What a fucking breath of fresh air. Never watched it because I thought it would be lame since there's never any fighting. But fuck me it stands in stark contrast to all other media. It shows a future I actually want to live in. Everything else is some dystopian, violence ridden, dim look on humanity. Don't get me wrong I love a good dystopia but wow.
Fuck now I'm a nerd send help.
Not gonna lie, Foundation bored me to tears. I generally really like Asimov, and it has an interesting central concept, but it stretches that central concept real thin and doesn't really do anything else all that well.
It is also most definitely not an optimistic future, especially with the ending, if that's what anyone's going for. It's not super dark or anything but there's nothing space communist about it.