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The format of Foundation is rather terse and spare encyclopaedic entries alternating with stories of the characters meeting each other, conversing and so on.

One of the reason it fires the imagination I think is that the encyclopaedia portions leave plenty of gaps for one's imagination to fill. Paradoxically this makes it seem all the more real.

The characters (with one exception) are of course ephemeral, changing from one story to the next.

Hard to think of a more difficult show to film.