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I, Robot.
I'm a huge Asimov fan, and pretty much the only thing it shared with the story is the name and that robots exist.
Same with the Foundation show. Could probably have been a nice science fiction show with any other name and with different character names, but for some reason (probably marketing?) they just had to ruin it for Asimov fans.
Nitpicking a bit, though, I Robot (the boo) isn't a story, it's an anthology of short stories in which Asimov plays with the three laws, mostly to torture Powell and Donovan in entertaining ways (I'd kill for a good Powell and Donovan miniseries!) or to show how smart and unemotional Susan Calvin was, so it's hard to see how it could be adapted except as an anthology series.
Same with Foundation, really, though at least that one has an overall storyline. Possibly even more difficult to adapt, though, because other than Sheldon's hologram once an episode and possibly Eto Demerzel / R. Daneel Olivaw if you're being excessively liberal with the adaptation there's no characters to get attached to... (anthology series with no persistent characters have worked occasionally, though, so maybe just do that).
I watched 2 episodes of the foundation and was so frustrated on how completely different it was that I just can't watch more. I also get mad when I think of it. Ugh...
Same. It's doubly disappointing because there's clearly material for an interesting science fiction show in there (what they did with the Cleon clones would have been quite interesting in another series), but it's all ruined by the completely wrong Foundation references.
They managed to ruin what could have been a great adaptation of a great classic and what could have been an interesting original series at the same time, the bastards.
Ah, it's been a hot minute since I read through all of his works, I the story/anthology backwards.
I haven't watched Foundation yet, but I've said for years that a live adaptation would be almost impossible to pull off.
But an anthology series for I, Robot would have been amazing.