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I'm sorry but the show has only the name of the books and has very little to do with them...
I'm ok with Salvor Hardin being a woman, I'm not ok with her being an action hero with guns while in the book the dude had a motto which was "violence is the last refuge of incompetents" and was a master of talking.
There's also the bit where we have at least two "universe's most special boy/girl" characters upon whom everything hinges repeatedly when the entire point kf the psycho-history concept is that major events like that happen one way or another regardless of the specific details.
Also, "the entirety of psychohistory and the Foundation hinges on us storming X place with guns and explosives in the next fifteen minutes!"
Ugh. Yuck. Hard pass. Go home, Goyer, you're drunk (on the aroma of your own emissions).
That is in the books too. It's called a "Seldon crisis", where the Foundation has only one possible way forward as means of keeping it close to the original plan.
But the Seldon Crises don't depend on the coin toss of whether or not they manage to infiltrate a stronghold and deactivate the thingamajig kajigger in the next fifteen minutes.
It's been a while since I've read them, but as I remember, the entire definition of a crisis is some moment that depends on a coin toss or some individual acting correctly. The books narrate exactly the moments where there can exist some heroes.
They are just calmer than the series.