gaal narrate the show at sporadic moments, she’s yet to make an appearance for the last two episodes, until the close of this one. But Salvor’s concerns are absolutely correct, because when the episode ends, the Anacreons have their weapons at the ready, prepared to do bloody damage.Īh, but that’s not quite true - there’s one more brief scene before “Barbarians at the Gate” concludes, and to call it a “scene” might be overstating things. Remember, she’s the only person so far who can touch the floating Vault -even when she brings the Anacreon leader with her to the Vault, it’s to knock her out (successfully, it should be noted). The truth table for an AND gate with two inputs appears to the right. Salvor tries to get some intel out of the captured Anacreon leader to no avail, largely because her fellow Terminus survivors look on Salvor as an outsider among outsiders. An AND gate is a digital logic gate with two or more inputs and one output that performs logical conjunction.The output of an AND gate is true only when all of the inputs are true.If one or more of an AND gates inputs are false, then the output of the AND gate is false. The Anacreons, led by their Grand Huntress (Kubbra Sait), are responsible for having destroyed that communications beacon, and they’re prepared to do the exact same to the makeshift city where Salvor, her father Abbas (Clarke Peters) and others make their home, if they can't get to the Vault itself. Lee Pace in 'Foundation.' (Image credit: Apple TV+)īut the Brothers needn’t worry, because Terminus is having problems of its own. Harris appears for no more than 30 seconds, but hey, get that top billing.
Yes, Hari Seldon does turn up in this episode, but the way in which he does is almost laughable - this is why Jared Harris gets a credit? All Hari does is appear via recorded flashback, during the trial from the first half of the premiere where he warned Brothers Dawn, Day and Dusk (Cassian Bilton, Lee Pace and Terrence Mann, respectively) about the dangers of ignoring his warnings. It’s a stunning thing to see, all the more so considering how little of the episode Hari even appears in. So the third episode understandably removed Harris from the opening credits - Hari’s dead, right? Why would his name be in the cast anymore?Īh, but there’s the rub, because before any action has even occurred in this week’s episode, “Barbarians at the Gate,” whose name appears first in the opening credits? Why, Jared Harris’s. It’s shocking not just because Hari has been a very key part of the show so far, but because he’s played by Jared Harris, arguably the most famous actor among the regular cast. If you’ve been following along with this Isaac Asimov adaptation, then you know that the two-episode premiere concluded with the shocking murder of Hari Seldon, the controversial mathematician whose psychohistorical predictions of doom and gloom for humanity got him exiled to the Outer Reach of the galaxy. But shows like Foundation (and it’s not just this show) have upended things by making this problem apply to the regular cast as well.
There’s an easy enough trick, of course: just block that bottom part of the screen with your hand so you don’t get spoiled. Use your down arrow key to navigate between passenger types, and the plus and minus.