"In an explosive Season 3 finale of Foundation, the series makes several pivots that are utterly unlike the two previous season finales of the show. While the trademark of the series has always been its ability to jump forward in time, the show has always had a very specific trick of bringing familiar faces into the new centuries, thanks to the sci-fi tropes of clones, cryo-sleep, and one very special immortal robot."
"Echoing Cleon 17's stated goal from the previous season (and 152 years in the past) of ending the genetic dynasty forever. While Cleon 17's method was simply going to be to start having children, Brother Dusk's tactics in Season 3 are far bloodier and more unhinged. He destroys all the growing clones, from full adults to infants, but leaves one baby for Demerzel to protect."
"Because her programming compels her to project any version of Empire, she puts her body between the child and the massively destructive beam, which, shockingly, melts her entire body. In the end, all that's left of Demerzel is her robot skull, and the version of Hari Seldon's Prime Radiant, which, in this season, we learned she helped create. Demerzel was over 18,000 years old and predates the Imperial Cleon reign."
Season 3 finale of Foundation shifts narrative format away from prior methods of reintroducing familiar faces through clones, cryo-sleep, and an immortal robot. Brother Dusk seizes Empire power in the absence of Brother Day and Brother Dawn and pursues a violent end to the genetic Cleon dynasty. He destroys growing clones across ages but spares a single infant for Demerzel to protect. Demerzel intervenes, absorbing a destructive beam that melts her body, leaving only a robot skull and a Prime Radiant variant. Demerzel is revealed as over 18,000 years old and predates the Imperial Cleon reign.
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