Because the books he wrote in the 80s were very different to the ones in the 50s. Completely different. And awful imho.
And having re-read the originals (and not the translation) recently, with my new outlook and all the books i've read since, i'd say that even those are written better than the two first Foundation books (that i love). I'd say the "Cave of steel" was the best written of his books from the 50s, a bit better than "Naked Sun" and "Second Foundation", or at least better paced. But his best books are either "Foundation's edge" or "Robots and Empire", at least to me.
Unfortunately the show's narrative is completely ridiculous. Nothing makes rationale sense. It seems that no character can even walk down a hallway without something going awfully wrong and things get resolved by never-before-mentioned magical plot elements falling in place.
The show has indeed been about power projection mechanisms, once it set up the universe and cast enough.
It's one thing to watch an episode and a half and say "eh, not for me." It's another entirely to declare you know "the show" and speak authoritatively about it as a whole when you haven't seen four fifths of the material.
Tortured analogies ignored: you declared the series to be absent something that has been present in spades in the latter episodes and you still don't realize how that makes you look.
It’s ok to not want to watch a show that sucks originally. We don’t need to watch it to completion in order to pass judgement on something that just didn’t hit the mark.
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-an-epi...
I watched the first season of Arrow but it was a bit of a slog towards the end, and never got anywhere with season 2. It showed a lot of promise it almost delivered on. Maybe I should give it another go, but a guide like this would be invaluable.