Foundation. Season 1. (episode 10). How to wipe out everything you love.

I like how when he twisted fingers, nothing happened. No booms, no lights, no dramatic music, just the peaceful sounds of nature. But then it really hits you, he just killed almost 2000 people.

Lee pace single-handedly carried the entire show

Honestly, the Cleons are the best part of this show to-date, and it’s an artificial construct not in the books. Love it.

I have to give the writers credit… this is probably the worst fate I’ve ever heard of. Everyone you ever cared about wiped from existence and you get to live out your years as an isolated, insane person. Bravo. Am I the only one who find Empire and his cast mates far more interesting than anyone else?

My take on why this scene is so powerful is that, unlike when his predecessor burned the two worlds in retaliation with all that fire and fury, Cleon doesn’t raise his voice during this entire scene. He’s clearly beyond angry - arguably moreso than after the Starbridge’s destruction, since this was a much more personal attack than that was - but there’s a few times where he has that little smile and it feels almost like he’s an educator teaching a lesson he loves to share with a favored pupil, all while describing the details of how he is committing this intensely personal atrocity. This is not a god-emperor dispensing uncaring consequences in the manner of a machine, this is an all-too-human being reveling in every little detail of the revenge he is able to take on this singular person who so hurt someone he loves. This is a father relishing his godhood and the opportunities it affords him to balance the scales as he sees it.

I like how even birds gone quiet the moment he twisted his fingers

This scene was something else. If you ever thought that death was the ultimate punishment, this here represents a convincing argument that it absolutely isn’t. Also Day calling the kid his son was touching.

This scene was brilliantly acted. Golf clap for Lee Pace. The finest depiction of terrifying calm and cold malevolence put to screen since Christof Waltz's performance as Hans Landa.

When he moves his fingers at 3:07 and even the birds stop singing... that moment, right there, this scene became legendary.

I absolutely love watching all the Cleon storyline scenes; don't care much for the rest which is pretty standard melodrama.

I like the fact that this series made more use of Lee Pace's talent as an actor than when he was with MCU

That is an absolute punishment. Not Death, but Life without Living. That is terror, that is Hell.

This is one of the greatest threats in tv history

This punishment really is on-brand with the Cleons: cruelty beyond excess, always involving the deaths of so many innocent people that had nothing to do with anything, and the one being punished gets to survive so that they can live the rest of their lives suffering from that punishment. And yet, I had to applaud this one. It's so creative in a messed-up way.

And we thought Games of Thrones had cruel surprises! This was so personal it felt beyond rational thinking.

It really move my heart when day called brother dawn as his son.

This scene, and the throne room following it, show just how much this Day cares for this Dawn. Truly, like a father and son. "Whatever you do to him, I'll do to you 1000 times over." Brutal.

Lifetime imprisonment in sensory deprivation is a worse punishment than death. That is like a living death that continues.

Lee Pace delivery on this scene is outstanding. He is greeat on the whole thing but this scene just gives you all the nuances of his character. He can be charming, kind, cruel and evil and loving in a space of 4 minutes.

The subtly loss of all background sounds, in the moments after Day gives the signal, before slowly returning to normal, is really good sound design. Evokes insects suddenly going quite, when the peace is broken, on an otherwise quiet night.