As Pete Peppers and most of us fans agree, this season of Foundation is really, really freaking awesome. But will it last?*
And one of the breakout stars is undoubtedly "Brother Dude." Here we see His Awesomeness in total Brother Dude costume, disguised as a Mycogen chocolate/candy-loving hippie. Of course his official name is Empire Day, standard-bearer of the triumvirate living Cleon(s), Cleon the 24th, of the Cleonic Clone Dynasty, Emperor of the 600 worlds of The Galaxy. Or simply, how's it hanging, Brother Dude!
I almost imagine him here about ready to cozy on up to the bar and order himself a nice icy White Russian. But alas, moments after this scene, he's just fed with a blast of some knock-down electric bolt futuristic taser as Song's wife comes to save her from what they surely perceive to be the slave master, robotic genocide "progeny" evil emperor.
Turns out though, I have a feeling that through the twists and turns this series plays, Brother Dude is actually going to come to the rescue of everyone and save the him (get it? instead of "save the day"), but probably not before Trantor is pretty much laid to semi-waste. But saving the day will be short-lived since here's how I think the end of the season will all play out:
The Mule will find Gaal Dornik on Trantor as foretold in her multiple hundreds of years of dreams, and confirmed last night by Demerzel. Just as he's trying to choke her out to get the answer to where the Second Foundation is, Brother Dude will come up from behind him and take him out saving Gaal.
But then unbeknownst to them all, Brother Dusk will have entered the orbit of a smoking husk of Trantor, and thinking that all is lost if he doesn't take out The Mule sacrificing the capital planet as well, then the rest of the empire is lost, so he aims his big Planet Killer Gun that is not at all to be compared to the Death Star, totally different, absolutely no comparison -- just put it out of your mind, and zaps Trantor to dust.
But then popping in seemingly out of nowhere is Magnifico, now revealing himself to be The REAL Mule and he takes out Dusk and his Death Star, er, I mean black hole cannon.
But suddenly, emerging from some hidden compartment in Magnifico's stolen ship, out comes Demerzel and she swiftly kills Magnifico with robotic efficiency.
But wait, another twist, out of Magnifico's visisonar which was dropped to the ground by his lifeless body, crawls an ugly creature which is unmistakably the emperor of the Daleks -- that's right, the visisonar had more than just a passing resemblance, with its bumpy surface and octagonal shape, to a Dalek environment suit of armor, it was a mini version of one. And they are the beings that hailed from the Andromeda Galaxy.
*With showrunner David S. Goyer now having left the show, incompetence reigns and the rest of what remains of Foundation just becomes a mishmash of all different B-rated Sy-Fy channel-esque drek.
Calling Alex Kurtzman, calling Alex Kurtzman, please report to Foundation offices for the coup de gras, over and out.