Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for the Foundation Season 3 finale.

Foundation has never acted precious about keeping its revolving-door cast of characters alive. Beyond the cavalier murders, the noble sacrifices , and the tragic losses, of which Apple TV+'s sci-fi epic contains in abundance, each season opens with something of a soft reset; the significant time jumps in between every season leave the lucky survivors behind to perish off-screen from natural causes. Foundation 's core figures, however, have always returned as new variations, digital copies, or via robotic immortality, respectively. This consistency lends the erudite series a familiar and flexible structure, but those same guardrails risk turning into redundancy, complacency, and a reluctance to sacri

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